Watch the Danger Meter
Once you begin a quest in Dauntless, you will see a danger meter on the top-right corner of the screen that shows a percentage. This meter will raise if you are fighting one of the many Behemoths or whenever a party member (or yourself) faints during battle.
Keeping an eye on this is keen if you want a smooth slaying experience. Because if you and your team let that meter rise to 100%, Behemoths will begin to dish out major damage and you guys won’t be able to revive downed teammates.
There’s also a helpful trick that you can do to take advantage of the meter instead of wasting your limited healing items.
If you notice that your health is a bit low and the meter happens to be at a low number as well, you can always let yourself die so that you can be revived by your teammates without using up your precious items.
We don’t recommend doing this all of the time, as your teammates might catch on and kick you out of the squad for being annoying, but it can help if you happen to lose a lot of health while the danger meter is still pretty low.
Also, if two teammates help each other to revive a downed player, the danger meter decrease even further compared to just one person reviving a player.
Roll Towards Enemy Attacks
In Dauntless, whenever you dodge by using the roll button, your character will be invincible for a very short period of time thanks to invincibility frames.
If you are fighting a tough Behemoth who is about to charge at you or shoot projectiles towards you, just dodge right into the enemy or into the attack and you should be safe if you do it at the perfect moment.
This can also help with creating distance between the Behemoth and yourself which is always good to have out there while you’re slaying.
Bring the Right Elements
Most of the Behemoths that you take on to slay, will have different elemental types that can be weak or strong against your armor and weapons.
Before you head out on a quest, always prepare yourself for what type of monster you will be facing. For example, if you are taking on a quest to slay the Blazed-typed Embermane, then you would try to bring a weapon with elemental frost power.
You can also craft armor by using Behemoth loot and making stuff that has elemental attributes. If you plan everything out, defeating a strong Behemoth will take no time at all.
Just remember the weakness chart: Terra beats Shock, Frost beats Blaze, and Radiant beats Umbral.
Break Those Parts
In Dauntless, your weapon can deal three different colored-types of damage onto Behemoths. The first one is break damage which is marked by yellow-colored numbers that show how much damage you are doing to a certain part of the monster’s body.
By breaking every part of the Behemoth, you and your team will be rewarded with extra monster loot. Once the number isn’t yellow anymore, then that means that the part you are hitting is already broken.
You want to try to communicate with your teammates so you can all break the parts before the monster goes down.
Now, the second color is blue, which is what pops up when you’re doing stagger damage. This happens whenever you’re bashing the head of a monster.
The more stagger damage you do, the more likely it is that the monster will fall for a few seconds, allowing the team to get a few good smacks in there.
And if you open up a wound on a monster’s body, red-colored numbers will pop up whenever you hit those open wounds; this is called piercing damage.
Try to cut off the tails, break their parts, and stagger enemies first and foremost and you will get so much more loot while you play Dauntless.
Master the Behemoths and Weapons
If you open up your main menu while you’re in the main town, take a look into the Mastery Menu, where you will see literally hundreds of objectives to complete for every type of weapon and also every Behemoth.
These objectives range from hunting a specific monster in under 3 minutes to dealing 50K damage with an axe or a hammer.
There are dozens of lists to look at and if you complete these, you will be rewarded with currency, extra consumable slots, mods, and much more.
Keep track of this list, and before you go on a hunt, why don’t you make it a goal to try to complete at least one item on the list? That way, you will always feel like you’re progressing and working on ticking off all of the objectives.
Bulwark Tonics Are Your Best Friend
And last but not least; one more little nugget of wisdom for those that need an extra boost in combat. Please, go do yourself a favor and get some Bulwark Tonics in your life.
You can carry up to three of these consumables into battle with you and what they do is reduce any damage taken by 45% for the next three hits. There’s no time limit on these bad boys either, so you can use them as soon as you drop into the field.
And since you can carry three of them, that means you can pretty much reduce half the damage taken from 9 attacks.
You can get these by completing quests, or you can craft them in town by talking to Markus, who should be right next to Katerin.
Those are our six tips and tricks for Dauntless beginners. If you’re looking for more info on the action RPG game, then check out our ever-expanding wiki guide right here.
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