Chain Blades

The Chain Blades are a slashing and piercing weapon type in Dauntless.

Summary[ | ]

Fast hitting dual blades with S+ mobility. Swing the blades from their chains to slash from a distance, or pull yourself in for an up-close assault.

Weapons[ | ]

Name	Power	Element	Perk	Cell Slots	Unique Effect
Recruit's Chain Blades	10	Neutral	None	None	None
Raging Teeth	20	Neutral	+1 Ragehunter	Finesse Insight	Periodically enter a rage, dealing +5% damage and gaining immunity to stagger. Taking damage causes you to enrage more quickly.
Quillshot's Bonehooks	20	Neutral	+1 Acidic	Finesse Fortitude	None
Ember Blades	20	Blaze	+1 Evasive Fury	Finesse Alacrity	The ninth hit in quick succession deals 100 bonus part damage
Destiny of Boreus	20	Frost	+1 Conditioning	Brutality Fortitude	After using your Special, generate 3 Frost Sprites that grant your next attack +30 damage and minor frost damage (Max 4 Sprites)
Thundering Cutters	20	Shock	+1 Aetheric Attunement	Finesse Brutality	+20% damage vs Behemoth Tails
Skarn's Malice	20	Terra	+1 Weighted Strikes	Finesse Fortitude	After using your lantern ability, grant a stackable 175 shield that lasts for 25 seconds (max 600 shields).
Flight of the Shrike	40	Neutral	+1 Conditioning	Finesse Alacrity	After dodging, your next attack deals +50 bonus damage and part damage
Charred Blades	40	Blaze	+1 Aetherhunter	Finesse Fortitude	After spending 150 stamina, next attack emits a cone of flame that deals +100 blaze damage to each unique target within the cone
Pangar's Claws	40	Frost	+1 Weighted Strikes	Finesse Fortitude	Once charged, your next attack places a frost brand that deals 1,000 frost damage after 30 seconds. Slayers can destroy the brand, prematurely detonating it for 50% increased damage. Charges every 90 seconds.
Nayzaga's Reach	40	Shock	+1 Barbed	Finesse Insight	When Behemoth part is broken, heal for 100
Kharabak's Wings	40	Terra	+1 Bladestorm	Finesse Alacrity	Once charged, your next attack unleashes whirling blades that deal 25 terra damage. Additional attacks speed up the blades, which explode at the end of the duration and deal damage based on blade speed
Frostwülf's Skinners	60	Frost	+2 Galvanized	Insight Fortitude	After using your Lantern ability, create a geyser that frequently deals 45 frost damage. Any Slayer moving through the geyser for the first time is granted a stackable 125 health shield that lasts for 25 seconds (max 600 shields).
Winter Winds	60	Frost	+2 Nimble	Finesse Alacrity	After dodging, drop 2 Ice Mines around you on a 30 second cooldown that deal 300 damage.
Sahvyt's Pincers	60	Shock	+2 Pulse	Finesse Finesse	Once charged, your next weapon swing/shot unleashes a boomerang projectile that frequently deals 250 shock damage to any target hit. Dodging through an attack reduces charge cooldown.
Fenroar's Thistles	60	Terra	+2 Parasitic	Finesse Brutality	On jumping create a platform of stone in the air ahead of you that lasts up to three seconds. Up to two jumps in a row can be performed before ability must be recharged. Activating Lantern refreshes the two jumps. Shortly after forming, the platform falls, dealing 250 terra damage, and interrupting behemoths.
Sovereign's Lash	60	Terra	+2 Sharpened	Brutality Insight	After not dealing damage for 4 seconds, your next 5 attacks deal +50% damage
Valomyr's Revenge	60	Radiant	+2 Aetherhunter	Brutality Insight	Once charged, your next attack deals +550 radiant damage - charge rate increases with higher current health
Stalker's Trap	60	Umbral	+2 Assassin's Frenzy	Finesse Insight	On chance after dealing damage, generate Shadow Orbs that grant +1.75% damage for 5 seconds - At 5+ Orbs, the bonus doubles
Inferno's Fangs	80	Blaze	+2 Overpower	Brutality Brutality	The fifteenth hit in a row deals +150 damage and inflicts major blaze status buildup.
Talons of the Firebird	80	Blaze	+2 Aetheric Evasion	Insight Alacrity	Attack a Behemoth part to lock onto it and load a homing missile. Missile deals 100 damage and increases the damage of every other missile in the volley by 100. Deal damage to load up to a maximum of 3 additional missiles. Dodging fires all loaded missiles on the locked-on part. 45 second cooldown.
Storm Blades	80	Shock	+2 Energized	Finesse Alacrity	After dodging through an attack, your next attacks gain 100% bonus meter for +2 seconds
Circuit Breakers	80	Shock	+2 Aetheric Evasion	Brutality Finesse	+20% damage vs Behemoth Tails
Glyph Weaver Blades	80	Radiant	+2 Aetheric Attunement	Brutality Fortitude	On lantern use, spawn a glyph based on your active glyph type that charges after three seconds. Once charged, the glyph will activate when a Behemoth makes contact. Red Glyph: Deals 750 radiant damage in a radius. Blue Glyph: Grants 150 stacking shields that expire after 25s to slayers in a large radius(max 600 shields). Jump to change the active glyph type. Glyph expire after 10s.
Fangs of Dawn	80	Radiant	+2 Cunning	Finesse Brutality	+12% chance for attacks to hit twice
Eyes of Night	80	Umbral	+2 Cunning	Finesse Insight	When under 20% health, deal +50% damage

Legendaries[ | ]

Facing the Keystone Behemoth in a hard Escalation will unlock blueprints for all of its legendary weapons. These high-powered weapons aren't easy to craft, but the perks are worth the extra effort.

Name	Power	Element	Perk	Cell Slots	Unique Effect
Scorching Agonies	100	Blaze	Bond	Prismatic Prismatic	Legendary Ability: [G] / [L+R] to enter a rage, gaining new attacks for 15 seconds. Deal +25% damage when the target is below 50% health. Resets on Behemoth kill or after 90 seconds.
Blizzard's Teeth	100	Frost	Bond	Prismatic Prismatic	Legendary Ability: [G] / [L+R] to create a Frost Shield that blocks hostile projectiles for 6 seconds. Damages and chills Behemoths that contact it (can interrupt). Resets on Behemoth kill or after 3.5 minutes.
Electric Cruelties	100	Shock	Bond	Prismatic Prismatic	Legendary Ability: [G] / [L+R] to teleport to a Behemoth, dealing shock damage. Resets on Behemoth kill or after 2 minutes.
Death Blossoms	100	Terra	Bond	Prismatic Prismatic	Legendary Ability: [G] / [L+R] to revive all Slayers in a large radius, granting them healing over time and immunity to stagger. Usable while downed. Resets on Behemoth kill or after 5 minutes.
The Weeping Hours	100	Radiant	Bond	Prismatic Prismatic	Legendary Ability: [G] / [L+R] to rewind to your position 3 seconds prior to reactivation. Restores health and stamina lost in that time, and removes debuffs. Become invulnerable and gain increased move speed for 6 seconds. Usable while downed. Resets on Behemoth kill or after 90 seconds.
Night Terrors	100	Umbral	Bond	Prismatic Prismatic	Legendary Ability: [G] / [L+R] to deal umbral damage to nearby enemies and teleport high into the sky. Then choose a spot to slam down on to, dealing additional umbral damage. Resets on Behemoth kill or after 2 minutes.

Specials[ | ]

Name	Description	Obtained From
Reaper's Dance	Push off a nearby target with invulnerability, then use primary or secondary attacks to perform a follow up. Primary: A dash attack to the target with invulnerability that consumes 1 momentum. If an attack is dodged, gain 30 stamina shield. Secondary: A spinning slam that consumes all momentum and deals greatly increased damage per momentum consumed. (Consume 1 momentum if no follow up is performed.)	Available from the start.
Cruel Riftstrike	Teleport forward with invulnerability and strike the nearest Behemoth part, dealing 75 damage and applying a mark that deals 25 damage per second for 7 seconds. When a mark expires it deals 200 damage for each other mark active at the time, and this damage is increased by +20% if an attack is avoided during the teleport.	Slayer's Path, Milestone V, Light the Way.
Insatible Dance	Push off a nearby target with invulnerability, then use primary or secondary attacks to perform a follow up. Primary: A dash attack to the target that consumes 1 momentum. Secondary: A spinning slam that consumes all momentum to heal you and create a 150 health healing orb for each momentum consumed. Targets at or healed to full health gain 5% damage for 10 seconds, stacking up to 4 times. (Consume 1 momentum if no follow up is performed.)	Bought from Lady Luck Store for 500 Steel Marks.

Mods[ | ]

Name	Description	Obtained From
Lightweight Chain	Increases the length of your chains by +25%. Your Chain Pull deals +25% damage and generates an additional 20 meter.	Slayer's Path, Milestone V, Light the Way.
Hurricane Blades	Using Blade Spin grants stacking on-next hit damage that is consumed when using other attacks.	Slayer's Path, Milestone V, Light the Way.
Serrated Blades	Bladed attacks have a chance to cause your next 4 lacerating attacks to deal +50% wound damage.	Slayer's Path, Milestone V, Light the Way.
Momentum Blades	After using a special, your next special use within 4 seconds consumes no momentum.	Bought from Lady Luck Store for 250 Steel Marks.
Demolition Blades	Deal +50% damage to minions, fauna and objects created by Behemoths. On killing a minion, fauna, or object, gain 1 momentum.	Bought from Lady Luck Store for 250 Steel Marks

Weapon Skins[ | ]

The following weapon skins can be used with the Chain Blades:

Adamant Vipers
Alchemancer's Injectors
Archonic Vivisectors
Archonite Chain Blades
Arcslayer Chain Blades
Bitter and Biter
Blades of the Warlord
Bloodshot Barbs
Butcher's Blades
Champion's Chain Blades
Cold Archonite Blades
Corsair's Hooks
Divided Destinies
Emerald Steel Blades
EN-CB1 "Divide & Conquer"
Eye Teeth
Favourite Sweethearts
Frostfall Chainblades
Frostform Blaedenin
Frostwarden Karvar
Heartfire's Whispers
Heartgem Blades
Infiltrator's Shades
Instructive Graces
Keeper's Laminus
Krolach Kill-Jacks
Lightsworn Graces
Mortality's Bite
Ostian Chain Blades
Ostian Chain Blades (Model P)
Overseer Taskblades
Paragon's Wings
Pufflecroppers
Raging Trailblazers
Ranger's Whims
Ravening Parasites
Rites of Spring
Royal Steel Blades
Skraevwings
Skymetal Blades
SM-CB4 "Hatchet Job" Chain Blades
Steel Chain Blades
Sublime Vipers
Swift Kestrels
The Black Pirayas
The Karanen, Ancient Blades
The Pirayas
Timeshifters
Treasured Blades
Twilight Terror
Victorious Chain Blades
Vulpine Jaws
Warlord's Wails
Watcher's Hookblades
Wax & Wane
Weird Impossibilities
Wild Strike
Witch's Tears
ZAC-42 "Sparrowhawks"
ZTC-49 "Songbirds"
ZVC-47 "Greenjays"

Mastery Card[ | ]

Objective	Level 1	Level 2	Level 3	Level 4	Level 5	Level 6	Level 7	Level 8
Break [x] parts with any Chain Blades	5	10	25	50	250	500	1,000	2,500
Deal [x] damage to Behemoths with any Chain Blades	50,000	100,000	250,000	500,000	2,500,000	5,000,000	10,000,000	50,000,000
Deal [x] damage to Behemoths with any neutral Chain Blades	50,000	100,000	250,000	500,000	2,500,000	5,000,000	10,000,000	50,000,000
Deal [x] damage to Behemoths with any blaze Chain Blades	50,000	100,000	250,000	500,000	2,500,000	5,000,000	10,000,000	50,000,000
Deal [x] damage to Behemoths with any frost Chain Blades	50,000	100,000	250,000	500,000	2,500,000	5,000,000	10,000,000	50,000,000
Deal [x] damage to Behemoths with any shock Chain Blades	50,000	100,000	250,000	500,000	2,500,000	5,000,000	10,000,000	50,000,000
Deal [x] damage to Behemoths with any radiant Chain Blades	50,000	100,000	250,000	500,000	2,500,000	5,000,000	10,000,000	50,000,000
Deal [x] damage to Behemoths with any umbral Chain Blades	50,000	100,000	250,000	500,000	2,500,000	5,000,000	10,000,000	50,000,000
Hunt [x] Behemoths with any Chain Blades	2	10	20	50	100	200	500	1,000