Perks are augments in the world of Dauntless that provide bonuses to Slayers. For a perk to become active you need to hit its threshold. The threshold cost vary between perks, but ranges from 3-9 points invested. Perks can be found on armour, and cells.
Perks are divided into 5 different families: 
Fortitude, 
Alacrity, 
Brutality, 
Finesse, and 
Insight
Fortitude[ | ]
Fortitude| Name | Effect |
|---|---|
| Aegis | Increases amount of shields received. |
| Aetheric Armour | Give Defense to all nearby slayers after using aether vents. |
| Armoured | Gain held Defense. |
| Assassin's Bulwark | Gain stacks of Defense when you break a Behemoth Part. |
| Assassin's Vigour | Gain stacks of Vitality when you break a Behemoth Part. |
| Bloodless | Protects against Wounded and Crippling Wounds statuses. |
| Conservation | {{{Description}}} |
| Fireproof | Protects against being set on fire. |
| Fortress | Grants a small shield after avoiding hostile damage for a short time. |
| Guardian | Grants a portion of any shield applied to your nearest ally. |
| Insulated | Protects against Shocked status effect and allows you to attack electric shields. |
| Nine Lives | Grants a chance to reduce damage, and later the ability to cheat death. |
| Parasitic | Mitigate a small portion of damage taken and is instead dealt over 10 seconds. Gain lifesteal while taking delayed damage. |
| Shellshock Resist | Protects against the explosion damage and status effect of Shellshock. |
| Strategist | Dodging through Behemoth attacks grants health shields to all slayers |
| Stunning Vigour | Restores some health whenever a Behemoth is staggered. |
| Sturdy | Prevents being staggered on a cooldown. |
| Tough | Increases Max Health. |
| Vampiric | Restores some health whenever a Behemoth part is Wounded. |
| Warmth | Protects against Chilled status effects. |
| Water | Move like Water. Dodging through a Behemoth's attacks grants resolve and damage reduction against the next one. |
Alacrity[ | ]
Alacrity| Name | Effect |
|---|---|
| Adrenaline | Gain 1 held Might for every 30 stamina missing. |
| Agility | Reduces the stamina cost of dodging. |
| Assassin's Momentum | Gain stacks of Endurance when you break a Behemoth Part. |
| Conditioning | Increases Stamina Regen. |
| Endurance | Increases Max Stamina. |
| Evasion | Increases the time you are invincible when dodging. |
| Evasive Fury | Temporarily increases attack speed when dodging through a Behemoth's attack. |
| Fleet Footed | Temporarily increases Movement Speed after a dodge. |
| Grace | Sprinting increases movespeed. At higher levels, converts increased movespeed to attack speed. |
| Inertia | Increase critical chance steadily while sprinting. |
| Invigorated | Increases movement speed while stamina is low |
| Nimble | Restores Stamina when dodging through Behemoth attacks. Excess becomes a stamina shield |
| Pack Walker | Gain movement speed and attack speed while near fauna. |
| Roll | Staggering a Behemoth grants free evades. |
| Sprinter | Increases movespeed and reduces sprint cost. |
| Swift | Increases Movement Speed for all nearby slayers when your weapon is sheathed. At higher levels, temporarily retains some of that increase after unsheating. |
Brutality[ | ]
Brutality| Name | Effect |
|---|---|
| Aetherhunter | Gain stacks of Might when a Behemoth becomes Aether-Charged. |
| Berserker | {{{Description}}} |
| Bladestorm | {{{Description}}} |
| Deconstruction | Bonus damage against objects created by Behemoths. |
| Earth | Weaponize your shields, detonating them with attacks to deal damage to behemoths. |
| Knockout King | Percent increase to Stagger damage. |
| Overpower | Increases damage against staggered Behemoths. |
| Pacifier | Increases stagger damage against enraged Behemoths. |
| Pack Hunter | Deal additional damage for a short time after killing fauna. |
| Rage | Deal increased damage after taking damage. |
| Ragehunter | Increases damage against enraged Behemoths. |
| Reduce | Lowers attack speed but increases damage dealt. |
| Sharpened | Percent increase to Part damage. |
| Stop | Dodging through a Behemoth's physical attack deals stagger damage to its head. |
| Tenacious | Gain bonus damage based on current HP. |
| Weighted Strikes | Adds a flat amount of Stagger damage on hit. At later ranks, allows more weapon attacks to interrupt unstable Behemoth attacks. |
Finesse[ | ]
Finesse| Name | Effect |
|---|---|
| Acidic | You deal increased Wound Damage as long as you have Might. |
| Assassin's Edge | Gain stacks of Critical when you break a Behemoth Part. |
| Assassin's Frenzy | Gain stacks of Speed when you break a Behemoth Part. |
| Barbed | {{{Description}}} |
| Carve | {{{Description}}} |
| Cunning | {{{Description}}} |
| Fire | Fight like Fire. Gain increased movement speed and attack speed at all times, but lose health as you damage behemoths. |
| Galvanized | Gain bonus critical strike chance based on current shield. |
| Impulse | Critical Damage is increased based on Movement Speed. |
| Merciless | Increases Wound damage against staggered Behemoths. At later ranks, increases wound duration. |
| Predator | Increases damage after avoiding hostile damage for a short time. |
| Pulse | Guarantees a critical strike after a number of hits. At higher ranks, also increases critical damage. |
| Recycle | Dealing repeated damage to the same part grants a stacking damage buff. |
| Relentless | Increases the duration of your aether rush. At higher ranks, also increases the effects of aether rush. |
| Rushdown | Interrupting a Behemoth restores Stamina and grants Movespeed. At +6 also temporarily removes stamina costs. |
| Savagery | Increases damage against Wounded parts. |
| Tactician | After dodging through 3 attacks, grant all nearby slayers bonus wound damage. |
Insight[ | ]
Insight| Name | Effect |
|---|---|
| Aether Syphon | Destroying a Behemoth created object grants Might, Speed, and Endurance. |
| Aetherborne | Increases the benefits of using aether vents. |
| Aetheric Attunement | Increases the recharge rate of your Lantern ability. |
| Aetheric Evasion | Reduces Lantern ability cooldown when dodging through Behemoth attacks. |
| Cascade | {{{Description}}} |
| Catalyst | {{{Description}}} |
| Conduit | {{{Description}}} |
| Drop | Stamina regenerates more quickly, and no longer regenerates to its full amount. |
| Energized | Increase weapon meter gain rate |
| Engineer | Increases range of pylons. |
| Lucent | Flask heals over time and increases the recharge rate of your Lantern ability. |
| Medic | Improves your ability to revive allies. |
| Mender | Using your flask restores other Slayers' health. |
| Molten | Grants Molten Heart drops on cooldown. |
| Omnisurge | Reduce the cooldown of your Omnicell ability. At later ranks, activating your omnicell ability reduces Lantern ability cooldown. |
| Pack Caller | Summon Bomber fauna when behemoth parts are broken. |
| Reuse | Breaking a Behemoth part grants a small attack speed bonus, with a chance to get a much larger one that applies to your whole party. |
| Zeal | Increases the effectiveness of Lantern abilities |
Detailed List of All Perks[ | ]
| Name | Points | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Acidic | 4 | You deal 30% increased Wound Damage as long as you have at least 1 MIGHT. |
| Adrenaline | 7 | You gain 1 held stack of MIGHT for every 30 stamina missing. |
| Aegis | 5 | Increases all shields received by +20%. |
| Aether Syphon | 6 | Destroying a Behemoth created object grants 1 stack of MIGHT, SPEED, and ENDURANCE. |
| Aetherborne | 2 | When using an aether vent, gain +200 healing and have a 25% chance to not consume a vent charge |
| Aetherhunter | 6 | Gain 3 stacks of MIGHT when a Behemoth becomes Aether-Charged. |
| Aetheric Armour | 3 | Give 2 stacks of DEFENSE to all nearby Slayers after drinking from an aether vent. |
| Aetheric Attunement | ||
| Aetheric Evasion | ||
| Agility | 2 | -50% dodge stamina cost. |
| Armoured | 4 | You gain 3 held stacks of DEFENSE. |
| Assassin's Bulwark | 3 | Each time you break or assist breaking a Behemoth part, gain 3 temporary stacks of DEFENSE. |
| Assassin's Edge | 6 | Each time you break or assist breaking a Behemoth part, gain 3 temporary stacks of CRITICAL. |
| Assassin's Frenzy | 6 | Each time you break or assist breaking a Behemoth part, gain 3 temporary stacks of SPEED. |
| Assassin's Momentum | 3 | Each time you break or assist breaking a Behemoth part, gain 3 temporary stacks of ENDURANCE. |
| Assassin's Vigour | 4 | Each time you break or assist breaking a Behemoth part, gain 3 temporary stacks of VITALITY. |
| Barbed | 5 | After dodging through an attack, your next attack deals 400 wound damage |
| Berserker | 9 | Gain 4 permanent negative VITALITY. When you deal damage, gain one temporary stack of MIGHT. This can only happen once every 30 seconds. |
| Bladestorm | 3 | Deal 30 additional part damage on each hit. |
| Bloodless | ||
| Carve | 7 | When a behemoth is staggered, gain 3 temporary CRITICAL |
| Cascade | On Omnicell activation, randomly generate 4 of the following Boosts: Healing, Stamina, Power. | |
| Catalyst | 50% increased tonic effectiveness. | |
| Conditioning | ||
| Conduit | Using your Weapon Active Ability also grants 2 temporary SPEED to all Slayers. | |
| Conservation | When a stack of SPEED is lost, gain 200 Shields. | |
| Cunning | Gain 4 permanent CRITICAL. | |
| Deconstruction | ||
| Drop | ||
| Earth | ||
| Endurance | ||
| Energized | ||
| Engineer | ||
| Evasion | ||
| Evasive Fury | ||
| Fire | ||
| Fireproof | ||
| Fleet Footed | ||
| Fortress | ||
| Galvanized | ||
| Grace | ||
| Guardian | ||
| Impulse | ||
| Inertia | ||
| Insulated | ||
| Invigorated | ||
| Knockout King | ||
| Lucent | ||
| Medic | ||
| Mender | ||
| Merciless | ||
| Molten | ||
| Nimble | ||
| Nine Lives | ||
| Omnisurge | ||
| Overpower | ||
| Pacifier | ||
| Pack Caller | ||
| Pack Hunter | ||
| Pack Walker | ||
| Parasitic | ||
| Predator | ||
| Pulse | ||
| Rage | ||
| Ragehunter | ||
| Recycle | ||
| Reduce | ||
| Relentless | ||
| Reuse | ||
| Roll | ||
| Rushdown | ||
| Savagery | ||
| Sharpened | ||
| Shellshock Resist | ||
| Sprinter | ||
| Stop | ||
| Strategist | ||
| Stunning Vigour | ||
| Sturdy | ||
| Swift | ||
| Tactician | ||
| Tenacious | ||
| Tough | ||
| Vampiric | ||
| Warmth | ||
| Water | ||
| Weighted Strikes | ||
| Wild Frenzy | ||
| Zeal |