The Sword is a slashing weapon type in Dauntless.
Summary[ | ]
A classic weapon that shines in close quarters. Slash and slice to build your meter, then let loose with a burst of speed. An excellent choice for severing parts.
The sword has three main components: core combos, Valour combos, and the special meter. The core combos are the most basic combos, and they are the primary source of generating Valour. Once enough Valour is obtained, Valour combos become available, which consume the built-up Valour. Landing the final hit of combos will also increase the Special meter. At full meter, the special becomes available, which generates Valour and has unique properties.
Weapons[ | ]
| Icon | Name | Power | Element | Perk | Cell Slots | Unique Effect |
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Periodically enter a rage, dealing +5% damage and gaining immunity to stagger. Taking damage causes you to enrage more quickly. | |||||
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The sixth hit in a row deals +100% part damage | |||||
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Using your special continually generates Frost Sprites that grant your next attack +30 damage and minor frost damage (Max 4 Sprites) | |||||
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+20% damage vs Behemoth Tails | |||||
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After using your lantern ability, grant a stackable 175 shield that lasts for 25 seconds (max 600 shields). | |||||
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After dodging, your next attack deals +50 bonus damage and part damage | |||||
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After spending 75 stamina, next attack emits a cone of flame that deals +100 blaze damage to each unique target within the cone | |||||
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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. | |||||
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When Behemoth part is broken, heal for 100 | |||||
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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 | |||||
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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). | |||||
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After dodging, drop 2 Ice Mines around you on a 30 second cooldown that deal 300 damage. | |||||
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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. | |||||
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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. | |||||
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After not dealing damage for 4 seconds, your next 3 attacks deal +50% damage | |||||
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Once charged, your next attack deals +550 radiant damage - charge rate increases with higher current health | |||||
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On chance after dealing damage, generate Shadow Orbs that grant +1.75% damage for 5 seconds - At 5+ Orbs, the bonus doubles | |||||
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The eighth hit in a row deals +150 damage and inflicts major blaze status buildup. | |||||
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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. | |||||
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After dodging through an attack, your next attacks gain 100% bonus meter for +3 seconds | |||||
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+20% damage vs Behemoth Tails | |||||
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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. | |||||
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+12% chance for attacks to hit twice | |||||
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When under 20% health, deal +50% damage | |||||
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Using your special continually generates Frost Sprites that grant your next attack +30 damage and minor frost damage (Max 4 Sprites) |
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.
| Icon | Name | Power | Element | Perk | Cell Slots | Unique Effect |
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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. | |||||
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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. | |||||
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Legendary Ability: [G] / [L+R] to teleport to a Behemoth, dealing shock damage. Resets on Behemoth kill or after 2 minutes. | |||||
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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. | |||||
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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. | |||||
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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. |
Exotics[ | ]
| Icon | Name | Power | Element | Perk | Cell Slots | Unique Effect |
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Activate to enter Feast, gaining the effects of Valiant Overdrive while also gaining increased damage and lifesteal. Damages the user while active. Reactiving to dash also grants brief invulnerability. |
Specials[ | ]
| Name | Description | Obtained From | |
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Valiant Overdrive | Activate at full meter to enter Overdrive, gaining +20% attack speed and causing attacks to deal +60-80 aoe damage. Grants 1 Valour immediately and then 1 Valour every 4 seconds. Reactivate to dash in a direction (Costs 1 Valour). | Available from the start. |
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Ardent Cyclone | Activate at full meter to spin, becoming unstaggerable and dealing 80 damage constantly to nearby enemies. Grants 1 Valour every 4 seconds. Reactivate to slash in a direction, dealing 500 + (20 x number of spin hits) to the first enemy hit. | Slayer's Path, Milestone V, Light the Way. |
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Feast | Activate at full meter to enter the Feast, gaining the effects of Valiant Overdrive, +25% damage and +12% lifesteal. Health is constantly drained. Dashing also grants invulnerability | Available only on The Hunger. |
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Avenging Overdrive | Activate at full meter to enter Overdrive, gaining +20% attacks speed and causing attacks to deal +60-80 aoe damage. Reactivate to parry and riposte a Behemoth attack, dealing 800 damage and granting 1 Valour when successful (2 second cooldown) | Bought from Lady Luck Store for 500 Steel Marks. |
Mods[ | ]
| Icon | Name | Description | Obtained From |
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Mending Bladecore | Each Valour gained or spent restores 30 health. | Slayer's Path, Milestone V, Light the Way. |
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Recursive Hilt | Dealing damage with Bladerush restores 20 stamina and generates 3 Valour over 9 seconds. Does not stack. | Slayer's Path, Milestone V, Light the Way. |
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Charged Swordfocus | Instead of dealing damage over time, Resounding Echo deals damage once after it expires and deals +35% total damage. | Slayer's Path, Milestone V, Light the Way. |
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Keen Edge | After dealing damage with the Bladesurge projectile, increase your movement speed by 25% for 10 seconds. Additionally, after the Bladesurge projectile travels a short distance, the damage is increased by 100%. | Bought from Lady Luck Store for 250 Steel Marks. |
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Dynamic Bladecore | After using any Valour combo, your next Valour combo within 5 seconds deals +30% damage. | Bought from Lady Luck Store for 250 Steel Marks. |
Weapon Skins[ | ]
The following weapon skins can be used with the Sword:
Adamant Serpent
Alchemancer's Scalpel
Arc-Rigged Cutlass
Archonic Adjudicator
Archonite Sword
Arcslayer E-Blade
Bloodshot Fang
Blue Heaven
Bound Fury
Butcher's Carver
Caladag, Sword of Legend
Champion's Sword
Cold Archonite Sword
Cold-Forged Training Sword
Corsair's Cutlass
Desert Raptor
Emerald Steel Sword
EN-EB1 "Executive Authority"
Eventide Contingency
Exquisite Sunburn
Firelight
Frostfall Sword
Frostform Kleymurr
Frostwarden Sverd
Headhunter
Heartfire's Dream
Heartgem Sword
Hidden Fang
High Noon
Infiltrator's Shadow
Kat's Claw
Keeper's Gladios
Krolach Kill-Glaive
Middleblade
Ostian Falchion
Ostian Falchion (Model P)
Phoenix Ember Blade
Ranger's Omen
Relentless Serpent
Riftstalker's Edge
Ripper
Royal Steel Sword
Ruination
Salvator Rex
Sawbones Sally
Serendipity's Songblade
Shining Ripper
Skymetal Sword
SM-RS4 "Peacemonger" Riot Sword
St. Avellaine's Flamberge
Steel Sword
Subtle Conviction
Sword of the Destroyer
The Black Sawfish
The Kindest Cut
The Sawfish
Timesabre
Treasured Sword
Universal Language
Victorious Sword
Voidstar Blade
Warlord's Scream
Warrior's Rapture
Wild Edge
Witch's Wail
ZAS-25 "Courage"
ZTS-72 "Valour"
ZVS-50 "Honour"
Mastery Card[ | ]
| Objective | Level 1 | Level 2 | Level 3 | Level 4 | Level 5 | Level 6 | Level 7 | Level 8 |
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| Break [x] parts with any Sword | 5 | 10 | 25 | 50 | 250 | 500 | 1,000 | 2,500 |
| Deal [x] damage to Behemoths with any Sword | 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 Sword | 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 Sword | 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 Sword | 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 Sword | 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 Sword | 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 Sword | 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 Sword | 2 | 10 | 20 | 50 | 100 | 200 | 500 | 1,000 |
Controls[ | ]
Moves[ | ]
Light Attack
Fast attacks that deal a medium amount of damage
Heavy Attack
Slower attacks that deal a heavy amount of damage
Overdrive
Enter an empowered state, increasing attack speed and creating aetheric waves with each attack that deals area damage (only activatable when special meter is full)
Aether Dash
Dash a significant distance. Can only be used when in Overdrive. (Incurs a short cooldown)
Combos[ | ]
Frenzied Blade
Grants 1 Valour
Sundering Blade
Grants 2 Valour
Crescent Strike
Costs 3 Valour
Resounding Echo
Costs 3 Valour
Bladerush
(Hold) Costs 3 Valour
Bladesurge
(Hold) Costs 3 Valour
Moves[ | ]
Light Attack
Fast attacks that deal a medium amount of damage
Heavy Attack
Slower attacks that deal a heavy amount of damage
Overdrive
Enter an empowered state, increasing attack speed and creating aetheric waves with each attack that deals area damage (only activatable when special meter is full)
Aether Dash
Dash a significant distance. Can only be used when in Overdrive. (Incurs a short cooldown)
Combos[ | ]
Frenzied Blade
Grants 1 Valour
Sundering Blade
Grants 2 Valour
Crescent Strike
Costs 3 Valour
Resounding Echo
Costs 3 Valour
Bladerush
(Hold) Costs 3 Valour
Bladesurge
(Hold) Costs 3 Valour
Moves[ | ]
Light Attack
Fast attacks that deal a medium amount of damage
Heavy Attack
Slower attacks that deal a heavy amount of damage
Overdrive
Enter an empowered state, increasing attack speed and creating aetheric waves with each attack that deals area damage (only activatable when special meter is full)
Aether Dash
Dash a significant distance. Can only be used when in Overdrive. (Incurs a short cooldown)
Combos[ | ]
Frenzied Blade
Grants 1 Valour
Sundering Blade
Grants 2 Valour
Crescent Strike
Costs 3 Valour
Resounding Echo
Costs 3 Valour
Bladerush
(Hold) Costs 3 Valour
Bladesurge
(Hold) Costs 3 Valour
Moves[ | ]
Light Attack
Fast attacks that deal a medium amount of damage
Heavy Attack
Slower attacks that deal a heavy amount of damage
Overdrive
Enter an empowered state, increasing attack speed and creating aetheric waves with each attack that deals area damage (Only activatable when special meter is full)
Aether Dash
Dash a significant distance. Can only be used when in Overdrive. (Incurs a short cooldown)
Combos[ | ]
Frenzied Blade
Grants 1 Valour
Sundering Blade
Grants 2 Valour
Crescent Strike
Costs 3 Valour
Resounding Echo
Costs 3 Valour
Bladerush
(Hold) Costs 3 Valour
Bladesurge
(Hold) Costs 3 ValourGuides[ | ]
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