Terminology

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There are Dauntless terms that are used in and around the game, with the goal of simple, clear and rapid communication. This is a list of these terms and their definitions.

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A

AA

Aetheric Attunement

AcSav

Acidic and Savagery

Adds

Short for Additional Enemies spawned by the behemoth, often posing little threat to the Slayers

AF

Aetheric Frenzy

AFG

Away From Game, refers to players who are not current playing the game, can be functionally identical to AFK, or mean a player taking an extended break from playing, e.g. They've been AFG since the last major patch

AFK

Away From Keyboard, refers to players who are not in control of their Slayer

AFK Timer

The amount of time before a Slayer is removed due to inactivity, a Slayer will be transported back to Ramsgate after 3 minutes during hunts or return to the main menu if idle in Ramsgate for 30 minutes

Aggro

Short for "aggression," refers to the targeting priority by the behemoth

AO

Avenging Overdrive

AoE

Area of Effect

AS

Contextually:

Attack Speed

Aether Strikers

AV

Aether Vent

B

Besca

Blaze Escalation

BIS

Best In Slot, the best choice for a given slot in a loadout

Blazakiri

Flameborn Rezakiri

Bond

The non-legendary weapon bound to legendary one that provides a Unique Effect and Perk, see Bond

Boop

An interrupt, or the act of interrupting a behemoth

Boop, Boops, Booped, Boopable

Buff

A positive effect applied to the Slayer; or a change through a patch to make a game mechanic stronger for Slayers

Bug

Contextually:

Kharabak, less commonly Rezakiri

An instance of game behaviour deviating from the intended design

Build

The collections of items, skills, etc. that a player equips to their character

C

Carry

A player who is overgeared, strong, or highly skilled that assists weaker or non-skilled players through hunts

Casc

Cascade

CBs

Chain Blades

Cheese

Originating from "cheesy;" often refers to tactics or strategies that are cheap, unfair, or overly easy to overcome an otherwise difficult task, typically by bypassing intended mechanics

Clap

Refers to the Aether Striker's Titan's Crash ability, often when empowered

Conditional Extension

The mechanism by which dodging an early component of an attack can protect from a later one

CZ

Combat Zone, the area slayers fight behemoths with an Aethervent in its centre

D

Debuff

A negative status effect applied on the Slayer

Disc

Discipline

DoT

Damage over Time

DPS

Damage Per Second

E

EF

Evasive Fury

End Game

The gameplay status for Slayers who completed the main questline, unlocked most (if not, all) unlockables, and farmed an abundance of resources

Energy

Sometimes used referring to the Stamina resource

Esca

Escalation

Exp

Experience

F

Farming

To repeat hunts for Reagents and/or Currencies, see also Grinding

Fresca

Frost Escalation

Flameshot

Flameborn Quillshot

Flawless

A level of play in which the Slayer is expected to dodge all attacks and not receive any damage, commonly, but not strictly, associated with Predator

G

Gary

A colloquial term for a Smollusk, also used in the form a Radiant Gary

GH

Good Hunt

GL

Good Luck

GLHF

Good Luck, Have Fun

Griefer

A player who deliberately irritates or harasses other players

Grinding

To repeat hunts and/or tasks in a repetitive and time-consuming manner for Reagents and/or Currencies, often in order to advance

H

Half Health

Referring to builds using perks like Rage and Wild Frenzy that rely on being below 50% health, often paired with Discipline, often as Half Health Builds, or the Half Health Meta

Hesca

As of yet unreleased Heroic Escalations

HG

Hunting Grounds

HP

Contextually:

Health Points or Hit Points; the amount of damage a Slayer can receive before being Downed

Hunt Pass

I

IB

Iceborne

iFrames

Invincibility/Invulnerability Frames, a period during a dodge when you cannot take damage

Instakill

"Instant Kill:" when a full-health or nearly full-health behemoth is slain within such sort of time, they are unable to react

Interrupt Trading

Refers to interrupts where the Slayer also gets hit by the behemoth

K

Keystone

The final boss of an Escalation

Kit

A weapon's set of attack moves and abilities

KoK

Knockout King

L

Lag

A slow response from the Slayer or Server due to high latency

Lag Spike

A sudden, momentary period of intense lag

Leap

Reckless Leap

LF

"Looking For"

LFG

"Looking For Group" - someone wants to join a group

LFM

"Looking for Member" - someone offers free slots in their party

LL

Low Life, referring to builds using perks like Rage and Wild Frenzy that rely on being below 50% health, often paired with Discipline

LS

Lifesteal

Loadout

The collections of items, skills, etc. that a player equips to their character

M

Main

The weapon or build that a player specializes in, typically in the context of an "X main"

Malk

Malkarion

Meta

Refers to the community's most popular and most effective Slayer loadouts, recently a backronym for Most Effective Tactics Available, originally referring to the concepts of metagaming

Mobs

Enemies in any video game, can refer to all enemies or simply non-boss, non-named enemies translating as non-behemoth enemies in Dauntless

Mog

Transmog, a cosmetic skin for a piece of equipment

MS

Movement Speed

MV

Motion Value, the raw base damage of a move or motion

N

Nerf

A change through a patch intended to weaken a game mechanic, often for balancing purposes

Noob

Short for "newbie" and sometimes spelled as "newb," is often a pejorative term to refer to players who are new to the game

O

Omni

Short for the Omnicells or one selected of them.

One-Trick Pony

Refers to Slayers who can play only one weapon effectively

OP

Overpower

P

Perk Economy

Refers to a Slayer's loadout where they combine weapons, armour, and cells to gain up to +30 perk effects (+6 tiers for each perk)

PHX

Phoenix Labs

PHXL

Phoenix Labs

PLABS

Phoenix Labs

Ping

Also network latency between the player's client and the server

Pot

Another term for "potions" or "tonics"

Pred

Predator

Proc

Short for programmed random occurrence, typically activated or triggered by the Slayer(s)

R

Rams

Contextual:

Rams, typical use

Ramsgate, occasional contraction

RD

Reaper's Dance

Resca

Radiant Escalation

Rev

Contextual:

Short for Revive

Short for Revenant

Reza

Rezakiri

Rez

Short for resurrection, meaning Revive, also Res, Ress and Rezz

RH

Ragehunter

rDMG

Real or raw damage, used to refer to bonuses that affect Core Damage as well as Part Damage, Wound Damage and Stagger Damage, effects in game that simple list "damage" will be considered an rDMG boost

Rift

Riftstalker

RNG

Random Number Generation, refers to the game mechanics to simulate randomness

S

Sav

Savagery

Sesca

Shock Escalation

Skarnacious

The synergistic combination of Skarn weapons and Tenacious

Spear

War Pike

Spin2Win

A strategy where the Slayer focuses on using the Sword's Special Ardent Cyclone, the Chain Blade's Spinning Blades combo, or the War Pike's Aether Harvest combo to do high amounts of damage

Sporemane

Sporestruck Embermane (-> Fenroar)

Sporrogg

Sporestruck Charrogg

Staggerlock

A mechanism by which staggers or stagger-like effects, e.g. part breaks are applied in succession to lock the behemoth in a downed state

Staggerlock, Staggerlocks, Staggerlocked, Staggerlockable

Stim

A revive stim, replaces the Healing Flask when Downed

SW

Savage Wellspring

T

Tena

Tenacious

Terramane

Sporestruck Embermane (-> Fenroar)

Tesca

Terra Escalation

Torg

Torgadoro

Town

A term referring to Ramsgate

Trash Wave

Refers to the horde of Hostile Fauna that spawns in between behemoth encounters during an Island Event

TS

Twin Suns

U

UE

The Unique Effect of a Weapon

Uesca

Umbral Escalation

V

Valo

Valomyr

VO

Valiant Overdrive

W

Weap

Short for weapon

Weedwacking

A community term meaning to disengage from a Nayzaga, or a Trial behemoth with the Static Shock Modifier, to break its lightning spires, often when they accumulated in high amounts.

WF

Wild Frenzy

Wipe

The hunt condition where all Slayers are downed and unable to revive, resulting in a forced retreat to Ramsgate. On the Hunting Grounds, the Danger Meter rapidly spikes whenever a party wipes, often resulting in the behemoth fleeing.

wLvl

Another term for Weapon Skill level, sometimes specified with a number

X

Xp

Experience

Z

Zerk

Berserker

Zone

Combat Zone