Dauntless - Behemoth Guide - Khabarak

This is a strategy guide for the Khabarak Behemoth in Dauntless, a kill-boss-monster free-to-play game available from the Epic Games Store. We cover various Behemoths in our Dauntless Behemoth Strategy Guide.

Attack Phases

Opening Move - Insect Swarm

• Near the start of the fight it will plant its tail in the ground and create an insect swarm. This is the best time to burst it down as much as possible while it is stuck in this animation.
• The insects will also need to be handled, preferably with some kind of area effect attack type sweeping attack to clear them.

Fly Away

• If you can keep it busy in melee with Stagger or Wounding (which very briefly staggers a Behemoth), it will not fly off. Otherwise it will do so before engaging in melee again. You can close the gap and dodge its attacks, or you can find cover and wait for it to come to you.
• If you stand behind a tree, the claw will chop down the tree. You'll be unharmed but you'll need a different tree next time.
• A tree does typically stop it from reaching you with a charge and you can step out from behind the tree to hit it right away.
• After the claw and charge phase, it will melee for a while before flying off again. It has two major attacks a downward Claw Thrust, and a very dangerous Scissor attack.

Claw Thrust

• It also has a sudden dive into the ground with its claws, and following this will have its claws stuck in the ground until it can extract them. Ideally you were not hit and staggered and can take advantage of it being stuck.

Scissor

• It has a scissor attack with a long charge time. This will do devastating damage if you don't get out of the way.

Kat's Hunting Tips

• When aether-charged, additional blades will protrude from the Kharabak's forelegs that improve its agility and strength. Break these blades to end the aether charge.
• Kharabaks can be interrupted during their blade-drag attack, which it can only attempt when aether-charged.
• The swarm of stinging insects the Kharabak can summon prevents Slayers from sprinting, increases stamina costs, and inflicts a small amount of damage. Slayers need only attack the swarm to destroy it—or ask a fellow Slayer for help.
• The Kharabak goes invisible during its enrage, but also uses this highly effective camouflage to recuperate. It won't heal up, but it may attack less often and become safer to approach. The trick is to be ready for sudden attacks when it is in this state, because they become much more difficult to predict.