Path of Titans Buffs and Debuffs Guide: All Status Effects and How to Get Them

Understanding the effects of buffs and debuffs in Path of Titans can help turn the tide of battle or keep you alive to see another hunt. These effects can improve growth speed, damage, and plenty more, making them massively important to understand, something that can be challenging for newer players. So, without further ado, continue reading to learn about the different positive and negative status effects in Path of Titans and how to get them.

All Buffs and Debuffs in Path of Titans (And How to Get Them)

Unlike most games, buffs and debuffs in Path of Titans don’t have visible names. Instead, a player will know if they’re afflicted with a particular buff or debuff by the appearance of a specific icon on their HUD. With that, below are the general, non-official names of the buffs and debuffs in Path of Titans, their effects, and how to get them.

Buffs

Alert Call (Buff)

• Effect: Increases group members’ damage by 20% for the next attack when out of combat.
• How to Obtain: Activate the Alert Call ability.
• Dinosaurs with Alert Call: Camptosaurus and Deinonychus

Bark (Buff)

• Effect: Increases the attack of all raptors in the group within 30 meters for 15 seconds. This effect can stack up to 10 times.
• How to Obtain: Activate the Bark ability.
• Dinosaurs with Bark: Achillobator, Deinonychus, and Latenivenatrix

Call of the Night Terrors (Buff)

• Effect: Increases the player’s stamina recovery and attack damage by 15% for every Latenivenatrix in the group at night.
• How to Obtain: Activate the Call of the Night Terrors ability.
• Dinosaurs with Call of the Night Terrors: Achillobator, Latenivenatrix, and Rhamphorhynchus

Deep Rumble (Buff)

• Effect: Increases the player’s defense by reducing 20% of the damage taken for 30 seconds.
• How to Obtain: Activate the Deep Rumble ability.
• Dinosaurs with Deep Rumble: Tyrannosaurus

Death Rattle (Buff)

• Effect: Increases damage by 40% for 45 seconds.
• How to Obtain: Activate the Death Rattle ability.
• Dinosaurs with Death Rattle: Kentrosaurus

Fish (Buff)

• Effect: Effect varies depending on the fish eaten. This buff lasts for 2 minutes regardless of the type of fish eaten.
• How to Obtain: Eat a fish.

Fortify (Buff)

• Effect: Grants damage reduction and bleed resistance to the player when crouched for 15 seconds.
• How to Obtain: Crouch for at least 15 seconds.
• Dinosaurs with Fortify: Anodontosaurus and Stegosaurus

Growing (Buff)

• Effect: The player is growing. However, the player’s growth timer pauses if inhibited by the landscape.
• How to Obtain: Complete quests (in official servers) or other tasks (in community servers)

Growth (Buff)

• Effect: Increases the growth earned when quests are completed while group members are nearby.
• How to Obtain: A referred friend is in the same party as the player.

Group Leader (Buff)

• Effect: Slightly increases the player’s movement speed and stamina regeneration.
• How to Obtain: Be near the group’s leader.

Healing (Buff)

• Effect: Increases the player’s healing rate.
• How to Obtain: Eat mushrooms or drink water from hot springs.

Healing Call (Buff)

• Effect: Increases the healing rate of all group members within 30 meters for 1 minute.
• How to Obtain: Activate the Healing Call ability.
• Dinosaurs with Healing Call: Lambeosaurus and Metriacanthosaurus

Hiss (Buff)

• Effect: Reduces incoming damage by 20%.
• How to Obtain: Activate the Hiss ability.
• Dinosaurs with Hiss: Deinocheirus and Latenivenatrix

Home Cave (Buff)

• Effect: Temporarily prevents the player from receiving or dealing damage.
• How to Obtain: Leave the Home Cave.

Hunker Down (Buff)

• Effect: Grant significant incoming damage reduction to the player when crouched for 5 seconds.
• How to Obtain: Crouch for at least 5 seconds.
• Dinosaurs with Hunker Down: Anodontosaurus

Hustle (Buff)

• Effect: Increases the group’s trotting speed by 20% for 1 minute while out of combat.
• How to Obtain: Activate the Hustle ability.
• Dinosaurs with Hustle: Lambeosaurus, Metriacanthosaurus, and Struthiomimus

Lone Hunter (Buff)

• Effect: Increases the player’s attack damage by 10% while not in a group.
• How to Obtain: Play as a solo player.
• Dinosaurs with Lone Hunter: Achillobator, Metriacanthosaurus, Pycnonemosaurus, Suchomimus, Thalassodromeus, and Tyrannosaurus

Lone Survivor (Buff)

• Effect: Increases maneuverability and armor by 10% if the player isn’t in a group.
• How to Obtain: Play as a solo player.
• Dinosaurs with Lone Survivor: Anodontosaurus, Barsboldia, Eotriceratops, Kaiwhekea, Kentrosaurus, Iguanodon, Lambeosaurus, and Stegosaurus

Moonlight Hunter (Buff)

• Effect: Increases the player’s damage by 15% and movement speed by 10% during the night.
• How to Obtain: Activate the Moonlight Hunter ability at night.
• Dinosaurs with Moonlight Hunter: Latenivenatrix

Night Stalker (Buff)

• Effect: Increases bleed and venom heal rate by 50% at night.
• How to Obtain: Activate the Stalker ability at night.
• Dinosaurs with Night Stalker: Latenivenatrix and Struthiomimus

Pivot (Buff)

• Effect: Significantly increases the player’s turning speed when standing for 5 seconds.
• How to Obtain: Stand still for at least 5 seconds.
• Dinosaurs with Pivot: Stegosaurus

Rallying Call (Buff)

• Effect: Increases the defense of all party members within 30 meters for 1 minute.
• How to Obtain: Activate the Rallying Call ability.
• Dinosaurs with Rallying Call: Barsboldia

Sharpen Horns (Buff)

• Effect: Increases the player’s damage output for 60 seconds.
• How to Obtain: Activate the Sharpen Horns ability.
• Dinosaurs with Sharpen Horns: Eotriceratops

Twilight Menace (Buff)

• Effect: Increases the player’s stamina regeneration by 15% during the night.
• How to Obtain: Activate the Twilight Menace ability at night.
• Dinosaurs with Twilight Menace: Hatzegopteryx, Megalania, and Metriacanthosaurus

Tyrant Roar (Buff)

• Effect: Increase the attack of all Tyrannosaurs in the group within 30 meters for 1 minute. This effect can stack up to 4 times.
• How to Obtain: Activate the Tyrant Roar ability.
• Dinosaurs with Tyrant Roar: Alioramus, Daspletosaurus, and Tyrannosaurus

Water (Buff)

• Effect: Slightly replenishes the player’s water meter.
• How to Obtain: Eat Roots or Melons.

Well-Rested (Buff)

• Effect: Increases the player’s growth rate.
• How to Obtain: Log out from the Home Cave and stay logged out for at least 1 hour.

Debuffs

Bleed (Debuff)

• Effect: Health gradually decreases. The rate at which health decreases increases when the player sits or sleeps. This frequency increases further if the player is sprinting.
• How to Obtain: Get hit with an attack or ability that causes bleeding.
• Dinosaurs that Can Inflict Bleed: Achillobator, Allosaurus, Amargasaurus, Concavenator, Deinonychus, Eotriceratops, Iguanodon, Kentrosaurus, Latenivenatrix, Stegosaurus, Styracosaurus, and Suchomimus

Bone Break (Debuff)

• Effect: The player has broken bones, slowing their movement and limiting their abilities.
• How to Obtain: Get hit with an attack or ability that causes bone break.
• Dinosaurs that Can Inflict Bone Break: Anodontosaurus, Daspletosaurus, and Tyrannosaurus

Camping (Debuff)

• Effect: Increases the damage received by the player and decreases the player’s movement speed and damage dealt.
• How to Obtain: Stay near the Home Cave's entrance for several minutes.

Login (Debuff)

• Effect: Lower the player’s defense and speed.
• How to Obtain: Log in with a sub-adult or adult dinosaur.

Poison (Debuff)

• Effect: Similar stamina-draining effect with venom, albeit with a different condition to trigger.
• How to Obtain: Bite a dinosaur with the Putrid Scales ability.
• Dinosaurs that Can Inflict Poison: Metriacanthosaurus

Venom (Debuff)

• Effect: Stamina gradually reduces. The rate at which stamina decreases increases when the player sits or sleeps. This frequency increases further if the player is sprinting.
• How to Obtain: Get hit with an attack or ability that causes venom.
• Dinosaurs that Can Inflict Venom: Megalania and Metriacanthosaurus

Water (Debuff)

• Effect: Quickly drains the player’s water meter.
• How to Obtain: Eat Salt Rocks or drink Salt Water.

Other Status Effects

Combat

• Effect: The player is attacking or is being attacked.
• How to Obtain: Enter combat with other players or NPCs.