Beasthood

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"The higher this attribute, the closer you are to beasthood when temporary transformed". Your Beasthood stat determines the maximum strength of your Beast Transformation using Beast Blood Pellets or the Beast Claw's transformed mode. You won't literally transform into a beast, but raising the Beast Gauge will give you a serious increase in attack power, at the cost of a similarly serious decrease in defense. The higher your Beasthood is, the higher your maximum potential damage will be when using Beast Transformation. Beasthood can't be gained like normal stats. Instead, it is conferred by attire. Having high Insight also reduces your Beasthood, so make sure to spend all of your Insight if you want to maximize Beasthood.

These items cause character to enter into a state where he is given a meter above his head. This meter drains slowly, but will refill after each successive hit, and as it fills it increases both damage dealt, and damage taken. The Pellet gives you a temporary buff (60 seconds) that allows your attacks to fill Beasthood meter, while the Beast Claw will always increase Beasthood meter, regardless of if the buff from the Pellet is active or not.

Sedatives have also lesser known effect of reducing your Beasthood build-up, using it this way is more situational than in case of a Frenzy but if you are in need of getting your defences back to full value and lost of beasthood bonus to your attacking damage is sacrifice you are willing to make, Sedatives could be helpful.

New feature has been added in the Old Hunters expansion. Oath Rune obtained in the Hunter's Nightmare your character will transform into a beast, replete with a shaggy mane and fur physics. To make this new transformation complete you can equip the Beast Claw weapon to gain access to a completely unique and far more beastly moveset. To access this weapon, head for the Ailing Loran Chalice Dungeon and search the treasure room on Layer 2 just before that floor's first Lamp.

The Beasthood system has been made considerably more useful through a series of improvements to the Beast Claw, Beast Blood Pellets and the accumulation rate of the Beasthood meter. All of these upgrades combined mean that you can reliably deal more damage for longer periods, making a pure beast-mode play-style not only viable, but a very strong tactic in many situations.

Beasthood Thresholds

Points in Beast Gauge	1-24	25-49	50-99	100-199	200-299	300+
Phys ATK UP	1,2	1,3	1,4	1,5	1,6	1,7
DEF DOWN	0,8	0,7	0,6	0,5	0,4	0,2

Maximize Beasthood

Note that the maximum level player can reach is limited by his character's Beasthood stat. Equipping certain attire will increase it and having high Insight decreases it. If you want to maximize the Beasthood, you will want to keep Insight at 0. Consider equipping the Ashen Hunter Garb - it has the highest Beasthood of any attire.

Having a high maximum doesn't help if you can't fill your gauge, though. Attacks fill the gauge, but it automatically depletes over time. R1 attacks don't fill the gauge much; R2 attacks are generally better for this purpose. Multi-hit attacks also do well.

The best weapon in the game for filling the meter when using Beast Blood Pellets is Logarius' Wheel; the transformed mode's R2 attack fills the gauge very rapidly. The downside is that Beasthood only benefits physical attack power, while the Logarius' Wheel deals a lot of arcane damage. You can actually swap to another weapon after filling the gauge, though! You won't lose your Beasthood for swapping weapons if pellet is used.

Combination of Beast Claw and Beast Blood Pellets isn't beneficial as the transformed state that enables you to increase your beast gauge does not stack with the pellet's effect. It is, however, worth using Radiant Gems to reduce the stamina costs of your attacks. The Anti-Clockwise Metamorphosis Rune to increase stamina also helps. The Beast Embrace rune also augment your transformed state.

Insight: Frenzy & Beasthood Values

Insight	Frenzy Resistance	Beasthood	Insight	Frenzy Resistance	Beasthood	Insight	Frenzy Resistance	Beasthood	Insight	Frenzy Resistance	Beasthood

0	100	300	25	73	123	50	33	40	75	16	8
1	100	291	26	70	118	51	32	37	76	15	7
2	100	282	27	68	114	52	30	34	77	15	7
3	100	274	28	65	109	53	29	31	78	15	7
4	100	265	29	62	104	54	28	28	79	15	7
5	100	256	30	60	100	55	26	25	80	14	7
6	100	248	31	58	97	56	25	22	81	14	7
7	100	239	32	57	94	57	24	19	82	14	7
8	100	230	33	56	91	58	22	16	83	14	7
9	100	222	34	54	88	59	21	13	84	13	6
10	100	213	35	53	85	60	20	10	85	13	6
11	100	204	36	52	82	61	19	9	86	13	6
12	100	196	37	50	79	62	19	9	87	13	6
13	100	187	38	49	76	63	19	9	88	12	6
14	100	178	39	48	73	64	18	9	89	12	6
15	100	170	40	46	70	65	18	9	90	12	6
16	97	165	41	45	67	66	18	9	91	12	6
17	94	160	42	44	64	67	18	9	92	11	5
18	92	156	43	42	61	68	17	8	93	11	5
19	89	151	44	41	58	69	17	8	94	11	5
20	86	146	45	40	55	70	17	8	95	11	5
21	84	142	46	38	51	71	17	8	96	10	5
22	81	137	47	37	49	72	16	8	97	10	5
23	78	132	48	36	45	73	16	8	98	10	5
24	76	128	49	34	43	74	16	8	99	10	5