Path of Titans Status Effects: Complete Buff and Debuff Reference

Status effects in Path of Titans can decide a fight before either side lands a clean bite. Some boost your damage, others lock down your stamina, and a few quietly drain your water bar while you wonder why you keep dying of thirst. The catch is that the game never spells out what any of them do. You get an icon on the HUD and that is your only clue.

This reference covers every buff and debuff currently in the game, what each one does, what triggers it, and which dinosaurs can apply or grant it.

How status effects work in Path of Titans

Path of Titans does not label its buffs or debuffs by name. You learn them by their icon. There is no tooltip on hover, no in-game glossary, no helpful pop-up. Most of the names below are community labels rather than official ones, but the icons match what shows up on your HUD.

Effects fall into three broad groups: positive buffs that improve your stats, debuffs that hurt them, and a combat indicator that simply tells you a fight is in progress. Each one has a specific trigger, and many are tied to abilities that only certain dinosaurs unlock.

Buffs

Alert Call

• Effect: Boosts the next attack of every group member by 20%, but only while everyone is out of combat.
• Trigger: Activate the Alert Call ability.
• Granted by: Camptosaurus and Deinonychus.

Bark

• Effect: Raises attack damage for raptors in your group within 30 meters for 15 seconds. Stacks up to 10 times.
• Trigger: Activate Bark.
• Granted by: Achillobator, Deinonychus, Latenivenatrix.

Call of the Night Terrors

• Effect: Adds 15% stamina recovery and attack damage for every Latenivenatrix in the group, but only at night.
• Trigger: Activate Call of the Night Terrors.
• Granted by: Achillobator, Latenivenatrix, Rhamphorhynchus.

Death Rattle

• Effect: A 40% damage increase that lasts 45 seconds.
• Trigger: Activate Death Rattle.
• Granted by: Kentrosaurus.

Deep Rumble

• Effect: 20% damage reduction for 30 seconds.
• Trigger: Activate Deep Rumble.
• Granted by: Tyrannosaurus.

Fish

• Effect: Varies depending on the fish eaten. Different species, different perks. The only constant is the 2-minute duration.
• Trigger: Eat any fish.

Fortify

• Effect: Damage reduction and bleed resistance for 15 seconds.
• Trigger: Crouch for at least 15 seconds straight.
• Granted by: Anodontosaurus and Stegosaurus.

Growing

• Effect: Indicates your dinosaur is currently growing. If you walk into terrain that blocks growth, the timer pauses until you find a friendlier spot.
• Trigger: Complete quests on official servers, or other tasks on community-run ones.

Growth

• Effect: Extra growth reward when finishing quests near group members.
• Trigger: Have a referred friend in your party.

Group Leader

• Effect: Slight bump to movement speed and stamina regeneration.
• Trigger: Stay near your group's leader.

Healing

• Effect: Raises your healing rate.
• Trigger: Eat mushrooms or drink from hot springs.

Healing Call

• Effect: Boosts healing for every group member within 30 meters for a full minute.
• Trigger: Activate Healing Call.
• Granted by: Lambeosaurus and Metriacanthosaurus.

Hiss

• Effect: Cuts incoming damage by 20%.
• Trigger: Activate Hiss.
• Granted by: Deinocheirus and Latenivenatrix.

Home Cave

• Effect: A short invincibility window where you can neither give nor receive damage.
• Trigger: Leave the Home Cave.

Hunker Down

• Effect: Significant damage reduction after a short crouch.
• Trigger: Crouch for at least 5 seconds.
• Granted by: Anodontosaurus.

Hustle

• Effect: 20% trotting speed for the entire group for 1 minute, while nobody is in combat.
• Trigger: Activate Hustle.
• Granted by: Lambeosaurus, Metriacanthosaurus, Struthiomimus.

Lone Hunter

• Effect: 10% extra attack damage while you are not grouped up.
• Trigger: Stay solo.
• Granted by: Achillobator, Metriacanthosaurus, Pycnonemosaurus, Suchomimus, Thalassodromeus, Tyrannosaurus.

Lone Survivor

• Effect: 10% bonus to maneuverability and armor while ungrouped.
• Trigger: Stay solo.
• Granted by: Anodontosaurus, Barsboldia, Eotriceratops, Kaiwhekea, Kentrosaurus, Iguanodon, Lambeosaurus, Stegosaurus.

Moonlight Hunter

• Effect: 15% damage and 10% movement speed during the night.
• Trigger: Activate Moonlight Hunter after dark.
• Granted by: Latenivenatrix.

Night Stalker

• Effect: 50% faster bleed and venom recovery at night.
• Trigger: Activate Stalker during nighttime.
• Granted by: Latenivenatrix and Struthiomimus.

Pivot

• Effect: Major turn-rate boost once you have stood still long enough.
• Trigger: Stand still for 5 seconds.
• Granted by: Stegosaurus.

Rallying Call

• Effect: Defense bonus for every party member within 30 meters, lasting a minute.
• Trigger: Activate Rallying Call.
• Granted by: Barsboldia.

Sharpen Horns

• Effect: Damage boost for 60 seconds.
• Trigger: Activate Sharpen Horns.
• Granted by: Eotriceratops.

Twilight Menace

• Effect: 15% stamina regeneration during the night.
• Trigger: Activate Twilight Menace after dark.
• Granted by: Hatzegopteryx, Megalania, Metriacanthosaurus.

Tyrant Roar

• Effect: Attack increase for Tyrannosaurs in the group within 30 meters, lasting 1 minute. Stacks up to 4 times.
• Trigger: Activate Tyrant Roar.
• Granted by: Alioramus, Daspletosaurus, Tyrannosaurus.

Water

• Effect: Small refill of your water meter.
• Trigger: Eat Roots or Melons.

Well-Rested

• Effect: Increased growth rate.
• Trigger: Log out from inside the Home Cave and stay offline for at least 1 hour.

Debuffs

Bleed

• Effect: Slowly drains health. The bleed ticks faster if you sit or sleep, and faster still if you sprint. So no, lying down to recover is not the move.
• Trigger: Take a hit from a bleed-inflicting attack or ability.
• Inflicted by: Achillobator, Allosaurus, Amargasaurus, Concavenator, Deinonychus, Eotriceratops, Iguanodon, Kentrosaurus, Latenivenatrix, Stegosaurus, Styracosaurus, Suchomimus.

Bone Break

• Effect: Movement slows and some abilities become unusable while bones are broken.
• Trigger: Take a hit from a bone-breaking attack.
• Inflicted by: Anodontosaurus, Daspletosaurus, Tyrannosaurus.

Camping

• Effect: Increased incoming damage, plus a hit to your speed and outgoing damage. A built-in penalty for lurking around the Home Cave.
• Trigger: Stay near the Home Cave entrance for several minutes.

Login

• Effect: Lower defense and movement speed for a window after logging in.
• Trigger: Log in on a sub-adult or adult dinosaur.

Poison

• Effect: Stamina drain, similar to venom, but with a different application route.
• Trigger: Get bitten by a dinosaur with the Putrid Scales ability.
• Inflicted by: Metriacanthosaurus.

Venom

• Effect: Gradually drains stamina. The drain accelerates if you sit or sleep, and gets worse again if you sprint.
• Trigger: Take a hit from a venom-inflicting attack or ability.
• Inflicted by: Megalania, Metriacanthosaurus.

Water

• Effect: Rapidly drains your water meter.
• Trigger: Eat Salt Rocks or drink Salt Water.

Other status indicators

Combat

• Effect: Marks you as either attacking or being attacked. Several other buffs and debuffs gate their behavior on this state, so it matters even if the icon itself does nothing to your stats.
• Trigger: Engage another player or NPC in combat.

That covers every status effect currently tracked by the HUD. Keep this page open the next time an unfamiliar icon pops up and you want to know whether your dinosaur is about to get faster, tougher, or quietly bleed out behind a bush.