Darksiders III
64 Achievements
1,550
58-75h
Beast Mode
Defeat 666 Enemies While in Havoc Form
20
0.82%
How to unlock the Beast Mode achievement in Darksiders III - Definitive Guide
The Obscurus enhancement (Located in Forgotten Lake near the red glowing skeleton with the club) also generates more havoc when attached. However you need to physically use the weapon to generate it, while Enoch generates over time as long as its attached to a weapon. Put Obscurus on your whip and level it up to increase your havoc meter even faster.
I found a midgame setup to help demostrate a good location to grind in the video below
The South End has unlimited enemy spawns, which you can use to help fill up your meter faster. Once you get Havoc filled, teleport to the West End and you will find a large cluster of weak enemies.
While the South End is helpful for early grinding, I have since discovered that you can skip this step altogether once you have Obscurus and Enoch fully maxed (also I had arcane at level 20) Simply teleport to West End and proceed from this step like you would normally as seen in the video.
One critical tip to follow is to cancel your havoc form before the meter depletes. This can save over 50% of your meter with each grouping of enemies. The maxed enhancements fill up the meter so quickly you can have the meter filled in less than a minute as long as you only use up what you need.
The last thing to note is you need to die in order to get the enemies to respawn. This will be made extremely easy once the incoming patch adds the kill Fury option in the menu. But until that patch goes live on consoles, use the nearby cliff to drain your health and then find any surviving enemy to finish you off.
With this setup I got the achievement unlocked in about 45 mins
As shown in the video - travel to "The Hulking Carcass" in the Bonelands. Stick to the right-hand side and draw the guy in the chair over with Salvation but do not agro any other mobs. Once chair guy is dead, switch to the left side and dodge backwards and forwards past the flag. Each time you dodge past, the game will spawn in two new mobs. Do this for as long as you want and then trigger havoc form. Rinse and repeat until done.
So, I found a video buried on YouTube, (under 400 views, I really did dig) showing an infinite enemy spawn, so full credit goes to the video creator Hugh Honey:
The video doesn't make it super clear, so let me lay out how to do this. Fast travel to Haven: South End and enter the church. Inside the church, break all the benches (trust me it's easier), then you want to go out of the hole in the left/east wall. There's a Suffering on the rock wall to the south east, a large creature with 4 arms, you want to get in range so that they scream, but not leap off the wall. The scream will spawn 3 smaller enemies. Head back inside the church and do laps of the pillars near the opening in the wall. Now every few seconds, probably about 15 or so, 3 more enemies will spawn and run in.
I used havoc form when about 150-200 enemies were there, but I don't know at what point the game will crash. I was on Series X, but Xbox One users might want to consider using Havoc form when the framerate starts to dip.
A fully upgraded Obscurus Enhancement is helpful on your main weapon as this will enable you to build Havoc much faster. A fully upgraded Chaos Enhancement on another weapon is also useful as it has the passive ability to boost Havoc Form duration by up to 50%. The Enoch enhancement may also help (it passively regenerates Havoc) but it will need to be upgraded to be any real use and there are better things to spend your artifacts on.
Personally I found that the best spot to do this is the West End in Haven. If you run from the checkpoint, past the bus to the right, towards the bottom of the hill (pause a bit until 2-3 enemies drop down from the cave above), back up and into the carpark (go down 1 level, then back up and wait a bit for a few more to drop from the ceiling), you can then set it up so you can group a mob of 15-20 together in one of the narrower parts of the carpark. Activating Havoc Form once you're reasonably well-leveled will kill most of them close to you instantly and a few hits will clean up the rest. You should be able to then deactivate Havoc Form and still have 50-75% of your Havoc remaining. Force respawn, and then get a few more kills with your main weapon to build your Havoc back up to 100% and then just repeat.
Other spots recommended include the Blistering Bridge (skeletons prior to the area where you swing over the lava) and the South End (going through the church and back out into the graveyard, there is a large enemy on the wall who will repeatedly summon 3-4 enemies at a time if you don't attack him.
My recommendation would be (requires The Crucible DLC, not completely mandatory but basically is):
- Complete the game on Apocalyptic for your first playthrough, just play normally to get through it as some bits can be a struggle, I ended up at about 12% completion for this achievement at that point. I think you probably could use Havoc Form more often than I did, but it does run out pretty quickly on this difficulty.
- Make sure to collect the Enoch weapon enhancement and use it as one of your 5 to upgrade to "Balanced". As per Senseless Ogre's solution this is located outside the Catacombs serpent hole, across some Storm Hollow Tornadoes, then in a lava pool to your right after some jumps.
- When you finish the game on Apocalyptic, and your achievements for that pop, and it asks what difficulty you want to choose for Armaggedon Mode (New Game +) just select cancel then load up your save, change the difficulty to Story then use Vulgrim to travel to the Crucible
- You can do it on a higher difficulty if you want, but I wasn't fussed to. You'll need 60 Crucible Tokens at the end, I finished it and got 69. You'll get 1 token for every 1,000 points you score, finishing a round without taking damage rewards you with another 250 points.
- During the crucible the skeleton waves are a good point at which to use HF too as they end up spawning quite a few enemies. I think after my crucible run I jumped from 12% completion to about 34%.
- Once you've finished the crucible and got your 60+ tokens, purchase the Panoply of Champions armor from Targon
- Move on to New Game + now (you'll just have to jump through the portal in the makers tree and defeat the final boss again)
- In this run equip the new armor you bought, this has two key stats:
>> Amount Of Havoc Bar Generated Per Minute: +11% to +24%
>> Havoc Form Duration: +120% to +148%
And make sure you have the Balanced Enoch enhancement equipped, which will generate another 18% of your havoc bar per minute.
I upgrade the Panoply of Champions once for the achievement and left it at that, the game chucks plenty of upgrade materials at you for upgrading more so feel free to, it won't be needed for the achievement though.
You should know the areas of the game from your first playthrough, so when you get into a new area run around and aggro all the enemies, once you have them all, or enough of them, go into Havoc Form, kill them all, then deactivate Havoc Form again (same as activating it, LB + RT).
You should find with most groups that this uses barely any of your havoc bar on this difficulty, and with the passive generation it'll be full very soon after. So you should be able to play the game with using it on basically every encounter, though I skipped using it unless there were 5/6+ enemies.
After finishing my first run + Crucible at about 34% completion I got this achievement on my second playthrough after first encountering Pride at the church near the South End serpent hole. What I then did was switch all my gear to stuff with Lurcher generating stats to work more towards getting Level 100.
This one may be the last achievement you get along with "BFA" as it is a total grindfest. To enter Havoc mode, you must press + as the spiral red icon begins to deplete. As there are not that many areas with many enemies, I found it best to serpent hole to Haven - West End. Run around to the far end and into the garage levels. Then go into the garage by the Stasis wall. Here, just corner yourself as all the enemies gather and you unleash Havoc mode. Equip an upgraded Obscurus to a weapon for the Havoc meter could fill faster. Also, press + again once you've defeated the group of enemies. This will save you on the Havoc meter. Since the game doesn't keep track on how many more kills you need, the achievement tracker does - you get 7% (or roughly 46 kills) this way.
The only downside is that you must die for this area to respawn with enemies again. Buy shards of Havoc from Vulgrim to speed up this process.
There is no need to buy Chaos crystals and create hemorrhoids with flash drives, the boss checkpoint is literally around the corner, and gaining the missing level of Chaos takes <1-3 minutes, depending on the character’s leveling. In addition, farm lurchers and adamantine.