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Monster Hunter Wilds beta: How to defeat Rey Dau

Monster Hunter Wilds capabilities some truly terrifying beasts, like the frog-gorilla hybrid Chatcabra and the hulking bear Doshaguma. But just like our wilderness, there can only be one at the top of the food chain. While the aforementioned monsters can be found in the Windward Plains, even they have to bow down to the area’s Apex Monster—the lightning wyvern Rey Dau. This fearsome beast only appears during thunderstorms, giving it quite the theatrical entrance. You’ll need to give it your all to defeat Rey Dau in the Monster Hunter Wilds beta.

Since we've only fought this crackling wyvern in the beta so far, this Rey Dau guide is aimed at helping you do the same with the limited weapons and gear at your disposal. For the final game, we'll improvement the guide with details on the best weapons and armor to craft, Rey Dau's weaknesses, part drops, and more.

Rey Dau is a new Flying Wyvern introduced in Monster Hunter Wilds and is the apex predator of the Windward Plains—which is the starting biome in the game. The most striking feature of Rey Dau is its ability to harness electricity through the horns on its head and channel it into railgun-like blasts. And considering it only appears during thunderstorms, there’s no shortage of lightning. The electricity will build up during the battle, with its wings and tail glowing blue when it's fully charged.

But even without the power of Thor on its side, Rey Dau is no slouch thanks to a spiked tail and massive wings that have (also massive) sword-like blades at their tips. The wyvern's mix of both short-range and long-range capabilities means that if you don’t go in well prepared it’s extremely likely you’ll be heading home on a cart.

Rey Dau has a number of attacks you’ll want to keep an eye out for, a lot of which it shares with fellow Flying Wyverns. Here’s how to counter them.

Tail Spin – One of Rey Dau’s most common attacks is doing a 180-degree turn while whipping its tail. It telegraphs this attack by looking over its shoulder before spinning the opposite way. You’ll want to dodge backwards away from Rey Dau. This attack's impact is also lessened by severing Rey Dau’s tail, which removes the massive club on its end.

– One of Rey Dau’s most common attacks is doing a 180-degree turn while whipping its tail. It telegraphs this attack by looking over its shoulder before spinning the opposite way. You’ll want to dodge backwards away from Rey Dau. This attack's impact is also lessened by severing Rey Dau’s tail, which removes the massive club on its end. Stab – Rey Dau will pause, rear its head back, and bring its horns forward and then stab at you while emitting a lightning bolt. It also commonly does this move out of a charge. Just dodge out of the way during the pause, and you should be fine.

Rey Dau will pause, rear its head back, and bring its horns forward and then stab at you while emitting a lightning bolt. It also commonly does this move out of a charge. Just dodge out of the way during the pause, and you should be fine. Wing Slash – Rey Dau will slam its sword wing down as lightning bursts from it. It then drags it across the ground before swiping rubble into the air. It telegraphs this move by raising one wing into the air, but you don’t get too much lead time. This can be dodged by rolling forward and to either side. Rey Dau will also do this attack from the air, swiping the sword across the ground as it flies by.

Rey Dau will slam its sword wing down as lightning bursts from it. It then drags it across the ground before swiping rubble into the air. It telegraphs this move by raising one wing into the air, but you don’t get too much lead time. This can be dodged by rolling forward and to either side. Rey Dau will also do this attack from the air, swiping the sword across the ground as it flies by. Flying Wing Smash – Rey Dau will lunge back while spinning into the air before slamming its wing sword down into the ground. Following the slam, its wing will be stuck in the ground, allowing you the chance to counterattack.

Rey Dau will lunge back while spinning into the air before slamming its wing sword down into the ground. Following the slam, its wing will be stuck in the ground, allowing you the chance to counterattack. Lightning Bolt – Rey Dau will point its horns forward and shoot out bolts of lightning at you. Before the bolt is fired, a smaller line of lightning will shoot out, showing you where the actual blast will follow. These are pretty slim so dodging to the side will do the trick, but beware of Rey Dau firing multiple shots in a row. This move can be performed on the ground or in the air, but the horn tell still persists across both variants. The monster will also swipe its tail as it fires, so be careful when attacking from behind.

Rey Dau will point its horns forward and shoot out bolts of lightning at you. Before the bolt is fired, a smaller line of lightning will shoot out, showing you where the actual blast will follow. These are pretty slim so dodging to the side will do the trick, but beware of Rey Dau firing multiple shots in a row. This move can be performed on the ground or in the air, but the horn tell still persists across both variants. The monster will also swipe its tail as it fires, so be careful when attacking from behind. Charge Beam – Rey Dau will throw its head up into the sky and harness lightning into its horns. It will then step back and point its horns forward while charging up electricity throughout its body before letting out a massive beam of lightning. Thankfully, this beam is only shot slightly in front of the monster into the ground, so you’re completely safe around the sides. This move can also be done in the air, with Rey Dau jumping backwards dramatically before spinning and taking aim. This version still takes time to charge, so you’ll have time to dodge. After this attack Rey Dau will let its guard down and its horns out, leaving its face completely unguarded. When unguarded, its face counts as a wound, so using a focus attack here will net you a knockdown and allow you to pile on damage.

Currently we don’t know what Rey Dau’s weakness is in Monster Hunter Wilds officially.

Based on the design and moves of Rey Dau, we know with almost 100% certainty that its weakness isn’t going to be thunder. But outside of that, Capcom has given no indication of what elements will be strong against Rey Dau. Looking at previous Thunder Flying Wyverns, we have the Khezu, which is weak to fire, and the Astalos, which is weak to ice and water. Between these two, we’d assume that Rey Dau will be weak to ice, especially since the Fanged Wyvern Zinogre—which also harnesses electricity—is similarly weak to it.

Granted, this won’t matter in the Monster Hunter Wilds Beta anyway, as you won’t be able to craft weapons during the test. You’re stuck to non-elemental weapons, and you’ll need to do your best to succeed.

Due to Rey Dau’s strong long- and short-range capabilities, you’re going to want a weapon that offers a lot of mobility, making us recommend the likes of Sword and Shield, Charge Blade, Long Sword, Dual Blades, or Insect Glaive. These weapons will also be good for chopping off the tail of the Rey Dau, which significantly reduces its capabilities as an offensive weapon.

That being revealed, a blunt instrument like the Hammer or Hunting Horn could be good for smashing the bone swords on Rey Dau’s Wings, or even its horns, which will reduce the damage from its lightning attacks.

Monster Hunter Wilds' beta is too limited to give us choices in gear or ideal skills to equip against Rey Dau, but we'll have more to say here when Wilds hits its full release.

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We've been tracking reports of problems with Nvidia's new RTX 50-series GPUs for a little while, but they now seem to be hitting critical mass. It seems numerous owners of the new RTX 5080 and RTX 5090 cards are suffering crashes and particularly black screens, with a few arguably less substantiated reports of "bricked" cards, too. We've asked Nvidia about the problems and have been told that it is currently "investigating the reported issues with the RTX 50-series."

As ever with an emerging issue, the current situation looks complex. Most commonly, RTX 50-series owners are reporting black screen problems. The scenarios under which this occurs vary. Some say it's happening when switching resolutions or refresh rates. Others are finding the black screen hits under heavy load, while yet others associate it with multi-monitor setups.

Some people then find the problem persists on hard reboot, with the card not detected in device manager or system BIOS, while for others it's seeming more intermittent with a reboot restoring functionality for a time before the black screen hits again. Like we presented, it's complicated.

Now, we should presage all this by saying that we've had very few issues with our RTX 5080 and 5090 boards thus far. We've experienced a couple of crashes when alt-tabbing in and out of games to access various benchmark and capture tools, but nothing at all persistent that remained after rebooting. Essentially, we have no direct experience of these reported black screen problems even when overclocking the RTX 5080 to within an inch of its silicon life.

However, we've been fastidious about full driver cleans before installation. Hold that thought, it's significant. Anyway, as we write these words, the number of clients reporting problems across platforms including Nvidia's own forum (one example of many here) and Reddit (ditto, here) has gone well beyond a few isolated and anecdotal incidents.

Likewise, numerous YouTube videos either reporting or having directly experienced the problems are now emerging, including one from JayzTwoCents which offers an overview and another from Boosted Media where they both experienced the black screen issues and seemed to have fixed them.

Indeed, we've queried Nvidia and have been told: "We are investigating the reported issues with the RTX 50 series." So, we'll have to wait and see regarding any official solutions or driver hotfixes.

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Anyway, to cut a long story short, the problem seems very likely associated with Nvidia's latest [website] driver release. There are some reports of "permanent" failure of the cards. But at the very least these seem much more isolated and may well constitute a typical failure rate.

In other words, when you dump a batch of graphics cards on the market and buyers are enthusiastically reporting their experience, you're bound to have a few that break, either through manufacturing issues or user errors.

It's also worth noting that some owners of RTX 40-series GPUs are also reporting problems with the [website] driver. So, these issues may not be entirely specific to the new RTX Blackwell cards.

Moreover, particularly with regard to the RTX 5080, we don't think the issues relate to hardware stability or the GPUs being run close to the wire at factory settings. We've managed a stable +525 MHz GPU overclock and +1,000 MHz memory overclock with our Founders Edition RTX 5080, meaning it's running at a solid [website] GHz. That's a very hefty overclock by recent standards.

If we're fairly confident at this point there is a real problem, the next step is a solution. We suspect that Nvidia will drop a blog post in the near future outlining the issue and either promising a fix in short order or accompanied by a hotfix driver improvement.

Until then, the best emerging advice to solve the problem is a full driver wipe with DDU (Display Driver Uninstaller) and then a driver reinstall. That points to the problems springs from some sort of conflict with residual driver data. Going back to our earlier comment, it may be no coincidence that we ran DDU before installing our RTX 50-series review cards as a matter of routine precaution and haven't experienced the black screen problems.

Setting your PEG-16 graphics port to PCIe Gen 4 mode may also be a wise precaution in the short term following reports of PCIe signalling issues with the new RTX 50 GPUs, especially if the DDU wipe isn't entirely successful.

Anyway, if nothing else all this does rather add weight to the idea that a full driver wipe before any new GPU installation is a very good idea.

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