How to Beat Level 80 Hartalis Ultra With 15 Base Palworld

Palworld’s 1.0 update turned every Ultra raid into a level 80 endgame fight, and Hartalis Ultra is one of the meanest examples. It still uses the familiar two-phase pattern, but the reworked aggro and the new area attacks mean your Pals now have to survive damage you can no longer pull off them. This guide clears it with a 15-base-Pal constraint and level-65-tier gear on a level 80 character — not a maxed 20-Pal raid-base showcase.

What Palworld 1.0 changed for Ultra raids

The headline change is scaling: all Ultra raids are now tuned to level 80, so your gear and Pals have to be at their best going in. The 1.0 patch also raised the player cap from 65 to 80 and reworked how raids behave, adding wide AoE attacks and tightening aggro. The single biggest shift is that you can no longer keep aggro away from your Pals — even with two Overheat Rifles pulling the boss’s attention, its area attacks still land on your team.

That one change breaks the old raid plan. Setups that leaned on the player tanking every hit while base Pals sat safely behind them no longer work, because the new AoEs force your Pals to take damage regardless. In practice, this raid asks a simple question: can your Pals eat a big hit and keep fighting? If they can’t, they die, and the run falls apart.

To start the fight you’ll summon Hartalis with a Hartalis Slab, crafted from 4 Hartalis Slab Fragments, placed in a Summoning Altar (unlocked around level 32 for 3 technology points). The altar is single-use and vanishes after you summon, and the battle runs on a 10-minute timer. One quality-of-life win from 1.0: defense structures no longer consume ammunition, so wall- and turret-heavy raid bases are far more viable here.

Reading Hartalis Ultra’s two phases

Hartalis fights across two health bars. The first phase is Water/Grass typed and weak to Electric damage; when that bar breaks, the boss revives to full as a Neutral type for phase two, which is best answered with Dark damage. Getting the element wrong for either phase is the fastest way to hit the 10-minute timer.

The normal version of this boss carries 909,000 HP — the Ultra’s pool is higher, though the exact number isn’t pinned down, so don’t plan around the normal figure. What matters more is the attack set you’ll cycle through: opening grass AoEs, then Sacred Rain, Holy Burst, and Ticker Drain in the later phase, with elemental barriers gating your progress at set damage thresholds. Every one of those attacks is a survivability check on your Pals first and a DPS check second.

Your 15-Pal and player loadout

Scan the table first, then tune to your route. There are two workable approaches: a player-damage clear that stacks 4 Gobfin, 3 Attack Pendants, and a Terraprisma or Overheat Rifle, and a Pal-led clear that leans entirely on tanky, hard-hitting base Pals. A reported day-80 clear on default settings pulled it off with the player-damage build — the exact passives, IVs, and Pal skills on that Fenglope Lux team aren’t fully laid out — while a Pal-led run reaches the same result by making the Pals durable enough to grind the boss down on their own.

Picking phase-one and phase-two base Pals

Treat these as roles, not a fixed roster. For phase one you want Electric attackers that can also take a hit — Orserk is the most common all-rounder, and plenty of players run a full Orserk army for the first bar, with Beakon pulling double duty as an Electric mount and a barrier breaker. For phase two you shift to Dark damage against the Neutral typing: Shadowbeak, Frostallion Noct, and Necromus all fit, and a Diamond Body Shadowbeak is especially strong because it survives the grass AoEs and still hits hard.

How to clear Level 80 Hartalis Ultra with 15 base Pals

Work through the two phases in order, leading with survivable Pals and matching the right element to each barrier so your team never stalls on the timer.

Open with tanky Pals

Send out high-defense tank Pals first — aggro no longer stays off your Pals, so they will take hits no matter what you do.

Survive the opening grass AoE

The boss’s first attack is a wide grass AoE that lands on your Pals even while you hold aggro, so they must be built to tank it.

Send out Beakon for the first shield

When the first shield goes up, deploy Beakon and crack it with Electric (lightning) damage.

Replace fallen Pals with Shadowbeak

Swap dying Pals for Diamond Body Shadowbeaks to keep both damage and survivability on the field.

Keep healing between AoEs

Heal your Pals constantly — with back-to-back grass AoEs, your healing has to be on point or the team collapses.

Break the barrier with lightning

Around 400k damage a barrier appears; crack it with Electric damage to keep phase one moving.

Mount Frostallion Noct for healing and mobility

Hop on Frostallion Noct to focus on healing and repositioning while your Pals do the damage.

Box every Pal at the phase transition

At the end of phase one, put all your Pals in the Palbox before the boss revives to full.

Redeploy tanky Pals for phase two

Phase two plays the same way — bring out tanky Pals, now leaning on Dark damage for the Neutral typing.

Watch Sacred Rain

Track who Sacred Rain targets; high-defense Diamond Body Pals survive it, giving you time to react.

Tank Holy Burst

Holy Burst hits the group, but high-defense Pals counter it cleanly.

Ready the withdraw for the ~1M phase switch

Around 1 million damage the boss shifts phase — be ready to withdraw Pals as it swaps.

Dodge Ticker Drain

Ticker Drain is a targeted attack you can still dodge, and tanky Pals survive it if it lands.

Hit the ~4,000 defense benchmark

With about 4,000 defense per Pal you survive every AoE in the fight without trouble.

Break the final dark barrier

The late barrier is a Dark-style barrier — break it to open the boss up for the finish.

Finish with Pal damage

Let Diamond Body Shadowbeak and your other Pals grind the boss down; their damage is strong enough that guns aren’t needed.

Confirm the level 80 clear

The boss goes down at level 80 on fully default (1/1/1/1/1) settings.

Video help

Raid mechanics that wipe underbuilt teams

Most failed runs die to the same handful of mechanics, and every one of them has a clean answer. The grass AoEs are the real filter — they ignore aggro entirely, so the fix is defense, not positioning. Everything else is about reacting fast and matching the element.

Common Hartalis Ultra mistakes to avoid

The failure modes here are mostly about element and prep, not mechanics you can’t handle. The two most costly are forgetting to swap your Electric Pals out for the Neutral phase and assuming the old aggro rules still keep your team safe.

Hartalis Ultra rewards and what to farm next

Drop rates vary, so treat this as a repeat-farm target rather than a one-and-done. To make future clears smoother, farm more Hartalis Slab Fragments from cave and dungeon chests and Pal Expedition Station rewards, push your Orserk and Dark raid Pals higher, and keep raising defense and awakening so the AoEs stop being a threat at all.