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What is a basilosaurus used for? basilosaurus battling strategies in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
The underwater creature on Ark period. High health, rapid regen can dive in the deep end take still wont take huge damage. Protects rider from knock off effects and cold. Kicks Alphas ass. I wouldn't be surprised if it becomes the new meta for the genesis boss. I breed it and now have 38k health and 900 melee
B4 I got him I had 4 dolphins and we destroyed the sea, until I tamed this dude mega always want to kill this guy(he can take 5 megs on his own easy) so 2 of my itchy died trying to fight the megs rip to them also when u tame him he will level up like crazy due to all the megs he will kill ONLY LEVEL UP HIS HP his HP will go up like 235 every time u level up HP u will also get slot of iron axes and picks due to the killing of sharks u also get free oil from the basilo I guess it's for fuel but he is a tank I recommend getting two u don't need two but u should just do u can burn everything in your watery path they like regular meat from land animals instead of fish meat
I was travelling in the water when I saw a basilosaurus I only saw two in my solo server but it was usually surrounded by fish animals the first I saw was surrounded by itchys about four or five the next I saw it surrounded by mantas and one carbonemy hit it and every manta charged at the carbonemy I suggest if you want one go look for one that’s surrounded by something you can kill it’s very risky tho so I suggest taking a sarco or a fish T. rex (I forget what it’s called) to help you
Absolutely useless on mobile there are no caves and tusos are rare I mean really rare there is no reason to tame one I found a lvl 300 used a soothing balm and after realized they are trash absolute garbage other people might say different but with out caves what's the point.
THESE THINGS SUCK
- Extremely slow
- Takes pressure damage (doesn't even pay bills)
- Annoying taming progression that's not worth if it's low level
- Surrounded by mantas when taming
Before you say that it's imune to tuso grabs or can't get stung by jellyfish it's probably just better to tame a plesi or something instead.