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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies

What are tips for desmodus? Tips and strategies for desmodus in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
If you're using forcetame, don't let it grab you first as it drops the taming efficacy immediately and so you'll only get 192's instead of 225's assuming standard max difficulty settings.
Bring grappling hooks or parachutes
You can easily navigate most of the caves on The Island with a Desmodus. Beware of Purlovia in the Snow cave as there are sections where you have to fly low and the Purlovia can stun and dismount you. Go at night and use the invisibility buff. There is no other way that I will do the Lava Cave than on one of these. They absolutely shred Onycs, just fly backwards biting and watch the flying rats melt.
Best way tame a low level get a lot of blood packs get a high level they upgrade easy just use the red things there’s like 200 of them but they have night vision and invisibly one of the best tames ever, they are the best for stealing wyven eggs just go invisible and activate night vision grab a egg fly up then dive and turn invisible again because the wyvens will shoot fire and stuff and when you get hit your invisibility will go away hence why you have to fly up then dive
Tender Love & Care TLC Update Should Come in Alongside For The ("ONYC")
Can’t wait to tame this, probably will need blood packs considering it is probably something like a vampire bat. So that being said make sure you have lots of tribe mates with high health ;)
Just found out the hard way. You don't need blood packs in your inventory to tame. I was ambushed by a desmodus and it's taming meter was still going up just from draining my characters health.
Tame a low lvl desmodus before you find a high level farm up minimally 40 bloodpacks and then farm more after the low lvl tame to get a high level and let it suck blood from tamed dinos i prefer dire wolfs or daedons so the taming effectiveness goes up and you dont lose a lot of lvls
As of right now, you only need to have bloodpacks IN your inventory, they do not have to be in the last slot of your hotbar. I accidentally tamed several when a low-level culling went wrong whilst I had packs on me.