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What is a direwolf used for? direwolf battling strategies in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
Ummm you know how you can get a howl buff from them when there's two or more? Well my base is inconveinently DERECTLY ACROSS THE MAP FROM THE ARCTIC so it takes me like 10 minutes to get there. Anyway I tamed one today and it took SO FREAKING LONG to go there, find one, pick it up, bring it to a safe place, bola it, knock it out with a club, give it meat, and wait for it to tame. When I was taming one, I always have a hide sleeping bag on my Argy, so I slept there. When I woke up, the wolf was 59% tamed, so I fed it some narc. Then a sarco came runnin' at me and I killed it with my metal hatchet, got some prime, gave it to the wolf. It tamed, and Input it on a rock, flew home, requested it to my base. Done! Well it was so hard and I don't. think im gonna be taming another one.
They can fit in most caves, that I’ve found. The only one that I have found they can’t fit in is the cave for the artifact of the sky lord on the island. They are amazing in caves if you level them right because of the knock back they do with the bite attack and your ability to use weapons on their back. In the upper south cave, it is a little nerve racking with the jumps, and the lower south cave is a little difficult to get out of, but it is possible. If you are able to get in on the back of an Argentavis, I’d suggest that to get the Dire Wolf in for the lower south cave, but other wise, the Dire Wolf can jump up and down that cliff.
I see a lot of comments bad mouthing smaller mounts for combat, doesn’t really make sense to compare a small mount with a red for one you cannot shoot from a rex or hide it during combat or a raid, two a rex cannot run as nearly as fast as a wolf 3 doesn’t take a saddle doesn’t mean it’s useless try hitting me with your Rex while I sprint off turn around and snipe you off the back a passive Rex dies where he stands an neutral Rex dies in a trap, try out running a wolf good luck
There are very good things about dire wolfies!
1. They have no saddle, but that also gives tames armor so…lvl up ur wolf
2. They can have hats to become pirate doggo
3. (At least for me on Ark mobile) you can have two and that will be considered a pack, as I have activated pack leader on 1 of the 2
4. Fast runners and decent bite force
5. Excellent cave runners (I have heard, my lvl 21 and 16 dire wolves are too precious)
Well, I hope this has influenced your decision of getting these guys!