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Forgive me if I’m wrong but I find these guys perfect for starting our especially on extinction. First tame I got and so far haven’t had or felt the need to get another tame. Perfect for out running them bowling balls that chase your tames. ( just lead it to a wild Dino then your good ) just put levels into weight and movement speed I find is best. Great for metal runs early on. Perfect start tame
Just got back into ark, tamed a level 140 iggy on genesis 1, absolutely carried me, they are very strong, weigh a lot, extremely fast, and easy to tame. They farm narcoberries and thatch with ease, my iggy which I pumped a lot of points into attack to be fair, soloed a level 140 Sarco and helped me to tame a spino. Definitely should tame one, by far my favorite (and best in my opinion) starter tame.
So I tamed an iguanodon fairly early on in my current play of the game. I always level health high and then speed. I started to realize just how fast she was and how tanky she got. I started leveling damage and weight. As of now I can easily tank rex attacks and beat alpha carnos. I haven’t found an alpha rex yet but I’m hunting. I can also run the entire map in half the time an argentavis can fly it. I’m starting to level oxygen so that we can just ruin anything and everything. If you take the time and level them really well, I think they could be giga killers but at least really good at traveling especially given the smaller size compared to most tanks. The fact that they don’t have to use stamina, and are faster if they don’t, is definitely a plus. Combine that with the fact that they have a very vertical jump and you can scale the steepest of mountains in a few minutes.
TLDR: take your time and level them right and you’ll have one of the best mounts in the game for traveling or otherwise.
Personally I really like this Dino its really easy to get cause I didn't even need a bow if you hit them from the right angle from the Bola they can't attack you so you can just use a bat and I went through the entire red forest and the mountains with it tamed two argies and a baryonx so really good for early game and if you level enough you can two hit a spino