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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Taming & KO Tips
How do I tame a lumina? Tips and strategies on taming and knocking out a lumina.
TldR:
Shoot it with a sniper from a distance, let it pick you up, always fly up, take notes of what to repeat in the first Phase, fireball in the second Phase, keep the left meter half filled during the third Phase, Feed Kibble in the fourth Phase.
Long Version:
Pretty easy tame If you know what to do:
You'll need to prepare:
- Good Armor
- A Sniper (the highest one you have) + Ammo
- Exceptional Kibble or Higher
- Either Parachutes or a shoulderpet allowing you to fly/slowfall (I recommend drakelings), in Case you do get dismounted
- Then, either someone, whom to dictate the necessary manoeuvres, a second monitor where you have a texteditor open or a piece of paper/different device to note down the manoeuvres. (I tried all of those, they work for me, but tabbing into an editor might not be for everyone; Dictating is the easiest because you don't have to look away from the screen)
Then on to the taming itself:
0. Put the Sniper in your hotbar (fully load it, you don't want to and the kibble in the last slot of your hotbar. Either pick up your shoulder mount or put your parachutes into your hotbar. Wear your armor, in case the Lumina gets close enough to attack you a few times.
1. Find a high Level Lumina, I prefer using a flying mount for this.
2. Keep a large distance from it, make sure there are no aggressive dinos near you, dismount your mount, cryo your mount
3. Snipe the Lumina repeatedly with a short Break in between (a second should be more than enough). If its health is Low enough to grab you, it will disappear and reappear above you. That's the reason we use the Sniper (aside from the predictable damage Output compared to a Shotgun)
4. Congratulations, the dangerous part is over. Now the actual taming starts.
5. During this entire time, YOU control where it's going! You should use this to go straight up whenever you can. If you get to high, it starts to dive, taking control from you for a few seconds. This is not a problem, so just go up until then.
6.The Lumina has 4 phases it repeats until taming is finished. It starts every Phase with a "preparing" countdown:
- Phase A: You have to repeat manoeuvres the Lumina does.
A1: This is where your friend or second monitor/device or paper comes into play. The Lumina will do 5 manoeuvres you then have to repeat in order. You either have to memorize them (which i don't recommend) or somehow put them to writing, either by dictating them to someone whom puts them down and tells them back to you later when you need them or by writing them down yourself, on PC potentially by tabbing out to a different window (you can still control flight direction by moving your mouse oder the ARK window).
Be aware, that the Lumina sometimes does a manoeuvre while it's still counting down. In this case the manoeuvre must not be repeated. You can see this by the little grey circles above the four colored circles. Only when a new grey circle appears is the manoeuvre to be repeated.
A2: After it did five manoeuvres it takes a bit of time, then tells you to repeat them. Either tell your friend to repeat the keys back to you or read them from wherever you wrote them down.
- Phase B: You have to shoot teleport anchors that appear around you.
Don't bother with anything but the projectile attack. Go into first person for this, look at a teleport anchor, press the button shown above the rightmost yellow circle (on PC it's right mouseclick). Wait until the projectile is at the anchor, then press the same button again to recall the projectile, creating an explosion where it currently is.
Don't panic when you miss sometimes, this Phase has a very generous timer.
Phase C: You have to dive for a period of time.
This is why we went up permanently earlier.
The Lumina is in Sprint-Mode for this, like it was in the first Phase. Thus you can see two gauges on your Screen: On the right is stamina in yellow, which is Always füll since it's still being tamed. On the left is Dive-Speed, that's the interesting one. Since the task is to dive for some time, you don't care about speed but only about diving at all. Thus you should dive at an angle that keeps the gauge partly filled but not full.
Phase D: Feeding time.
Once the Lumina prompts you to feed it, do so. That's when it's taming progress goes up, so you can estimate how often you'll have to repeat the entire process, starting at Phase A again.
Spawns on astraeos! Found one near the top left corner of the map.
To tame first you need to lower her health, the lumina will pick u up and let u ride her
Then start the mini games, 1 and 3 r same than umbra, in the 2nd one u have to shot to some targets.
Its really easy to tame, use cyan kibble 4 it.
GL!!
Similar to taming umbra as far as after you are able to mount it. In order to mount and tame, you have to inflict damage to it. Not sure exactly how much but enough to where its really low health. Then it will pick you up automatically and begin the tame process. Has more moves to memorize then the umbra (5 moves). Instead of shooting pterandon and argies, you shoot light spheres and destroy them. After thats completed you have to "dive a awhile" dive seems kinda broken as far as giving you credit. Once completed all processes feed it with kibble after prompt to do so and rinse and repeat
Once you find your Lumina, deal damage to her with your choice of weapons.
Once you deal enough damage she will pick you up and it will initiate mini game
1st mini game is the same as Umbra, Simon says!
2nd mini game tasks you with shooting sunflares that are around you and the Lumina! (Super easy mini game)
3rd is the same as Umbra, fly straight up and dive
Then feed you’re kibble/Food
Finally Enjoy your new Lumina!
Cheers and have fun!
Here's what I got so far. I prefer shotgun but use what you prefer
Start with doing Damage to it with a firearm and it will screech then swoop in to grab you to start the mini games.
First game is the same as the Umbra
Second game, use the breath attack to hit the floating lights.( Keep in mind this breathe attack is a single one you have to recall. But it can hit lights going out and when it recalled.)
Third is the the same as Umbra but I have noticed it raises quicker as you begin to slow down from the dive. If you can stay closer to that range you'll be done in no time.
**Foxhounds**
You tame them like a reaper, damage them down to under 10%, you have to be on foot, shoulder mounts are OK, and then they will grab you and start the taming, it's similar to umbra at that point the same Simon says but the second is shooting light pillars and the glide I had to do several shorter glides to do it, a 150 had 6 Simon says
It doesn’t agro aggressively, you damage it to about 20% and it grabs you and starts the same process as umbra