Ok. Paras are very useful even for the best of players they can show where enemies are and can scare away medium sized creatures (raptors bugs dilos etc.) there awesome.

They’re a pretty good starter tame, they naturally can hold a pretty decent amount of weight and they are good at harvesting berries.

Put them next to your eggs on turret mode so you know if there is an oviraptor nearby or the egg hatches.

A solid first dino tame. Not very strong or fast but it can help bare your weight and in the hostile world of ark a friend is what you really need.

Why does no one like the parasaur compared to other gatherers? Yeah, the others might get bigger amounts of berries but even if it takes longer it has much better movement speed than for example a stego, and not only that the parasaur has decent weight that will hold much more berries, yeah, I get pumping weight on other creatures but starting off with half-decent weight is good on its own. But conversation aside, Cooked meat is better to eat anyways.

Everyone underestimates these, the tek ones make op metal, oil, electronic, and element dust farms, while the normal ones make good for the hide and mear ones!

I have 3 lvl 70+
I killed a raptor in under 2 sec and it was level 30

If you name these as locations like west gate 1 or something then set them to player detection mode, they work as a great alarm system.

Mine killed a sarco when I was attacked

In my opinion the best starter dinosaur you can get.
Decent movement speed with good stamina, an overall okay berry farmer with good weight and highly mobile. And this dinosaur has got very low saddle requierments and you can also shoot from it‘s back.

I suggest you to tame one.