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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Utility Tips
What is a raptor used for? raptor battling strategies in ARK: Survival Evolved.
Some things make life so much easier and a high level raptor is one of them. They are easy to tame, good for killing other things and if you put lots of levels into health, weight and speed you can use then to tame others. Who needs a trap to tame a rex when you can shoot it with a cross bow, hop on your raptor and run forward and repeat. A large group also helps.
This is a utility guide for raptors!(check my taming tip and please by the way this is for mobile players)first of all they are fast and have a pretty decent damage for their size they can't carry too much but can be leveled up for that,they spawn in packs of at least 2 and gets pack buffs(if i'm right)they can be saddled at level 18(as I remember)and can be tamed rather easily they have a normal bite attack AKA the primary attack and have the ability to pounce onto smaller creatures,swipe down on the left side of your screen to pounce,they love meat and will be a good companion for early game!
Raptors are essentially better Dilos. Whe lacking the poisonous blinding spit of a Dilo, they have a much better DPS due to their speed. In groups of three or more they benefit from a pack boost, and in groups of at least four I notice they tend to take on bigger threats on the Ark (notably Sarcos and Kapros). Plus their pounce ability is not to be overlooked.
In short, tame Dilos for the early game, but Raptors as you move into mid game.
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Super usefully early, mid OR late game, and I'll tell you why.
Early game : to tame really just get a Bola and club also tranq arrows if there's a pack. For club do not aim foe the head, he will bite you, for tranq arrows aim for any part! Once knocked out kill a diplodocus nearby if there is. They do no damage and only push you, just make sure to kill when not near a cliff. Once killed feed it to the raptor/raptors and you got your self some raptors! Use normal meat if there's no diplos. They are super useful early game for gaurds/attackers everything! They have spammable left click attacks/tap attacks if mobile so just spam left click and you have a deadly combo. Right click attack is a pounce. It will pounce small dinosaurs and humans. Simply just right click and you'll do it! For mobile just swipe downwards on your left side of your phone. They also allow you access weapons on it so you can use raptors for taming other stuff. They are also pretty fast but they are slow in the water. Recommended upgrades to choose are melee, hp, weight, and stamina.
Mid game : once you have reached close to lvl 40 - 70 it's mid game! Mid game raptors are mainly used for hide and meat collectors also for defending bases. Not much to say for mid game they can handle t rexs and spinos pretty well in packs of 5 and up. Mid - high level raptors.
End game : End game raptors are usually part of mid game raptors but make sure when you reach 71 - 100 lvl tame lots of raptors for guards 10 - 20 can kill a mid lvl alpha Rex! High lvl raptors. Maybe some casauliitys but it's fine either tame or breed more raptors to have more raptors as replacements.
Extra stuff and pvp stuff : there are 2 types of alpha variants of raptors. One is high lvl raptor in its pack (highest lvl raptor in the pack) they have damage residences and melee buff. When tamed the highest lvled raptor has a special C move where it calls and then the other raptors respond with a call. The second alpha version is the Alpha raptor. Some times you see a buff on normal dinos that says (alpha boosted) that means a variety of alpha is near you. Alpha raptors in the case or the easiest alpha of the bunch. Beware that alpha raptors are not tame able and have lots of hp and damage. Most of the time a alpha looks red and whitish with a orange glow around it. If it has that it's a alpha. I also repeat that NOT ANY KIND OF ALPHA IS TAME ABLE. in pve raptors are normal like the above text but in pvp servers things buffer up with raptors. Mostly because raptors in pvp are much more use full. Especially in a tribe raptors are nothing to mess with in pvp beginning tribes or early game. Since they have a pounce attack, there fast, and pretty good melee. There are a must have for early, mid , maybe late game but late game is when you start to get stuff that's OP/over powered. Tags for raptors in pvp : Fast, good attack, late to mid game, casual.
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Helpfull words. Ok? Ok? Name suggestion- Scar Scar (female) ravage (male)
Breeding not-so-basics 101:
Incubation: surround the egg in a ring of torches (recommend standing) and light them wooden poles on fire, if it says too hot, turn off a torch. Too cold? Light one up. If it is just right, there should be no “Too Hot!” Or “Too Cold!” Sign and should say “Incubating (10:00:00)” or something like that and the teal blue bar should go down. But if the red bar is going down instead of the blue, check the egg conditions again. If the red bar reaches zero, it cracks and it disappears. But if it hatches correctly, y’a got a baby creature, hooray!
Imprinting: this one’s a doozie, so imma make it simple. Imprinting is a OPTIONAL a thing to do. “But why so many YouTubers like Syntac do it???” Shush, I was gonna get to that. Imprinting provides health and damage bonuses, being best i remember +50% or 1.5x stats. But how do you imprint? Oh it’s easy. Once you have a baby dino and NOT let it starve (it can’t eat until it’s a juvenile) sooner or later it wants care, coming from a cuddle, walk, cooked prime fish meat… EXTRAORDINARY KIBBLE?!? Yeah there’s a lot it can range from. And it varies per dino per imprint method per server settings, so if you have a giga you wanna imprint and the imprint times only like 10 seconds, each single imprint will make such a small dent it’s like trying to blow away the moon with your breath, it’s gonna take a bit, again. Depending on your settings
Age Stages: the shortest one of them all. So imma make this really wasteful of vertical space
Baby: 1/10 of max hp and weight i think
Juvenile: can start eating from troughs, i haven’t really cared much about baby stats so I’m just guessing 1/2 of max hp and weight
Adolescent: 3/4 Of max hp and weight, I think it can start attacking, idk what or how much it does compared to fully grown
Adult/mature: fully grown, 100% usage of health and weight bars. That’s basically it
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TLC patch coming March 2018 adding a pack bonus wherein the leader roars and the pack gains damage resistance, movement speed, and attack speed buff for 15 seconds with a 45 second cooldown, will also gain a pounce and pin move similar to Thylocoleo which can be used on small creatures or players. Kill it to escape.
Utility Roles for Raptor:
1. Long range Scout: Raptors, due to their speed and pack buff, make great scouts if you can get more than 2. The only creature in the early-game that outclasses it in scouting is the Ptera, which can fly so has a distinct advantage (level Health and Movement Speed).
2. Light Cavalry Brigade: PvP servers only. Raptors have a very weird hitbox. By my investigations it seems that they can have either a big hitbox or a small hitbox. Regardless, a pack of these can be used to soften up the regular defenses of a base on PvP while your tankier tames soak up the turrets. Obviously combined with armor from saddles they are a force to be reckoned with (level Health and Melee).
3. Storage? Yep, the Raptor can make a very good storage box for meat, since most carnivores give meat a longer spoil time. But I like to use the Raptor for collecting spoiled meat to make narcotics (level weight if you want...meat doesn't weigh that much lol).
4. Attack Dogs. A pack of Raptors is vicious. I'm sure we all have stories of how we first encountered these things and were torn to shreds by them in the early game. If you can harness that power for yourself, you are a force to be reckoned with because of their high DPS! (level Melee Damage and a little Health).
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Raptor Taming List(in tiers):
Regular Tier (Levels 1, 10 and so on and so fourth):
Easy. Someone about the same level with its exact same health just a little faster than it can do it. Protect it well though, because one wrong move and your little friend is… well, inside something elses stomach, probably.
Requires: Bola, at least 10% more speed than the raptor itself, and a club or slingshot with rocks
Medium Tier (Levels 30, 50 and onwards)
You probably broke a sweat, because this one’s torpor capacity was a little higher, and it probably almost got out of that fancy bola of yours! This one’s also a toughie though, considering the slightly higher level.
Requirements: Same as regular, with slightly higher health this time and 30% faster in the event that it breaks out of the bola and you cant land the final tranq
Experienced/High Tier(Levels 70/80, 100 and onwards)
Hopefully you know what you’re doing, because that could’ve gone WAY worse. More torpor, more melee, more health, more problems until tamed.
Requirements: Ascendant Bow, as torpor scales with damage dealt. Bola as usual, bio toxin, and toxicant arrows if possible. Clubs will no longer cut it, much less slingshots.
DAAAAYUM Tier(Levels 200-250, 300 and onwards): High level raptors are like new cars; they last a long time and under the right care are ready whenever you need them, but are also somewhat pricy (resource wise) to tame.
Requirements: Same as experienced/high level tier, with the exception that toxicant arrows should be much more preferrable despite how long it takes to craft/obtain them.
Mastercraft Tier (levels 400 and onwards until 500): Whoa. The raptor you just tamed is armed to absolute TEETH. Better get an Ascendant saddle for it, since for whatever reason Ascendant is better than Mastercraft, which is odd. Also don’t- HEY WHAT ARE YOU DOING DON’T POUNCE M—
Requirements: Same as the other 2 tiers (before this one).
Champion Tier(Eerie Raptor, Especially higher levels)
This one didn’t come easy, lemme tell ‘yah. After all, it wasn’t the easy things that got you to the point of earning this one… IT WAS THE ONES THAT FELT NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE! But alas, you survived the dungeon, did the deed, and now you have a raptor of a rare breed.
Requirements: These arent for just anyone. You must survive the dungeons or you cannot take the implant with, meaning that rather than just one more tame, this raptor, as well as any other creature with the “Eerie Effect” is to be treated as a “living trophy” of sorts. Only the worthy survivors will ever get this. So sorry folks, but until you can survive a dungeon, these creatures are outta your league. If you can survive the dungeons however, the rest of the procedure is simply revival, and which-ever procedure corresponds to its tier/level.
“Rare Gem” Tier: While breeding, you hatched a raptor that looks absolutely INSANE! Raptors of this color scheme cannot be found naturally, so you have found quite the prize. Keep an eye on it for now though; as this one’s gonna be hungry for a while and wants some attention.
Requirements: Breed 2 pre-existing raptors of opposite gender, and hatch an egg. If the parents already came from breeding to begin with, especially mutliple generations of breeding, you’ll probably have a higher chance of getting something amazing.
There. Every type of raptor that you can possibly obtain. Thanks for the read.