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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Utility Tips

What is a reaper used for? reaper battling strategies in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
Reapers. The rich mans rex. They are based of the alien franchise but that is irrelevant to this tip.
Tip 1. The reaper has no saddle, but takes WAY less damaged than other creatures. It has something like 80% damage reduction. Perfect for pvp and pve.
Tip 2. When getting your first reaper, consider these points.
A. Is it a turret reaper? If so, get as low a level as possible and don't attack anything while pregnant. It takes less element to clone.
B. Is it a combat reaper? If so, get as high a level as possible and cause an extinction event to get as many bonus levels as possible.
Tip 3. Although powerful in the right hands, reapers are no match for mutated gigas. A rex has as much chance.
Hope I helped.😚
They can bunny hop over large distances, are faster then most large carnivores, can solo a wild giga, and are relativly easy to get. 10/10 get a large army of these (7-10) and you will be unstopable. My 2 strongest have 50k hp and 1200 damage, and the other has 80k hp with 700 damage, and they are op, if u dont have one, than get one. (Or several)
If you have one on Gen 2, I highly recommend doing the alpha level velonasaur hunt with these guys. 1 reaper can beat the mission without any help from other dinosaurs or players (much easier if imprinted) and get tons of loot from it. Have fun with your new tek class stuff!
Basically I will teach you how to tame a reaper on day 1. Note that it only works in Genesis 2. Spawn near the Rockwell Cave and farm a good amount of wood, straw, fiber and about 80 leather (enough for two beds). Leave at the entrance to the Rockwell Cave a fully enclosed straw structure (I recommend a maximum of 4x foundations) with a door to exit and enter and a bed if your gestation rate is fast or if you are on a server and can't build in caves. Then enter the cave and advance to the fourth room (there is a terminal with a pulsating heart on top). Go to the bridge that connects to the terminal (safe zone, as long as you don't enter the bridge tunnel) and build a foundation with two boxes for your items and a bed. Look for a reaper queen of any level in this room and lure her to the acid lake that is below the terminal. Be careful because the front of the lake is full of worms that disable the tek suit. Go behind the terminal and trap the reaper in the hole of the lake. This lake rises and falls over time, but when it rises it melts the reaper's life. Dodge her ranged attacks and leave her there until she has 2000 life (she will start to release a pink light from her belly). Then lure her through the side opening of the lake and let her impregnate you. Fly away, grab your items. If you manage to leave the cave without dying (optional, the baby is still alive even if you die ), kill all the herbivores (or a diplodocus) that you see in front of you to level up your reaper. When you are close to giving birth, go into the cubicle and lock yourself in, when giving birth, when you are going to adopt, note that the baby will kill everything around him, this includes you. It's safer to let him kill you and come back to get the items from him (he will already be passive). Remember to deactivate the free movement before releasing him around.
These are brilliant they're C attack seems to have a 180 degree AOE and MASSIVE knockback and they can shoot a projectile from the tail which slows things so much a gallimimus would look slow with it! The slowing projectile and the fact they're brilliant prime meat gatherers makes them excellent for helping to tame carnivores!.. only one problem... You have to let a wild reaper queen stab you and lay her egg in your chest then let the baby hatch out onto the floor and feed it using reaper pheromones to stop it eating you alive.
Tame a 150 and transfer it too the island now get a 18 imprinted Rex’s and one yutyrannus now activate alpha broodmother make sure Rex’s have at least 25 k health and about 500 to 700 melee make sure the reaper has 50 k health and 1000 melee now end the oversized spider if you die you didn’t hear this from me. -Spino Samurai
Most seem to underestimate reaper kings, which if you aren't familiar with them is understandable but let me tell you this thing to the second strongest creature if not tieing with the giga unless the giga is bred but kings are way more mobile, have a base resistance of 70% but increases to about 83% riding it with full imprint and can easily get its health to upwards of 30k and it's damage 900%+ which with imprint is the equivalent of a giga with 200% dmg which may not seem like much but that's still 900+ raw damage and that's a lot for such a mobile creature..