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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
Best way is with a paracer and cannon on top. Find a mountain cliff side and place 2 high pillars in a semi circle, 8 pillars should do. Leave one side open. Agro the Elemental with a bird preferably so he doesn't throw rocks. Once he walks into the trap, sprint away from his targeting range. This will cause him to De-agro and go back into a disguise. Keep your distance when returning to it. Go to the side that you left open, with pillars in hand, and sprint in to place the 2 tall pillars as fast as possible. (Dino Gates work as well) I would recommend have a sleeping bag or bed nearby. Now comes the tricky part, find a rock or structure to hide behind that is near him, get his attention and wait for him to just stop moving and stare at you. (You need to be on foot) If he does this, back away and he will stay like that. If not, Get close to get his attention and repeat. Now simply aim and fire. 20 balls for a 120. You must hit it in the head and it must do a dramatic flinch.
More Rock Elemental Taming & KO Tips
Tried to tame one with stone, ended up taming a Giga while waiting
Use the formula y=(5000+100x)/1800 to figure out how many cannonballs are necessary to knock the golem out. Y is cannonballs. X is level. I suggest bringing at least 2 extra cannonballs.
It's a bit silly that kibble tames it a lot better than rocks or sulfur because even in the dossier it says that it lives off of absorbing nearby rocks and minerals. So mabey they should make it so you have to feed them a rare mineral like obsidian what if they made it so you could tame one fast and with high effectiveness by giving one a few hundred or few thousand obsidian . or what if there kibble was made out of a combination of ores and minerals .
If you have a level 9999 and use stone and are on 0.01 times taming it takes 80 years....
They should make the boulder throw able to knock out other rock elementals.
Me: hits it with canon ball trying to nick it out
Golem: u should have aimed for the head( dies)
ROCKET LAUNCHER WORKS AIM AT THE HEAD AND WAIT FOR IT TO GO UNCONSCIOUS I JUST SUCCEEDED AT TAMING ONE WITH THIS
There is a great little natural passage that you can kite the golem in to at 64.1 - 49.9. We tame all our Golem there. They can't get out but once tamed can be moved out. It offers a great firing position for your cannon.
Don't steal someone's 190 lightning wyvern egg or expect one of these at your base.
Metal billboards!!! Use 5 (or more) billboards and trap the dang golem in one spot. Make sure you get one on each side AND through the golem.
You can set up a cannon defense wall a little ways away. 3x1 foundations across and the cannon is in the middle. Place a metal single door frame in front of the cannon and then solid walls on either side and one level higher. Good defense! Aim and shoot!