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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion

Encountering Tips

How do I kill a rockwell? rockwell battling strategies in ARK: Survival Evolved.
Bring a ton of reapers to kill it
Even when you kill him he is still alive in the genise chronicles he hacked the simulation and is stil in ugly form that’s the voice who take over the Helena droid in the genise chronicles
For those who aren’t already aware, the fight is currently bugged on Ascended. While there are element rewards, they are unavailable because it instantly starts the ascension cutscene when he dies. The cutscene also will cause you to randomly die sometimes. I don’t recommend doing the fight until this is fixed.
if you see him, feel free to walk right up to him and give him a high-five. Dude couldn't harm a fly.
His Tentacles have 3.800 HP on Gamma, 8.500 on Beta and 15.250 on Alpha. So if you want to be able to destroy them with one clip you need a pump-action shotgun with at least 581.3% Damage and about 300 shots on Gamma, 400-450 on Beta and about 500-550 on Alpha if you use the shotgun exclusively for the destruction of the tentacles.
I also recommend a fast hun such as a pistol to destroy the homing balls that come for you, the damage is irrelevant for them.
Cactus Broth is also very good as it makes all creatures completely ignore you unless you attack them or get too close.
He suffers from steroids
He is very good pet too
Bring 19 imprinted Megalosaurus' and 1 Rock Drake or Reaper King your choice, have the Megalosaurus sit on the platform in front of Rockwell while you run around on either the Reaper or the Rock Drake with a 40%+ crafting skill Pump Shotgun taking out the tentacles. When Rockwell falls foward whistle attack and then rinse and repeat! :)
To the people wondering, Is this Edmund Rockwell? Short answer yes, here’s why. He LOVES making new recipes, but porent dust wasn’t a big deal as much as element was, once he figured out about this element, he wondered if he could safely put this Highly potent energy into one of his dishes ig, so … he uh injected liquid element into himself “ to test its effects” as stated in one of his journal entries, not knowing that this element will corrupt him into the most efficient geometric shape, in this case severely destroying his body, mutating him, shredding his skin, corrupted element filled eyes, bringing him to what he is today, a monster, and that purple acid? I’m pretty sure that’s liquid element, why if he injected himself with element take a Acid bath, instead of chillin in element like he wanted, not this way tho, hope this eduacated ur brains :)
THIS abominable demonic Monster was once human. . . so that means he's like the superior alpha nameless king or something?
F*ck you Rockwell! Fought him four times in the last two days, I have yet to win. Tomorrow’s attempt number 5. This fight depends so much on your own personal skill as a drake rider, shotgunner, and avoider of pink plasma balls. You cannot compensate for a lack of skill in this fight with the brute force of an amazing tame.
Warning this is a spoiler if you dont want to know what happens at end of genisis do not read. Rockwell at end of genisis once you have got tek suit on theres an emergancy in the ship you woke up on then in the middle were you woke up rockwell tentical comes and grabs you down then It goes black
Dododex, why is Rockwell listed in Ragnorok? Please change this!
To kill him, make sure you hit him
Why is there not a page for the new Rockwell on Gen 2?
Rockwell can be found in the Rockwell arena beyond his designated terminal, I believe it’s beyond the Graves of the lost (or commonly called the Rock drake nests) but it’s somewhere there.
Also to fight Gamma Rockwell like any DLC boss you need the three artifacts.
GLITCH - I am playing Ascended on PS5. I spent ages breeding a strong army of Megalos, 400 shotgun shells on a decent gun and a drake.
I shot all the tentacles and instead of exposing his heart, all the tentacles just respawned again seconds later. This left no opportunity to actually land a hit on Rockwell.
My character then died. Bullshit.
How to fight Rockwell:
Firstly Rockwell is in the center of the arena, stantinary in a pool of molten element, please do note that whilst his five tentacles are up Rockwell can not take damage, he attacks by jetting out balls of energy that Beal area damage, electrifying the ground with a tentacle slam and summoning Nameless plus Elemental Repear kings.
To defeat him, you must destroy all tentacles before attacking his heart in the center, note that he can raise his tentacles again so you must repeat the proses.
To beat him just use spinos rock drakes or reapers
Bring a light pet as around halfway into the fight he starts to spawn nameless and reapers
The main thing is to be PERPAIRED for this fight. One peraon can do him solo. Make sure u have these items beforehand:
25 cacti soup
30 battle tarte and shadow steak
Some water 2-3 cant.
And dont be shy when coming to ammo. ALWAYS take plenty . The higher shotgun dmg% the better youll be if u feel ok about it take another peron or another shotgun with u.
Stay close to the inner walls and ALWAYS watch your surroundings. Stray reapers or nameless can walk onto u witb liitle warning by his round 3-4