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What is a sarco used for? sarco battling strategies in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
Sarcos are great if you get good level. get the melee to 600 percent. I have used my sarco to kill high level Brontosaurus and megalodon packs they are good on land too but the knock back is weak so dinos like theriz raptors carnos and baryonx may be a problem but if you have other dinos like trikes this won’t be an issue. Overall a great tame especially paired with creatures with good knock back like a trike.
I find sarcos rlly useful if you have a raft base and u want a under water tame, cuz you can just place them on it while other under water tames you always have to put them follow u when you move the raft and sometimes i forget or it dies bc something is attacking it. (I play on pvx srvr with changing zone thats why i don t have a land base)
Sarcos will randomly die when you exit the water when swimming with them. I have no idea if this is anti-mesh or fall damage but there is a chance it will instantly die or take massive amounts of damage when leaving the water. This glitch has been around for 3 years now and still hasn’t been patched. :/
ON MOBILE-
I was looking for oil in some kinda deep water, and I spotted a plesiosaur, I've never seen one on mobile before so I attacked. It was level 150 with about 9000-10000 health, my level 201 sarco whupped his @ss. It's not super strong either, the spin does 300 damage. And also, if you looking for quick leveling on this guy, go in the water and fight a megalodon, fight one, and many more will come, I reccomend around 4000 hp or higher.
They are very good for traveling in the water they are very fast in the water but slow on land. They have good stamina and their attack is also pretty decent especially in the water. You only need to be around level 35 to craft a saddle and theyre great mounts. If your enemy is too strong or can dismount you (raptor for example) run into deep water on ur sarco, most land predators are slow swimmers and you can easily take them out once you lure them into the water. Just make sure to click attack a little bit before you reach your target in water because you'll dart right past it. Also they can't swim backwards and it takes a while to stop swimming too because of the momentum. I use them to hunt brontos, theris, carbonemis, trikes, raptors, even spinos but its pretty dangerous.
i think TLC 2 should give Sarcos way more death roll-able creatures. maybe the devs can make it take reduced damage from some creatures. they can also make it have more health because Crocodiles are also known to have armored skin. Or maybe the Sarco gets some kind of buff when it enters the swamp. Similiar to the Spino's hydration buff. And maybe Swamp creatures are passive against the Sarco and gets increased damage from the Sarco.
if this was in TLC 2, it would make the Sarco one of the best Swamp mounts and this would also make the Sarco a great PvE mount.
This thing is really fast under water. A lvl 50 is fast enough to out run an alpha megalodon at normal speed. I recomend this for getting silica and underwater exploring if paired with scuba gear. Just a word of warning. Be careful when near basilosauruses. The mantas will swarm you and you will not be abke to move. RIP Scales.