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What is a stegosaurus used for? stegosaurus battling strategies in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
Its berry collecting abilities are incredible, and that includes seeds as well. Thanks to my new stego, I have seeds for all the vegetables and hundreds of narco and mejo berries for my use (and all other types too). He was encumbered by all the berries he gathered. I think that says a lot about stegos.
Do not enable his wandering on this creature. It is very good when riding but 0 IQ this creature will go anywhere and will make himself killed by strong dinos or jelly fishes my 3 stegosaurus was killed by jelly fish and 2 were killed by spinosaurus they went a mile away from me when enabled its wandering
Doing 2 tests on these against gamma spider and monke and dragon with yuty courage roar, one with the tek, one with normal
No saddles on the tek ones since I think it’s a bit unfair they have the level advantage. Normal stego will be in a different post so let’s say this is pt1.
TEK
Gamma broodmother:At first, i thought they were doing nothing and the damage sucked. But I slowly saw the hp bar of the big spider going down. Brood kept healing but barely. They got down to half with no loses and we’re doing good. The araneos couldn’t do much since stegos have aoe and alas, the big spider went down to the stego fighting forces. Brood died in about 10 minutes.
Megapithecus: The monkey was healing and pushing stegos off. They stood almost no chance.The tek stegos held on for about 25 minutes before the last valiant warrior was pushed off the edge.
Dragon: Funnily enough, while fighting the boss a bunch of tek stegos had hatched and I needed to clean them up somehow so…. That’s how the dragon got here XD. Onto the fight now. I didn’t expect them to beat the dragon and unsurprisingly, barely any dmg. But they cornered it and started doing some dmg, but then liek 10 died. Still the rest bravely fought on. Then 2 more died. They dealt like 10% each time it flew down but it kept healing. Also after stegos my next Dino’s will be kentros. Anyways, 4 more died and only the 2 lone survivors remained. When the dragon landed again, one more died and there was one lone survivor. Eventually the lone survivor died and they were all eliminated, RIP tek stegos, they were all valiant warriors wether they destroyed the broodmother or died to the dragon/ megapithecus
The stego heavy plate is very useful for taming as well as tribe warfare, the slowing effect seems to scale with its attack damage (my stego seems to slow down creatures more now that I’ve upgraded it’s melee damage a lot) . It’s most useful in what I call “miniboss scenarios”, wherein you and maybe some tribe mates and tames are all grouped around one enemy. For taming, I recommend setting your stego to passive, then hitting once with the heavy plate to slow the Dino, which for faster knockout tames like raptors, carnos, gallimimus, and others it will not only negate their advantage but also give you time to place bear traps or bola a particularly evasive creature. In tribe warfare, you can single hit with heavy plate then have an alternate stego(s) with sharpened plate or hardened plate move in for the kill once the enemy is slowed. Hope this helped!
A stegosaurus can collect hundreds of berries in a few short seconds. You can use those berries to tame more dinosaurs and feed yourself very easily. The only problem is that they are very slow, so if a large predator attacks you while your on your stegosaurus, it would be better to jump off and run away while your stegosaurus distracts it. You may lose your stegosaurus though