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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Utility Tips
What is a velonasaur used for? velonasaur battling strategies in ARK: Survival Evolved.
If you're gonna use these in turret mode, LEVEL THEIR STAMINA! They deal a fixed amount of damage in turret mode so levelling Melee Damage won't do much good. Make sure you have a tek trough full of raw meat nearby, because they go through meat like it's going out of style when recovering stamina. Having a greenhouse growing Plant Species R-1 is recommended if you don't wanna go out and hunt.
Easy solo Megapithicis Boss Fight.
Take one velonasaur, buff mainly stamina and melee, some health too and run up to let ledge and stay there in turret mode shooting him. Their too stupid to come up and get you although occasionally a monke will run up at you but he can be taken care of.
It's right click shotgun attack has been nerfed severely, I'd recommend focusing on melee and stam to make sure you can gun down everything in sight, because at close range it does not have a reliable melee attack anymore, other than its very weak claw attack. Be careful as a group of Allosaurus can get rid of your newly tamed velo if you aren't careful.
MAKE SURE YOU MUTATE THEM!!! The most useful pvp Dino in the game, I’ve killed gigas with nothing but a realy mutated velonosaur and came out with only half of my health gone. I mostly put health and stamina into it but always make sure you have good melee with it, the single best machine gun.
Their ranged attack is only effected by melee damage when ridden. If used as a turret (which is what these things are best at) then only do health and stamina. Even a freshly tamed 224 can handle blue and yellow drops alone.
Upgrade melee on your mount, the rest just do health and stamina. A ridden imprinted velo can do literal thousands of damage per second, and a decent turret can do it’s dps (shoots about five times a second I think, so 100?) for about thirty seconds.