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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
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What is a velonasaur used for? velonasaur battling strategies in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
What you want to do is tame a male and a female (high levels of course) then have them mass produce. When you have about 10-15 set pump them all into melee and stam and have them wander around the base. And have then on nuetral. So that way the next person to raid you will crash once all of the velonsaurs start shooting
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.
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.