15 hours ago, dabest2evadoit5 said:
Not sure if this is the right place to post this, if not please don't chew my head off. Thx. So I've been playing Ark on and off for a while now. I've had a few set backs, but I haven't given up. I would really like to participate in a boss fight and unlock some engrams. So what I'm asking is, if there is anyone planning on doing a boss fight, may I tag along? I'm on the ps4. Thanks for any help, heck even advice on how to solo it would be nice.
Looking for help is something I cannot help with, however doing it solo, your at the right place.
If your on the island, you can do it a couple different ways. The first way is to cheese it......get a couple shotguns and like 500-1000 ammo, a grappling hook, crossbow, and then go to the spider and look for the "secret nook" in the ceiling somewhere.....Grapple up there, pew pew pew, you win. Good luck on this, I don't have any more advice as I never did it this way, someone else can prolly point out what you need to do or where to hide.
Third choice is sorta cheesy, use a tank {steggo comes to mind} and same method, or perhaps the tek pistol.....more or less, here is a dino with absolutely insane amounts of health, use it as a meat shield while your true boss take down method does its job unbothered.
Now for the real boss take down method, the dino army.....This can go one of two ways. You can get the megatheriums for the spider, rexs for "possibly" all bosses on the island, or theri's to help you later on with the dragon.
If you go with megatheriums for the spider, just make sure the pair you breed is over 100. Try to get a male and female with the good stats from mom and dad, and then breed them for your army. You should be good to go with just the imprint and leveling up.....25k health 850 melee minimum, but more than that is best. {this is only good for the broodmother, do not fight monkeyor dragon}
If you go with rex's, you will have to do the same thing with breeding, but you reeeeeeally want to catch a 140-150 wilds as the parents, and you may want to start incorporating mutations. This will take a lot of time and a lot of babysitting, but if you work em long enough, you can have some absolutely boss mashing monsters. However try to keep in mind that they will take a lot of time before they will be ready. On top of that, they will also take some serious amounts of damage against the dragon. Because of this, you really need to try and get your final products to 30k health 1000-1500 melee minimum after imprint and lvling.....again, more than that is best, especially in the melee department.
Last but not least, theri's. Therizino's have the ability to eat sweet veggie cakes to heal up "AS" they fight.... This ability is perhaps the most broken and overlooked method of dealing with the dragon. When the dragon breaths fire onto your army, it takes a % of their health away. This can absolutely destroy many of the best boss fighting dino's in an extremely short amount of time. However if your army is healing itself at a rapid rate, it will require the dragon to make multiple hits with the fire breath before your army is close to dying. In other words, it buys you more time while boss fighting to kill the boss's. I was able to get away with a simple breed job with only 2 mutations before the final imprint and lvling. Granted, the fights was a little sloppier than I would have liked, but I only lost 7 theri's while fighting all the bosses on the island. 5 to the alpha broodmother, and 2 to the alpha dragon. {I should have given them more veggie cakes on the broodmother fight} x.x
Try to get a minimum of 25k health and 1000-1500melee. More is best
With all of that said however, there are also a few tricks that you should not ignore!
1.) Bring a yutyanus, extra health and stamina is helpful, but nothing else is really important.....Turn on his auto courage,tell him to follow you, and then tell him to ignore group whistles.....This way he will always be screaming behind you and towards your army as they work. His roar will get your crew to deal more damage and take less damage as they work.
2.) Always bring a deadon.....While some people don't like using them IN the fight {I still recommend using one during the fight, but the life of a solo, you know?} you may want one on standby to help heal your army. However I allways take on into battle as it helps with the healing. They can eat any kind of meat, get better results with prime meat, and you can autofeed them dodo kibble for the bestfood regeneration.
I have my pig with over 80k food stat and in my opinion, it acts like a sheild to my boss army for a short amount of time. Granted, it runs out quickly. But if it provides your team with an additional 80k health pool for the boss to deal with, then its an edge in your favor.
If nothing else, its to help heal everyone back up for another run if things went very well.
3.) Once you have determined which dino you want to go with, find the best gradeBP for the saddle of that tame......they are hard to find, difficult to get the materials for, and will require determination or trading to make an entire army's worth of dinos for. But if anything is worth its weight in gold, if anything is worth the trouble, its a proper saddle BP for your boss army. Before you make them however, do yourself a favor and use a mind wipe, then put all your stat points into crafting, then take a focal chili and cook up those BP's so that you can get the max armor stat you can out of each craft.
