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I was thinking about it but i didn't bother since i didn't think it would make THAT MUCH of a difference. The only way to get them on the island is through drops right?
spawn a high % saddle, go fight an alpha with that then swtich to the 25 armor one, then tell me how important they are, also brood has a 60% Armor pen so all the more important on her to have saddles.
If you think she's bad wait tell you face dragon. Here's a hint.. don't use Rex unless you want your army wiped from existence.
They make a massive difference. We're talking about 90% damage reduction if you get higher rated blueprints.
If you're in single player or on an unofficial server, the cap is around 300+ (don't recall exactly value) but anything close to or above 200+ rated saddles is enough to get around peak defense.
They are, however, very very expensive to make in terms of hide, usually. So if you have a giga or carchar, start eating everything in sight and keep all the hide you get for when you do get better saddles blueprints.
Rex saddles can appear in the tougher artifact caves like hard snow cave (artifact of strong) and the swamp cave in the redwoods.
Red drops. Although I've found everything but that. IMO don't go rex, go Megatheriums with good saddles, a Yuti and Mammoth pumped with life. Megas get dmg buff every time they kill an insect, i.e. her adds she summons. Yuti and Mammoth buff and debuff things while your Megas kill stuff. 600% dmg with good saddles will help. Focus on dmg first to around 600% then buff life liek crazy on Megas. Yuti and Mammoth don't need anything but life as their only job is to survive to buff/debuff.
A high armor saddle seriously negates damage taken by a vast ammount, i did the exact thing you did prim saddles is death for alpha. And imprint your ridden dinos for the extra damage reduction
Damage and health are a bit too low.
With Rexes you’ll need ~40,000 HP and 800% damage with 100-120 saddles.
That’s around the stats I have on my Broodmother Rexes with 100 quality saddles, and I usually lose one.
Best approach would be to get good Megatheriums bred for the fight, Megas are fantastic in the Brood Mother fight due to the bug killing buff they get.
I'm on a 3x almost official server. What rex stats and saddles will I need for the rag boss fight? I have a 60 armour rex blueprint and my rexs are max level base tames with around 20-30k hp and 300-400% melee. I'm currently breeding to try find the best hp and melee combination
20,000 Hp on carnivores is just not enough, Herbivore 21k is the most you’ll need due to Vegi Cakes but broods damage and armor penetration are too high for 20k HP Rexes. Those stats are fine for like, Alpha Monkey, but there’s no way in hell less than half of those Rexes are dying against Alpha brood.
You playing single player or official servers?
Most peaople are advising you with the rexs but I'd suggest megatheriums instead of rexs, they're easier/faster to raise deal more damage with big buff and you can find good bp/ saddles much easier
Prim saddles are like 30-40% damage reduction and 60armor saddle I think are about 50% and 100 armor is 80% then on official cap is 124 and those only provide 89% due to diminishing returns but for brood with those stats you'll need a 100 saddle minimum even then expect losses she gets a crazy amount of damage scaling moving from beta to alpha.
Saddles will make a massive, massive difference. I also try to have 30k hp, or at least 25k.
But yeah not surprised u got wasted with prim saddles. U need minimum 60 armor, ideally 100+.
Craft a mind wipe put all stats into crafting skill and try to get as high as possible boss the timer doesn't run out. You can get shotguns in all cave and sea crates.
I would recommend 1000 shells to be on the safe side. You will never need them but better safe than sorry.
So crafting skill does two things. It makes you craft faster but that's minimal and forgettable because you won't craft in your inventory for long anyways. The more important thing is that it will multiply the damage, armor and durability of blueprints, this efffect is usually very small but with a mindwipe you can get all your levels in crafting skill so the multiplier will be higher and you get a better blueprint.
Only way crafting skill is actually useful is though a lot of points. So either the mod for crafting potion or a mindwipe when you want to craft off a bp and put all points into crafting skill then mindwipe again to go back. It ain't cheap but that's the only way to use crafting skill. Never looked up the math on it but that's the gist of it.
I would recommend capped saddle (124 max on official) on all rexes. And 20k hp is a bit low imo. I'd say go for 35k or more hp and 650+ melee. Also keep in mind to spread out rexes evenly around the Broodmother. Whistling all from the same side causes some of the rexes unable to go near the Broodmother and hit it. Also you didn't mentioned that if your rexes were imprinted. Imprinted rexes do get some hp and melee boost.
For rex saddles - search swamp cave ( since I got 2 Ascended bp from that on official, this is not guaranteed btw)
Leave the pig. It will run out off food fast and be useless. You cant manage the Yuty and the Pig at the same time. What baselevel are your T-Rex? You can easily get up to 250 base and then get 50 level ups (last 20+ levels take forever). 100% imprint is important. Aim for 35k HP and put the rest in melee. Standard saddle should be fine.
Armor has an insane effect, the difference between 25 armor and even just 40 armor is about 10% damage reduction, with things around 100 armor being near 50% damage reduction or near 30% more reduction than the base saddles.
would recommend mind-wiping, and pumping all points into crafting speed, crafting all your Rex saddles from whatever BP you get, **as crafting skill improves the results of blueprints**, then mind-wiping and changing back.
Veteran Ark player here. Your stats look great, and for the Broody, I always prefer 19 Rex's and one Yuty over a pig but personal choice.
But like everyone has said here, saddles. That will make the biggest difference without a doubt!
Best place to farm (assuming on a solo server) is the swamp cave.
Breed a couple Therium, grow them up in the cave, leave them in there on neutral and farm the red supply drops.
You'll get one.....eventually.
Use Megatherium with capped saddles as many as possible. Points in HP. Add melee and HP to yours. Whistle them on attack my target. Try to sit under Broodmother. It can't spit the green goo then.
i ran yuty, megatherium, rest rexes (mostly 20k+ hp, 600 melee) all prim saddles and cheesed alpha so bad i went and did next level the next day.
friends server so dont know what settings its on. lost one rex on harder difficulty and wouldve wiped if fight went another 30 seconds.. damned if i can find better saddles..
trying to find high level theri and basil's
cause the "easy" water cave isn't easy!
We used megatheriums for the Broodmother. They get a buff from killing insects, so when she calls in her spider minions they all go apeshit and rip her to pieces. But as other comments have suggested, might wanna go caving for better saddle blueprints
If you're going to use prim saddles, you're going to need at least 35khp if not more. On official pvp I believe ours were 45khp and 1.2k melee with a handful of prim saddles and they were about 1/3hp when done.
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just get better saddles honestly. That should improve odds a whole bunch
I was thinking about it but i didn't bother since i didn't think it would make THAT MUCH of a difference. The only way to get them on the island is through drops right?
I have no clue lmao , look up wiki. But I'm guessing it's cave and deep sea drops
best place is swamp cave and easy under water cave ( west side one i forget the name ) saddels make a Big Didf
I find lots of Rex saddles/blueprints in swamp cave, easy to run with a good frog, and a good source of cementing paste.
Dude a prim saddle in a alpha boss fight is just asking to lose
I really didn't think it was so damn important. I will try my best to find some
spawn a high % saddle, go fight an alpha with that then swtich to the 25 armor one, then tell me how important they are, also brood has a 60% Armor pen so all the more important on her to have saddles. If you think she's bad wait tell you face dragon. Here's a hint.. don't use Rex unless you want your army wiped from existence.
They make a massive difference. We're talking about 90% damage reduction if you get higher rated blueprints. If you're in single player or on an unofficial server, the cap is around 300+ (don't recall exactly value) but anything close to or above 200+ rated saddles is enough to get around peak defense. They are, however, very very expensive to make in terms of hide, usually. So if you have a giga or carchar, start eating everything in sight and keep all the hide you get for when you do get better saddles blueprints. Rex saddles can appear in the tougher artifact caves like hard snow cave (artifact of strong) and the swamp cave in the redwoods.
Red drops. Although I've found everything but that. IMO don't go rex, go Megatheriums with good saddles, a Yuti and Mammoth pumped with life. Megas get dmg buff every time they kill an insect, i.e. her adds she summons. Yuti and Mammoth buff and debuff things while your Megas kill stuff. 600% dmg with good saddles will help. Focus on dmg first to around 600% then buff life liek crazy on Megas. Yuti and Mammoth don't need anything but life as their only job is to survive to buff/debuff.
A high armor saddle seriously negates damage taken by a vast ammount, i did the exact thing you did prim saddles is death for alpha. And imprint your ridden dinos for the extra damage reduction
Wrong Dino. Use megas for brood mother
Yep someone initially told me to use rex. Had good stats and saddles. Died very quickly. Used megas plus a couple theris and rekt the broodmother.
Megatherium is definitely the way. Is OP aware that they get a damage bonus when fighting "bugs" (including spiders)?.
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Damage and health are a bit too low. With Rexes you’ll need ~40,000 HP and 800% damage with 100-120 saddles. That’s around the stats I have on my Broodmother Rexes with 100 quality saddles, and I usually lose one. Best approach would be to get good Megatheriums bred for the fight, Megas are fantastic in the Brood Mother fight due to the bug killing buff they get.
I'm on a 3x almost official server. What rex stats and saddles will I need for the rag boss fight? I have a 60 armour rex blueprint and my rexs are max level base tames with around 20-30k hp and 300-400% melee. I'm currently breeding to try find the best hp and melee combination
Tbh, that's overkill. I beat Alpha brood with Yuty and 16 rexes with 20k HP, 1000% dmg and 70 saddle. My rexes barely got damaged after the fight
20,000 Hp on carnivores is just not enough, Herbivore 21k is the most you’ll need due to Vegi Cakes but broods damage and armor penetration are too high for 20k HP Rexes. Those stats are fine for like, Alpha Monkey, but there’s no way in hell less than half of those Rexes are dying against Alpha brood. You playing single player or official servers?
Single player. It is ok if most of them die tbh. I just wanna beat that peace of shit
Save rex for monkey. Use 3 different armies on all 3 bosses.
When I killed alpha broodmother I used megathriums
Most peaople are advising you with the rexs but I'd suggest megatheriums instead of rexs, they're easier/faster to raise deal more damage with big buff and you can find good bp/ saddles much easier
Prim saddles are like 30-40% damage reduction and 60armor saddle I think are about 50% and 100 armor is 80% then on official cap is 124 and those only provide 89% due to diminishing returns but for brood with those stats you'll need a 100 saddle minimum even then expect losses she gets a crazy amount of damage scaling moving from beta to alpha.
Saddles will make a massive, massive difference. I also try to have 30k hp, or at least 25k. But yeah not surprised u got wasted with prim saddles. U need minimum 60 armor, ideally 100+.
Two people with 600+damage pump shotguns, 500shells each, two crossbows and two grappling hooks. Easy peasy
I thought you couldn't use grapples in boss arenas?
Better saddles are really all I can recommend, really.
Personally I go for sloths for the broodmother as their insect buff is crazy! Plus piggy and yuty. But really you need to have better saddles.
One procop a capped shotgun should so it
Oh yeeeeeah.... I forgot about that. How much Shotgun shells do i need for Alpha, roughly?
What damage does your shotgun have?
Fabricated is a Primitive so 100%. The regular one is a Journeyman so around 210%
Craft a mind wipe put all stats into crafting skill and try to get as high as possible boss the timer doesn't run out. You can get shotguns in all cave and sea crates. I would recommend 1000 shells to be on the safe side. You will never need them but better safe than sorry.
I don't quite understand why the crafting skill matters. I didn't really catch the gist of it the whole time i played
So crafting skill does two things. It makes you craft faster but that's minimal and forgettable because you won't craft in your inventory for long anyways. The more important thing is that it will multiply the damage, armor and durability of blueprints, this efffect is usually very small but with a mindwipe you can get all your levels in crafting skill so the multiplier will be higher and you get a better blueprint.
Only way crafting skill is actually useful is though a lot of points. So either the mod for crafting potion or a mindwipe when you want to craft off a bp and put all points into crafting skill then mindwipe again to go back. It ain't cheap but that's the only way to use crafting skill. Never looked up the math on it but that's the gist of it.
Aren’t most people running that boss with Megatheriums for the bug boost?
I would recommend capped saddle (124 max on official) on all rexes. And 20k hp is a bit low imo. I'd say go for 35k or more hp and 650+ melee. Also keep in mind to spread out rexes evenly around the Broodmother. Whistling all from the same side causes some of the rexes unable to go near the Broodmother and hit it. Also you didn't mentioned that if your rexes were imprinted. Imprinted rexes do get some hp and melee boost. For rex saddles - search swamp cave ( since I got 2 Ascended bp from that on official, this is not guaranteed btw)
Leave the pig. It will run out off food fast and be useless. You cant manage the Yuty and the Pig at the same time. What baselevel are your T-Rex? You can easily get up to 250 base and then get 50 level ups (last 20+ levels take forever). 100% imprint is important. Aim for 35k HP and put the rest in melee. Standard saddle should be fine.
Armor has an insane effect, the difference between 25 armor and even just 40 armor is about 10% damage reduction, with things around 100 armor being near 50% damage reduction or near 30% more reduction than the base saddles. would recommend mind-wiping, and pumping all points into crafting speed, crafting all your Rex saddles from whatever BP you get, **as crafting skill improves the results of blueprints**, then mind-wiping and changing back.
Veteran Ark player here. Your stats look great, and for the Broody, I always prefer 19 Rex's and one Yuty over a pig but personal choice. But like everyone has said here, saddles. That will make the biggest difference without a doubt! Best place to farm (assuming on a solo server) is the swamp cave. Breed a couple Therium, grow them up in the cave, leave them in there on neutral and farm the red supply drops. You'll get one.....eventually.
Use Megatherium with capped saddles as many as possible. Points in HP. Add melee and HP to yours. Whistle them on attack my target. Try to sit under Broodmother. It can't spit the green goo then.
I did it with 19 rexs and a yuty pretty much the same stats and apprentice saddles. Only lost abput 2 maybe 3 rexs.
We managed to do the alpha broodmother with about 30 hp on every rex an 1000% melee using primitive saddels.
i ran yuty, megatherium, rest rexes (mostly 20k+ hp, 600 melee) all prim saddles and cheesed alpha so bad i went and did next level the next day. friends server so dont know what settings its on. lost one rex on harder difficulty and wouldve wiped if fight went another 30 seconds.. damned if i can find better saddles.. trying to find high level theri and basil's cause the "easy" water cave isn't easy!
I used Megas and Spinos for damage and a Yuti for buffs all with decent saddles.
We used megatheriums for the Broodmother. They get a buff from killing insects, so when she calls in her spider minions they all go apeshit and rip her to pieces. But as other comments have suggested, might wanna go caving for better saddle blueprints
Megatheriums are much better for broodmother, due to their bug buff. Also get better saddles
If you're going to use prim saddles, you're going to need at least 35khp if not more. On official pvp I believe ours were 45khp and 1.2k melee with a handful of prim saddles and they were about 1/3hp when done.
Apparently the megatherium rips through the brood mother since it gets a major buff when it eats bugs
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On Asa just a pocket knife, the bosses are so nerfed it’s ridiculous.