How to safely explore the ocean?

[YamiJustin]

I've been screwed over my megalodons aggroing me from miles away. Right now I kibble tamed a level 300 dolphin (max wild level is 300), so I am hoping to find another male high level then breed them. I also have like a 265 level megalodon, but if I try to fight megs or alpha megs everything attacks me

[EthanT]

Get a basilo, or just get a swarm of megs

[the_asphyx]

Baryonyx... I used to ride a Baryonyx and have 3 follow me, but the underwater AI on Baryonyx in ASA is completely broken. At least it was the last time I played...

I stopped playing when Wildcard stopped me putting my Thyla ( big Cats ) on my Rafts, after the April Fools Day Update.

Bad AI...
Baryonyx suddenly stopping and refusing to fight for a few minutes, as well as all of them sudden swimming to the nearest new rock, and jamming their heads in them, and getting stuck.

Baryonyx has their paralysis tail sweep, the only problem, is enemy Baryonyx can do that and paralyse you.


Basilo's... as the above post mentions are good, immune to Electro-Shocks, and their shimmy attack is really powerful, they also make Oil passively. But they are shallow water Dino's only, and get crushed at depths.

[axenation]

You can shoot an xbow from the back of the dolphin.

(1) Go find a Basilo and aggro the mantas
(2) Swim away a bit then turn to face the mantas
(3) shoot them in the face with your xbow using regular arrows
(4) If sharks attack you can kill them the same way
(5) once the hostiles are gone you can freely passive tame the Basilo

[YamiJustin]

How strong is a Basilo? Do other creatures not aggro on it? I swam deeper this time and saw some electric eel things and ran away from them lol

[Yoda]

Origineel geplaatst door YamiJustin:

How strong is a Basilo? Do other creatures not aggro on it? I swam deeper this time and saw some electric eel things and ran away from them lol

dude basilo is crazy good, find high level basilo and you are good. Underwater caves will be super easy.

[Serious]

At ASA you have lots of underwater options.
Basilo, Tuso, 5 megs, and also mosa and Xiph are more than capable of dealing with underwatercaves
Though for hard underwater cave you need also something smaller when you use mosa or tuso as main.
For non-cave also bary and sarco is an +land-option. Deinosuchus can even deal with the caves underwater at high level.

[Vig]

I would say Archelon, immune to jellies. easy to tame on the island, all you need is a crossbow to aggro jellies close to shore to get Bio toxin. then shoot/agro a arch to chase u up a beach. its easy to run around and tame it. 2nd, a Basillo, harder to tame as the first eat under water is Soooo looong. make a raft with a submerged pen area with a gate at the front and agro a Xi bitey fish(immune to Eels) into it( for a really fast ocean explorer. only thing to watch out for is a shoal of themselves and a tuso.

[Migromul]

Origineel geplaatst door the_asphyx:

Baryonyx... I used to ride a Baryonyx and have 3 follow me, but the underwater AI on Baryonyx in ASA is completely broken. At least it was the last time I played...

I stopped playing when Wildcard stopped me putting my Thyla ( big Cats ) on my Rafts, after the April Fools Day Update.

Bad AI...
Baryonyx suddenly stopping and refusing to fight for a few minutes, as well as all of them sudden swimming to the nearest new rock, and jamming their heads in them, and getting stuck.

Baryonyx has their paralysis tail sweep, the only problem, is enemy Baryonyx can do that and paralyse you.


Basilo's... as the above post mentions are good, immune to Electro-Shocks, and their shimmy attack is really powerful, they also make Oil passively. But they are shallow water Dino's only, and get crushed at depths.

Yes, they're "shallow" sea-creatures. BUT: the "shallowing" begins, where Plesios and the other big threads start to apear. And the crushing is not that problematic. (they heal pretty fast, too, if they reach the accoridng height again.)

But to tame them is another topic. They're ALWAYS followed by a swarm of Mantas, who aggro instantly, if you feed the basilo. So, you first need ti kill the swarm.

I think, a good sea-creature - at least to get a around very fast - is a Sarco. Tamed on land with the standard KO-method, and both very fast on land and sea AND no oxygen-stat. Only the combat in the sea is not that good imho,. although it has the deathroll-ability. But it's way faster than a Megalodon and nearly all other sea-creatures, except - maybe - the manta. But mantas aren't so aggressive and loose interest fast to my experience.

That said, I realy think, one of the best sea-creatures is realy the basilo, Especially because they're shock-immune. (and the cinderia are one of the most annoying creatures, because you often won't notice them until it's too late... At least this was the case in ASE. I've got a feeling, though, that they're much more limited in ASA at least at Island. (I didn't play Center much, and Ragnarok isn't released, yet.)

[YamiJustin]

I did tame an Achelon, but it was only level 40 and I kibble tamed it. I feel any high level manta or mega will destroy it lol

[𝓝𝓪𝓬𝓱𝓸𝓫𝓸𝓲]

Makes me wish they fixed megs getting stuck on the terrain and each other.

A full pack of megs is unstoppable in PvE. 2nd would be tuso because of it's speed, turning capability and combat prowess.

Early on I usually do Ichty and try to tame a plesio by abusing the water threshold and then a tuso.

[Vig]

archelon max lvl with jellies buffed on the center (because there is so many jellies) is awesome, i regularly kill all alphas and once i risked a 150 alpha tuso after i popped it a few times with a very good crossbow. i have also cleared the hard water cave on Island using 2 Archelons for the buff and a shoal of max lvl Xi bitey fish, melted everything

[the_asphyx]

Baryonyx... they were great for taming Basilo's, in ASE. With the player riding one, with 3 following, would destroy all the Manta's that the Basilo's could throw at it. But it's underwater AI is broken in ASA...