Dragon boss - strategies?

[Pebbles-chan]

so, our new objective as a tribe is to unlock the dragon boss tekgrams (specifically the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ vacuum cube, as a water based tribe)

-we're on unofficial and filled with mods, specifically upgrading station, if anybody knows, it can bring weapons to 700% damage -except the bazooka-, would be better a sniper rifle or an assault one?

-is the rex-yutyrannus (and maybe the pig) strategy going to work? Or does the dragon deal too much aoe for getting that close?

-what kind of armor should we bring? Can it fend off the pesky dimos? Do pteranodons work? Is yuty viable as a turret to scare them both, if not as a buffer?

-do ascendant saddles work against the boss? With upgrade station mod we can get to that point, but is it a good defense or will the fire deal still that pesky 20% damage?

Please help me clarify this, wiki doesn't say much

Thanks

[DrathDragoon33]

Pretty sure the strat is the same for all the bosses. 18 rexes, 1 yuty, 1 pig.

Just keep the pig out of the fight when the dragon is on the ground. Have pig heal when the dragon is flying. Have players with assault rifles shoot the dragon in the sky. Its a big target you won't miss it.

As for the yuty, keep it out of fire range. and keep spamming the buff. Watch out for the lava rivers on that boss arena, they shred your rexes and supports.

You will be attacked by pteras and dimo's, the ptera are easy to kill, for dimo's just walk backwards while biting and they'll die.

All in all its an easy fight, with ascendant gear. The only real issue is the stupid lava on the ground in the arena.

[guig]

- rex yuri and daedron are the key dinos for every boss fight now. bring 1 yuri and 1 daedron, or 2 of them if unsure or alpha (to be sure), the rest with rexes or allosaurus if you can't (make groups of 3 to have a pack master in plus for each group, i don't knwo if the bleed effect works but the buff does make a difference by itself).

-the max armor you have, tek armor effects won't work (fly/weapon) but armor and fortitude buff does. normally you have better flak armor.

-saddles work of course, the better you have...... the better it is x) no way to discuss that. but fire effect is about life%tage so i won't affect that, still if the dragon have low bites hits it still a very good thing, plus for the "meteor" (more like a fireball but the one from the sky, not the breath)

- this fight is about rush and run. you start it gonna fire a meteor at you so jump on a dino and escape it fast ! after that you have a little time to place your dinos up the cliff while killing the birds. there is technically 2 phases :

1. in air, fire a meteor every x secs (haven't done it since a few patches so don't want to say something wrong, but it was about 2/3 for each fly phase before). be on a dino. foot = death.
after the 1srt meteor a pack of about 6(maybe +) pteranodons + same number of dimorphodon will pop up (dimorph are the real threat since they can hit you directly even on dino). kill them while/then keep avoiding meteors until the dragon goes down.

2. on the floor. at this point you can get off your dino if you want but be sure to be able to get on one, with enough life, for the next phase 1. when landing the dragon will target a dino or the one a player is on and stick to it until its dead. difficult part here is to get most of your dinos behind the dragon AFTER it starts hitting its primary target (or it will change, unless it's not a rex then you have to aggro it since you need the yuri and daedron) so that the fire breath affect a minimum of dinos (in dream 1, only the rex tanking but it's rarely the case you have to prepare for same sacrifies).
now this phase is way simplier than before, it's stay longer and breath less often but prepare for deaths and having at least 1 dinos 45° on the side can save many of them in some times.
if not dead it will fly off and phase 1 again.

otherwise just fire at it with assault rifle (specially phase "floor") and buff you dino with yuri/daedron (one on each if you have 2 of them is great to start buffing when the other come off since there is a cooldown specially for daedron)

[Kazarl]

yuty and therizinos work well against dragon as well since can use sweet vegetable cakes to give the therizinos auto healing and yes saddles make a massive difference a imprinted giga with a 90 armor saddle will only take 200 damage from a titanosaur when the titanosaur normally does 1000 damage per hit

♕Felix_RSM♕ eredeti hozzászólása:

20 wyvers

wyverns only work in manticore arena

[Flux]

kill it with fire

[Kazarl]

guig eredeti hozzászólása:

otherwise just fire at it with assault rifle (specially phase "floor") and buff you dino with yuri/daedron (one on each if you have 2 of them is great to start buffing when the other come off since there is a cooldown specially for daedron)

also recommend cooking up some shadow steak saute if using assault rifles it reduces recoil know dragons a massive target but it does help a lot when its surrounded by rexes and your firing from long range
https://ark.gamepedia.com/Shadow_Steak_Saute

[guig]

yeah sorry didn't spoke about "preparations":p but technically buff you with everything you can (except repellant x)); even food drop lowering can be time (stress) saving in this fight.

and of course the arena is HOT x) (technically the only reason for tek armor buff when you get use to it and gets no hit). otherwise 50+ fortitude + potions of course. depending your flak/fortitude it may be ok, or not, so heal meanwhile.

[Pebbles-chan]

Thanks for the advice, i would like to ask a video with notes about every steps, sadly it's hard to find any... I guess

[Fate (-{SoH}-)]

Use the pokeball beta 1.93 mod "my fav mod atm" and take in any dino type u like including platform saddles with minigun turrets ;-)
"i took in 10 wyverns and 2 dozen attack vultures using the pokeballs"

Secondary method,
if you get something small but big enough under the dragon around the centre when it's on the ground it locks up it's movement and as long as nothing is infront of it's front legs it wont attack.

third and least cheaty,

go in with 20 Therizinosaurs with 20-30 cakes in their inventorys,

the cakes will counteract the fire damage,

while the dragons flying have all of them spaced out so only 1 is being hit at a time,

Shoot at it with the best assualt rifles you can manage while flying,

On the ground either use imprinted theri's or asend auto shotguns which should allow you to hit nearly 5-10k damage a bullet if all fragments hit.

For armor i'd say if you can manage a max armor, max heat resistant, max duribility gullies suit that would do wounders or flak since flaks cheap & easy to replace.

The question comes down to if your fighting vanilla bosses if so then dragons a oversized baby the only bit to worry about is the lava and fire attacks.

if like my server they are buffed drasticly then you need to be alot more careful.

[Pebbles-chan]

Hm, how about 19 theri and a yuty? +20% damage and +20% damage reduction on roar, makes basically almost 4 more theri matemathically in damage, they do much more dps than t-rexes and ignore armor (do dragons even care?)

Do therizinos eat cakes spontaneously? Or do they have to be forcefed?

All these suggestions are so much useful, will speak them out with the tribes (we go with packs of tribes)

I don't think i can use any suggested mod, even if i am the founder, i kinda lost many rights on the server, also, it's cheaty ^^; i already am having a hard time trying to convince my admin about the permanent and breedable titanosaur mod XP

[Kazarl]

Pebbles-chan eredeti hozzászólása:

Hm, how about 19 theri and a yuty? +20% damage and +20% damage reduction on roar, makes basically almost 4 more theri matemathically in damage, they do much more dps than t-rexes and ignore armor (do dragons even care?)

Do therizinos eat cakes spontaneously? Or do they have to be forcefed?

All these suggestions are so much useful, will speak them out with the tribes (we go with packs of tribes)

I don't think i can use any suggested mod, even if i am the founder, i kinda lost many rights on the server, also, it's cheaty ^^; i already am having a hard time trying to convince my admin about the permanent and breedable titanosaur mod XP

i use that yuty + 19 therizinos myself and yes they do eat cakes on there own it works incredibly well
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1122164404

[Unknown]

A 755.3% (maximum damage) Assault Rifle is over 2200 DPS. That's your best bet in almost every scenario.

A 755.3% Longneck is less DPS so long as you can maintain at least 35% accuracy on the Assault Rifle. However, when the dragon flies up that is a little more difficult. If you want more consistent damage that isn't dependant upon the location of the dragon, a Longneck could be a good replacement.

What others have said about the tames is spot on. Take a Yuty for sure. Either 19 awesome Rexes or Theris. Theri is the new meta, though.

[Kazarl]

One Mode Only eredeti hozzászólása:

Theri is the new meta, though.

aye might be the meta but if say you have a 100 armor rex saddle BP or a 50 armor therizino BP i would highly recommend going for rex's instead saddle armor makes a massive difference after all and is one of things you need if want to do a run that doesnt involve sacrificing a ton of tames its main reason i focused on therizinos since best rex saddle BP on our server is only 30 armor

[Pebbles-chan]

Darcia eredeti hozzászólása:

One Mode Only eredeti hozzászólása:

Theri is the new meta, though.

aye might be the meta but if say you have a 100 armor rex saddle BP or a 50 armor therizino BP i would highly recommend going for rex's instead saddle armor makes a massive difference after all and is one of things you need if want to do a run that doesnt involve sacrificing a ton of tames its main reason i focused on therizinos since best rex saddle BP on our server is only 30 armor

Is that the max armor stat we can get with the therizino ascendant then? Upgrading station buffs saddles armor too

[Kazarl]

Pebbles-chan eredeti hozzászólása:

Is that the max armor stat we can get with the therizino ascendant then? Upgrading station buffs saddles armor too

nah its not ive got higher was just saying your best going for the creature that you can get the best saddles for since it makes a huge difference to damage they receive from the bosses