which one is better for taming ?

[Trundle Sup]

Crossbow or longbow?

[Commander Wiggley Biggley™]

Crossbow.

[Trundle Sup]

wand dm is long bow more than cross?

[ShieldofFeep]

Depends on what you want, yes technically crossbow's do more torpor than bow's base but you have to remember if you want the long reload of a crossbow or quicker fire of a bow. Its more about what you have acess to for the most part I think. Just I go between them since the bow is also easy to repair when you are taming in action compared to the crossbow.

[Leoscar]

Crossbow 100% DON'T QUICKSHOT with bow, or you'll kill your target. Shoot with crossbow, wait 2 second after reload, torpor gets higher for a few seconds, even after the shot. Fast shooting is pointless.

[Trundle Sup]

which one make dino sleep easier?

[Commander Wiggley Biggley™]

Originally posted by Baby Baby Boy :3:

which one make dino sleep easier?

Crossbow. Fire one time every seconds so you dont kill the target and you get the most possible torpor.

[Leoscar]

Originally posted by Commander Wiggley Biggley™:

Originally posted by Baby Baby Boy :3:

which one make dino sleep easier?

Crossbow. Fire one time every seconds so you dont kill the target and you get the most possible torpor.

And the less damage.

[Fishissalty]

Wait 7 seconds, not 2 and carry a magnifying glass with you, you can also use narc traps when they start to run away if they're caged. DONT LET THE TRAP KO THEM, you won't be able to tame it if it does.

[drazan]

depends a 209% mastercraft bow would be better then a 100% crossbow for example

use a tame calculator and set in the weapon damage

http://www.survive-ark.com/taming-calculator/ i use this one

[ToXiN]

Originally posted by Fishissalty:

Wait 7 seconds, not 2 and carry a magnifying glass with you, you can also use narc traps when they start to run away if they're caged. DONT LET THE TRAP KO THEM, you won't be able to tame it if it does.

Waiting 7 secs is a waste. Torpor raises for 4 secs after the arrow hit the target. So the other 3 sec just gives your target to lose torpor for that time.
Also, torpor from tranq arrow stacks, so if you know the exact number of arrows you need to hit your target with, just shoot it constantly, and after that you can wait for it to get KOd.

[margalus]

Torpor stacks now. No need to wait between shots any more.

[Commander Wiggley Biggley™]

Originally posted by Fishissalty:

Wait 7 seconds, not 2 and carry a magnifying glass with you, you can also use narc traps when they start to run away if they're caged. DONT LET THE TRAP KO THEM, you won't be able to tame it if it does.

No its five seconds. with 7 seconds you can lose some torpor

[Fishissalty]

Originally posted by ToXiN:

Originally posted by Fishissalty:

Wait 7 seconds, not 2 and carry a magnifying glass with you, you can also use narc traps when they start to run away if they're caged. DONT LET THE TRAP KO THEM, you won't be able to tame it if it does.

Waiting 7 secs is a waste. Torpor raises for 4 secs after the arrow hit the target. So the other 3 sec just gives your target to lose torpor for that time.
Also, torpor from tranq arrow stacks, so if you know the exact number of arrows you need to hit your target with, just shoot it constantly, and after that you can wait for it to get KOd.

Wait, has it always stacked????? There's no way it's always stacked.

[Sampak]

It's simple. Crossbow for most efficient use of narcotics converted to tranq but you risk damaging the target to death, like bears, if their torpor is too high and health not enough to withstand the arrows.

Longrifle darts if you need to KO something that is "delicate" like some stubborn flyers or high level Ptera's (flyers take extra damage Ron ranged weapons so you might kill one trying to KO it if you shoot an extra one off or something messes up your shots). However darts are obviously more expensive, both in resources to make and they use 3 narcotics but only apply the torpor of about 2 if I remember correctly.

I've however been a bit more successful downing Quetzals with a crossbow's slightly faster reload speed than a rifle (when not using a quetzal trap for the very first one).

Wood bows are a waste as you apply less torpor per arrow and so you'll need more of them, PLUS if you don't pull back all the way you're wasting them more so (less damage = less torpor).

Compound bows are better than bows but worse than crossbows, again, all things being primitive quality (which is all you have starting out).

[Sampak]

Wait, has it always stacked????? There's no way it's always stacked.

It does right now and has been for most part of the year using crossbows. I can just count out the arrows as I fire then watch the torpor go up on a rex for example, using a magnifying glass (obviously when it's fleeing and up against a cliff, hehe).

Magnifying glass is very handy with torpor tracking on stubborn or glitch tames. On SE we noticed everything took way more arrows than on Island because a good portion wouldn't register! (Lag or ping on our server, who knows, yet gameplay was smooth as usual).