Methods of obtaining Ascendants

[Consoom]

Hello! I've been playing ark nonstop for a week and I've read in multiple places that alphas, red/yellow beacons, fishing, Carno Island cave and deep sea loot crates are the only ways to get ascendant items. Which of these methods would be best for gaining ascendants the fastest?

EDIT:
I'm talking about the map - The Island
Also I'm playing on a 100x server so I'm max level and its easy to gather resources.

[Estemmenosuchus]

Well In general, on the center, you have a better chance of getting higher quality items from all of these ways

[Meow Decaf]

Beacons could be fast if you had ARK luck on your side, but thats unlikely. They will more or less give you crap then anything. Even reds beacons.
Fishing is very slow.

Maybe Alphas and/or Carno Island cave or Deep Sea loot crates are faster? Idk really. I only recently got a nice Rex tame that can easily deal with alphas, and I haven't gone to any Cave nor deep sea loot crates aside from a few. (at the time I had a mod that changes the loot in the loot crates)

EDIT: this is from me playing on the island anyways.

[Alenvire]

Use raptor claus. I have not gained as much ascendent items in a couple weeks play as I have in the past 2 days.

[Consoom]

Originally posted by Alenvire:

Use raptor claus. I have not gained as much ascendent items in a couple weeks play as I have in the past 2 days.

How do you use a raptor claus to get ascendants?

[Alenvire]

raptor claus spawns every night between midnight and 2am in game. The presents he drops have about a 1 in 4 chance of droping a item. About a 4 in 5 chance of the item droped being mastercraft or ascendent in my experience. Though it may be a BP and I have gotten a few journeymen items. Most of the time you get coal or holly from him.

[Alenvire]

Also, we have gained way more saddles then items so far. I would say be patient but quick to get them and you will get several items.

I own my own server so we tested the drop rates by just resetting the time to respawn him after he despawned. Those numbers seem about right. Personally I want to change red beacons to raptor loot tables. lol

[󠀡󠀡]

Raptor claus is the best way, but beware that there's a good amount of players out there who will likely fight you for the drop even if you arrived at the location of the drop first.

[Consoom]

Thank you for the replies does anyone know when Raptor Claus leaves?

[Alenvire]

2 am ingame time. And in about a week winter wonderland will be removed

[Consoom]

Thanks

[-Smirnoff-]

Fishing is the way! MC or Ascendant fishing rod= vaults full of ascendant and mc blueprints!

[Brax]

Hands down, the best way to find ascendant gear is in the deep sea loot crates. You can get two every 45 minutes and generally a much higher chance to find that sweet red text.

Fishing is too dependant on having a good rod, cave and supply beacons are simply too cluttered with garbage, and alpha hunting is very situational. Also Raptor clause as mentioned above drops way more coal and holly than items plus you only get the gift drops once per night and every person on the server wants them too.

[-Smirnoff-]

Originally posted by Brax:

Hands down, the best way to find ascendant gear is in the deep sea loot crates. You can get two every 45 minutes and generally a much higher chance to find that sweet red text.

Fishing is too dependant on having a good rod, cave and supply beacons are simply too cluttered with garbage, and alpha hunting is very situational. Also Raptor clause as mentioned above drops way more coal and holly than items plus you only get the gift drops once per night and every person on the server wants them too.

Yes, fishing is dependant from good fishing rod (and leech blood), but once I get ascendant fishing rod and find a good spot with high quality fish, i can get (my top score so far) 17 blueprints (mixture of ascendant/mastercraft) from one fish! Lol

[Brax]

Originally posted by #Smirnoff:

Originally posted by Brax:

Hands down, the best way to find ascendant gear is in the deep sea loot crates. You can get two every 45 minutes and generally a much higher chance to find that sweet red text.

Fishing is too dependant on having a good rod, cave and supply beacons are simply too cluttered with garbage, and alpha hunting is very situational. Also Raptor clause as mentioned above drops way more coal and holly than items plus you only get the gift drops once per night and every person on the server wants them too.

Yes, fishing is dependant from good fishing rod (and leech bload), but once I get ascendant fishing rod and find a good spot with high quality fish, i can get (my top score so far) 17 blueprints (mixture of ascendant/mastercraft) from one fish! Lol

I've been playing for something like 2k hours and I have found exactly one improved fishing rod. It was a journeyman and had a limit of three crafts.

[-Smirnoff-]

Originally posted by Brax:

Originally posted by #Smirnoff:

Yes, fishing is dependant from good fishing rod (and leech bload), but once I get ascendant fishing rod and find a good spot with high quality fish, i can get (my top score so far) 17 blueprints (mixture of ascendant/mastercraft) from one fish! Lol

I've been playing for something like 2k hours and I have found exactly one improved fishing rod. It was a journeyman and had a limit of three crafts.

I have found in last 4 weeks quite a few ramshackle/journeyman fishing rods (that i would just throw on the ground as they are useless crap), 2 ascendant and 1 mastercraft. My tribemate found mc blueprint + several ascendamt and mc rods. Look in red/golden drops with kind of ring around them... those are only ones worth looking at...