Sarco's can destroy Alpha Megalodons..

[Teratus]

Normally I avoid these guys since I'm usually about on a Dolphin and they tend to suck in the damage and HP departments..
But this time I ran accross 2 on my way back from the Caverns of Lost Faith.

I figured since I recently found out that Dolphins can really hammer normal Megalodons in a straight but reasonably long fight by using their speed to stay behind them and nip at their tail till they die.. that the Sarco's absurd swim speed might allow me to do the same thing..

Suffice to say yeah.. it does..
You can absolutely destoy Alpha Megalodons and normal ones this way without ever taking damage from them..
Granted you probably will take a little when the backup arrives but considering how easy Sarco's are to tame and you need only be level 35 to ride one this makes them great early and late game mounts for newer and experieced players to use when hunting the Alpha Megalodon.

[DeFox]

Sacros are great, they are also great for swamps because leeches won't latch onto them

[DeFox]

Originally posted by Possessed One:

They have another weakness in water,slow attack with bad area of effect,youll have a hard time hitting many sea creatures,especially when dealing with smaller creatures like manta

Personally,i give them only speed and use them for taming mosa or other sea creatures.Its nice to use weapons while riding:)

I thought sacros have better attack speed in water than on land

[Lina]

the only thing i dont like about sarcos is when they start going in circles and their target just stays in the middle hitting them

[Possessed One]

Originally posted by DeFox:

Originally posted by Possessed One:

They have another weakness in water,slow attack with bad area of effect,youll have a hard time hitting many sea creatures,especially when dealing with smaller creatures like manta

Personally,i give them only speed and use them for taming mosa or other sea creatures.Its nice to use weapons while riding:)

I thought sacros have better attack speed in water than on land

I haven't noticed any difference:)

[Teratus]

Originally posted by 裴瑛Lina:

the only thing i dont like about sarcos is when they start going in circles and their target just stays in the middle hitting them

Yeah bad AI lol
Definitely not good as guards but as mounts they rock ^^

[Kisston]

When i first started playing ARK a couple years ago (plesi had just been released) i lost 4 megalodons to beaching and other megalodons just sitting in the shallows, i used sarcos cause they could haul up on land and were still strong. Wish they'd fit through normal dino gates though... they arent that fat!

[123]

Originally posted by Teratus:

Originally posted by 123:

Sarcos are great hybrid tanks / transporteurs for solo pvp ^^
Can tank land dinos, can tank sea dinos, can even tank flying dinos,
can hide them like everywhere..

Still especially cavern of lost hope i prefer basilo.. those things imprinted are just incredible .. ;)
And once you pulled that alpha megalodon to the beach they simply outheal alphas dmg ^^

Yeah that cavern is a nightmare.. I read it's full of jellyfish, eels and giant squids.. lots of stuns, dismounts and tames getting grabbed so a Basilo's is more or less necessary for that one since they are immunte to all that crap.
I just tamed one of them today as well.. another first time tame lol
Doing good today ^^

Originally posted by Possessed One:

Baryonyx's stun duration is 10 seconds,and it doesnt wait more than a few seconds before unleashing next stun.
Also enough time to run away from alpha if situation looks desperate,just level its speed stat a bit and you'll be fine.

Does leveling speed increase their swim speed?
I thought it only increased their run speed on land..

Grats for the basilo !

Imprinting basilo helps a lot !
With vanilla level 1xx i had hard times to reach beacons, not to speak of artefact.

Got me a lowlevel basilo female, breed a few times to get a good level baby,
imprinted it 40 % and now the cave is piece of cake.

Often i just kite the crowds and go directly for the drops / artefact.
( squids are really rare from my experience )

Afaik oxygen makes water dinos swim faster.

[Vladson]

Originally posted by drazan:

sarcos are great and underrated

When breeding was added in game, my first baby was sarco.

[Possessed One]

Originally posted by 123:

Originally posted by Teratus:

Yeah that cavern is a nightmare.. I read it's full of jellyfish, eels and giant squids.. lots of stuns, dismounts and tames getting grabbed so a Basilo's is more or less necessary for that one since they are immunte to all that crap.
I just tamed one of them today as well.. another first time tame lol
Doing good today ^^



Does leveling speed increase their swim speed?
I thought it only increased their run speed on land..

Grats for the basilo !

Imprinting basilo helps a lot !
With vanilla level 1xx i had hard times to reach beacons, not to speak of artefact.

Got me a lowlevel basilo female, breed a few times to get a good level baby,
imprinted it 40 % and now the cave is piece of cake.

Often i just kite the crowds and go directly for the drops / artefact.
( squids are really rare from my experience )

Afaik oxygen makes water dinos swim faster.

Increasing oxygen makes land dinos like spino swim a bit faster, but it's not for creatures like baryonyx and sarco,since they don't have oxygen stat

[Teratus]

Originally posted by 123:

Originally posted by Teratus:

Yeah that cavern is a nightmare.. I read it's full of jellyfish, eels and giant squids.. lots of stuns, dismounts and tames getting grabbed so a Basilo's is more or less necessary for that one since they are immunte to all that crap.
I just tamed one of them today as well.. another first time tame lol
Doing good today ^^



Does leveling speed increase their swim speed?
I thought it only increased their run speed on land..

Grats for the basilo !

Imprinting basilo helps a lot !
With vanilla level 1xx i had hard times to reach beacons, not to speak of artefact.

Got me a lowlevel basilo female, breed a few times to get a good level baby,
imprinted it 40 % and now the cave is piece of cake.

Often i just kite the crowds and go directly for the drops / artefact.
( squids are really rare from my experience )

Afaik oxygen makes water dinos swim faster.

Mine's pretty low level.. 13-15 I think.. atm i'm putting all it's points into HP
I wanna make it more or less a tank lol
Doing the same with the Mosa.

[Bulborb87]

thb, now a-day's megalodons arent that much of a threat then they once where because we have many ways to counter these giant sharks but in my opinion the biggest bain to megalodons is the Baryonyx because the sharks can be stunned