Personal Opinions on the Reaper

[Bulborb87]

so it has been a while since the DLC was released so i think now would be a good time to ask this question: what are your personal opinions on the reaper if any of u managed to tame one?

[Bulborb87]

bear in mind that i want this to be civial like all my past discussions so please follow this simple rule

[Fate (-{SoH}-)]

Hey bulborb,
well i'v caught 2 on default settings so far on a private dedicated.

They have the advantages of:
almost no fall damage,
immune to radiation,
can jump high,
Super fast,
Knock back tail attack,
tail acid attack that slows the target down.

The first was lvl 10,
got it 32 bonus lvls,
then lvled it 71 times,
As a lvl 113 reaper it was insanely powerful with about 26k hp and it hit 260's, 500 weight,

The second was lvl 150,
got it all 75 bonus lvls,
lvled it 71 times,
as a lvl 296 it is madness powerful with 56k hp, it hits 496 damage and has 800 weight.

The reapers primary stats were 46 points in food and 38 points in movement so infact it would count as a bad stat tame.

They are clearly ment to be abberations apex creature,
they can even outmatch a bred mutated trex.

Problems are u gotta find a good reaper queen and they tend to spawn at low lvls and they never despawn so you gotta kill possiblely hundreds or thousends of 46k hp , highly resistant queens that have a torpor attack that hits 2k torpor in order to find a good one,
then a good chance you will die during the impregnation,
finaly raising it takes about the same amount of time as a giga.
Then they have no saddle so you cant tanky them up like you can a trex.

The biggest issue for reapers is their default weight stat is terrible for something their size,
and i believe their 12 hour timer keeps counting down while ur offline so for 12 hours after getting impregnated you have to play til you get the 70k xp required to max the babys bonus lvls and the baby only gets xp from killing and almost nothing gives good xp on abberation best is the spino....

[Bulborb87]

Originally posted by Fate (-{SoH}-):

Hey bulborb,
well i'v caught 2 on default settings so far on a private dedicated.

They have the advantages of:
almost no fall damage,
immune to radiation,
can jump high,
Super fast,
Knock back tail attack,
tail acid attack that slows the target down.

The first was lvl 10,
got it 32 bonus lvls,
then lvled it 71 times,
As a lvl 113 reaper it was insanely powerful with about 26k hp and it hit 260's, 500 weight,

The second was lvl 150,
got it all 75 bonus lvls,
lvled it 71 times,
as a lvl 296 it is madness powerful with 56k hp, it hits 496 damage and has 800 weight.

The reapers primary stats were 46 points in food and 38 points in movement so infact it would count as a bad stat tame.

They are clearly ment to be abberations apex creature,
they can even outmatch a bred mutated trex.

Problems are u gotta find a good reaper queen and they tend to spawn at low lvls and they never despawn so you gotta kill possiblely hundreds or thousends of 46k hp , highly resistant queens that have a torpor attack that hits 2k torpor in order to find a good one,
then a good chance you will die during the impregnation,
finaly raising it takes about the same amount of time as a giga.
Then they have no saddle so you cant tanky them up like you can a trex.

The biggest issue for reapers is their default weight stat is terrible for something their size,
and i believe their 12 hour timer keeps counting down while ur offline so for 12 hours after getting impregnated you have to play til you get the 70k xp required to max the babys bonus lvls and the baby only gets xp from killing and almost nothing gives good xp on abberation best is the spino....

while those are good...i do know 1 particular creature that ive found seems to gaurentee the max exp for the baby during the gestation period and that would be the alpha karkinos

[Fate (-{SoH}-)]

In nearly 100 hours on abberation i have seen only 1 alpha at all (it was the karkinos).
I'v wiped out all lakes/rivers ect while training the baby never saw a alpha.

[Bulborb87]

yea it is hard to find alphas i know that much because hell ive still never found and killed a surface reaper king yet, but yea i will agree that the reaper is definately the best mount in aberration....hell i even compared its size to other carnivores and its size is on par with the T-Rex and Spino, but damn getting a reaper i wont deny is pretty difficult

[Fate (-{SoH}-)]

Honestly getting a reaper is too easy atm.
I fought the lvl 10 queen with a pair of mid lvl crabs and got impregnated first attempt.
For the lvl 150 queen i first attempted using my reaper to fight her and thats where i noticed the torpor attack the first time as never noticed it on the crab (since only cannons and canapaults can hit it for torpor) honestly i think a legion of megas or half adozen crabs is more then enough for a lvl 150 queen.

You can also trap her in a stone trap and do it that way 100% safe aka easy.

[Bulborb87]

Originally posted by Fate (-{SoH}-):

Honestly getting a reaper is too easy atm.
I fought the lvl 10 queen with a pair of mid lvl crabs and got impregnated first attempt.
For the lvl 150 queen i first attempted using my reaper to fight her and thats where i noticed the torpor attack the first time as never noticed it on the crab (since only cannons and canapaults can hit it for torpor) honestly i think a legion of megas or half adozen crabs is more then enough for a lvl 150 queen.

You can also trap her in a stone trap and do it that way 100% safe aka easy.

well i mean sure the impregnation is easy...its just finding her and getting her to it thats a little tough and i swear those radiation chambers have more purlovias then i always belive there would be

[Fate (-{SoH}-)]

Go to the south east most section of the blue biome that attachs to the red biome,
to the right looking into the red biome are some spinos and all,
to the left is a pink waterfall and a giant ledge u gotta get up to go that way,
go up it the land bridge there has a 100% queen spawn rate normaly 1-3 are in that area.

Have a charge pet with 400% radius, 600 charge, 600 regen and keep it on during the fight using crabs and you can slaughter the queen,
if need be draw her back to a waiting force in the blue biome of ravagers/spinos/crabs ect and watch her hit 2k hp in momments.

[Bulborb87]

Originally posted by Fate (-{SoH}-):

Go to the south east most section of the blue biome that attachs to the red biome,
to the right looking into the red biome are some spinos and all,
to the left is a pink waterfall and a giant ledge u gotta get up to go that way,
go up it the land bridge there has a 100% queen spawn rate normaly 1-3 are in that area.

Have a charge pet with 400% radius, 600 charge, 600 regen and keep it on during the fight using crabs and you can slaughter the queen,
if need be draw her back to a waiting force in the blue biome of ravagers/spinos/crabs ect and watch her hit 2k hp in momments.

thing is i dont really use an army against her cause i have been able to take her on surprisingly with just a crab...also as a side note i tend to find crabs with some pretty cool color combinations

[Fate (-{SoH}-)]

The crab seems to be the best way to fight her,
it's how i got both my reapers.

Nothing else worked due to her torpor attack.
Normaly need crabs or overwhelming numbers.

[Bulborb87]

Originally posted by Fate (-{SoH}-):

The crab seems to be the best way to fight her,
it's how i got both my reapers.

Nothing else worked due to her torpor attack.
Normaly need crabs or overwhelming numbers.

yea i think the main reason the crab works best is because of its incredible health pool

[Fate (-{SoH}-)]

@bulb i think the reason it works best is the resistance to normal torpor,
Other creatures are instant ko'ed by her torpor attack.
My reaper only lost 5% hp but was knocked out by her torpor was forced to come back with an army to save my reaper.

[Bulborb87]

Originally posted by Fate (-{SoH}-):

@bulb i think the reason it works best is the resistance to normal torpor,
Other creatures are instant ko'ed by her torpor attack.
My reaper only lost 5% hp but was knocked out by her torpor was forced to come back with an army to save my reaper.

oh yea that too because it can only be knocked-out in the same method as the golem and the titan