Solo Alpha Rockwell

[Insomniac224]

I'm ready to take on Rockwell but I'm not entirely sure what I need to take him down... I'm in a SP server and I have pretty good spinos and a couple good drakes. I plan on having the spinos beat up Rockwell while I run around on a drake shooting tentacles while defending myself with a charge lantern, but if that's a horrible strategy it can change.

Spino base stats:
No imprint
Lvl 209/211 (stamina mutation somwhere in my pile of spinos)
4704.3 HP
371 Melee

Rock Drake completely leveled:
100% imprint
25351.6 HP
1242 Stam
1406.3 Melee

Armor/Weapons:
Prim Hazard Helm, 215.4 Hazard Shirt, 224.2 Hazard Pants, Prim Hazard Gloves,
236.6 Hazard Boots

Prim Flak Helm, 270.7 Flak Shirt, 285.8 Flak Pants, 394.2 Flak Gloves, 300.6 Flak Boots

263.6 Pike, 343.2 Crossbow, 211.7 Pump, 257.2 Compound Bow, Charge Lantern, 100+ Z Plant Fruit (just in case)

And as for ammo I'm not entirely sure, I've never fought Rockwell before. If there's anything else I should look for like better armor, better dinos, just let me know..

[Leviticus]

Originally posted by CrowGuy12:

I'm ready to take on Rockwell but I'm not entirely sure what I need to take him down... I'm in a SP server and I have pretty good spinos and a couple good drakes. I plan on having the spinos beat up Rockwell while I run around on a drake shooting tentacles while defending myself with a charge lantern, but if that's a horrible strategy it can change.

Spino base stats:
No imprint
Lvl 209/211 (stamina mutation somwhere in my pile of spinos)
4704.3 HP
371 Melee

Rock Drake completely leveled:
100% imprint
25351.6 HP
1242 Stam
1406.3 Melee

Armor/Weapons:
Prim Hazard Helm, 215.4 Hazard Shirt, 224.2 Hazard Pants, Prim Hazard Gloves,
236.6 Hazard Boots

Prim Flak Helm, 270.7 Flak Shirt, 285.8 Flak Pants, 394.2 Flak Gloves, 300.6 Flak Boots

263.6 Pike, 343.2 Crossbow, 211.7 Pump, 257.2 Compound Bow, Charge Lantern, 100+ Z Plant Fruit (just in case)

And as for ammo I'm not entirely sure, I've never fought Rockwell before. If there's anything else I should look for like better armor, better dinos, just let me know..

Running rockwell with a pump on a drake I'd say you're going to want more stam, or atleast stam regen from stimberries or custom food. As for ammo, using only a 250 pump I usually pack 300 rounds just to be safe and frequently use about 200, but I also haven't done a solo run, this is official servers multiplayer alpha rockwell with 2-3 people shooting.

To be safe, prepare. When you think you've got the gear, keep going, because it doesn't hurt to bring extra, but it does hurt, alot, to bring just less than enough.

[Seikuri]

The spinos wont "beat rockwell up" while you shoot the tentacles. Only when all tentacles are destroyed they can attack Rockwell in the center. Instead of a lantern, use light pets. Featherlights work good you can set one to follow your spinos on passive and have one on your shoulder.
Best method would be to pump stamina and hp into the rock drake instead of melee since it needs to tank mostly while you shoot from its back.
The worst thing that works against you is the time. With that weak of a pumpgun it will take a bunch of shots to even kill the tentacles.
Also a few sets of armor are must haves since the floating balls will damage and destroy your armor fast.
The amount of reaper kings will murder your low hop spinos within a few minutes. 4k health is not even close to enough. I used a group of 5 high level reapers to distract the other reapers and nameless while running jumping with the rock drake and shooting from its back.
Maybe instead of going straight to Alpha, try gamma first to get an idea and how to manage the rock drake and shooting strategy. Theres a big jump in reaper king spawns on Alpha that will simply destroy your other creatures.
Being fast and having lots of stam and hp is key.

[Insomniac224]

Originally posted by Seikuri:

The spinos wont "beat rockwell up" while you shoot the tentacles. Only when all tentacles are destroyed they can attack Rockwell in the center. Instead of a lantern, use light pets. Featherlights work good you can set one to follow your spinos on passive and have one on your shoulder.
Best method would be to pump stamina and hp into the rock drake instead of melee since it needs to tank mostly while you shoot from its back.
The worst thing that works against you is the time. With that weak of a pumpgun it will take a bunch of shots to even kill the tentacles.
Also a few sets of armor are must haves since the floating balls will damage and destroy your armor fast.
The amount of reaper kings will murder your low hop spinos within a few minutes. 4k health is not even close to enough. I used a group of 5 high level reapers to distract the other reapers and nameless while running jumping with the rock drake and shooting from its back.
Maybe instead of going straight to Alpha, try gamma first to get an idea and how to manage the rock drake and shooting strategy. Theres a big jump in reaper king spawns on Alpha that will simply destroy your other creatures.
Being fast and having lots of stam and hp is key.

I can understand having a tank drake is much better than what I have, and that 4k HP is nothing in a boss battle, but I'm not sure you're taking into account the all information I gave.

4704.3 base, meaning unleveled, and unimprinted. And I like all my spinos 100% imprinted because I have 800+ spino eggs. And spinos at this level give a ton of xp so that's what I'll use the extra eggs for. And I forgot to mention I have 66.2 spino saddles, making them a little more durable.
I know that I can't just send in the spinos to "beat up Rockwell," and that I have to take out the tentacles first, I'm not an idiot. I just meant have the spinos sit by rockwell and wait for me to take out the tentacles. But if having some good reapers are better than that I'll go ahead and tame some.
The shotgun is probably not enough to take out tentacles I'm sure, but I've farmed the surface for a long time and I haven't got any good shotguns, I might head to Ragnarok and farm lava golem if he drops any.
The reason I say use a charge lantern is because it scares nameless away, but I can easily change it to featherlights.
I'm playing in a SP server, so there is no time limit to boss fights.
And as for armor I keep getting armor pieces straight up instead of BPs because the surface doesn't like me very much.
Thanks for the info, this definitely helped.

[Seikuri]

If you dont have a time limit in sp, then just pump health and stam into one drake take a bunch of armor and health brews, a bunch of pumpgun rounds and incase the durability of the shutgun is bad take 2 and just run in circles, jump and shoot.
Rockwell is actually the easiest boss and easiest ascension ever. Nothing compared to the ascension on the island.
Good luck

[Lycan187u]

298 damage shotty 3 shots the tenticles on alpha rockwell place spino near the heart when u do ur circle killing the tenticle whistle ur spino ezpz gd luck