Best way to deal with Ravagers at low level?

[xxprawnsxx]

Hey everyone, me and friends on my server have an issue with Ravagers. Supposedly when spawning, Fertile Lake 3 is labeled as easy. But this is not the case. We are surrounded by ravagers at the place we decided to build a temporary base. We've tried taming one, but to no avail. We've tried killing them but to no avail as we end up dying ourselves. Does anyone have any tips for dealing with them at low levels just to give us a peace of mind? xD

[Nykrus]

My advice would be to get armed up with bolas and bows. The area has lots of ridges to camp out on, so get up high (or build a tower) and start sniping. If you can seperate them so they lose their pack bonus, all the better.

[Cobretti]

More often than not they are in packs, you have about 2 seconds to kite them to another dino they may prefer eating than you.

If you are lucky to only come across 1, bola and run. If you try spear them the bola will break before they are dead.

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Originally posted by Nykrus:

My advice would be to get armed up with bolas and bows. The area has lots of ridges to camp out on, so get up high (or build a tower) and start sniping. If you can seperate them so they lose their pack bonus, all the better.

Sound advice.

Even if you can't find the perfect location, the best thing to deal with ravangers is to bola them. After doing so, you have two options. Have a pike (or several spears w/ melee damage increased) and melee it's backside away from it's frontal attack, or proceed to bombard it with arrows

Early on you'll find Ravagers tough to take out, especially in packs of 3 or more. The best strategy I've seen so far is to bola them one after another, then proceed to kill them starting with the pack leader. The leader is the strongest of the pack, so removing them will make the others easier since they are less of a threat stat wise.

Some important notes:
1. Ravangers have a big health pool compared to most common predators in lower areas.
2. Ravanger's attacks give you a nasty debuff. Always focus on immobilizing them first to position yourself safely out of it's reach.
3. From personal experience, a ravanger is much harder to knock out than other starter area dinos. I recommend several people beating a low-level ravanger with clubs, or waiting until you have tranq arrows.

Their tough at the start, but they're the new improved raptors of the game. They're a threat when you're a fresh spawn, but when you have bolas and a decent weapon you'll make short work of them. Just be aware that they rarely travel alone, and in a large pack they can still be a threat if you're unprepared.

[The Waffle that Lurks]

Since people already recommended bolas another tool you have are the Flashbang Fruit (Species Z Fruit) if you left click it throws 1 and detonates on impact / if you right click it detonates after about 3 seconds on impact (so of you are running you can toss 1 at your feet and it will go off behind you!!!)

[Serangel]

Another pack of tamed ravagers, be sure you constantly tell your pack to focus them down one by one or the gnash bleeds will just kill all of your ravagers.

[Untugs]

Tame a pet with charge asap. They emit light that debuffs then so they take way more damage. It also wards them off.. best solution ;)

[The Waffle that Lurks]

Originally posted by KSG Untug™:

Tame a pet with charge asap. They emit light that debuffs then so they take way more damage. It also wards them off.. best solution ;)

Ravagers not Reapers....

[Kisston]

Originally posted by dragonraider1000:

Originally posted by KSG Untug™:

Tame a pet with charge asap. They emit light that debuffs then so they take way more damage. It also wards them off.. best solution ;)

Ravagers not Reapers....

Or nameless for that matter, if you are just starting off and dealing with them than you made a wrong turn. I've had an idea to make a "moat trap" around a base where running to base gets any ravagers stuck, and easier to kill or tame. a sizeable pack of ravagers does well to guard against wild ones.

[Xandor]

If you are a group you can easily bola them and tame or kill without using high ground.

If you are solo you can go on a rock and tranq them. It is slightly risky because they can leap and have slow but if you just pick a suitable rock it is safe. If you can then throw a bola on the one you tranq so it doesn't run away.

You can also ride a dino and tranq it. I do this most of the time.

Tame some ravagers and then it becomes very easy.

I play solo with normal stats but 3x rates I think, I have only 1 death in aberration (on Freezing Spores), my ravager pack beats anything they encounter (ravagers, basilisks, rock drakes. Didn't even lose any when I accidently aggrod ~6 mobs at the same time (they automatically leap which can cause accidental aggro).

My ravager pack has 3-5k hp each (mostly picking health since I don't want to risk losing any and I do 360+ damage per hit on the main ravager because of alpha buff (50% damage), +20% damage/reduction from 4+ pack and 33% damage and reduction from mate boost).