Ragnarok artifact caves

[giorgiobusoni]

So I am playing ragnarok solo, I am trying to collect all artifacts, I am at 6/11. I am missing the one in the ice cave and the 4 ones in the desert cave. Which cave do you suggest me to start with? I didn't fight the lava elemental boss in the jungle dungeon, was definitely too strong for me...
Also, is ragnarok finalized? Can I beat the gamma/beta/alpha bosses and the final ascension mechanism is completed? or still in development?

[Vesuvius]

The ice cave can be done just by running :)

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"Oh 'ooh aah', that's how it all starts. Then there's running, and then screaming..."

[Skorpion]

Ice cave: You have to fight the iceworm queen to get the artifact. Otherwise there is a barrier in the way.
Desert Cave: If you have scorched earth gear its easy, if not you have to do a lot of jump and run. There are some snakes, spiders etc in the way, but that shouldn't be a problem. For the desert cave, I recommend you to look a video or read a bit about it. There are so many buttons you have to press in the right order and no clues what to do. I tried it a few times and finally watched a video for the right combinations :P
Bosses: There is just one arena on ragnarok, where you fight the dragon and manticore at the same time. You can choose between alpha, beta, gamma. As far as I know you can only ascend on the island at the moment. Dont think that will be added on ragnarok.

[Trigger Zero]

The ice cave is pretty easy, but make sure you take some shields, I always carried 2 really good ones. I soloed it by breeding dimorophs. The ice worms will pop up and do a big swing hit, and the queen hits very hard. I'm not sure if there's another way to solo it aside from vultures/dimos and shield blocking.
The labyrinth overall is easier, if you know what to do. If not you can be 1-2 shot killed by traps. There's quite a few puzzles, and don't forget to take a shoulder dino for sacrifice to open the door. If you take a few climbing picks the first puzzle and further jump tunnel is infinitely easier.
As skorpian said, rag only has one arena that contains both Manticore and dragon bosses together.
Ascension must be done on the island and you need the heads of the island bosses to unlock the corresponding tek cave difficulty. In the games lore/story you ascend from island to scorched earth, then to aberration, then extinction. Rag was an individuals map that was added to the game, the center as well.

[giorgiobusoni]

Originally posted by Vesuvious:

The ice cave can be done just by running :)

Looks like is not possible anymore. Asskorpion said, there is now a barrier and you have to fight the queen. This sucks as I have done the whole cave by fighting the worms (lowering dino attack to 0.2 as with normal gear it is insane otherwise, riot gets broken after 2 hits. I do not have access to blueprints above primitive so far...) and I am now stuck in the queen arena. I asued the "trick" that said that if you wait 2 minutes it despawns, and she does, however the barrier stays on...

[Skorpion]

You can leave, even if you dont kill the queen. There is an ice barrier somewhere, which you can destroy with a pick. You won't get the artifact, but at least you are free

[giorgiobusoni]

Originally posted by Skorpion:

You can leave, even if you dont kill the queen. There is an ice barrier somewhere, which you can destroy with a pick. You won't get the artifact, but at least you are free

Yes, I got free, but have to do the cave again :(
They should balance a bit this map, for SP is not good...I get only crap from loot crates, even red ones...I have no good gear and the iceworks are really strong. I was not able to get to the end of the cavern even by lowering wild dino damage to 0.2 and summoning multiple riot armors! Iceworms sometimes appear in 3 and in that case you nearly lose a primivite riot armor only to get rid of those 3. And this happens multiple times. I think I used someting like 20-30 sets of riot armor, and had to stop 4/5 times subsituting with fur armor to regenerate heath. And close to the end, just before the ice queen, for the last part I had to cheat even harder than summoning the 20 sets of riot armor and summor a rare fur armor to get past that point because it was definitely too cold for riot armor. I don't really know what to do apart from lowering the attack even more (0.1? 0.05?), at least for those classes (iceworm, icequeen as well I suppose). Or I should find a setting to improve the gear/blueprints I find in the crates.

[Trigger Zero]

Well you're not supposed to take hits to the face (which is what is destroying armor), you want a shield for the worm attacks.

[Skorpion]

There are 5 locations for desert loot crates and you can find 4 at the same time. In these you can find really good fur gear and riot shields.
Locations are:

59,7 / 76,6
63,2 / 78,1
70,4 / 76,5
83,9 / 77,0
79,7 / 51,9
Like nemisis311 said, you need shields against the worms. 2 pieces of good fur armor form desert crates should be enough for the temperatures.

We did the cave with 3 people, so one was the tank with shields and the other two are dealing the damage. Never tried it alone, but there are some videos for solo ice queen.

[giorgiobusoni]

Originally posted by Skorpion:

There are 5 locations for desert loot crates and you can find 4 at the same time. In these you can find really good fur gear and riot shields.
Locations are:

59,7 / 76,6
63,2 / 78,1
70,4 / 76,5
83,9 / 77,0
79,7 / 51,9
Like nemisis311 said, you need shields against the worms. 2 pieces of good fur armor form desert crates should be enough for the temperatures.

We did the cave with 3 people, so one was the tank with shields and the other two are dealing the damage. Never tried it alone, but there are some videos for solo ice queen.

I went to these locations, 3 out of 5 (I had found a post listeng them), but found nothing. Somebody said that in sigle might be different and might not spawn. I found one uncommond piece of fur for now. And an an uncommon metal armor blueprint that has same armor as riot but much more durability. I will try with these and lowering a bit the stats of the worms...

[Trigger Zero]

For someone who's never used shields I should probably mention it's not enough to just wear it, you need to hold down right click to pull the shield up for block.