What player stats do I upgrade?

[sssparkzzz]

New player here, I would guess Health, Stamina and Weight would be pretty good to upgrade, but idk about the rest, any advice?

[Rebel]

You answered your own question :) Most other things are personal preference.

[Liralen]

For a new player, I would add run speed.

But don't sweat it too much. Eventually, you'll be able to make https://ark.fandom.com/wiki/Mindwipe_Tonic

[Samadhi]

Originally posted by sssparkzzz:

New player here, I would guess Health, Stamina and Weight would be pretty good to upgrade, but idk about the rest, any advice?

Health and movespeed are the 2 main ones, weight is ok to a point (enough to carry a gear kit or 2) but eventually dinos will be your weight carriers.

The rest imo are situational depending on your playstyle, you'll figure out what stats work for you after a few dozen hours.

[🦊 Hermit]

Really depends on your playstyle. For example, a few people here have already suggested health, but I personally would say that is not important, since when you're sat on a dino the creature will take hits for you instead of your own health pool.

I much favour damage avoidance rather than tanking hits, so I leave HP where it is and go for a lot of stamina so I can keep running for a while. If something is chasing you and you run past a smaller herbivore, the predator will likely turn and go for that instead.

My priorities when building my character are carry weight, stamina, and fortitude. The latter will reduce your food and water drain, give you better resistance against temperature extremes, and make you harder to knock out from tranq attacks. I also like to level a good amount of oxygen, so I can stay underwater for a while even without scuba gear. Movement speed I find is a tricky balance - some of it can be handy to outrun threats, but too much can make it awkward moving around your base...for me the sweet spot is around 127%.

Should also be said that I play exclusively PvE though. PvP would add another large swathe of factors into the mix for consideration.

[Pisaro]

PvE or PvP is the question here...

[Mason]

Pvp: Assuming you're level 100, I typically, especially when I was on PS4 would level move speed to 180%, and about 300 or 400 in weight, the rest into health and stamina. Anything else in pvp, doesn't matter. People who level melee are just meme builds, they can work sometimes, like if you had an ascendant sword, you could fck some sht up, but pvp typically doesn't work like that.

[Dani0303]

guys u think a GTX 1650 8 GB will handle ark good?

[Tinetic]

Yeah on PvP movement speed is what you need ... on PvE not so much no xD

[Dani0303]

can anyone pls answer

[Samadhi]

Originally posted by lomadze1976:

can anyone pls answer

If you have 16GBs RAM, a decent CPU (8th gen I5 or better) then it will run ok at medium-high settings on a 1080p monitor imo.

[william_es]

I personally add some levels into food and water, just so I don't constantly have to eat & drink all the time.

Other then that, carry weight is the most important to me. I carry a lot of taming junk... tranquilizers, narcotic arrows, kibbles, narcotics, traps, net projectiles, and stone gates and gateways for making taming pens. That adds up to a ton.

[retsam1]

Originally posted by sssparkzzz:

New player here, I would guess Health, Stamina and Weight would be pretty good to upgrade, but idk about the rest, any advice?

If we're speaking of player's character stats, that's going to depend on variables we cannot account for regarding your playstyle/serveror single player/interests/ etc etc.

Keep in mind if you are playing in single player or on unofficial servers that increase the values for stats and or use modded content, prorities for such too can change or become moot.

All in all, as long as you understand the functions of the different stats (not just for players either mind you) then the choices are yours.

[Strygald]

Like others have said, depends on your playstyle...

I only play PvE, I don't bother with speed in PvE since you'll be riding dinos most of the time and you can level dino speed, I increase some health, but again you'll be fighting while riding on dinos most of the time and you can increase their health a lot more.

I add a fair bit of weight, because half of the point of the game is crafting and you'll need to be able move around while laying a bunch of walls and foundations down, etc.. and I find it awkward to build while mounted on a dino. You also need to carry supplies like ammo, tools, armor, etc.. though your dinos can carry a lot too.

Some players like myself like splashing around in the water and too lazy to constantly craft scuba tanks, so I often put a lot of points into oxygen so I can stay underwater for a long time.

[Shoobflops]

I would put quite a few points into stamina because you are going to be running - a lot.

[Chew]

Originally posted by william_es:

I personally add some levels into food and water, just so I don't constantly have to eat & drink all the time.

Other then that, carry weight is the most important to me. I carry a lot of taming junk... tranquilizers, narcotic arrows, kibbles, narcotics, traps, net projectiles, and stone gates and gateways for making taming pens. That adds up to a ton.

Food and water are a total waste of points.