Hunting Pack

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I want to know what animals make a good pack even when mixed with other animals what make good packs

[Ruges]

Compy's get pack bonus, so they would be the best pack animals. However I suppose we would need to know what type of prey your looking for.

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Originally posted by Ruges:

Compy's get pack bonus, so they would be the best pack animals. However I suppose we would need to know what type of prey your looking for.

compies are too weak for a great hunting pack

[Owlf-SCP.117-]

Direwolf all the way

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Originally posted by Owlf-The Outcast-:

Direwolf all the way

yeah but they lack armour

[Ruges]

Originally posted by transform987:

compies are too weak for a great hunting pack

Again without knowing what type of prey your looking for its hard to say what the best pack animals are. With compy's being the only animal that gets a pack bonus, they would be the best of there class for pack animals. But if your going for a winall pack. then its going to include giga's/Quetzals

[DarthaNyan]

Originally posted by transform987:

I want to know what animals make a good pack even when mixed with other animals what make good packs

a pack(flock) of dimos. They are fast, they dont get stuck in trees (they do but less often than others), they are ruthless.

[Charlice]

I'll go with dimorphs, they're so hard to hit and they're NASTY!

[Watchdog]

I think packs should be insanely strong, a group of 10 wolves should be able to take down a Giga with hard work, I'm not kidding, make the game fun for large groups.

[440A]

Originally posted by Charlice:

I'll go with dimorphs, they're so hard to hit and they're NASTY!

HELL YEAH THEY ARE

[Ruges]

Originally posted by Watchdog:

I think packs should be insanely strong, a group of 10 wolves should be able to take down a Giga with hard work, I'm not kidding, make the game fun for large groups.

Wolves dont get saddles, thus they dont have armor. Couple that with low HP. And a wild giga is going to 1 shot your entire pack.

[Andminus]

As above, depends on what your hunting, or more, what your hoping to obtain; like if you wanna gather lots of Pelts, a pack of direwolves is keen, also, as long as you give all the direwolves in the pack a decent pool of health like 5k+, 3-5 can take on just about anything, t rexes and maybe alpha raptors as well.

Sabers work ALMOST as well as direwolves at pelt collecting, but not quite, but they can have armor, and same thing, you can give the whole pack a decent health pool and they can tear things a part as well.

Raptors can work as well, they are lightning fast attackers compared to the wolves and sabers, but unfortunately their damage is comparatively low, but not useless, but raptors do start out with alot less hp then wolves and sabers usually.

Terrorbirds fill a similar pack to Raptors: low-mid hp, low dmg, fast attack, but they also possess the ability to glide, to leap off ledges you normally wouldn't and get away safely.

Dimorphs actually make a surprising tactical swarm, have a pack of 10 (of any lvl) follow you or the dino your riding, use a spyglass to pick out distant targets and whistle to attack, watch the swarm fly over and rip it to shreds before the dino usually knows what hits it, rexes and spinos don't have the ability to track them effectively to actually hit ONE attacking, let alone nearly a dozen, dinos with AoEs like brontos might be a bit tougher but I've seen my packs destroy them nearly as easily so maybe they can avoid the aoe of the bronto: surprisingly 500 hp is usually fine for a dimorph, since they almost never get hit, 1000 hp on a higher lvled one makes them practically unkillable.

Add on: Dimorphs do as much base damage as an Argent, but are a quarter of the size and WAY fasters in combat.

Edit: Those of you even mentioning taking down a gigas with a pack, it wont happen; there is no legitimate way to kill a gigas with other dinos, even a tamed gigas, several will probably be killed by a wild one, so what hope does anything less then giga's stand a chance, that is unless someone has actually killed a gigas without trapping them in rocks or other such method and fought it "fairly"

[Watchdog]

Originally posted by Ruges:

Originally posted by Watchdog:

I think packs should be insanely strong, a group of 10 wolves should be able to take down a Giga with hard work, I'm not kidding, make the game fun for large groups.

Wolves dont get saddles, thus they dont have armor. Couple that with low HP. And a wild giga is going to 1 shot your entire pack.

Yeah, that's the sad part.

[Andminus]

Gigas are not meant to be the scale at which something is useful for killing, as wild ones aren't meant to be killed (fairly) their meant to be avoided. Perhaps scale down a bit to an Alpha Rex as the target for killing.

[Tachyon]

I have a pack of about 20 Dilos (assorted levels between lvl 45 and 130) which shred most things. If one or two dies they're easily replaced, too.

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Originally posted by Tachyon:

I have a pack of about 20 Dilos (assorted levels between lvl 45 and 130) which shred most things. If one or two dies they're easily replaced, too.

i like it