Tranq Dart Torpor Amount

[Dee Syphur]

Has anyone gathered some numbers on the torpor amount from tranq darts since the buff? Still curious about the effectiveness vs longneck durability.

[Fear]

Since the buff to the darts I find them to be useful for a few tames. Obviously things like Rex, Bronto and the like they are not going to be useful for because of the durability issue, each dart causing 3x damage to your rifle. But for things like Argentavis, Ptera they are very handy. I was able to get a level 112 Ptera down with one dart as opposed to that level of Ptera taking three arrows and some chasing because of the runaway it does.

[thetman1221]

I am not sure if the wiki is accurate about this, but it claims tranq arrows do 200% of your bow/xbow's damage for instant torpor, then another 250 torpor over 4 seconds. With a decent crossbow you are almost getting 500 torpor per arrow, more than double the amount of a tranq dart, and much cheaper.

They need to nerf the material cost (a tranq dart would use a lighter gunpowder charge, like tazer shotgun rounds irl.) And also increase the total torpor amount to beat out a crossbow shooting tranqs.

I think eventually they will add better darts for the new sniper rifle later. The jellyfish dossier mentions harvesting tranquilizers more potent than what we can make. Probably for sniper rifle tranq darts.

[Jabnlab]

I dont even care about tranq darts now, stumbled across an ascended crossbow BP this am, lol. Probably too powerful on argeventis (did almost 2k topor and 1k damage on my unsaddled argent) or pteras (1 shotted a wild lvl 72) but a high lvl quetz may have a high enough hp to be knocked out before dieing with it, ill have to try tonight

[BigDally]

Yeah Quetz and some birds may be good candidates for darts, but honestly when I want an argent I not only pick one that is decent level, but also make sure it hasn't been fighting other stuff. I also avoid head shots. Even with an apprentice xbow I can drop them without killing them. You could always use a lesser quality xbow against weak fliers, and more powerful xbow against more robust game.