Sabertooth, raptor, or Dire Wolf?

[Kirby12352]

So I'm looking to tame one of these, and my question is, which one is more worthwhile? Let me know what the pros and cons are of each. Something to take into consideration is that sabers and raptors spawn right outside my base, but the snow biome is pretty far away, so if I'm gonna tame a wolf, I want it to be worth traveling that distance.

[Fogno]

Raptors: Fast, low weight, weakest damage of the 3. Only worth having as a mount until ~lv40 at the most.

Sabers: Fast, average weight, great fighters. They're safe travel mounts at any level as they can protect you and themselves. Saddle adds armor value. Can be found in many places on the map.

Direwolf: Fast, average weight, higher damage than Saber and levels up melee quickly. They're also safe travel mounts at any level. Lacks saddle armor but doesn't lose weight value to saddle weight. Snow biome makes taming these a challenge.
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Conclusion: I'd go with a Saber or Direwolf. In my experience, Direwolves gain more points in melee per level than a Saber so I prefer the Direwolf. The Direwolf will be difficult to tame without a flyer due to the dangers in the snow biome, but you can drop it into the volcano or a taming pen if you have an Argentavis or Quetzal.

[FivePM]

These kinda arguments are gonna be amazing more toward late game. As of right now I would go with saber as they are faster and are a lot more bulky than the wolves. In the future tho it will always be Kaprosuchus for me. Terror bird will also be one of my favorites. Then it will be between say Gallimimus raptor saber dire wolf kapro terror marsupial lion beezlebufo megaloceros (very high potential if they can get that charge attack in) etc. for best land mount

[Phadjit]

Direwolf is easily the most worthwhile to tame, but I would tame a saber outside of your house before you go venturing into the snow biome. But keep in mind the Raptors despite what people are saying, are still pretty decent mounts. They're easily the fastest, and they're easy to hunt in a pack with. Other then that, the only advantage a Saber has over the Wolf would be its farther jump and its saddle, but the jump isn't that big of a deal and if you put enough levels into a Wolfs health and melee it'll end up killing everything before it takes any noticable damage, especially in a pack.

[Jabnlab]

Remember if you have an argent or quetz you can pick up either of these and bring them to a safer taming location, so taming in the snow biome isnt too big of a deal.

I personally like my wolf over my saber, but i find myself using my carno more then either.. We just use raptors for eggs at this point

[Red River]

you can also kite wolfs outside of snow biome since some spawn close to the boarder...

[Anodin]

Raptor is the weakest is every manner.

Saber is solid. Takes less damage than a wolf since it wears a saddle meaning more can be out into increasing damage be health. Probably best if your early to mid levels in the game.

Wolf is solid. While I'd has a higher base damage than a saber it also takes more damage requiring higher health which also takes time to regen that health.

[gatsublack]

Gnollmar původně napsal:

Sabertooth for a fast chitin farmer with armor.

Raptor for a fast meat farmer (worse than carno and rex), it is very good for caves though.

Dire wolf has about 40% more damage than sabertooth, but can't wear armor. So it is the best for chitin farming, on the other hand, it can take fewer hits.

All in all, this is a question between saber and wolf, the raptor doesnt even come close in this discussion.

Saber for speed, effective chitin farming and ok endurance.
Wolf for speed and pure damage (best chitin farmer).

Raptor for ... raptor eggs.

So the wolf extracts like hatchets and sabers? I thought they were better on Meat, just similar to a carno

[CommunityX]

Direwolf can enter cave that sabertooth cant enter. not sure why the Sabertooth hit box is bigger then direwolf and do not fit.

[Ultra Ego Vegeta]

Saber, hands down.

Dire Wolves have a minuscule bump in base damage to scale off of but you're not going to notice once you get up to 1k melee damage on either of them.

The survivability between wearing a saddle and not wearing a saddle will, however, be quite obvious once you start getting hit by mobs.

I'd argue for the Dire Wolves if A.I. wasn't so piss poor right now and you could EFFICIENTLY travel about with a few Dire Wolves following you for the buffs of being their Alpha but practically speaking you'll be turning around every 5 seconds trying to lure them out from behind terrain they're stuck in.

So as it stands, Sabers and Dire Wolves are superior to Raptors in practically every way.
Sabers are superior to Dire Wolves in every way except for raw damage.

The small damage increase isn't worth what you'll sacrifice to get it.