Best Way to Farm Alphas?

[KiwiNinja99]

Trying to level my dino's and can't find any alpha's, anyone got any ideas?

[Myst?c]

15 rexs, 50% points in hp, rest in melee, have fun

[pinoycarter]

Alphas are pretty much random. Each time a dino (that has an alpha version) spawns there's a chance it spawns as an Alpha. Just run around killing everything in sight. This levels as you go, clears dinos for a chance to proc an alpha spawn, and you may get lucky enough to run into one.

As a side note, it's not exactly a good idea to take a semi-fresh tame hunting for alphas to level. You generally won't have enough HP/Stam/Dam to survive an encounter w/ the Carno/Rex version. I personally wouldn't go after a Raptor Alpha w/ a sub-50 dino either.

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Forgot to add what YDF stated, it's far more likely to find one inland and they're only supposed to spawn around there too.

[DrunkinFather]

mountain sides my freind, go to the mountain in the north eastish(the really tall one)
and slaughter everything there :D
high chance of a alpha rex/raptor there

[Pixie]

Originally posted by KiwiNinja:

Trying to level my dino's and can't find any alpha's, anyone got any ideas?

scout the mountains and inland with a 200%+ speed pteradon, record the coords, bring out your saber, rex etc.

[Raz]

I always have luck on Dead Island ( top right of map )
IF you are on public server, this might be a problem as many people like to farm this area

[Lucaine]

Originally posted by blade.blaster56745:

15 rexs, 50% points in hp, rest in melee, have fun

You overestimate Alphas. Got a 15k hp Rex with 1520% melee damage that can solo any Alpha with barely any damage taken, doesn't matter if it's a 120 Alpha Rex or not. I'm sure something considerably weaker could do the same.

[Kal]

Originally posted by Lucaine:

Originally posted by blade.blaster56745:

15 rexs, 50% points in hp, rest in melee, have fun

You overestimate Alphas. Got a 15k hp Rex with 1520% melee damage that can solo any Alpha with barely any damage taken, doesn't matter if it's a 120 Alpha Rex or not. I'm sure something considerably weaker could do the same.

Yeh I'm pretty sad about the current state of the tamed 120 Tame Rex's atm =P Mine is almost maxed out now, and I'm fairly certain I could take on the entire island's worth of npc's simultaneously.

[Squirting Elephant]

My server has 3.5 dino spawn so they spawn non stop at the foot of certain mountains (some more than others). Sometimes 3-5 relatively near each other.
Best way to find them is on somewhat empty servers. Their xp & loot = overpowered while still being relatively easy to kill imo.

I use a 10khp, 600%+ damage mammoth to kill anything in the game.

Finding them works best with 2 ppl at night, one scouts with flyer and looks for the red glow while the other one walks to the coords given indeed. With a fast flyer at night you can scout the entire map of alpha's. If you also set view-distance to low, it's even easier.

[pinoycarter]

Originally posted by Pixie:

Originally posted by KiwiNinja:

Trying to level my dino's and can't find any alpha's, anyone got any ideas?

scout the mountains and inland with a 200%+ speed pteradon, record the coords, bring out your saber, rex etc.

This would be nice but w/o someone around to keep it rendered, there's a good chance that it'll be despawned by the time you get back.-

[SilvaDreams]

Originally posted by Kaladin:

Originally posted by Lucaine:

You overestimate Alphas. Got a 15k hp Rex with 1520% melee damage that can solo any Alpha with barely any damage taken, doesn't matter if it's a 120 Alpha Rex or not. I'm sure something considerably weaker could do the same.

Yeh I'm pretty sad about the current state of the tamed 120 Tame Rex's atm =P Mine is almost maxed out now, and I'm fairly certain I could take on the entire island's worth of npc's simultaneously.

That is because official servers and default settings are pretty much easy mode.
Join an unofficial that has dino damage increased and the damage they take reduced... Suddenly you can't just now down wild Dino's like grass.

[axenation]

Originally posted by pinoycarter:

Originally posted by Pixie:

scout the mountains and inland with a 200%+ speed pteradon, record the coords, bring out your saber, rex etc.

This would be nice but w/o someone around to keep it rendered, there's a good chance that it'll be despawned by the time you get back.-

Can you please verify this information? I've personally never experienced a dino despawning. I found a 120 trike last night and wanted to tame it but I was too tired. After a long rest, I logged back on and the 120 trike was still there 8+ hours later.

In other words ... I believe you're just spreading false information ;)

[axenation]

If you're looking for alphas check the area in north-center in between and around those mountains. Dead island is also a good place to level in general unless people have blocked spawns by building there. Another good way to level dinos is just simply run the rivers and kill every dino you see.

[Jwsp]

Originally posted by axenation:

Originally posted by pinoycarter:

This would be nice but w/o someone around to keep it rendered, there's a good chance that it'll be despawned by the time you get back.-

Can you please verify this information? I've personally never experienced a dino despawning. I found a 120 trike last night and wanted to tame it but I was too tired. After a long rest, I logged back on and the 120 trike was still there 8+ hours later.

In other words ... I believe you're just spreading false information ;)

Ya dinos can despawn. Happend several times with me. I saw an alpha rex and (i was on bird) and when i came their with my rex it was gone (nobody could find it). Also happend with normal dinos but the despawn seems to be random (also when somebody is close enough then they dont despawn)

[Smikis]

Originally posted by axenation:

Originally posted by pinoycarter:

This would be nice but w/o someone around to keep it rendered, there's a good chance that it'll be despawned by the time you get back.-

Can you please verify this information? I've personally never experienced a dino despawning. I found a 120 trike last night and wanted to tame it but I was too tired. After a long rest, I logged back on and the 120 trike was still there 8+ hours later.

In other words ... I believe you're just spreading false information ;)

Dinos only despawn if pulled from their spawn location,otherwise they will stay there forever until killed or kited away

[pinoycarter]

The do despawn mate, we have several instances of ppl (including myself) finding high level dinos we want to tame and they ghost by the time we return.

I've had a non-damaged (based on overlay being not bloody) 120 spino at the northern end of Smuggler's Pass disappear after I went to my base (at 38/68) in the middle of smuggler's pass. The distance is barely outside of render range. The location was very close to a Spino spawn pt and I didn't engage after seeing it. This is particularly bad when there is a high server population.

Yes, this isn't ALWAYS the case but it occurs regularly...most often for the rarer dinos. Additionally, my only dino loss in combat was to an Alpha Rex (playing PVE) and when we sent ppl to take revenge, it was gone.

Finally, even if our server is an anomaly, Alphas are probably the most likely dinos to be away from it's spawn as well as the most aggressive. Making them the, more often than not, the dino's to fall under Smikis' criterion for DSing.