Do i need to mutate Yuty?

[Alastor's Alibi]

I have a team of super rexes. Can always breed more. The guide im following to finish my first map says i need Yuty's buffs for the bossfight. I cant find though if it wants me to breed and mutate Yuty as well. Its a huge time investment so i'd rather not if it doesnt make too much of a difference. Do i get better buffs for having better stats? If so which stats should i focus on?

[william_es]

No, not really.

Tame high levels, and just crossbreed them so they have the highest best stat from each parent. Not hard to reach high 200's on a max 150 setting. I think mine are like 276 right out of the egg.

Yuty is a support dino, not a frontline fighter. Put exp levels into health, melee, and most importantly stamina so it can roar continuously.

Every once in a while something slips past and you have to fight it from the back of the yuty so damage and health help with surviving that.. But, If you're getting swarmed in a boss fight on the yuty, you're sort of doing something wrong.

[🦊 Hermit]

Yuty roars can take a bit of stamina, and you'll be spamming them in the boss fights. Add to that the possibility of having to run around to buff up all your army or avoid damage, and your stam could potentially run out relatively quickly.

Also with HP - if your yuty gets hit by spider spit or a dragon fireball, for example, it's HP could be sapped. And if you accidentally take agro and have to tank the boss for a time, your health could go down as well.

Yes, it isn't an absolute requirement which you must do or you are guaranteed to lose. But conversely, there is the potential that you could find yourself in a dire situation where, if your yuty just had a little more stamina, or a little more health, you could hang on a few more minutes until the boss is dead, but because you don't have it you end up dying. Basically, the more effort you put in, the more likely you will get a good outcome, so how much are you willing to put in to sway those odds in your favour, just in case?

Also as a side note: Yutys are one of the best player mounts in the game to just ride around on. They're extremely fast, decently powerful, and fun to use. So I would say they are well worth mutating and using even if you never took one into a boss arena at all. But obviously the choice is yours...

[Alastor's Alibi]

Thanks all, Ill mutate in HP and Sta then :)

[guig]

stam is not usefull unless you ride it yourself. yuty can yell endlessly when not ridden, same as basic attack.

[NoPain]

Hi there, I'm gonna share my personal experience. I actually did all bosses from all maps with non mutated yutys, just tamed some wild yutys and took the best stat from them and also boost those stats by imprinting. The most important thing is the saddle (above 60 should be fine). High stamina pool is not reaaally needed as guig commented above me. If you are riding it, you are not gonna constantly roar, just gonna use it whenever is needed, and if you are not riding it, it never drains stamina when it roar by him/herself. So one thing left; HP pool, in my case i did all of them with 20k health. Yutys are really squishy and fast, so you can easily dodge dragon's breath (taking long distance from him, cause you need to be in range of your dinos, not the dragon) or fireballs (can easily be dodged cause are slow projectiles or yuty too fast).

[william_es]

I did alpha megapithecus and alpha broodmother, and I don't think my yuty even took a single hit. Nothing got past the rexes.

[Serious]

Mutation isn't necessary for any boss.
It's even possible to do king titan or dragon without any mutation. You just make it a bit easier with them.
So no, you don't NEED mutation, you just want it, or not ;-)

In general i don't waste time on mutation as i think it's not necessary for pve at all.
Sure i will use a health or damage mutation if i get one and i don't use a movement mutation if i have the same tame without... but waste hundreds of hours for perfect mutation is something only minority of pvp player need. For standard pve, coop, singleplayer mutations are just a nice to have, not a must have.

I use always 2 Yuty (except alpha king titan where i use ~20) without any mutation at 50k health and some stamina and damange and it's always more than enough.

The dinos where mutation matter the most are your tank/damage dealer e.g. rex, allo, therizino for dragon, and so on.
Support dinos like daedon, yuty, snow owl and so on don't really benefit from mutations.

[william_es]

Originally posted by Serious:

Mutation isn't necessary for any boss.
It's even possible to do king titan or dragon without any mutation. You just make it a bit easier with them.
So no, you don't NEED mutation, you just want it, or not ;-)

Yeah, totally. Especially for the dragon since it's fire breath is entirely percentage based damage. Doesn't matter if you have 20K health or 120K health, you lose the same % chunk of health each breath attack.

But at the same time, having extremely mutated dinos is sort of fun. I have rexes with 31 health mutations, and 25 melee. They're nuts. The current teams (which were made at lower mutation counts) are sitting at between 100,000K-123,000K health, and melee from 1612% to above 2000%. The 31/25 team will even higher. They chewed through the alpha broodmother in about 4-5 minutes.

Is it overkill? yes, very. Ridiculously overkill. But I need The Island map turned into an amusement park ride. I have characters on other maps, and I want to rotate them through The Island bosses for levels and tek unlocks, then send them back to their home maps. I want guaranteed automatic win scenarios, with no stress. Those rexes accomplish that.