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about 5 years ago - /u/wildcardvalor - Direct link

Originally posted by arowz1

Maybe a video showcasing why using narcoberries to keep a tame knocked out is almost always better than using narcotic/ascerbic mushrooms/biotoxin? I've gotten into forum wars over this topic. Narcotic/Biotoxin are only better when weight is an issue or in some cases when the dino has an extremely long torpor drain timer, like on a rex. If you KO a giga, it has only a few minutes before it stands up. It also has a MASSIVE torpor pool. Feeding it 100 narcotic induces 4000 torpor. Feeding 500 narcoberries induces the same 4000 torpor. The difference is that narcotic induces the torpor over 12.5 minutes, the narcoberries do it over 25 minutes (5 minutes per 100 berries). When torpor is going up, it can't go down... so, let the giga drop to 1,000 torpor (it will have 20k+ max torpor) and dump a ton of narcoberries into it. The giga will be unconcious for over an hour without having to worry. Sulphur taming a golem? Takes what, like 4-8 hours depending on the server settings. They have a huge torpor pool and slow torpor drain. Let them drop to 100 torpor and fully narcoberry them. You'll get 2+ hours of torpor up before the 1 hour of torpor down again.

Now, weight can be a big issue with some tames, like gigas being tamed far from base or for taming underwater dinos like Mosa's. Carrying 2,000 narcoberries requires 200 weight to deliver 16k torpor... 400 narcotic does it in 40 weight.

Works great on spinos (only need to narcoberry a 150 spino once, plus a little extra and you can forget about it for an hour).

Narcotic and Biotoxin deliver torpor at the same speed. Ascerbic delivers torpor twice as fast as narcotic/biotoxin.

Shhhhhhhhh

about 5 years ago - /u/wildcardvalor - Direct link

Originally posted by arowz1

I know all of your (legit) ARK secrets!!! All of them. Now if I can just get someone from WC to tell me how overdamage is actually calculated for dinos and confirmation that it doesn't exist for humans/mantis, that'd be dandy... Trying to silence everyone telling me having more than 500% melee on an anky gets better results. EDIT: The only official thing from WC ever stated on the topic is a patch note from years ago and ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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about 5 years ago - /u/wildcardvalor - Direct link

Originally posted by GreenMohawk_YT

Either way, you're officially the cool dev in my eyes now. 😉

Woo!