Dino Armor and You

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Vegeta021
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Dino Armor and You

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For those that play ARK: Survival Evolved, now more than ever your aim with arrows and darts matters. Over the last few patches Wildcard has been working on dino armor and its effects. With the recent patch dino armor went live. As you can imagine hitting a dino in its armored section is not that effective, based on what has been seen it take 3x - 4x more tranquilizers to have an effect. Also hitting the dino in the body is not as effective as hitting it in the head. We recently experienced this trying to tame a few dinos . We used a primitive bow and tranquilizer arrows (tranq) with the following results.

Trike (Triceratops) : Level: 40 – 45
Headshot (Front plate) - 21 Tranq arrows.
Headshot (Behind front plate) - 8 Tranq arrows

Parasaur: Level 28 - 35
Headshot - Front face / plate - 14 Tranq arrows.
Headshot -Neck shot and back of head - 5 Tranq arrows

Pteranodon: Level 15 – 22
Headshot - Front face / plate (Yes their face is armored) - 3+? Tranq arrows ( it flew away before any more shots could be taken)
Headshot -Neck shot and back of head - 1 Tranq arrow (2 Arrows to drop a level 72)

What does all of this mean? Simple understand the dino you are hunting and know its weak spots. More importantly practice your aim; your friends will thank you.
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