Top 10 Dinosaurs to Tame for Scorched Earth - Ark Basics

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[@joemomma8200]

It took me three years of playing ark to finally push my self into beating scorched earth and I have to say this list is on point

[@Spiney09]

“Not going to be using Phoenixes until the very late game” A week ago I started a new SE save, and was running around on my starter parasaur and found one on accident. Tamed it up with oil jars and a torch, although it was a freakin level 5. The worst best day on SE ever. Wyvern eggs have never been easier to get though.

[@jojomaster7675]

be glad it was a level 5. If it was higher, you wouldn't get it in time with oil jars.

[@Spiney09]

@@jojomaster7675 look up nooblets recent-ish video, oil jars stack. He tames a 150 faster with oil jars than with fire wyvern.

[@jojomaster7675]

@@Spiney09 Nifty. I'd still rather use a fire wyvern though.

[@SuperSpectus]

@@jojomaster7675, well, yeah -- but this was a nice accidental lowbie find.

[@jojomaster7675]

@@SuperSpectus certainly

[@MrKillerRamm]

My favorite SE dino is the Oviraptor because it can solo the Alpha Rockwell boss from Extinction :3, just kidding. I love Megatheriums for Scorched Earth, they have an Apex complex and they can almost Perma Berserk though the high desert, making short work of Deathworms even the Alphas!!! and being awesome Black Pearl farmers. Just remember that they have 2 attacks, one the claw swing and the other an area kind of stomp. and the stomp is very powerful and thats the best attack to deal with those nasty Deathworms.

[@NiHigami]

I've been watching the solo the ark series, and I wanted to let you know that it has been one of the most enjoyable experiences I've had on KZbin. Thank you for the great and fun content!

[@kellytamia9152]

List was pretty good phlinger! Here's my personal preference tho! 1. Equus, its also around and is one of the easier tames to get. Although the area its in can cause some major problems especially if theres a ton of threats like daedons,rexes,etc thats the only downside to taming one of these guys but if you manage to tame one it can be one of the best sateting tames. I also vote a parasaur for this spot as well as it can detect enemies and be another useful berry gathering tame early on as well 2. Morellatops, good for storing and keeping water especially since weather is heavily focused on here and water is a constant pain to find/get. 3. Jerboa, same reason you listed, very helpful on this map especially to warn you of the upcoming extreme weather changes 4. Doedic/Anky I always need these two, anky cause it gathers a ton of metal and flint and doedic cause of its stone gathering. I always pair these two up as to me they're always going to be one of the most essential tames 5. Argy, while im personally not a fan of them and don't really use them at all, they're always great for their saddles, weight reduction and weight carrying capacity. Best to team it up with both the anky and doedic. 6. Rexes, not a fan of them either but if you want a sure way of beating the manticore boss fight, a rex army is your go to for sure and that way the manticore would actually land lol 7. Yuty, this is pretty self explanatory really, its your boss beating buddy, helpsboost your dinos attacks 8. Daeodon, your healer and who doesn't need a healing dino? Its painful to manually force feed a tame to get them all healed up 9. Phoenix, i love,LOVE these guys and feel bummed out how rare they are. I love that they poop pearls, cook meat, heat up metal and on top of that can be good to steal wyvern eggs/kill wyverns with their charge attack ofc as they're one of the slowest moving but tbh i can get past that as they're so fun to use overall 10. Lighting wyvern would actually be the most popular tbh, as youve said, it dishes the most damage and who doesn't like wielding electricity as a weapon? Although if you want to tame phoenixes, fight alpha wyverns and even breed your magmasaurs, fire wyvern is definitely second choice! Poison is only good for pvp situations. Anyways the order doesn't reflect its usefulness just my personal picks! This was a very good list tho phlinger!

[@Safetymanplaysgames]

Ya your list was on point. of course the hardest part is finding a great base location close to areas for leveling up Rex's. mine keep getting stuck on trees, and Rocks, and Morellatops. But great job!

[@roydenley-idt-c4516]

The opening, NAILED IT!!!!!!!!!

[@colebailey2578]

Funny thing is, you can use oviraptors to steal wyvern eggs. They can grab the eggs without sending out that ping, and it doesn't activate when you take the egg from it's hands.

[@rickyjt86]

Great list althoughI would replace the poison wyvern and just put them all together cause I’n the end a wyvern is a wyvern lol but I get why you did what you did. Love your videos man I hope you’re planning to do all maps including the dlcs!!🔥🔥

[@Bad_InfluenceTV]

Just when i thought I was done binge watching playlist you compose your basics into one. Thank you!

[@shawnbybee85]

If you carry parachutes, accidently jumping off a flyer is not that scary, it's where you land that can be scary.

[@captainamericaandcaptainma3337]

Land in front of a Giga

[@redboot8]

Oh no! I have 5 kitchen sinks (specifically kitchen sinks not any old sink) and I need to move them, but they are far to heavy! Argentavis: say no more, Bob

[@bacd-nn2lg]

Phoenix is really good tame. It saves you time to grind materials for your industrial forge, and it doesn't take that much space.

[@Asertix357]

Phlinger my favorite wyvern is the lightning wyvern. I have a custom bred one, the result of lots of breeding from four level 190s I procured from frequenting the trench, and combining the best stats from all of the parents. I put just enough stats into her stamina to allow for three consecutive shots of her lighting breath, a little in weight, a little in health, and absolutely everything else into melee. Her name of Railgun and she can kill a wild giga in a single shot.

[@jojomaster7675]

I'd agree except for a few things: 1) Replace the thyla with the fire wyvern at n.2 (split from fire/lightning, as it's objectively worse than lightning), then put the Poison wyvern at n.5 insted of the golem. 2) The Thyla should go at n.8 instead of the poison that's now at n.5. It's good, but by the time you can get a thyla, you can also get a wyvern. (Mutton is hard to find on SE as well as the highest kibble). And if you have a Wyvern, the Thyla isn't as good as it otherwise would be, thus n.2 isn't justifiable anymore. 3) Golem isn't useful enough to be on the list. it's strong and tanky, but that's it. Add it as honorary mention instead. 4) Thorny Dragon and Doed should be honorary mentions as well. The Mantis is good, but overall a later game tame and has low carry weight as well as no weight reduction. TD and Doed are still important, anky not as much as metal is easily carryable via argy. If you disagree (not just Phlinger, but anyone else reading this), I'm always up for a debate as long as you keep it non-toxic.

[@KaliFortuna]

Respectfully disagree about the fire wyvern being objectively worse than the lightning. Reasoning being, all alpha wyverns are fire ones, and unless you’re experienced at wyvern dogfighting, being immune to the flame breath makes taking out the alphas much easier. Just park in the air and bite when they come to you, making collecting their milk much simpler (especially for a solo PvE situation). Otherwise largely agree with your adjustments. If you bring a source of exceptional kibble from another map then thylas are easy, but for a fresh start they’re late-game at best.

[@jojomaster7675]

@@KaliFortuna And that's their use. Fire Wyverns are used against alphas and maybe a phoenix tame if you want it. But you aren't gonna be doing that all the time. It's a very niche use. And neither of the Fire wyvern uses are something necessary or even too important. Phoenixes are simply a cool shiny thing without much practical use. And as for the Alpha, you can fairly easily take down a low level with a lightning, or you don't need to take one down at all and just ko wyverns for milk. Overall it's worse than a lightning at everything else, which is why I said what I did. Though it's possible I used a word or 2 in a wrong way, as english is my 2nd language. Yeah. I was ranking it on how (I believe) Phlinger meant to rank, which is SE only PVE. If you had transfers, you might as well just bring a rock drake, Shadowmane or so on, so the ranking would be very different.

[@kaholaw1861]

Hi Phlinger Phoo, It has been a while since you uploaded a top 10 dino for specific map video. Would be appreciated if you can continue the content for aberation, extinction and genesis part 1,2. I think everyone would be interested and would be a very good guide for begineers to progress through the storyline. Keep up the great contents!

[@tomsimpkins1211]

Ooooh you're covering DLC stuff? That's awesome~

[@cindyfisk5255]

I am really enjoying your new ABC video's! I miss playing so bad but my ancient all in one dell just won't let me play anymore :(

[@1GoldenBreeze]

Enjoyed the video. I have no idea about the dinos on the list, as so far, I have not seen any of them. lol

[@valkyriesmilk6697]

I love the procoptodon so much it get tons of berry's cactus sap from ground I farm on it using a chainsaw from it's back I use to carry goods into my house usually metal sometimes I have it follow me around with my doedic and argy while we farm sand mine has base weight of 900 so I just pumped tons of points into weight it's so underrated mainly due to able to hold the chainsaw while riding or mining drill if you go to gen

[@SuperSpectus]

I thought I'd add a few of my own favorite tips... 1. Bolas are your friend for fast taming targets like Procoptodons. EDIT: Well, it WAS your friend. Bolas were hit with a big nerf after the Net caster was introduced under Genesis Pt. 2. And many bola targets can no longer be immobilized by them, including Procoptodons. 2. There is a long tunnel due east of the Red Obelisk that's a great resource site: the whole length of the underground route is lined with metal, crystal, and sulfur. And no creatures spawn inside it, or at least none did when my guild did Scorched Earth when it came out. 3. If I stood on the back of a wyvern, I could tranq even a Rex, and the creature would not attack me. It seemed the dino could not recognize a path to me. It's been a few years since I've visited Scorched Earth, so that may be fixed by now, or now that I think about it, it could be deemed exploit-like, but I thought it was interesting. YMMV. 4. I would rank a Tapejara ahead of a Thylacoleo as a good mount for stealing wyvern eggs. Again, YMMV between the two, but my personal preference is to FLY out of the trench. And the high maneuverability of the Tappy is great for evading wyvern attacks.

[@Spiney09]

Ok, so we all know before even watching that the wyvern is right up near the top, right?

[@Restart-Gaming]

It's great to use kibble but how is that done early game with no eggs

[@jeffcolbert2019]

One correction: You said the best foods for taming a Thyla are Raw Mutton and Exceptional Kibble. While Exceptional Kibble is the best choice, Thylas are fairly unique in that they prefer cooked meats to their raw counterparts. In fact according to Dododex, Cooked Lambchops (i.e., cooked mutton) is a bit over twice as effective as Raw Mutton and even Cooked Prime Meat out performs Raw Mutton. In descending order of effectiveness, your choices are Exceptional Kibble, Cooked Lambchops, Cooked Prime Meat, Raw Mutton, then Cooked Meat. This is different than the norm for Carnivores, which would be (preferred) Kibble, Raw Mutton, then Raw Prime Meat with the cooked versions being less effective. So for a Thyla, bring Cooked Mutton if you don't have Exceptional Kibble.

[@Marller_bel]

I've stopped playing ark but I still love my Lighting Wyvern

[@Phillip_of_Burns]

Nice use of VTOL

[@SuperSpectus]

A quick question: are Net Projectile engrams available on all maps if you buy the Genesis Pt. 2 expansion?

[@abominablesnoman]

Unless they change something in the future, the default standard setting is that you need to go to Gen 2 to unlock the engram.

[@SongbirdGaming]

They are available on all maps if you have gen 2, don’t need to go to gen 2 to unlock as far as I am aware. I haven’t been to gen 2 at all on my current cluster but I use the nets all the time.

[@davidbritton4394]

From a person who loves the Grind and loves to build could you do a top 10 bob list just started on official and I am going to do every map from level 1 on pve now I'm back to work😇😏

[@johnnyr2646]

It's rather easy, if it's a new tame on the map, you want it.

[@Aktoshi1]

I can't believe i made this early to the video this time 😃

[@borderlandsforlife7068]

hey has anyone had a dino they are raising die of starvation even though there was a meawing right next to it set to feeding it was a max imprint giga with 1100 melee so i m pretty pissed and want to know how to prevent it

[@B.K.7]

feeding trough?

[@borderlandsforlife7068]

@@B.K.7 no we used a meawing( probably misspelling it) it is a flying squirl looking dino that can be used as a feeding trough and can even feed babies we used it on different giga and it survived to adulthood just fine

[@B.K.7]

@@borderlandsforlife7068 oh no, I know what you meant. I was just saying maybe have a feeding trough as backup, in case the Maewing bugs out. This is Ark afterall, bugs will occur lol.

[@borderlandsforlife7068]

@@B.K.7 we planned to anyway was just hoping to find out why it happened and if it was likely to happen again

[@B.K.7]

@@borderlandsforlife7068 I think your issue is, Maewings only feed babies. So definitely keep a feeding trough close by, because the Maewing will not feed them anymore after they hit the "Juvenile" stage.

[@1965tonym]

never ever did the lightning breathe death lol

[@swagger9281]

Hi phlinger photo you have help me so much in ark island

[@swagger9281]

I mean phoo

[@manslayer691]

The only thing about argentavis saddles is yes they are mobile smithy’s but they can’t repair stuff only make new items

[@SevCaswell]

I thought that was a bug they finally fixed recently?

[@Spiney09]

Yeah, they fixed that a few weeks ago, but it was like this for a while.

[@manslayer691]

Wait it was a bug? Didn’t even know.

[@rickyjt86]

Really?! I recently tried to repair picks and armor and it didn’t let me :/

[@SevCaswell]

@@rickyjt86 i thought I read in the recent update that they fixed it, but maybe only for newly made stuff?

[@SmoothAlf]

😔 vultures didn't make your list. My favorite for protection & increasing the spoil timer on meat.

[@ToSP.]

I BELIEVE IN VULTURE SUPREMACY

[@kiaraantonio1210]

I don't think you can knockout a golem with rocket anymore but I could be wrong

[@N0TSmart]

Your right, you can't but you used to.

[@kiaraantonio1210]

@@N0TSmart yes I thought so I'm sure he just forgot or maybe because he doesn't really pvp and golems are awesome for soaking heavies

[@crazycanuck8177]

I so want to get off the island now but these gigas are next to impossible to find 9 months of playing I saw 2 only

[@B.K.7]

trasnfer to the center and tame some gigas. The Center map works different. If you kill something, something else instantly spawns in it's place somewhere on the map. Go around killing Rexes and a Giga will spawn in no time.

[@crazycanuck8177]

@@B.K.7 Can you transfer without beating all the bosses? I have thought about it but bit worried to lose my island save

[@B.K.7]

@@crazycanuck8177 If you are singleplayer, you just go to an Obelisk and trasnfer that way. Upload the items you want to take with you into the "Data" folder of the Obelisk (you get 50 slots). Now upload your survivor with the button in the middle "Upload Survivor". You will be brought to a screen with your Character, click cancel and close the game (I use ALT+F4 to close the game). Now restart game and choose new map, you will be asked to download your character when you spawn in to new map. Repeat steps to go back to Island.

[@B.K.7]

@@crazycanuck8177 Your save will be fine, you can always back it up in Ark/Saved/SavedLocal. SavedLocal is the Island map, all other maps you visit will be in there as well but they will actually have the proper name. Only the Island is SavedLocal. I think Phlinger has a video on how to transfer if you prefer that but you will be fine following my instrcutions. Also, maybe check out Ragnarok. It has a 4 spawns for Giga's and they are much more consistently high level on Ragnarok.

[@B.K.7]

@@crazycanuck8177 and yes, you can transfer without beating the bosses. You are probably thinking of Ascension , this is different all together. You can go tame some Gigas and go right back to the island if you desire.

[@ExplorersJournal]

Please do this for the island 🙏🙏🙏

[@ghostking8730]

He has one for the island

[@Phlinger]

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[@MacCay27]

Fire wyvern is number one like hell no its by far the worst of the 3 wyverns the damage is not that good the range of the fire is terrible the breath will use way more stamina then the other 2 wyverns and the damage overtime is not that good the poison wyverns low stamina cost and range is so much more useful tho true you need to be careful unless you have friendlyfire off and the lighting wyverns damage is just superior to any other wyvern in the game

[@jojomaster7675]

The fire wyvern is required for Phoenix taming and very helpful (almost necessary) to take down alpha wyverns. I'd say it's a bit more useful than a poison (though it looks worse), but a lightning is still better. The Poison is good, but it becomes basically useless after you get a lightning. It has worse DPS and is more annoying to use. Though it is (imo) the best looking of all the wyverns in the game. Especially if you get a gold/dark green one.

[@MacCay27]

@@jojomaster7675 You can tame a Phoenix with a flametrower too tho way worse and alpha wyverns unlike other alpha creatures dont have that much health i can take down max lvl alpha wyverns with lighting wyverns velonasaurs or even just a snow owl will do so not a big deal i just really want all wyverns to be same or very similar in power as of now the lighting wyverns damage jut out dose any other wyvern the fire one needs a longer range and less stamina cost ice needs even larger stamina cost reduction as of now it has the larget stamina cost off all wyverns yet its atack maybe the weakest and they should make it so its more like a manas ice breath poion wyverns need the damage over time to go up with melee damage tho that maybe too much in pvp idk crystal wyverns are mostly fine i think other then the ember it has similar problems as the fire one tropical and blood are fine but some buffs or changes will be nice like let the tropical one swin or the blood one to grab creatures like a megalosaurus or a bloodstalker and leech even more health from them

[@jojomaster7675]

@@MacCay27 Taming one with a flamethrower gives horrible efficiency, is expensive and annoying. You also need a high-rarity one unless you have very high rates. Fire wyvern is the only way that allows you to keep your sanity. I'm mostly talking in terms of SE. Wasn't planning to drag any other DLCs in. Definitely not ones where they don't spawn. They have very high hp. If you can defeat one with an owl, you have overly boosted tame stats. That doesn't count. A 190 alpha wyvern can have above 50k HP. But that's not the biggest thing. They deal % damage with their breath. Trying to take down one in a creature that can take damage from it is risky. Even high level Lightnings can die from alphas. I'd give different buffs. Lightning is fine. Fire needs melee scaling for DOT. Ice needs either as you said, true freeze breath, or just a damage increase, or maybe damage reduction could be nice. Poison needs better aiming, faster projectile and rider immunity to own wyvern's breath. Crystal are completely fine, as they're *very* easy tames. Voidwyrm is impossible to make useful in PVE while not making it broken PVP wise. Also, please use sentences. It's hard to read your replies when they're 1 huge blob with no breaks in the text.

[@MacCay27]

@@jojomaster7675 Sorry for not useing sentences mate. My tame stats are not boosted its all vanila the fact that i do have very good owl saddles can be why it was not a big deal i kinda forgot it. As for alpha wyverns i killed lots of max or near max lvls, not sure if i just got lucky and they had very few points in health but for me it was so much faster to kill it then a rex or mosa. Oh and i cant forget that i do a lot of breeding with anything i use, my wyverns do have a fair bit better stats then just whatever we get from wild eggs. Thanks for the talk mate have a good one.

[@jojomaster7675]

@@MacCay27 They did seem boosted to me. Though if you stack 100 mutations ontop of each other, then that is another explanation. I simply found it weird that you could kill them with an owl, while i recently fought a lvl 204 (I use difficulty 6) with my very leveled near max level wild hatch fire wyvern and took around 12k damage. And that was with constantly hitting it for 600 (at least 3x per one of it's bites). (And also fire wyvern, so breath didn't damage it.) I'd like to see your owls stats/stat points if you don't mind. Just kinda interested at what feathery beast you created.