Boss Fights

[CaptainHawkeye8]

Hey there! 

We're getting ready to start doing boss fighting. Our Rexes have 30k health, 700+ Melee. How many of these will we need for each now and what are done strategies? I've been looking, but only finding outdated methods. I don't wanna go in blind here.

[Witcher3GOTYHype]

Your rexes are more than enough stats for most boss fights, only difference you could make can be having 900+melee rexes and have hp around 15k.

Broodmother: The classic method of 20 rexes with 10 riders against alpha broodmother and just straight up mauling the spider with 20 rexes still works fine, it's basically just constant right clicking furiously for 11 mins and you're done :D.

Gorilla: You can do the ape quite easily with 240+ dmg compound bows it's quite simple and this is the easiest boss to do out of the 3 classic bosses.

Dragon: While 10 people with 240+ dmg compound bow still works it's not the most efficient imo. Personally I will use pump-action shotgun 240+ dmg with 1 rex (1 rex rider specifically to kill petras) 1 rex for drawing aggro of dragon into a clump of your mates all ready to unload full shotgun clip. You kill dragon much faster with this and shotgun ammo much less of a hassle and easier to farm than metal arrows imo or the assault rifle method. Main thing here is with shotgun you get the boss done quicker at higher difficulties due to much better dps and reload time. Just youtube the method for a video. 

Manticore: Probably THE easiest boss , same method as broodmother you can get him stuck, just wait for him to land and all charge in and right click to victory. Ignore the deathworms and golems when they spawn, if you have 900~ dmg rexes you can kill alpha manticore in about 5 mins only! This boss is by far the fastest for element farming imo.

 

[PaleoJoe]

Swarming the boss with your rexs is the only way to actually defeat bosses (except for the hide and shoot methods). Otherwise the boss will just summon minions and slowly kill your dinos. You also want extra people with you in case you suddenly get killed by the boss (if all players are dead it is a wipe).

You just have to look harder for good videos  and practice on single player with spawning in tamed rexs and the items to summon the boss.

[CaptainHawkeye8]

55 minutes ago, Witcher3GOTYHype said:

Your rexes are more than enough stats for most boss fights, only difference you could make can be having 900+melee rexes and have hp around 15k.

Broodmother: The classic method of 20 rexes with 10 riders against alpha broodmother and just straight up mauling the spider with 20 rexes still works fine, it's basically just constant right clicking furiously for 11 mins and you're done :D.

Gorilla: You can do the ape quite easily with 240+ dmg compound bows it's quite simple and this is the easiest boss to do out of the 3 classic bosses.

Dragon: While 10 people with 240+ dmg compound bow still works it's not the most efficient imo. Personally I will use pump-action shotgun 240+ dmg with 1 rex (1 rex rider specifically to kill petras) 1 rex for drawing aggro of dragon into a clump of your mates all ready to unload full shotgun clip. You kill dragon much faster with this and shotgun ammo much less of a hassle and easier to farm than metal arrows imo or the assault rifle method. Main thing here is with shotgun you get the boss done quicker at higher difficulties due to much better dps and reload time. Just youtube the method for a video. 

Manticore: Probably THE easiest boss , same method as broodmother you can get him stuck, just wait for him to land and all charge in and right click to victory. Ignore the deathworms and golems when they spawn, if you have 900~ dmg rexes you can kill alpha manticore in about 5 mins only! This boss is by far the fastest for element farming imo.

 

You're a legend man.

[CaptainHawkeye8]

57 minutes ago, Witcher3GOTYHype said:

Your rexes are more than enough stats for most boss fights, only difference you could make can be having 900+melee rexes and have hp around 15k.

Broodmother: The classic method of 20 rexes with 10 riders against alpha broodmother and just straight up mauling the spider with 20 rexes still works fine, it's basically just constant right clicking furiously for 11 mins and you're done :D.

Gorilla: You can do the ape quite easily with 240+ dmg compound bows it's quite simple and this is the easiest boss to do out of the 3 classic bosses.

Dragon: While 10 people with 240+ dmg compound bow still works it's not the most efficient imo. Personally I will use pump-action shotgun 240+ dmg with 1 rex (1 rex rider specifically to kill petras) 1 rex for drawing aggro of dragon into a clump of your mates all ready to unload full shotgun clip. You kill dragon much faster with this and shotgun ammo much less of a hassle and easier to farm than metal arrows imo or the assault rifle method. Main thing here is with shotgun you get the boss done quicker at higher difficulties due to much better dps and reload time. Just youtube the method for a video. 

Manticore: Probably THE easiest boss , same method as broodmother you can get him stuck, just wait for him to land and all charge in and right click to victory. Ignore the deathworms and golems when they spawn, if you have 900~ dmg rexes you can kill alpha manticore in about 5 mins only! This boss is by far the fastest for element farming imo.

 

Can you clarify on the Gorilla a bit?

[ILuvTheAwesomeDevs]

36 minutes ago, CaptainHawkeye8 said:

Can you clarify on the Gorilla a bit?

Have a tank red with no rider to distract the ape and then sit out of range singing with either co Lund bows or fabby pistols

[Witcher3GOTYHype]

15 minutes ago, ILuvTheAwesomeDevs said:

Have a tank red with no rider to distract the ape and then sit out of range singing with either co Lund bows or fabby pistols

Yes having a rex or turtle to distract gorilla to draw it out where you want it with NO RIDER (this is important bit against gorilla you can't be riding any dino, test in singleplayer to see why ;P) and after its distracted you can all let loose. However, realistically this boss is a bit redundant after you have beaten him first time around for tek engrams as alpha broodmother gives more element than alpha gorilla and you only need rexes to kill broodmother and don't need to farm ammo like you do for the gorilla, all about that element farming efficiency once you have all tek engrams unlocked ^_^.

[GavinChester]

Thanks for all the tips, this thread has been most helpful

[StationOG]

8 hours ago, CaptainHawkeye8 said:

30k health, 700+ Melee

Are you on a modded server - just curious. 

I too am preparing for boss fights but breeding the right rex at the moment.

[Wazzamaniac]

6 hours ago, Witcher3GOTYHype said:

 alpha broodmother gives more element than alpha gorilla and you only need rexes to kill broodmother and don't need to farm ammo like you do for the gorilla, all about that element farming efficiency once you have all tek engrams unlocked ^_^.

alpha gorilla gives 120 element while alpha broodmother gives 74. Also alpha brood is monstrously powerful and has a short timer, so I would absolutely not recommend farming that boss instead.

[Witcher3GOTYHype]

6 hours ago, Wazzamaniac said:

alpha gorilla gives 120 element while alpha broodmother gives 74. Also alpha brood is monstrously powerful and has a short timer, so I would absolutely not recommend farming that boss instead.

Yes sorry about that, confused it with manticore which gives 190 element. But if you only play on island and don't have an SE server, then broodmother is still easiest boss for element farming from a resource perspective as you only need 20 good rexes and riders and don't need to farm bullets and other resources which take up alot of time. And I am going to assume that the OP is from an alpha tribe and has bases build to quickly do artifact farming to constantly do bosses given the stats of his rex. Hence for element farming efficiency perspective (assuming you don't play on SE and can't kill manticore)  broodmother is the most straightforward and easiest boss to do once you have rexes and can rinse and repeat it very easily.

[BobRoss]

does anyone know if the server difficulty affects boss fights? if my server has difficulty 4 is it easier than difficulty 5? and is 6 respectively harder than 5?

i also heard the dragon can get stuck on rexes, this means you wont need ammo for that fight.

[dark7np]

Is it possible to get the Ape stuck? I'm asking for Center, specifically, since the Center Arena has Broodmother and Ape together. Only other option there is the Dragon, currently. I tried the easy Center Arena on a test server, but got insta-killed 3 times when I got to near to the ape on a Rex...

[Wazzamaniac]

10 hours ago, StationOG said:

Are you on a modded server - just curious. 

I too am preparing for boss fights but breeding the right rex at the moment.

You can get these stats on official with good rexes. Those arent base stats, those are leveled

[CaptainHawkeye8]

13 hours ago, StationOG said:

Are you on a modded server - just curious. 

I too am preparing for boss fights but breeding the right rex at the moment.

Nope. They hatch at 12.5k health and 435 Melee. Then we level them

[d1nk]

22 hours ago, PaleoJoe said:

Swarming the boss with your rexs is the only way to actually defeat bosses (except for the hide and shoot methods). Otherwise the boss will just summon minions and slowly kill your dinos. You also want extra people with you in case you suddenly get killed by the boss (if all players are dead it is a wipe).

You just have to look harder for good videos  and practice on single player with spawning in tamed rexs and the items to summon the boss.

Paleo from xb? 

[StationOG]

15 hours ago, CaptainHawkeye8 said:

Nope. They hatch at 12.5k health and 435 Melee. Then we level them

God dam, you have some good stock there. My best hatch so far nets me a rex at 11K health and 370 melee. Ive got some work to do.

[FredFlinstoner]

12 minutes ago, StationOG said:

God dam, you have some good stock there. My best hatch so far nets me a rex at 11K health and 370 melee. Ive got some work to do.

We have rexes that hatch around that with those leveled you can easily get 30k health and 600+ melee

[StationOG]

Well that confirms it - i must be lazy at leveling my rexes.

Getting them to 30K and 600 melee for one rex is going to take me days and i have to do this 10+ times lol. Lucky im a patient man.

PS currently playing solo.

[CaptainHawkeye8]

8 hours ago, StationOG said:

Well that confirms it - i must be lazy at leveling my rexes.

Getting them to 30K and 600 melee for one rex is going to take me days and i have to do this 10+ times lol. Lucky im a patient man.

PS currently playing solo.

It took a while to get those stats all breeded together. A lot of people have them. If you ever end up switching to official just hit up a few people for trades and you'll find them in no time!