Melee on harvesting dinos

[bribleck]

Is there a limit to how much melee you should put into your harvesting dino?  Like if I go beyond a certain melee on my anklo, will I no longer get better returns per swing?

[OtterlyRidiculous]

Is there a limit to how much melee you should put into your harvesting dino?  Like if I go beyond a certain melee on my anklo, will I no longer get better returns per swing?

No from my understanding it continuously scales with melee.

[DarthaNyan]

IIRC there is a limit of 3x resource overharvest (in case you harvest node in 1 hit, over-damaging it by a factor of 3 will grant cap of resources). But since various resource nodes have different health pools - there is no cookie-cutter values for melee on harvesting dinos.

[Weiss]

I often farm without dinos that carry extra weight. I don't go beyond 1k melee, all extra points go into weight. If you carry your animals with a quetz the weight doesn't matter, and I'd probably put all points into melee.

[Brayn]

Overharvest is capped at 5x on official (see patch notes from version 181.2 or 187.2, it was a while ago).  From experience, on an anky, resource harvest seems to max out around 525%.

[Theplaymaker]

Fairly certain there is no cap, 800% anky appears to collect much more than my 600%. 

[Jamage007]

1 hour ago, Theplaymaker said:

Fairly certain there is no cap, 800% anky appears to collect much more than my 600%. 

This is truth. We have over 1000 melee Ankys and they collect better than our 800-900 ones. This is official btw.

[Cowgirl]

6 hours ago, Jamage007 said:

This is truth. We have over 1000 melee Ankys and they collect better than our 800-900 ones. This is official btw.

I agree, my 700+ mele ankies definitely get more than my 500 mele ankies

[TIE]

Looks like I'll have to lvl more melee on my harvesters ?

[Stormscurse]

Yes I know its a necro, get over it.  Information is relevant for as long as others play the game.  And if this is false now, someone like me coming here to find answers might think it's true, especially when all the google hits people will see still say this.  So, my question:

Is it still true that melee damage boosts Dino harvesting?  I read in post after many different old posts saying that they changed this and now it has no effect.  But I can't find any more info or confirmation of this.

thanks

[Bruvas78]

4 hours ago, Stormscurse said:

Is it still true that melee damage boosts Dino harvesting? 

Absolutely, yes. 

[Kingordep]

A bit off topic but what i do with my ankys when not in use is cryopod it you gain way faster exp when poded allowing you to have even higher melee mines at 1200 dmg plus helps on extinction u can one shot corrupted 

[Stormscurse]

1 hour ago, Bruvas78 said:

Absolutely, yes. 

 

1 hour ago, Kingordep said:

A bit off topic but what i do with my ankys when not in use is cryopod it you gain way faster exp when poded allowing you to have even higher melee mines at 1200 dmg plus helps on extinction u can one shot corrupted 

Thanks guys!