ARK: Survival Evolved

ARK: Survival Evolved

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Dvius 11 Jun, 2016 @ 11:51pm
Goddess breath torpor
It says the breath gives 100% torpor, but it kills everything and nothing is ever knocked unconscious. It's only hitting for 600, even with melee dmg increases, so just wondering if there's a trick to using this to tame?
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YMD  [developer] 12 Jun, 2016 @ 4:52am 
I will consider lowering her damage and increasing the torpor amount next update..
Dvius 12 Jun, 2016 @ 7:39am 
Thanks for the reply. I was just wondering if there was a special attack that I was missing. It might try taming a lower level one and see if that's more effective for knocking things out.
YMD  [developer] 12 Jun, 2016 @ 8:26am 
@Dvius I have made changes but the update will be out next week, either thursday or weekend.
The change will be her breath torpor amount is 300% but breath damage is lowered by 3x. The breath hitbox detection will also be fixed, currently bugged and cannot hit small dinos. Breath damage/torpor will scale with melee stat and equipped goddess platform quality. This will be in addition to her breath's ice slow effect, which is renamed to 'Cryostasis'.

Also no worries about pvp, her breath torpor will be 13x less effective on players. This is to prevent putting ppl to sleep instantly.
Last edited by YMD; 12 Jun, 2016 @ 8:30am
Dvius 14 Jun, 2016 @ 11:51am 
I just wanted to say I appreciate the work you do to quickly fix issues or add features. Not all of us are upset with the updates :)

To update this topic, the breath still does too much damage and kills most targets. Low torpor dinos will go down, but anything substantial dies. I haven't tested with a fresh tame since we wiped and went back to island after the lvl1 fix. I'll try a fresh tame after I run and errand and report back, but as of right now, the damage might need to be reduced a bit more to work with torpor.

I'm also running annunaki genesis, and this is with a 500ish elder, so not max level. A friend's higher level is killing also, so i can try a lower level one, but it could just be the scaling with annunaki mod that is hurting the damage scaling / torpor.
YMD  [developer] 14 Jun, 2016 @ 12:26pm 
her breath damage and torpor scales with her level and melee damage stat. Try using a lower level normal goddess for taming weaker enemies.
Last edited by YMD; 14 Jun, 2016 @ 12:27pm
Dvius 16 Jun, 2016 @ 7:32pm 
ok, after testing a few days, the torpor is greater, but because the damage is higher, even if you don't kill what you knock unconcious, it lowers the taming effectiveness a lot. I've tried higher and lower levels with and without saddles to see if it made a difference. Perhaps the cryo debuff should make the breath due lower damage to increase the effectiveness? or since it's a support goddess, the breath should only debuff?

Hopefully the feedback is helpful. I'm not sure if you want people to use it as a taming pet or only to be a debuffer. Looking forward to the other changes you mentioned were coming to the mod :)
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