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How to calculate dinosaur damage

By comdude2

This guide will teach you how to calculate your tamed dinosaur's damage.

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Category: Gameplay Basics, Secrets, Weapons

Languages: English

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Guide Index

Overview

Introduction

How to do it without worrying about the math (Lazy)

How to do it using math (MLG Pro)

Additional Information

Comments

Introduction

This guide will teach you how to determine the damage of your dinosaur based off of the base levels provided on the wiki[ark.gamepedia.com].

How to do it without worrying about the math (Lazy)

Me and a friend made a web based dinosaur damage calculator, you can find it here[ark-damage.info]. Just use this[www.survive-ark.com] instead, it's updated faster than ours was.

How to do it using math (MLG Pro)

Method

You will need to get the base damage for the Dinosaur you're calculating from here[ark.gamepedia.com].

Then find out what it's melee damage percentage is, this can be found at the bottom right of the dinosaur's inventory.

Then apply it to the following algorithm:

Base Damage * (Melee Damage Percentage / 100) = Dinosaur Damage

Example:

You have a Raptor with a melee percentage stat of 350%.

The calculation from above would then look like this:

15 * (350 / 100) = 52.5

Raptor damage = 52.5

Additional Information

The base damage of some dinosaurs may be incorrect, see notes/trivia section of wiki.

Feel free to comment below with any questions / suggestions.

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comdude2 [author] 4 Apr, 2017 @ 11:47am

Not played ark in ages or even updated this guide, it does seem you're right about the calculation though, i'd be happy to add you as a contributor if you wish to update the guide, as i said I don't really play the game anymore so I wouldn't be interested in updating it

Kjndst 4 Apr, 2017 @ 9:05am

This guide is wrong.
This is how i calculate dino damage.
Damage = [ Base Damage + ( Dino Level When Tame * X ) ] * Percentage of Melee Damage.
Ex:
a Dimorphodon level 129.
Base game ( Damage when level 1 ) = 23
Damage per wild level = 1.15
Wild Level: ( Level when tamed - Bonus taming level also count )
Melee Damage: 208%
Damage = [ 23 + ( 129 * 1.15 ) ] * 208% ~ 355 Damage.
Thats expalin why the level 245 Rex with ~ 450% melee damage can deal ~ 3k damage per hit

comdude2 [author] 2 Nov, 2015 @ 11:05am

No problem :)

Felony Man 1 Nov, 2015 @ 3:59am

ok i dont undersad the MLG pro one but thanks

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