I can tell you why some saddles are green and some saddles are blue. Before Ark was officially released during the early access days saddles rolled a random durability stat similar armor but this durability was never used and was eventually patched to be hidden. Basically, the hidden unused durability stat can dictate the quality of the saddle the same way armor can. This is also why you can occasionally find ascended saddles with much lower armor than mastercraft or mastercraft saddles with much lower armor than journyman etc...
Lol gl if ur lucky all ur missions for gen 1 and 2 don’t reset, had this happen to 3-6 tribe members on smalls me having alpha gen 1 and beta gen 2 unlocked, reset all notes too,
I have started the same quest. All story maps in order, and i can visit ragnarok in between as my main base. So far I'm getting prepped for the island bosses. How far along are you? Any tips for finding rexes? Like do you have to have level 125-150?
The male buff doesnt increase damage and resistance. It gives stamina regeneration and movement speed buff. -Edit- Also gives Torpidity Recovery. Pack leader is a buff it gives which is supposed to add +33% damage but haven't seen it working yet. (at least on console official servers. done plenty of damage tests and it doesn't seem to work yet, but should be in upcoming patches.)
@@Raasclark hope you find any information on shadowmane armor quality... Been curious about higher quality armor has any effect on its reflective damage or if it's just random for no reason. Keep up the good work on ARK.
@@andrejhofer2007 Pretty much yes. Now it would be worth saying having 1 Shadow rider would still be nice for their particular buffs but in terms of average players, the yuty would still be the only buffer.
According to the shadowmanes code looking in devkit, when mate boosted + in a pack (and in devkit they do this but also havent seen shadowmane teleport when in devkit but in game i have). Female shadowmanes thornmail inflicts a boosted variant of the buff thats greenish and stacks with the normal thornmail poisoning. And the hold left click attack of the female when mate boosted and in a pack inflicts a stronger version of the lionfish slowdown than the normal shadowmane.
Thx for the info keep it up!! I love shadowmanes and wyverns they are by far my favorites dinos in the hole game, they are just so beautifull, the only thing i dislike in shadowmane is the fact that is u fight a wild one, they still can dismount u from tamed shadowmane! But if they has imunity to stun they probably were to op!
I tamed a level 145 and it only came out with 80 armor. I’m on ps5 w single player settings so does that effect it in anyway? Also when I level the shadow mane the armor doesn’t go up
For combat, this is, hands down, the best creature in ARK. It's also stylish as hell. You should do one for gathering. I like the stryder, but due to their incredible lack of mobility, and the fact they can't target specific resources to the exclusion of others (for example the Doed will ONLY gather stone when I need stone) I am not sure they are at the top for me.
@@Wastelander2281 Of course I have. Stryders have their strengths but they also have serious weaknesses. First, they are only on Gen 2. Second, unless you link them to dedicated storage (which comes on line in the later stages of the game) they don't target specific resources. Lastly they are relatively slow and take a long time to traverse the terrain. I can make 3 or 4 trips with an argentavis/Ankylosaurus combo for metal and Flint farming in the time you get to the metal on the stryder. Don't get me wrong, parking a strider in the lunar zone on Gen 2 is a phenomenal way to harvest specific resources but their mobility leaves a lot to be desired.
@@MrMagyar5 You are definitely right about the dedi storage, but if you can have them and you got a hover skiff, there is no better set up than the stryder, on gen 2 of course and maybe the other maps at some point too.
@@TheDogHouse713 absolutely. Of course I was on an unofficial server. But no matter whether unofficial or host local you can spawn in as many as you want and see that eventually they will come with them armors. Though I imagine on official it's going to take much much longer. And I play on a PlayStation 4 console
I was playing the other day and tge rarity went up when i was killing wild dinos i think i also killed a few tames and went from ram to journey i think purple one
Yeah the only thing random about the armor is the quality which doesn't matter with the armor cap and the right levels from your breeders. I tamed a 145 male and didn't wanna do it again so just went for a low level female an just breed all the male's stats on the babies journeyman quality does seem to be the highest. Took 8, 100 fully imprinted, and only 15-18k health 600% melee shadowmanes and smashed Alpha broodmother, Gamma only took 4 and wasn't even a hassle. My main male Lion-o and female Cheetra ripped through a 140 Alpha Rex in seconds and it had over 100k health. Now I'm working on health and melee mutations
I feel like they must have changed this at some point. My shadowmanes' armor seems capped out at 80 and I have both "ramshackle" and "apprentice" ones as well. Very strange. Guess if there was anything about them they were going to nerf...I can't complain.
I believe the armour will decrease the lower that the taming effectiveness is. Taming a 150 with awful effectiveness will most likely decrease the armour. I have tamed a 180 (my server difficulty is 6 so 180 is max level) but the effectiveness was only 90% and it came out with about 80 armour.
Basically, this creature is not basic at all. I really want to set up a shadowmane-reaper army for boss fights, a strong army that requires no saddle crafting!
annoying thing is my shadowmanes are bred up to 245, if i bred to being just HP melee and stamina then it would be around 110, so would have to also breed in the weight to get max armour right away
@@janetaylor2722 I'm on official too (non smalls). I usually keep things like bred Crystal wyverns in the cryopods in a cryofridge for a day or two, then once it comes out, it has like 40-50 levels ready to go. Are you keeping yours out? I think it should be able to reach it from there
@@DogOnAKeyboard yes that works, i just like getting it to a good point right away... im playing pve so far breeding melee and have it up to 51 points. however the rest of the stats were under 40 and have not mutated those up yet, recently bred the melee to be the only stat (to make breeding easier) so its a lvl 52 male breeding with lots of lvl 1 females
I have noticed that as I level them up, so does their armor up until 124.8.....ah, I see you've found that as well. Starting think like a real "RAAAS-TIFARIAN"
I found a shadowmane with 245 melee pre tame, and the final feed needed, it ate it but got no percentage, i didn't have any more fish and Lost it, didn't want to play after that bullshit.
@@lingeringheadache945 look for a higher melee my dude unless your playing single player and rip I've had them wake up right before I fed them so I know the pain
Way overtuned. Get some fun in till they nerf it, still, it has so many abilities they would have to remove some to actually balance it. Which is unlikely.
To be fair the majority of there overpowered abilities are locked behind having a mate the cloak isn't that great the courageous roar only works on other shadowmanes besides that they have really good armor a poison and stun if anything is overtuned it's Tek striders
They already stripped a few of the stryders abilities. You used to be able to take the charge from a light pet and they also removed the regrowth walk. Still. You can breed shadowmanes. You only need 1 high level and one low level of the other gender to get a strong line going.
@@phantomway2908 the roar works on every creature and player in range, not just on shadowmanes only. It works similarly to the mass cloak of the female. When the male has a female nearby they can roar to buff everything around them.
Okay so I see that the shadowmane armor was nerfed and capped at 80, but does the server clamp affect that? The crafted saddles on a server I'm playing on go up to about 350, but I don't know if the shadowmane armor will go higher than 80. Got a few manes at level 230-240 through breeding and they're still capped at 80.
Assuming this information is no longer relevant, all I've see is maxed out at 80.00 and apprentice quality, have not seen anything past that on officials.
I can tell you why some saddles are green and some saddles are blue. Before Ark was officially released during the early access days saddles rolled a random durability stat similar armor but this durability was never used and was eventually patched to be hidden. Basically, the hidden unused durability stat can dictate the quality of the saddle the same way armor can. This is also why you can occasionally find ascended saddles with much lower armor than mastercraft or mastercraft saddles with much lower armor than journyman etc...
Thank you!
I am starting and finishing the entire story of ark and great vid by the way
Good luck
!Remind me in 5 years
Lol gl if ur lucky all ur missions for gen 1 and 2 don’t reset, had this happen to 3-6 tribe members on smalls me having alpha gen 1 and beta gen 2 unlocked, reset all notes too,
I have started the same quest. All story maps in order, and i can visit ragnarok in between as my main base. So far I'm getting prepped for the island bosses.
How far along are you?
Any tips for finding rexes? Like do you have to have level 125-150?
Perfect testing video. Straight to the point, appropriately edited and a definitive answer
The most interesting discovery to me was seeing the saddle stat increase by leveling it up
same here, going to be nice for earlier on downbred shadowmanes on official though... not needing to have it born lvl 150+
The male buff doesnt increase damage and resistance.
It gives stamina regeneration and movement speed buff.
-Edit-
Also gives Torpidity Recovery.
Pack leader is a buff it gives which is supposed to add +33% damage but haven't seen it working yet. (at least on console official servers. done plenty of damage tests and it doesn't seem to work yet, but should be in upcoming patches.)
Thanks mate. My apologies for getting this wrong. Misinformed 🙃
@@Raasclark hope you find any information on shadowmane armor quality... Been curious about higher quality armor has any effect on its reflective damage or if it's just random for no reason. Keep up the good work on ARK.
So yuty are still worth bringing in to boss fights
@@andrejhofer2007 Pretty much yes. Now it would be worth saying having 1 Shadow rider would still be nice for their particular buffs but in terms of average players, the yuty would still be the only buffer.
@@Raasclark they also increase damage it just doesn't say it
According to the shadowmanes code looking in devkit, when mate boosted + in a pack (and in devkit they do this but also havent seen shadowmane teleport when in devkit but in game i have). Female shadowmanes thornmail inflicts a boosted variant of the buff thats greenish and stacks with the normal thornmail poisoning. And the hold left click attack of the female when mate boosted and in a pack inflicts a stronger version of the lionfish slowdown than the normal shadowmane.
The stream yesterday was awesome!
Thx for the info keep it up!! I love shadowmanes and wyverns they are by far my favorites dinos in the hole game, they are just so beautifull, the only thing i dislike in shadowmane is the fact that is u fight a wild one, they still can dismount u from tamed shadowmane! But if they has imunity to stun they probably were to op!
Love the video it seems like if I were watching a official shadow mane trailer
😅 cheers
Raas back at it again, as always incredible content 👀
I love shadowmanes I’ve been looking for something like this for weeks
I liked the ark music with your logo intro
One badass cat
Really helpful guide as always raas!!!
I'm curious on the quality of that armor. Maybe it's like the saddles on others? Lower damage on the saddles? Or takes longer for it to break?
If they added a tek shadowmane saddle I would scream
first i wondered why my name is in the video title, but then i realized: oh now i understand
And me ?
Answer the question! "What is Max?"
@@shadowmane6528 👀
Shadowmanes Got nerved Max armor is 80 since like a year now
I tamed a level 145 and it only came out with 80 armor. I’m on ps5 w single player settings so does that effect it in anyway? Also when I level the shadow mane the armor doesn’t go up
For combat, this is, hands down, the best creature in ARK. It's also stylish as hell. You should do one for gathering. I like the stryder, but due to their incredible lack of mobility, and the fact they can't target specific resources to the exclusion of others (for example the Doed will ONLY gather stone when I need stone) I am not sure they are at the top for me.
You havnt used a stryder have you?
They can only pick up what you want if you link it to a dedi
@@Wastelander2281 Of course I have. Stryders have their strengths but they also have serious weaknesses. First, they are only on Gen 2. Second, unless you link them to dedicated storage (which comes on line in the later stages of the game) they don't target specific resources. Lastly they are relatively slow and take a long time to traverse the terrain. I can make 3 or 4 trips with an argentavis/Ankylosaurus combo for metal and Flint farming in the time you get to the metal on the stryder. Don't get me wrong, parking a strider in the lunar zone on Gen 2 is a phenomenal way to harvest specific resources but their mobility leaves a lot to be desired.
@@MrMagyar5 You are definitely right about the dedi storage, but if you can have them and you got a hover skiff, there is no better set up than the stryder, on gen 2 of course and maybe the other maps at some point too.
@@Wastelander2281 Agreed. I'm playing through a single player on each map and it would be a great boom to have that combo.
There is also Journeyman, Mastercraft and Ascended armor on Shadowmanes
Does it makes a difference or it just gets cap like normal?
Have you personally gotten Mastercraft or journey man?
@@TheDogHouse713 absolutely. Of course I was on an unofficial server. But no matter whether unofficial or host local you can spawn in as many as you want and see that eventually they will come with them armors. Though I imagine on official it's going to take much much longer. And I play on a PlayStation 4 console
i just tamed my first max level shadowmane. these things are so cool
Raas, doing all the work so we don't have to lol
Worth leveling speed stat on shadowmane? Or just hp, stam and melee?
Imagine asking something and the youtuber just like your comment instead of answering it. xD
I was playing the other day and tge rarity went up when i was killing wild dinos i think i also killed a few tames and went from ram to journey i think purple one
On official I’ve tamed multiple Shadowmane and they cap out at 80
Idk i got a Male shadowmane mutated and breeded to level 245 and only gotten 80.0 armor. It doesn‘t increase idk why
its nerved a while ago
I have a bred 400 that has level 80 saddle...leveling up the melee does not level up the saddle. (now am confused)
did they nerf the saddles? i have 80 on my 150
Yeah the only thing random about the armor is the quality which doesn't matter with the armor cap and the right levels from your breeders. I tamed a 145 male and didn't wanna do it again so just went for a low level female an just breed all the male's stats on the babies journeyman quality does seem to be the highest. Took 8, 100 fully imprinted, and only 15-18k health 600% melee shadowmanes and smashed Alpha broodmother, Gamma only took 4 and wasn't even a hassle. My main male Lion-o and female Cheetra ripped through a 140 Alpha Rex in seconds and it had over 100k health. Now I'm working on health and melee mutations
I had plans to test this but now I don't have too :D
Great minds 🤣
@@Raasclark exactly 😁🤯
You should pass the word around how Ppl can carry wilds with skiff and glitch inside your base on Pve it needs out so it's fixed.
Should be able to upgrade its armour when fed mutugen
This vid is gold
I have a couple shadowmanes on my server that I tamed that have Journeyman natural armour
The shadow man is a prehistoric lion
No, not at all.
I feel like they must have changed this at some point. My shadowmanes' armor seems capped out at 80 and I have both "ramshackle" and "apprentice" ones as well. Very strange. Guess if there was anything about them they were going to nerf...I can't complain.
Yup it was nerfed
Mines too
All my shadows have these saddle
i got a primitive one yesterday
When. You tame IT before NERF he keep his 124 Armor ? And IS possibls to 124armor maybe even with admin command ? Thx for answer
We are breeding Them in official Xbox pve now we got 128 Sattle on a 250 Shadowmane With 14k HP and 450 Melee without imprint
Its a blue Sattle Not a Green anymore
Omg wth? Did you get lucky n get a 390% melee tame?
For what is that armor??? That not a saddle right?
Shadowmane is the best for abberation and defeating reaper queens
Has the armour rating changed because mine are all just getting 80 rating at wild mac level 300
It got nerfed sadly
It's amazing and my new favoutite but between this and the stryder, all other tames are sadly redundant.
Forgot the aimbot whales lol
@@vengeful8gaming776 Sorry yes I did!
man realy like the shadowmane as a new boss creature and not as a copy of the thyla
I believe the armour will decrease the lower that the taming effectiveness is. Taming a 150 with awful effectiveness will most likely decrease the armour. I have tamed a 180 (my server difficulty is 6 so 180 is max level) but the effectiveness was only 90% and it came out with about 80 armour.
it's not like that for me it was 80 as cap im in consle
The Shadowmain is amazing, not news about ps5 update?
Sadly nothing yet mate
@@Raasclark Thanks :)
Basically, this creature is not basic at all. I really want to set up a shadowmane-reaper army for boss fights, a strong army that requires no saddle crafting!
Yup, did you watch my boss run vid?
@@Raasclark I did, I will definitely use some for Rockwell Prime when I get to that point.
You only need shadowmanes my guy 👍
Thx 👍😊👍
annoying thing is my shadowmanes are bred up to 245, if i bred to being just HP melee and stamina then it would be around 110, so would have to also breed in the weight to get max armour right away
or just level the FFAs to get there as shown in the video
@@DogOnAKeyboard mm yes but on official its hard to level so much
@@janetaylor2722 I'm on official too (non smalls). I usually keep things like bred Crystal wyverns in the cryopods in a cryofridge for a day or two, then once it comes out, it has like 40-50 levels ready to go. Are you keeping yours out? I think it should be able to reach it from there
@@DogOnAKeyboard yes that works, i just like getting it to a good point right away... im playing pve so far breeding melee and have it up to 51 points. however the rest of the stats were under 40 and have not mutated those up yet, recently bred the melee to be the only stat (to make breeding easier) so its a lvl 52 male breeding with lots of lvl 1 females
@@janetaylor2722 oh wow, I'm just in official pvp, but how do you find level 1 females? O.o But yeah now I see what you mean
But how interesting I really thought that the level was the one that varies what type of armor it would have.
Very interesting🤔
It do be
I have noticed that as I level them up, so does their armor up until 124.8.....ah, I see you've found that as well. Starting think like a real "RAAAS-TIFARIAN"
this still valid? I got 145 but its at 80 armor, is that the nerf?
wait, there are rarity of armors? My onoy shadow has a yellow one, not a green one
I found a shadowmane with 245 melee pre tame, and the final feed needed, it ate it but got no percentage, i didn't have any more fish and Lost it, didn't want to play after that bullshit.
They don't lose tame. Just go into your menu highlight it's location so it pings on your hud then go get fish
@@Sidthesexiest thanks. Wish I knew that, ark and it bullshit just sets me off and I logged off right after it fucked up.
@@lingeringheadache945 look for a higher melee my dude unless your playing single player and rip I've had them wake up right before I fed them so I know the pain
I love shadowmanes
Is it just me or are shadowmanes absolutely massive? Like bigger than they should be.
I thought they were going to be Saber size, then after the first trailer I was thinking maybe Thyla size but nope, bigger than those too.
The shadow doesn't buff the attack. Do a test. No increase in damage.
I tamed a 150 shadowmane with 100% effectiveness, but it had 84% armour does anyone know what’s going on?
It got nerfed since this vid mate
Way overtuned. Get some fun in till they nerf it, still, it has so many abilities they would have to remove some to actually balance it. Which is unlikely.
To be fair the majority of there overpowered abilities are locked behind having a mate the cloak isn't that great the courageous roar only works on other shadowmanes besides that they have really good armor a poison and stun if anything is overtuned it's Tek striders
They already stripped a few of the stryders abilities. You used to be able to take the charge from a light pet and they also removed the regrowth walk. Still. You can breed shadowmanes. You only need 1 high level and one low level of the other gender to get a strong line going.
@@phantomway2908 the roar works on every creature and player in range, not just on shadowmanes only. It works similarly to the mass cloak of the female. When the male has a female nearby they can roar to buff everything around them.
@@phantomway2908 The stunlock teleportation and rapid regeneration from sleeping alone and thornmail armor is already extremely OP.
The ultimate dino
Water Mufasa and Nala
I have a lvl 500 but it only has 80 armor
cake 🧁........
to be continued.
Really? I was messing around and spawning them, and then upgrading them, the armor I had went passed 124.8
Okay so I see that the shadowmane armor was nerfed and capped at 80, but does the server clamp affect that? The crafted saddles on a server I'm playing on go up to about 350, but I don't know if the shadowmane armor will go higher than 80. Got a few manes at level 230-240 through breeding and they're still capped at 80.
Tysm i thought my manes were bugged or something
Ello
Oh, doesn't have to be 150? Good to know.
Playing on higher difficulty so wasn't sure
Guys pls vote for the car or cerato
Assuming this information is no longer relevant, all I've see is maxed out at 80.00 and apprentice quality, have not seen anything past that on officials.
You like clouds?
I guess you like clouds
They aren’t really saddles broski
Aye probably could have just called it armor mate maybe. But alliteration 😅
@@Raasclark yeah bro and btw love the content really helps out a lot cuz I was wondering the same thing
@@oksolo6364 thanks man. I genuinely enjoy testing all this stuff out too! Glad it helped 🙂
bro wtf in my world the max is 80.0 XD
HIII
on official it doesnt work this way
Hey I'm first maybe
My shadow Mein has infinite health infinite damage