[Top 5] Ark: Survival Evolved Most Useful Stats to Upgrade

Updated:

26 Jul 2022

[Top 5] Ark: Survival Evolved Most Important Stats to Upgrade

There are several stats that you are able to upgrade with each level in Ark, but some are much more important than others, and for obvious reasons.

One of the more important stats is your melee damage.

Throughout your time playing Ark, you spend a lot of it fighting in some manner. It may be in an attempt to knock out a foe to tame it, or just to defend yourself against the occasional wild raptor, or worse.
With increased melee damage, you can eventually take on stronger foes, defend more effectively, and even tame bigger dinosaurs to fight with you.
Dealing extra damage can be helpful in a number of ways.
You harvest more resources with a higher melee damage.
You knock foes out more quickly.
You stand a better chance at survival in a fight.

Movement speed is one of my favorites to level up in Ark, and for a good reason.

Throughout your time in Ark, you do a huge amount of traveling. During the first portion of your experience, the vast majority of that travel is done on foot.
With increased movement speed, you can cut your travel time down by a lot.
Increasing your movement speed also makes it a lot easier to get yourself out of sticky situations and away from faster dinosaurs that have their crosshairs on you.

Leveling up your stamina is easily one of the most important attributes to level quickly.

In your beginning days on Ark, your stamina will drop very quickly, leaving you slow, unable to get away from enemies.
When your stamina is lowered, your food and water levels drop very quickly, which makes it harder to play like you typically would.
When your stamina is low, you collect much less when foraging.
Having a higher stamina level puts less wear on your movement speed, which allows you to go a longer distance without stopping. In turn, you wouldn’t need as high of a movement speed level.

No matter the game you play, health is always one of the first things you should level.

When you have higher health that is full, your injuries heal faster rather than slowing you down further.
Needless to say, with higher health, you die much less, giving you more of a chance to grow your character.
With higher health, you have a much better chance of overall survival against the many threats you face in Ark.

Weight is the absolute most important stat to level in Ark. Here’s why:

As you go through your time in Ark, you’ll quickly find that you don’t really have the weight allowance to do much of anything.
When it comes to crafting, foraging, or even hunting, you need to have a high weight level so that you can easily carry the things you are creating or collecting. This saves you time and extra trips back and forth from your storage containers.
You will also find that when you are crafting as you progress through your game, the resources required and the overall weight of the items you are creating are much higher than they were in the beginning.
Raising your weight makes nearly everything in Ark so much easier on you and your tames.