Lesser Protecting (Gun Trait)
Each hit from this weapon against a non-allied target reduces the damage of the next incoming attack by 2.5%, stacking up to 10 times. Trait must be applied in a Makeshift Megalab
Details
- Category
- Weapon
- Games
- ASA
- Expansion
- Wasteland
- Loot crates
- 23 crates
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- None
- Engram points
- 0
- How to unlock
- DLC Variant (Non-Base)
Maps
Found on 3 maps
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How to get Lesser Protecting (Gun Trait)
Lesser Protecting (Gun Trait) is found in 23 loot crates.
Loot crates
23 crates
- Armadoggo CrateExtinction and Astraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Orbital EasyAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Orbital HardAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Orbital MediumAstraeos · ASA
- Extinction Orbital EasyExtinction · ASA
- Extinction Orbital HardExtinction · ASA
- Extinction Orbital LegendaryExtinction · ASA
- Extinction Orbital MediumExtinction · ASA
- Outpost: Breeding Pits EasyLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Breeding Pits HardLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Breeding Pits MediumLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Gladiator's Keep EasyLost Colony · ASA
Show all 23 crates
- Outpost: Gladiator's Keep HardLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Gladiator's Keep MediumLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Lost Resource Cache EasyLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Lost Resource Cache HardLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Lost Resource Cache MediumLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Marksman's Hold EasyLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Marksman's Hold HardLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Marksman's Hold MediumLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Outpost Defense EasyLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Outpost Defense HardLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Outpost Defense MediumLost Colony · ASA
Lesser Protecting (Gun Trait) — Detailed Guide
Hits that soften the next blow
Lesser Protecting (Gun Trait) is a gun trait from the Wasteland DLC in ARK: Survival Ascended. In the game it reads: "Each hit from this weapon against a non-allied target reduces the damage of the next incoming attack by 2.5%, stacking up to 10 times." The description also states that the trait must be applied in a 
Makeshift Megalab.
How the stacks work
Every hit the weapon lands on a target that is not an ally adds a stack, and each stack lowers the damage of the next attack coming in by 2.5%. The effect builds up to 10 stacks at most.
Moving up a tier
Our records list one recipe that uses it: 
Moderate Protecting (Gun Trait), which takes 10 of this lesser trait. Our data gives a crafting time of 15 seconds, and the item stacks to 1.
Crates and maps
Our records count 23 crate types that can contain it. Examples include the Armadoggo Crate (Extinction and Astraeos), the Astraeos Orbital Easy, Astraeos Orbital Medium and Astraeos Orbital Hard crates, and the Extinction Orbital Easy and Extinction Orbital Hard crates. The maps our data ties to it are Extinction, Lost Colony and Astraeos.