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What is a crystal wyvern used for? crystal wyvern battling strategies in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
Tropical wyverns spawn near the beach and have a water buff, like the spino, blood wyverns spawn in the forest that has red trees and also the red trees can give charcoal and blood wyverns can drain life from other creatures/ tames/ people and give your blood wyvern health if it is hurt at all. Ember crystal wyverns just breathe fire, blood and ember crystal wyverns are better for pvp. I recommend, if you have it, use the bone wyvern skin so they can’t tell what type of crystal wyvern it is. Good luck on taming them! (I play on Xbox so I can’t tame them :( )
Same guy that made the “don’t know what category to put this in but oh well” tip on the wyvern page.
Three variants of crystal wyvern:
Tropical, weird steam breath, if you touch water it’ll get the same buff that Spinos do.
Ember, generally considered the worst wyvern in the whole game, just a fire wyvern that gets stronger the more you use its breath, needs lots of stamina to even be somewhat decent.
Blood, if you hit something with its breath attack it’ll siphon its health away to heal yourself, I’m pretty sure it also gets the same buff that argies do when you eat a corpse.
To get Primal Crystals, you must knock out a Crystal Wyvern and harvest Primal Crystals off their back. Once you’ve harvested once, it’ll take about an hour for the Crystal Wyvern to "recharge" and allow you to harvest more.
The number of Primal Crystals that you can harvest from a Crystal Wyvern increases with its level. A level 1 produces 2 Crystals, and it increases by 2 at roughly every 7 or 8 levels.
Lvl 1: 2 Primal Crystals
Lvl 10: 4
Lvl 20: 6
Lvl 30: 8
Lvl 40: 12
Lvl 50: 14
Lvl 100: 28
Lvl 150: 52
Lvl 200: 54
Lvl 300: 80
Lvl 400: 108
The Crystal Wyvern has an extremely high torpor depletion rate — one of the highest in the game — so it will not remain knocked out for long. You might consider trapping it in a cage so that you can harvest it again later.
Crystal isles is definitely the map for running drops! With one of these guys (preferably tropical because of their hydration when they hit the water which buffs their speed) you can get loads of good blueprints super easy by just flying around the map picking up all of the drops you see! Using this method I easily got loads and loads of amazing blueprints in just 1-2 hours, including a mastercraft crossbow blueprint and an ascendant flak chest blueprint, among loads of good saddle blueprints! Please spread.