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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Utility Tips
What is a wyvern used for? wyvern battling strategies in ARK: Survival Evolved.
Single player uses:
1. Travel mount: Wyvern are very fast in the air, although their speed has slowly become irrelevant with the addition of even faster and more efficient travel mounts such as the bloodstalker and tropeognathus.
2. Wyvern killer/nest raider: Of course Wyverns can kill other Wyvern, just be careful not to get overwhelmed by a swarm.
3. Giga killer: Wyverns can easily kill gigas from a safe distance due to their ability to fly and ranged attacks.
4. Boss fight dino: Being the most powerful flyer, wyverns are often your best option in any boss arena that allows you to use flyers, although they might be outclassed by Tropeognathus in the desert titan fight.
5. Dino carryer: Like the quetzal, wyverns can carry fairly large dinos and drop them into pens for taming, although the task is a bit more tedious due to the wyvern's shifty turning radius.
Wyverns come in seven different types. The crystal ones aren’t listed here because of word limit. The fire (short range breath attack that sets creatures on fire and does % based DMG.), the ice (also short range breath attack that applies a slow to everything it hits.), poison (spitball attack that applies a straight up amount of DMG when it hits, depending on the melee stat of the wyvern, and leaves a gas cloud that does a tick of 10 DMG no matter what. The attack is long range and travels slowly, but is easy enough to aim when it doesn’t glitch and fly off in random directions.), and the lightning (long range, easy to aim attack that does straight up tick DMG, with no linger affect). All four of the wyverns listed above spawn on ragnarok. All but the ice spawn on scorched earth. And the ice and the fire both spawn on valguero. Corrupted fire wyverns spawn in extinction, but you can’t tame (steal an egg from) them. The occasional wyvern also spawns in the gauntlet missions on genesis.
When going to steal a Wyvern egg (this is for fire btw, i dont know what the experience is like for the other three kinds) *Obviously* wait till there are no Wyverns right near the egg, the go for it. Pick up the egg and run. If a Wyvern attacks you, DON’T FIGHT IT! It will inevitably lead to your demise. Just grab the dang egg and get the heck out of there! I hope this was at least somewhat helpful. Thanks for reading!