Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Utility Tips
What is a wyvern used for? wyvern battling strategies in ARK: Survival Evolved.
So- the story of how my wyvern died on nintendo- So I have a full grown fire wyvern right? So on console when you get off a wyvern your still on its back but you can move- so I was flying I got off and it’s following me- so it starts spinning in circles flying upwards trying to get me- I’m high off the ground so I’m not moving- I get to the sky barrier and fall- i die- my wyvern glitched though the barrier and despawned- up so no nintendo wyverns suffer like me
It has many variants
Fire:Shoots fire dealing 5%.damage over time
Electric:shoots a straight beam of lighting damaging opponents constantly (effective for killing gigas)
Poison:Shoots a green projectile that travels straight the projectile is rather slow and small making it easy to avoid (CAN DAMAGE RIDERS DIRECTLY IF NOT WEARI GAS MASK OR TEK HELMET)
Ice:pretty much fire wyvern but slows you down instead of dealing damage over time
Wyvern cannot be tamed as such it can only be get by stealing eggs They spawn in:Scorched Earth, Ragnarok, Valguero (only 2 variants) and Lost island a strategy to get one is to get a flyer (make sure it has good weight and stam) and then locate an egg and steal it and go as far as u can then if you die get on your fast mount (gallimus etc) loot your corpse and escape wyvern will despawn if they get too far from their trench now you need a hot temperature to hatch the egg you need around 20 standing torch and wait for it to hatch after that claim it also unlike most baby creatures out there it will only consume wyvern milk and not anything else to get wyvern milk go to the location where wyverns are located find a female and knock it out after that open her inventory and loot the milk also the wyvern might also request for it when imprinting another way of getting wyvern milk is killing alpha fire wyvern where if you kill it it will have around 30-50 milk in its inventory wait for it to grow up and boom u got your first wyvern, wyvern milk is also consumable to tames and humans it will make you fire resistant and gives the survivor more hypothermial insulation this makes it useful for dragon boss fight or travelling cold places name ideas:Freezer for ice Venom for poison Flame thrower for - Fire and Zeus for Electric - Omnyx
There’s a lot of things wyverns are useful for, each wyvern can have its own use so in the tip I’m gonna attempt to explain most the uses wyverns have in 5 categories, all wyverns and then the 4 wyvern types.
Please note I’ve play 5 minutes total of pvp so this guide is more focused on pve
All wyverns
- carrying, every wyvern can carry small - medium sized creatures, making them not bad transport tames for medium sized creatures, they can hold up to an Allo in size
- damage, im going to get into this more with the individual wyvern types but every wyvern generally does pretty good bite damage
- travel mounts, wyverns are fast fliers, awful turn radius but they fly fast and are good for traveling across the map and on maps like scorched earth they’re your best bet for traveling across the map.
- metal running, argys are better at this but wyverns can be faster, they don’t have high weight but it’s decent and you can level up weight to get a pretty good metal running creature.
- kibble, wyvern eggs give kibble meaning you can start a breeding line or you can raid an entire trench, either way you’ll have eggs for extraordinary kibble
- meat running, wyverns are fast, high damaging, mid game creatures, meaning they’re good for meat runs, you can pile up a lot of meat by going on a murder spree with a wyvern
-thatch collecting, a wyverns wing flap ability is good at knock back and collecting thatch from trees, and a little wood, you can get a lot of charcoal from certain trees as well.
That’s the general use for wyverns in pve at least, now the next 4 categories are going to be a lot shorter because wyverns aren’t very different except for different elemental breath and a slightly different model
Fire wyverns
- fire breathing, you can set stuff on fire with this wyvern which does a lot of damage and even more percent based damage, I don’t have much else to say
Poison wyverns
-ranged attacking, poison wyverns shoot a toxic ball that does high dps and damages the player on a mount in pvp, the ranged attack is useful for killing from a range and avoiding taking damage
Lightning wyverns
-highly deadly lightning breath, the lighting wyverns breath has the highest damage of any wyvern, it’s typically the best wyvern for combat because of the damage it’s breath inflicts.
Ice wyverns
- slowdown effect, ice wyverns are considered to be the weak link of the 4 wyverns, they’re still good, after all it is still a 2 legged dragon, the ice breath does low damage but has a slowdown effect, which is nice to get out of a pinch.
And that’s the use for wyverns, I think I got everything for pve but there’s probably more I missed, that’s all from me
This isn't so much as a tip but an idea. Wyverns should have a gliding mechanic, which wouldn't take up stamina. It wouldn't regen stamina either. It should be like the drake's but you won't lose momentum as fast and you won't just fall out of the sky once you slow down, instead the wyvern would start flapping again. I'm pretty sure wildcard isn't directly connected to dododex but i just hope they could add this in an update it'd be really useful and cool :D