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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
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What is a wyvern used for? wyvern battling strategies in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
Wyverns are actually good for getting wyvern eggs and fighting other Wyverns because if you didn’t know, they are immune to their own breath attack. This makes getting more ice eggs super easy if you bring ice to trench. Nobody really uses ice Wyverns but I’m just saying. Use this to your advantage and rule the sky.
-The Buttfingerer
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
Personally the worst wyvern in the game for pve in my opinion is lightning bc their breath attack is an enormous threat to you and your tames and there isn’t room for mistakes, they are the best for pvp however due to them doing so much damage. They are definitely for more experienced players tho. Poison is ok. Their breath attack is nearly impossible to aim while flying but does good damage and basically shreds players. In pve they are helpful in ground but overal probably the worst wyvern. Fire are overall the best. Great for pve and pretty solid for pvp. Ice is pretty bad for pvp but arguably best for pvp bc of its high stamina and weight making good for farming.
Quick question, so I play on mobile and have tamed four different fliers, pts, argys, griffins and rhynios, Pts and argys for sure listen to all my commands and so do griffins. Rhynios don’t they don’t listen to attack target or follow even if you try to mess with the settings. Does this happen with wyverns?
I have an adult fire and lightning, and a half grown poison. I think lightning is more brutally powerful, but the fire wyvern is wayyyy better looking. Mine is especially pretty. Lightning wyverns look like dragons with goblin faces.
I’m looking forward to trying the poison wyvern.