Wyvern's Island Messanger corpse

[slschuga]

Figured that I'd post this since I haven't seen it anywhere else. If you're like me, then you probably saw a "Messenger's Corpse" in the horizon of the druid's garden in Chapter 2's swamp amidst a bunch of wyverns and decided "Why not?"
Bad idea. The wyverns have alot of health, can fly (sorta), and can easily poison you and knock you down- you most likely do not have the ability to fight this group right now, and unless you have their bestiary (which you probably don't) you have nothing to gain from fighting them except the messanger's corpse.
Better way: lure the nearby drowners and bloedzuiger into the wyverns' range, run away, down a Blizzard, and run to the corpse. The wyverns should return just as you finish looting, so run away again and enjoy your loot!

[JP_Russell]

I don't think the wyverns are too crazy to fight if you try to aggro them one or two at a time at that point in the game, if you invested your ability points smartly. And the messenger's corpse has Harvall on it, so it's well worth going after, in my opinion.

[slschuga]

Yeah, they're doable one at a time, but there are around 6 on that island. I found the risk of attracting multiple of them to be too high. Also I got the potion wrong in the original post, so fixed.

[cy.mat.auto]

I used Swallow and diamond dust and circled the island for a while. Then again I did this in Chapter 3, so I was probably over level.

[Rattle&Hum]

OP offers a decent strat if you are not confident, and/or new to the game, fighting the mobs.

I go there early in chapter 2 for the steel sword and pull/kite them whislt using swallow, water and ori oil.

[John]

Tactic 2, lure them to you one at a time, the long range ignii does wonders for that if you see a sinle one.

Stun it with aard and one shot it, rinse and repeat, never had much problems with them

[DeadByLag]

The first time I came across that place, I aggroed the wyverns one by one to better manage the situation. Of course a drowner or two might pop up to mess things up occasionally if unlucky.

One-on-one encounters I often use the unfair Aard to stun and decapitate. Like throwing sand into eyes.