Fjordur : Lighting Wyvern Cave is way too hard

[Fairy]

Been trying for two days now and it's too hard. There's way too many Wyverns in the cave and they do way too much damage and torpor to even get down in the hole. If you do get in the hole there's a ♥♥♥♥ ton more Wyvern ready to eat you.
Tried the Bat, tried the snow owl, tried managarmars and this (BLEEP) is not happening.
Tried to kill em all as well as trap them and they give you no wiggle room to sneak around them or GTFO.

If you're a Wyvern egg snatching genius please give me some tips.

[BlackDino]

what sort of server are you playing on? do you use mods?

[retsam1]

Originally posted by Fairy:

Been trying for two days now and it's too hard. There's way too many Wyverns in the cave and they do way too much damage and torpor to even get down in the hole. If you do get in the hole there's a ♥♥♥♥ ton more Wyvern ready to eat you.
Tried the Bat, tried the snow owl, tried managarmars and this (BLEEP) is not happening.
Tried to kill em all as well as trap them and they give you no wiggle room to sneak around them or GTFO.

If you're a Wyvern egg snatching genius please give me some tips.

Common causes of this:

1. Having higher wild dino counts than things should be.

2. Using mods such as classic flyers (and or in combination with point 1).

3. Other mod conflicts.

4. Playing on a map so long that spawn distributions become out of synch/balance. Using a destroywilddinos can sometimes help with that but in the case of points 1-3, that will not alleviate it.

[Tachyon]

It sounds not unlikely they are using Classic Flyers and they're getting the "overspawn wyvern" bug. It used to be Ice Wyverns overspawning, but maybe other wyverns overspawn too.

[Fairy]

Originally posted by Tachyon:

It sounds not unlikely they are using Classic Flyers and they're getting the "overspawn wyvern" bug. It used to be Ice Wyverns overspawning, but maybe other wyverns overspawn too.

I don't use this mod. All mods are ECO's RP and such. I play on private server. Haven't touched the wild dino count. Only thing touched is taming speeds and a couple Stats for players. Whenever the server restarts it wipes all wild dinos and spawns new ones.

[william_es]

I use a shadowmane now.

and not for stealth either, but to straight face tank the wyverns. I've been farming the frost wyverns over in Jotunheim for a while now (to be honest, I haven't tried it against lightning wyverns, but shadowmanes are crazy tough). In the frost trench, I can tank 5-6 wyverns at once, lose a few thousand health (the shadowmane I used has 43,000 health) and simply destroy the wyverns. The wyverns ridiculously huge wings and tails make great targets, even though the shadowmane can't fly, it's easy to hit them.

The shadowmanes have 80 armor built in, put a debuff on enemies that reduces overall damage, and they put out decent damage with their regular attacks, and then their assassination strike putting out thousands of damage. plus they can tag targets and then do their teleport strike to stun them for a few seconds. And their teleport leap can allow you to get away fairly quickly too.

On other maps, the shadowmanes have become my default egg stealer. On crystal isles, I just steal eggs, run and launch straight into the ocean and swim away (shadowmanes are FAST underwater). I lose the wyverns really quick. Even on lost island, I can leap up to the little niches on the cavern walls where the frost wyverns spawn (which I will admit, takes some practice), and land right in the little cubbyholes to steal the eggs, then run away.

[Tachyon]

I use my 180 speed Desmodus at night, using Invisibility and Sonar. It gives time to look up a high level egg. When you grab an egg you can't maintain Invisibility as the egg acts as a kind of lure for the Wyverns, seemingly, but with the speed and the manoeuvrability of a Tapejara it's not difficult to get away.

I forgot about Shadowmanes though, being so struck with the new map. I must go and get some.

[Smaugi]

Originally posted by Tachyon:

I use my 180 speed Desmodus at night, using Invisibility and Sonar. It gives time to look up a high level egg. When you grab an egg you can't maintain Invisibility as the egg acts as a kind of lure for the Wyverns, seemingly, but with the speed and the manoeuvrability of a Tapejara it's not difficult to get away.

I forgot about Shadowmanes though, being so struck with the new map. I must go and get some.

They spawn on the new map.

[Fairy]

Originally posted by Tachyon:

I use my 180 speed Desmodus at night, using Invisibility and Sonar. It gives time to look up a high level egg. When you grab an egg you can't maintain Invisibility as the egg acts as a kind of lure for the Wyverns, seemingly, but with the speed and the manoeuvrability of a Tapejara it's not difficult to get away.

I forgot about Shadowmanes though, being so struck with the new map. I must go and get some.

The Wyverns can see threw invisibility on the bats. I tried this out at the fire wyvern trench.

[william_es]

Originally posted by Lord Gwyn:

Originally posted by Tachyon:

I use my 180 speed Desmodus at night, using Invisibility and Sonar. It gives time to look up a high level egg. When you grab an egg you can't maintain Invisibility as the egg acts as a kind of lure for the Wyverns, seemingly, but with the speed and the manoeuvrability of a Tapejara it's not difficult to get away.

I forgot about Shadowmanes though, being so struck with the new map. I must go and get some.

They spawn on the new map.

Shadowmanes do spawn in Fjordur, but are extremelyyyyy rare. I've seen 1 (one) shadowmane, ever, in asgard. Genesis 2 is way better to tame them, with all the rivers that criss cross all over the rockwell side of the map (so you can trap fish). They spawn more frequently, and you get more options to pick from. I had to build THREE traps, because I'd see whole packs where I wanted to tame ALL of them. I'd have to lure 1 into a trap, then the 2nd, so I could concentrate on taming the 3rd.

[Myth]

Originally posted by Fairy:

Originally posted by Tachyon:

I use my 180 speed Desmodus at night, using Invisibility and Sonar. It gives time to look up a high level egg. When you grab an egg you can't maintain Invisibility as the egg acts as a kind of lure for the Wyverns, seemingly, but with the speed and the manoeuvrability of a Tapejara it's not difficult to get away.

I forgot about Shadowmanes though, being so struck with the new map. I must go and get some.

The Wyverns can see threw invisibility on the bats. I tried this out at the fire wyvern trench.

no they can not. I use my desmo/hawk/organic poly trick to take eggs all the time, go in at night cloaked, hop off and snag the egg and immediately down some poly to die. spawn back at your bed with a inventory next to ya with a nice big ole egg in it. Only way the wyverns see you is if you already snagged a egg, or night ended