Wyvern

A Wyvern is a brand new enemy only in the latest release of the game. 1.1. It resembles a dog's face and the body of a serpent with hands and feet.

Notes.

 * The Wyvern looks very similar to Haku from the movie Spirited Away. It also bears striking resemblance to Falkor the Luckdragon from The Neverending story.
 * It drops 5-13 Soul of Flight and coins when it dies. Souls of Flight can be used to craft Wings.
 * This is not a mini-boss, as no message appears when one spawns. It is fairly common at high altitudes, just like harpys, but uncommon.
 * The Wyvern acts like any burrowing monster, every body segment can drop coins when it is defeated.
 * On multiplayer and singleplayer, it spawns without a warning message. This can be dangerous because it is very fast, and can sneak-attack you (in fact, it will reach you even if you are flying w/ spectre boots).

The Wyvern is similar to a dragon in appearance and has a total of 4,000 health. It was added in the 1.1 update. It spawns after defeating the Wall of Flesh when you are anywhere above 800 feet high (Or 300 feet above in the Hallow). The Head can hit an undefended player up to 90 damage, while the body only does about 40.

Option 1
A good strategy will be to make 2 wide platforms out of Wood Platforms, one above the other, and when the Wyvern appears, stand on the lower platform and just move left and right a little. Time your jump to the moment the head almost touches you. You should dodge its attacks most of the time.

Option 2
Make a sky bridge in the atmosphere (where gravity has less effect.) Use at least ~300 blocks so you can do a full run, jump, and float with Spectre Boots + Cloud in a Balloon twice. Build either Cobalt Repeater or Mythril Repeater, Cobalt Armor with magic buff and craft Crystal Storm. Then run fast so the Wyvern follows you in a more or less straight line, shooting him with Crystal Storm along his length until you're out of mana, then switch to the repeater (I used Jester's Arrows.) Once your mana is full again, switch back. If you reach the end of your bridge, turn around and run the other way. Using the atmosphere this way makes it easier to dodge the Wyvern's attacks. Another means of killing him easily is to have your star cannon, and around 10 - 20 fallen stars. Run so that he is following you, then shoot the stars through his body. With around 5 stars, I was able to halve his health. So depending on your accuracy, 10 - 20 stars should do it.

Option 3

With rocket boots, spectre boots, or wings, you can go in a repetitive motion of jumping and flying to the right, attack from above,and wait for him to come back into sight, then fly left, attack from above, and wait for him to come back into sight, and reapeat this. By doing this he will continue to fly in this repetitive motion of back and forth, while you attack from above. I have also learned that using a grenade works very well since all the segments of his body can take damage. A grenade will be able to hit up to 6 segments of his body because of the explosion, but usually hits about 4. Still this method is extremely usefull.

Tips

 * Since the damage the head does is much higher than the body, it's best to try and hit the body if you feel you can't dodge it.


 * It can be easily lured down to the ground. This is useful if you have an arena to fight it.


 * Using Ranged weapons is much more effective than melee. Good weapons will be the Starfury, the Starcannon, any Repeater or the Megashark.


 * If you have a Demon Scythe or Water Bolt, you can run straight to make the Wyvern a horizontal line, and shoot the weapons behind you to hit all its body at once.


 * You can also build a tall tower up from your spawn to aggro a Wyvern, then use the Magic Mirror to teleport down and hopefully have the Wyvern follow you. You can use a nurse at your house for this to make it even easier to win.
 * Sometimes respawns immediately after death. Be prepared!
 * For first timers, it would be wise to go against this boss in multiplayer to get used to its pattern, and have some cover fire.

HERO's Wyvern Video
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