Ancient wyvern shield

UnchargedCharged
Attack bonuses
Defence bonuses
Other bonuses

UnchargedCharged
Ancient wyvern shield
Released	7 September 2017 (Update)
Members	Yes
Quest item	No
League region	Misthalin✓
Properties
Tradeable	Yes
Equipable	Yes
Stackable	No
Noteable	Yes
Options	Wield, Inspect, Drop
Worn options	Check, Recharge
Examine	A magical shield with a wyvern visage.
Values
Value	2,000,000 coins
High alch	1,200,000 coins
Low alch	800,000 coins
Weight	4.535 kg
Grand Exchange
Exchange	28,068,622 coins (info)
Buy limit	8
Daily volume	79
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Advanced data
Item ID	21634
Link	MOID

The ancient wyvern shield is a magical shield requiring a Magic level of 70 and a Defence level of at least 75 to equip, as well as having started Dragon Slayer I. It is one of the best Magic shields in the game, with stats comparable to that of the arcane spirit shield when fully charged, although it only has a 2% Magic damage bonus while having negative Melee and Ranged attack bonuses. However, it provides far superior stab and slash defence.

The shield provides both dragonfire protection and greater protection against the icy breath of wyverns and frost dragons. Unlike the elemental, mind, and dragonfire shields, the ancient wyvern shield will also grant an immunity against the freezing effect from a wyvern's icy breath, as well as reducing the damage, which can make it somewhat ideal when killing wyverns despite penalizing melee and ranged. This immunity, on the other hand, does not extend to any other freezing effect (such as KBD, Vorkath, etc).

When the shield is obtained, it is uncharged and offers similar defensive bonuses to those of an adamant sq shield. When fully charged, it offers melee and magic defensive bonuses slightly higher than those of the dragonfire shield while having far worse ranged defence.

Combat stats

Creation

Requirements
Skill	Level	XP
Smithing	66 ^(b)	2,000
Magic	66 ^(b)	2,000
Members	Ticks	3 (1.8s)
Tools	Facilities	Strange Machine

Materials
Item		Quantity	Cost
	Elemental shield	1	715
	Wyvern visage	1	27,224,140
Total cost			27,224,855
	Ancient wyvern shield	1	28,068,622
Profit			843,767
Profit after GE Tax			282,395

The ancient wyvern shield is created by using a wyvern visage on the northern strange machine in the House on the Hill while having a hammer and an elemental shield in the inventory. The creation process requires level 66 in Magic and Smithing, granting the player 2,000 Magic and Smithing experience, but the player's Magic level will be completely drained to 0. When this occurs, a chatbox message will appear, stating At a great cost to your personal magical energies, you have crafted the wyvern visage and elemental shield into an ancient wyvern shield.

The wyvern visage is dropped exclusively by Fossil Island Wyverns found in the Wyvern Cave, including the Spitting Wyvern, Taloned Wyvern, Long-tailed Wyvern, and Ancient Wyvern. Skeletal Wyverns do not drop the wyvern visage; instead, they drop the draconic visage.

Icy breath charges

Charging

To charge the shield, players will need to use fossils or numulites on the shield, which are obtained from performing activities in Fossil Island. Players can right-click Recharge in the Worn Equipment tab to charge it, providing they have the required items in their inventory. Every charge increases its defence bonuses by +1, to a peak of a +50 Defence increase at the maximum of 50 charges. However, its Magic Defence will remain the same.

Fully charging the shield with numulites requires a total of 25,000, costing 1,050,000 coins. Alternatively, players may find it beneficial (and cheaper) to use fossils to charge the shield.

Different types of fossils will give differing amounts of charges, which correspond directly to the value of the fossil when given to the Fossil Collector. It is always more economical to use identified fossils to charge the shield rather than trade the fossils to the Fossil Collector and use the numulites received to charge the shield, as the table below demonstrates.

Notably, identified rare fossils cannot be used to charge the shield. Instead, they can be exchanged at the Fossil Collector for 500 numulites each, which can then be used to charge the shield. It worth noting that rare fossils provide 2,500 Prayer XP each if calcified at the mycelium pool instead.


	Charges	Numulites/Charge^[a]	Coins/Charge^[b]
500 numulites	1	500	21,000
Small fossils	1	100	4,200
Medium fossils	2	100	4,200
Plant fossils	2	100	4,200
Large fossils	3	100	4,200
Unidentified fossils (any size)	1	N/A	N/A
Rare fossils	N/A	N/A	N/A

^ The value of fossils given to the Fossil Collector in exchange for numulites.
^ The GE value of numulites obtained from the Fossil Collector in exhange for fossils.

Discharging

During combat, the ancient wyvern shield can be operated to expend one charge, unleashing a freeze blast attack (akin to those of wyverns) at a target, which can hit approximately 15 damage (slightly less than the melee and ranged variants). This attack can only be used once every two minutes, and each expended charge reduces the shield's Melee and Ranged defensive bonuses by one. The freeze blast can be used at range (up to 10 squares away) and over obstacles, after which the user will initiate a normal attack with their equipped weapon, if possible. The damage is rolled in accordance to the user's Defence level and target's Magic Defence bonus.

Players can drain all of the ancient wyvern shield's charges at once by right-clicking the shield in the inventory and selecting Empty. This produces the message You vent the shield's remaining charges harmlessly into the air. and no items are returned to the player. This function is useful when selling or trading the shield, as it can only be traded when completely uncharged.

In addition, if dropped on death in an unsafe environment, when recovered, the ancient wyvern shield will be completely uncharged.

Used in recommended equipment

Rank	Method
3	Slayer training (Magic (Barrage))
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3	Commander Zilyana/Strategies (Magic)
3	Barrows/Strategies (Magic equipment)
3	TzHaar Fight Cave/Strategies (Magic)
1	Skeletal Wyvern/Strategies (Melee)
3	Skeletal Wyvern/Strategies (Magic)
3	Mithril dragon/Strategies (Magic)
3	General Graardor/Strategies (Magic (Solo))
3	General Graardor/Strategies (Magic (Group))
4	Nightmare Zone/Strategies (Magic)
4	Zulrah/Strategies (Magic)
3	Metal dragons/Strategies (Magic)
2	Scorpia/Strategies (Magic)
3	Kraken/Strategies (Magic)
3	Abyssal Sire/Strategies (Phase 1 Magic)
3	Abyssal Sire/Strategies (Phase 2 Magic)
3	Thermonuclear smoke devil/Strategies (Magic)
3	Thermonuclear smoke devil/Strategies (Magic)
3	Chambers of Xeric/Strategies (Magic)
3	Maniacal monkey/Strategies (Magic - Ice Burst)
3	Maniacal monkey/Strategies (Magic - Ice Barrage)
1	Ancient Wyvern/Strategies (Melee)
2	Ancient Wyvern/Strategies (Prayer)
1	Ancient Wyvern/Strategies (Magic)
5	Ancient Wyvern/Strategies (Ranged)
3	Giant Mole/Strategies (Magic)
2	Rune dragon/Strategies (Magic)
5	The Nightmare/Strategies (Mage)
3	Smoke devil/Strategies
3	Slayer task/Dust devils (Bursting/Barraging)
2	Slayer task/Drake (Magic)
4	The Mimic/Strategies (Magic)
2	Gout tuber/Strategies (Tank)
1	Slayer task/Fossil Island wyverns (Melee)
2	Slayer task/Fossil Island wyverns (Prayer)
1	Slayer task/Fossil Island wyverns (Magic)
5	Slayer task/Fossil Island wyverns (Ranged)
4	Slayer task/Trolls (Magic)
1	Adamant dragon/Strategies (Magic)
3	The Bane of Demons (Magic)
3	Tombs of Amascut/Strategies (Magic switch)
3	Phantom Muspah/Strategies (Magic)
3	The Whisperer/Strategies (Magic)
4	Scurrius/Strategies (Magic (high level))
3	Brutal black dragon/Strategies (Magic)
3	Tormented Demon/Strategies (Magic switch)
3	Yama/Strategies (Mage)
4	Slayer task/Custodian stalker (Magic)
4	Frost dragon/Strategies (Magic)

Changes

Date	Changes
11 March 2026 (Update)	The ability to trade the shield was re-enabled.
25 February 2026	Hotfix Temporarily disabled trading the item with other players or through the Grand Exchange due to a bug that allowed players to claim it from Oziach for free.
29 May 2024 (Update)	The Magic damage bonus has been increased from 0% to 2%.
7 February 2024 (Update \| poll)	Discharged attacks from draconic shields will now only give Defence experience instead of Magic and Hitpoints.
9 November 2017 (Update)	The uncharged version was made darker to distinguish it from charged versions.

Gallery (historical)



7 September 2017 – 9 November 2017	9 November 2017 – present

[1] The value of fossils given to the Fossil Collector in exchange for numulites.

[2] The GE value of numulites obtained from the Fossil Collector in exhange for fossils.

[a]

[b]


Attack bonuses

-10	-10	-10	+15	-10

Defence bonuses


+22	+30	+25	+15	-55

Other bonuses				Slot


-2	+0	+2%	+0	List

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