Skeletal Wyvern

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Skeletal Wyvern
Released						12 December 2005 (Update)
Members						Yes
Combat level						140
Always drops						Wyvern bones
Examine
A very dangerous pile of animated Wyvern bones.
Combat info
Hitpoints						210
Max hit						13 (ranged/melee), 50+ (icy breath)
Aggressive						Yes
Poison						No
Weakness						Slash, crush, dragonbane weapons
Attack style						Ranged, Melee, Icy breath
Slayer info
Slayer level						72
Slayer XP						210
Category						Skeletal Wyvern
Assigned by
Combat stats
125				116				120				125				120
Aggressive stats
+0				+0				+0				+0				+0
Defensive stats
+140				+90				+90				+80				+140
Other bonuses												Immunities
+0			+0			+0			+0%			Not immune				Not immune
Attack speed

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SMW Subobject for 1Combat level: 140NPC ID: 468Is variant of: Skeletal Wyvern

SMW Subobject for 4Combat level: 140NPC ID: 467Is variant of: Skeletal Wyvern

SMW Subobject for 3Combat level: 140NPC ID: 466Is variant of: Skeletal Wyvern

SMW Subobject for 2Combat level: 140NPC ID: 465Is variant of: Skeletal Wyvern

Skeletal Wyverns are Slayer monsters that require a Slayer level of 72 in order to be harmed. They are found at the end of the Asgarnian Ice Dungeon. Like other Wyverns, they require an elemental shield, mind shield, dragonfire shield, dragonfire ward, or ancient wyvern shield to reduce damage from their icy breath however it is not required to be slain. They are also the only monster that drops granite legs.

Although it is insinuated in Tarn's journal that Skeletal Wyverns are undead, they are in fact re-animated remains, whereas actual undead creatures have come back to life. This causes the Salve amulet and its enchanted versions to not work against them.

Skeletal Wyverns are assigned by the Slayer masters Chaeldar, Konar, Nieve, and Duradel. Because an elemental shield or better is required to defend against their icy breath, they will only assign them if the player has completed the Elemental Workshop I quest.

Unlike the Wyverns that reside within Fossil Island, Skeletal Wyverns do not drop the wyvern visage; rather, they drop the draconic visage.

Combat

Skeletal Wyverns have high Defence, Attack, and Hitpoints, thus making them very challenging opponents. They attack with Melee, Ranged, or their unique ice-breath attack. This attack can freeze players similar to the Ancient Magicks' ice spells, with the addition of preventing the player from retaliating back for the duration of the freeze and reducing the player's stats. However, players may still eat food or drink potions while frozen. Players can wield an ancient, mind, elemental, or dragonfire shield/ward to negate the wyverns' ice breath's stat reduction as well as lowering its max hit to 10. Armour does not affect the accuracy of the ice-breath attack; the ice-breath will hit through all types of armour.

Protect from Missiles is the suggested prayer to use against them due to the amount of range damage Skeletal Wyverns do, although it is not needed if you can safespot them.

Due to their moderate melee Defence, melee is recommended to kill Wyverns, unless the player's Defence level is low. If killing Wyverns with Melee, an abyssal whip or other high-accuracy slash weapon is recommended. Wyverns are slightly weak to Magic.

The most popular way of safe-spotting Wyverns is done by trapping the eastern or western one on the side of the cave entrance after losing aggression, as shown.

Safe spot for task-only area.

Wyverns can be safespotted in multiple ways. A common method for doing this is getting them stuck behind the main entrance. Players should always wait for the Wyverns to get unaggressive before attempting this; otherwise, they'll get hit by other Wyverns when trying to safespot another. A good method to make them unaggressive is to wait in front of the main entrance for ten to twenty minutes; this will make the Wyverns unaggressive near the entrance. Players who do this should be careful not to walk more than a few steps deeper into the cave, as if they do, the Wyverns will get aggressive again. Alternatively, for safe-spotting, players can bring a few prayer potions and attack the Wyvern from seven steps away with Protect from Range on.

Locations

• Asgarnian Ice Dungeon
  • Asgarnian Ice Dungeon upper level (slayer assignment only)

Drops

Drop rates estimated based on 228,591 kills from the Old School RuneScape Wiki drop log project, unless otherwise cited.

The average skeletal wyvern kill, including its unique drops, is worth 20,541. Without the draconic visage, dragon platelegs, dragon plateskirt and granite legs drops, the average kill is worth 19,238

100%

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Wyvern bones	1	Always	2,619	96

Uniques

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Dragon plateskirt	1	1/512	161,346	162,000
	Dragon platelegs	1	1/512	161,382	162,000
	Granite legs	1	1/512	45,141	39,600

Armour and weaponry

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Earth battlestaff	1	4/128	9,021	9,300
	Rune axe	1	3/128	7,291	7,680
	Rune battleaxe	1	2/128	24,566	24,960
	Rune warhammer	1	2/128	24,728	24,900
	Rune full helm	1	2/128	20,705	21,120
	Rune kiteshield	1	1/128	32,172	32,640

Runes

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Pure essence	250 (noted)	8/128	500	500
	Air rune	225	6/128	1,125	450
	Water rune	150	4/128	750	300
	Chaos rune	80	4/128	7,840	4,320
	Law rune	45	4/128	9,855	6,480
	Death rune	40	4/128	9,080	4,320
	Blood rune	25	4/128	8,900	6,000
	Soul rune	20	1/128	2,920	3,600

Ammunition

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Rune arrow	36	5/128	3,276	8,640
	Adamant bolts	75–99	3/128	14,775-19,503	2,550-3,366
	Runite bolts	35–44	3/128	12,670-15,928	6,300-7,920

Seeds

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Ranarr seed	3	2/128	116,796	90
	Snapdragon seed	1	2/128	50,407	36

Herbs

There is a 7/128 chance of rolling the herb drop table. 3 herbs are always dropped at a time.

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Grimy guam leaf	1–3	1/73.1	13-39	7-21
	Grimy marrentill	1–3	1/97.5	12-36	8-24
	Grimy tarromin	1–3	1/130	117-351	9-27
	Grimy harralander	1–3	1/167.2	633-1,899	9-27
	Grimy ranarr weed	1–3	1/212.8	6,582-19,746	18-54
	Grimy irit leaf	1–3	1/292.6	753-2,259	10-30
	Grimy avantoe	1–3	1/390.1	1,738-5,214	10-30
	Grimy kwuarm	1–3	1/468.1	1,112-3,336	12-36
	Grimy cadantine	1–3	1/585.1	1,275-3,825	13-39
	Grimy lantadyme	1–3	1/780.2	1,164-3,492	13-39
	Grimy dwarf weed	1–3	1/780.2	510-1,530	14-42

Materials

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Magic logs	35 (noted)	6/128	37,695	6,720
	Adamantite bar	10 (noted)	6/128	20,730	3,840
	Iron ore	200 (noted)	3/128	17,200	2,000
	Battlestaff	10 (noted)	3/128	83,180	42,000
	Unpowered orb	75 (noted)	2/128	5,925	4,500
	Uncut ruby	10 (noted)	2/128	14,500	600
	Uncut diamond	5 (noted)	2/128	15,345	600

Other

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Coins	300	12/128	300	300
	Lobster	6	8/128	636	252
	Prayer potion(4)	2	7/128	17,272	228
	Runite crossbow (u)	1	2/128	9,568	9,700

Rare drop table

There is a 3/128 chance of rolling the rare drop table.

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Coins	3,000	1/260.06	3,000	3,000
	Loop half of key	1	1/270.95; 1/268.93	11,956	60
	Tooth half of key	1	1/270.95; 1/268.93	11,091	60
	Uncut sapphire	1	1/1,092.27; 1/554.67	654	15
	Runite bar	1	1/1,092.27	12,456	3,000
	Nature rune	67	1/1,820.44	14,606	7,236
	Rune 2h sword	1	1/1,820.44	37,946	38,400
	Rune battleaxe	1	1/1,820.44	24,566	24,960
	Uncut emerald	1	1/2,184.53; 1/1,109.33	818	30
	Law rune	45	1/2,730.67	9,855	6,480
	Death rune	45	1/2,730.67	10,215	4,860
	Steel arrow	150	1/2,730.67	4,950	1,050
	Rune arrow	42	1/2,730.67	3,822	10,080
	Adamant javelin	20	1/2,730.67	1,300	1,920
	Rune sq shield	1	1/2,730.67	22,576	23,040
	Dragonstone	1	1/2,730.67	12,048	6,000
	Silver ore	100 (noted)	1/2,730.67	7,500	4,500
	Uncut ruby	1	1/4,369.07; 1/2,218.67	1,450	60
	Rune kiteshield	1	1/5,461.33	32,172	32,640
	Dragon med helm	1	1/5,461.33	59,052	60,000
	Rune spear	1	1/5,765.37; 1/668.94	11,994	12,480
	Shield left half	1	1/11,530.73; 1/1,337.89	65,565	66,000
	Chaos talisman	1	1/11,650.84; 1/5,916.44	407	2
	Dragon spear	1	1/15,374.31; 1/1,783.85	37,562	37,440
	Uncut diamond	1	1/17,476.27; 1/8,874.67	3,069	120
	Rune javelin	5	1/34,952.53; 1/17,749.33	815	1,200

Tertiary

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Brimstone key	1	1/92	Not sold	N/A
	Clue scroll (elite)	1	1/350	Not sold	12
	Draconic visage	1	1/10,000	5,842,522	450,000

Trivia

• The sound effects of their Ranged and breath attacks are similar to Ice Burst.

Changes

Date	Changes
18 September 2014 (update)	The Skeletal Wyvern drop table was given a boost in value, with items like battlestaves, magic logs, and rune items added. Previously their only drops of value were the granite legs and draconic visage.)
21 January 2016 (update)	The task-only Skeletal Wyvern area was added.

References

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