Skeletal Wyvern

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Skeletal Wyvern
Released	12 December 2005 (Update)
Members	Yes
Combat level	140
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
Attack speed
Slayer info
Slayer level	72
Slayer XP	210
Category	Skeletal Wyvern
Assigned by
Combat stats
Aggressive stats
Defensive stats
Other bonuses

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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.^[1]

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

Combat[edit | edit source]

Main article: Skeletal Wyvern/Strategies

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[edit | edit source]

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

Drops[edit | edit source]

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 20,525. Without the draconic visage, dragon platelegs, dragon plateskirt and granite legs drops, the average kill is worth 19,278

100%[edit | edit source]

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Wyvern bones	1	Always	2,209	96

Uniques[edit | edit source]

Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
Dragon plateskirt	1	1/512	161,313	162,000
Dragon platelegs	1	1/512	161,345	162,000
Granite legs	1	1/512^[2]	40,707	39,600

Armour and weaponry[edit | edit source]

Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
Earth battlestaff	1	4/128	9,019	9,300
Rune axe	1	3/128	7,269	7,680
Rune battleaxe	1	2/128	24,546	24,960
Rune warhammer	1	2/128	25,562	24,900
Rune full helm	1	2/128	20,661	21,120
Rune kiteshield	1	1/128	32,140	32,640

Runes[edit | edit source]

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	6,640	4,320
Law rune	45	4/128	8,550	6,480
Death rune	40	4/128	8,320	4,320
Blood rune	25	4/128	8,375	6,000
Soul rune	20	1/128	2,940	3,600

Ammunition[edit | edit source]

Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
Rune arrow	36	5/128	3,024	8,640
Adamant bolts	75–99	3/128	13,950-18,414	2,550-3,366
Runite bolts	35–44	3/128	16,485-20,724	6,300-7,920

Seeds[edit | edit source]

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Ranarr seed	3	2/128	146,976	90
	Snapdragon seed	1	2/128	62,546	36

Herbs[edit | edit source]

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	19-57	7-21
Grimy marrentill	1–3	1/97.5	23-69	8-24
Grimy tarromin	1–3	1/130	150-450	9-27
Grimy harralander	1–3	1/167.2	722-2,166	9-27
Grimy ranarr weed	1–3	1/212.8	7,749-23,247	18-54
Grimy irit leaf	1–3	1/292.6	826-2,478	10-30
Grimy avantoe	1–3	1/390.1	2,073-6,219	10-30
Grimy kwuarm	1–3	1/468.1	1,212-3,636	12-36
Grimy cadantine	1–3	1/585.1	1,616-4,848	13-39
Grimy lantadyme	1–3	1/780.2	1,658-4,974	13-39
Grimy dwarf weed	1–3	1/780.2	547-1,641	14-42

Materials[edit | edit source]

Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
Magic logs	35 (noted)	6/128	34,580	6,720
Adamantite bar	10 (noted)	6/128	20,070	3,840
Iron ore	200 (noted)	3/128	14,200	2,000
Battlestaff	10 (noted)	3/128	82,390	42,000
Unpowered orb	75 (noted)	2/128	7,800	4,500
Uncut ruby	10 (noted)	2/128	14,060	600
Uncut diamond	5 (noted)	2/128	15,010	600

Other[edit | edit source]

Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
Coins	300	12/128	300	300
Lobster	6	8/128	768	252
Prayer potion(4)	2	7/128	19,972	228
Runite crossbow (u)	1	2/128	9,394	9,700

Rare drop table[edit | edit source]

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^{[d 1]}	10,342	60
Tooth half of key	1	1/270.95; 1/268.93^{[d 1]}	10,206	60
Uncut sapphire	1	1/1,092.27; 1/554.67^{[d 1]}	532	15
Runite bar	1	1/1,092.27	12,452	3,000
Nature rune	67	1/1,820.44	14,606	7,236
Rune 2h sword	1	1/1,820.44	37,933	38,400
Rune battleaxe	1	1/1,820.44	24,546	24,960
Uncut emerald	1	1/2,184.53; 1/1,109.33^{[d 1]}	708	30
Law rune	45	1/2,730.67	8,550	6,480
Death rune	45	1/2,730.67	9,360	4,860
Steel arrow	150	1/2,730.67	4,800	1,050
Rune arrow	42	1/2,730.67	3,528	10,080
Adamant javelin	20	1/2,730.67	1,300	1,920
Rune sq shield	1	1/2,730.67	22,597	23,040
Dragonstone	1	1/2,730.67	11,888	6,000
Silver ore	100 (noted)	1/2,730.67	6,300	4,500
Uncut ruby	1	1/4,369.07; 1/2,218.67^{[d 1]}	1,406	60
Rune kiteshield	1	1/5,461.33	32,140	32,640
Dragon med helm	1	1/5,461.33	59,252	60,000
Rune spear	1	1/5,765.37; 1/668.94^{[d 1]}^{[d 2]}	12,016	12,480
Shield left half	1	1/11,530.73; 1/1,337.89^{[d 1]}^{[d 2]}	65,793	66,000
Chaos talisman	1	1/11,650.84; 1/5,916.44^{[d 1]}	428	2
Dragon spear	1	1/15,374.31; 1/1,783.85^{[d 1]}^{[d 2]}	38,093	37,440
Uncut diamond	1	1/17,476.27; 1/8,874.67^{[d 1]}	3,002	120
Rune javelin	5	1/34,952.53; 1/17,749.33^{[d 1]}	855	1,200

↑ ^1.00 ^1.01 ^1.02 ^1.03 ^1.04 ^1.05 ^1.06 ^1.07 ^1.08 ^1.09 ^1.10 The drop rate of this item is increased when wearing a Ring of wealth.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 The rune spear, shield left half and dragon spear will only be dropped if Legend's Quest has been started, or else a talisman will be dropped as a replacement.

Tertiary[edit | edit source]

Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
Brimstone key	1	1/92^{[d 1]}	Not sold	N/A
Clue scroll (elite)	1	1/350^[2]	Not sold	12
Draconic visage	1	1/10,000^[2]	5,427,461	450,000

↑ Only dropped if killed on a slayer assignment given by Konar quo Maten.

Trivia[edit | edit source]

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

Changes[edit | edit source]

Date	Changes
18 September 2014 (update \| poll)	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[edit | edit source]

↑ Jagex. Mod Ash's Twitter account. 12 Sep 2018. Mod Ash: "No, wyverns are not assigned unless one's done that quest."
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 Envision. "Drop Rates V2." RuneScape Forums.

[row-3] 1.00 ^1.01 ^1.02 ^1.03 ^1.04 ^1.05 ^1.06 ^1.07 ^1.08 ^1.09 ^1.10 The drop rate of this item is increased when wearing a Ring of wealth.

[rowm-4] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 The rune spear, shield left half and dragon spear will only be dropped if Legend's Quest has been started, or else a talisman will be dropped as a replacement.

[5] Only dropped if killed on a slayer assignment given by Konar quo Maten.

[1] Jagex. Mod Ash's Twitter account. 12 Sep 2018. Mod Ash: "No, wyverns are not assigned unless one's done that quest."

[Drop_Rates_V2-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 Envision. "Drop Rates V2." RuneScape Forums.

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Skeletal Wyvern

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Combat[edit | edit source]

Locations[edit | edit source]

Drops[edit | edit source]

100%[edit | edit source]

Uniques[edit | edit source]

Armour and weaponry[edit | edit source]

Runes[edit | edit source]

Ammunition[edit | edit source]

Seeds[edit | edit source]

Herbs[edit | edit source]

Materials[edit | edit source]

Other[edit | edit source]

Rare drop table[edit | edit source]

Tertiary[edit | edit source]

Trivia[edit | edit source]

Changes[edit | edit source]

References[edit | edit source]

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