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

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 Chaeldar, and after the Slayer master task rebalance update on 10 September 2015, also by Nieve and Duradel. Since the Kebos update in January 2019, Konar will also assign Skeletal Wyverns. Slayer masters will not assign Skeleton Wyverns as a slayer task until the player has completed the Elemental Workshop I quest.

Unlike other Wyverns, Skeletal Wyverns do not drop the wyvern visage; instead 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. However, players may still eat and drink potions while frozen. Players should wield a(n) ancient, mind, elemental or dragonfire shield/ward, which negates stat loss as well as lowering the max hit of ice breath attacks to 10.

As such, if the player does not have or cannot afford a dragonfire shield, Elemental Workshop I is essentially a hidden requirement for killing Wyverns.

If a player is not wearing one of the shields, they will be hit for very high damage. Contrary to popular belief, 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 on this fight due to the amount of range damage Skeletal Wyverns do, although it is not needed if you safe spot them. Due to their moderate Defence and defence bonuses, Melee is recommended to kill Wyverns, unless your Defence level is low. If killing Wyverns with Melee, an abyssal whip is recommended due to its high slash bonuses. Wyverns are slightly weak to Magic; for those using it, Fire Surge is recommended.

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

You can safespot Wyverns 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 wait in front of the main entrance for ten to twenty minutes. This will make the Wyverns unaggressive near the entrance. Players can only walk around two steps inside the cave, if they go deeper, 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

100%

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Wyvern bones	1	Always	2,358

Weapons/Armour

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Earth battlestaff	1	Common	9,025
	Rune axe	1	Uncommon	7,346
	Rune battleaxe	1	Uncommon	24,568
	Rune warhammer	1	Uncommon	24,401
	Rune kiteshield	1	Uncommon	32,211
	Rune full helm	1	Uncommon	20,726
	Dragon plateskirt	1	Rare (1/512)	161,411
	Dragon platelegs	1	Rare (1/512)	161,460
	Granite legs	1	Rare (1/512)	39,528

Runes/Talismans

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Air rune	225	Common	1,125
	Water rune	150	Common	750
	Pure essence	250 (noted)	Uncommon	1,000
	Chaos rune	20; 80	Uncommon	2,000–8,000
	Law rune	45	Uncommon	12,780
	Death rune	40	Uncommon	9,800
	Blood rune	25	Uncommon	6,925
	Soul rune	20	Rare	2,940

Ammunition

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Adamant bolts	7–99	Uncommon	1,358–19,206
	Runite bolts	5–44	Uncommon	1,295–11,396
	Rune arrow	36	Uncommon	2,268

Seeds

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Ranarr seed	3	Uncommon	147,567
	Snapdragon seed	1	Uncommon	57,312

Herbs

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Grimy guam leaf	1–3	Common	19–57
	Grimy marrentill	1–3	Common	13–39
	Grimy tarromin	1–3	Common	130–390
	Grimy harralander	1–3	Common	753–2,259
	Grimy ranarr weed	1–3	Uncommon	7,814–23,442
	Grimy irit leaf	1–3	Uncommon	903–2,709
	Grimy avantoe	1–3	Uncommon	1,700–5,100
	Grimy kwuarm	1–3	Uncommon	1,303–3,909
	Grimy cadantine	1–3	Uncommon	1,514–4,542
	Grimy lantadyme	1–3	Uncommon	1,124–3,372
	Grimy dwarf weed	1–3	Uncommon	741–2,223

Materials

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Magic logs	35 (noted)	Uncommon	39,305
	Adamantite bar	10 (noted)	Uncommon	21,180
	Unpowered orb	75 (noted)	Uncommon	6,000
	Iron ore	200 (noted)	Uncommon	28,000
	Uncut ruby	10 (noted)	Uncommon	15,040
	Uncut diamond	5 (noted)	Uncommon	14,700
	Battlestaff	10 (noted)	Uncommon	82,350

Other

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Coins	300	Common	Not sold
	Prayer potion(4)	2	Uncommon	20,572
	Lobster	6	Uncommon	996
	Runite crossbow (u)	1	Uncommon	9,481
	Clue scroll (elite)	1	Rare (1/350)	Not sold
	Draconic visage	1	Very rare (1/10,000)	8,975,435

Rare drop table

In addition to the drops above, this monster has access to the standard rare drop table.

Show/hide rare drop table
	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Coins	3,000	Rare	Not sold
	Loop half of key	1	Rare	8,873
	Tooth half of key	1	Rare	13,135
	Uncut sapphire	1	Rare	847
	Runite bar	1	Rare	12,437
	Unknown talisman (please specify)	1	Very rare	Error
	Nature rune	67	Very rare	17,554
	Rune 2h sword	1	Very rare	37,961
	Rune battleaxe	1	Very rare	24,568
	Uncut emerald	1	Very rare	878
	Law rune	45	Very rare	12,780
	Death rune	45	Very rare	11,025
	Steel arrow	150	Very rare	4,950
	Rune arrow	42	Very rare	2,646
	Adamant javelin	20	Very rare	740
	Rune sq shield	1	Very rare	22,654
	Dragonstone	1	Very rare	11,889
	Silver ore	100 (noted)	Very rare	7,900
	Uncut ruby	1	Very rare	1,504
	Rune kiteshield	1	Very rare	32,211
	Dragon med helm	1	Very rare	59,192
	Rune spear	1	Very rare	12,111
	Shield left half	1	Very rare	65,650
	Dragon spear	1	Very rare	37,718
	Uncut diamond	1	Very rare	2,940
	Rune javelin	5	Very rare	730

Konar's drop table

If killed on a Slayer assignment by Konar quo Maten, this monster has a 1 in 92 chance to access an extra loot table. This averages to an additional 1,260.48 worth of items per kill while on task.

Show/hide Konar's drop table
	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Uncut diamond	25–35 (noted)	Very rare (1/1,104)	73,500–102,900
	Uncut ruby	25–35 (noted)	Very rare (1/1,104)	37,600–52,640
	Coal	300–500 (noted)	Very rare (1/1,104)	64,500–107,500
	Coins	50,000–150,000	Very rare (1/1,104)	Not sold
	Gold ore	100–200 (noted)	Very rare (1/1,380)	35,200–70,400
	Dragon arrowtips	50–200	Very rare (1/1,380)	63,650–254,600
	Iron ore	350–500 (noted)	Very rare (1/1,840)	49,000–70,000
	Rune full helm	2–4 (noted)	Very rare (1/1,840)	41,452–82,904
	Rune platebody	1–2 (noted)	Very rare (1/1,840)	38,606–77,212
	Rune platelegs	1–2 (noted)	Very rare (1/1,840)	37,931–75,862
	Fish (scales to level)	Varies	Very rare (1/1,840)	Not sold
	Runite ore	10–15 (noted)	Very rare (1/2,760)	110,660–165,990
	Steel bar	300–500 (noted)	Very rare (1/2,760)	157,500–262,500
	Magic logs	120–160 (noted)	Very rare (1/2,760)	134,760–179,680
	Dragon dart tip	40–160 (noted)	Very rare (1/2,760)	140,680–562,720
	Palm tree seed	2–4	Very rare (1/5,520)	101,036–202,072
	Magic seed	2–3	Very rare (1/5,520)	377,240–565,860
	Celastrus seed	2–4	Very rare (1/5,520)	125,724–251,448
	Dragonfruit tree seed	2–4	Very rare (1/5,520)	161,640–323,280
	Redwood tree seed	1	Very rare (1/5,520)	88,468
	Torstol seed	3–5	Very rare (1/5,520)	224,871–374,785
	Snapdragon seed	3–5	Very rare (1/5,520)	171,936–286,560
	Ranarr seed	3–5	Very rare (1/5,520)	147,567–245,945
	Pure essence	3,000–5,000 (noted)	Very rare (1/5,520)	12,000–20,000
	Broken dragon hasta	1	Very rare (1/18,400)	187,759
	Mystic hat (dusk)	1	Very rare (1/92,000)	30,816
	Mystic robe top (dusk)	1	Very rare (1/92,000)	155,098
	Mystic robe bottom (dusk)	1	Very rare (1/92,000)	81,230
	Mystic gloves (dusk)	1	Very rare (1/92,000)	18,072
	Mystic boots (dusk)	1	Very rare (1/92,000)	18,773

Trivia

• The sound effects of their Ranged and breath attacks are similar to Ice Burst.
• Prior to the Bounty Hunter update on 18 September 2014, the drops of the Skeletal Wyvern were much poorer — their only unique items being Granite legs and the Draconic visage. Most of their drops were replaced with more valuable drops, such as 10 battlestaves, 35 magic logs, and rune item drops.
• As of an update on 21 January 2016, there is now an extended area exclusively for players who have a task of Skeletal Wyverns which can be accessed by climbing up the stairs near the passageway to the Wyverns, which was added due to player complaints on overcrowding due to the popularity of the Wyverns as a method of making money.