Skeletal Wyvern

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Skeletal Wyvern
Released										12 December 2005 (Update)
Members										Yes
Combat level										140
Size										3x3
Examine										A very dangerous pile of animated Wyvern bones.
Combat info
Attribute										Draconic
XP bonus										+5%
Max hit										13 (Ranged) 50+ (Icy breath)
Aggressive										Yes
Poison										No
Attack style										Ranged, Melee, Icy breath
Attack speed
Slayer info
Slayer level										72
Slayer XP										210 xp
Category										Skeletal Wyverns
Assigned by
Combat stats
200					125					116					120					125					120
Aggressive stats
+0					+0					+0					+0					+0					+0
Defensive stats
+140						+90						+90						+80						+140
Immunities
Not immune to poison															Not immune to venom
Advanced data
Monster ID												468

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SMW Subobject for 1Magic defence bonus: 80Immune to venom: Not immuneAttack bonus: 0Magic Damage bonus: 0Ranged Strength bonus: 0Stab defence bonus: 140Uses skill: SlayerDefence level: 120Uses infobox: MonsterNPC ID: 468Crush defence bonus: 90Version anchor: 1Ranged level: 120Attack level: 125Combat level: 140Is variant of: Skeletal WyvernImage: File:Skeletal Wyvern.pngSlayer level: 72Slayer experience: 210Attack style: Ranged, Melee, Icy breathImmune to poison: Not immuneSize: 3Range attack bonus: 0Range defence bonus: 140Hitpoints: 200Slayer category: Skeletal WyvernsMax hit: 13 (Ranged), 50+ (Icy breath)Assigned by: chaeldar, konar, nieve, duradelIs members only: trueSlash defence bonus: 90Magic attack bonus: 0Magic level: 125Name: Skeletal WyvernStrength bonus: 0Monster attribute: dragonStrength level: 116Experience bonus: 5Attack speed: 6

SMW Subobject for 4Magic defence bonus: 80Immune to venom: Not immuneAttack bonus: 0Magic Damage bonus: 0Ranged Strength bonus: 0Stab defence bonus: 140Uses skill: SlayerDefence level: 120Uses infobox: MonsterNPC ID: 467Crush defence bonus: 90Version anchor: 4Ranged level: 120Attack level: 125Combat level: 140Is variant of: Skeletal WyvernImage: File:Skeletal Wyvern (4).pngSlayer level: 72Slayer experience: 210Attack style: Ranged, Melee, Icy breathImmune to poison: Not immuneSize: 3Range attack bonus: 0Range defence bonus: 140Hitpoints: 200Slayer category: Skeletal WyvernsMax hit: 13 (Ranged), 50+ (Icy breath)Assigned by: chaeldar, konar, nieve, duradelIs members only: trueSlash defence bonus: 90Magic attack bonus: 0Magic level: 125Name: Skeletal WyvernStrength bonus: 0Monster attribute: dragonStrength level: 116Experience bonus: 5Attack speed: 6

SMW Subobject for 3Magic defence bonus: 80Immune to venom: Not immuneAttack bonus: 0Magic Damage bonus: 0Ranged Strength bonus: 0Stab defence bonus: 140Uses skill: SlayerDefence level: 120Uses infobox: MonsterNPC ID: 466Crush defence bonus: 90Version anchor: 3Ranged level: 120Attack level: 125Combat level: 140Is variant of: Skeletal WyvernImage: File:Skeletal Wyvern (3).pngSlayer level: 72Slayer experience: 210Attack style: Ranged, Melee, Icy breathImmune to poison: Not immuneSize: 3Range attack bonus: 0Range defence bonus: 140Hitpoints: 200Slayer category: Skeletal WyvernsMax hit: 13 (Ranged), 50+ (Icy breath)Assigned by: chaeldar, konar, nieve, duradelIs members only: trueSlash defence bonus: 90Magic attack bonus: 0Magic level: 125Name: Skeletal WyvernStrength bonus: 0Monster attribute: dragonStrength level: 116Experience bonus: 5Attack speed: 6

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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 diary that skeletal wyverns are undead, they are in fact re-animated remains, whereas actual undead creatures have come back to life. This means that the Salve amulet and its enchanted versions do 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.

Locations

Location	Levels	Members	Spawns	Map
Asgarnian Ice Dungeon	140		18	Maplink
Asgarnian Ice Dungeon (Upper level)	140		4	Maplink

There is an upper level available to players that are assigned them as a slayer task.

Combat

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. The ancient wyvern shield also makes the player immune to the freezing effect of the icy breath. 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.

As the wyverns are draconic creatures, dragonbane weapons such as the dragon hunter lance (on the pound/slash stance, as wyverns' stab Defence is rather high) and the dragon hunter crossbow are the best choices to kill them swiftly. They are one of the only monsters in the game vulnerable to both dragonbane weapons and dragonfire effects. A dragon hunter crossbow with enchanted dragonstone bolts can be extremely effective against 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 safespotting Wyverns is done by trapping the eastern or western one on the side of the cave entrance after losing aggression, as shown.

Safespot 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 become unaggressive, which takes 10 minutes, 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 safespotting, players can bring a few Prayer potions and attack the wyvern from seven steps away with Protect from Range on.

Drops

Drop rates estimated based on 228,591 kills from the Drop Rate Project, unless otherwise cited.

The average skeletal wyvern kill, including its unique drops, is worth 15,006. Excluding the draconic visage, dragon platelegs, dragon plateskirt and granite legs drops, the average kill is worth 14,100.

100%

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Wyvern bones	1	Always	1,320	96

Pre-roll

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Granite legs	1	1/512	39,176	39,600
	Dragon platelegs	1	1/512	161,089	162,000
	Dragon plateskirt	1	1/512	161,110	162,000

Weapons and armour

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Earth battlestaff	1	4/128	8,940	9,300
	Battlestaff	10 (noted)	3/128	80,390	42,000
	Rune axe	1	3/128	7,128	7,680
	Rune battleaxe	1	2/128	24,446	24,960
	Rune warhammer	1	2/128	26,487	24,900
	Rune full helm	1	2/128	20,517	21,120
	Rune kiteshield	1	2/128	31,945	32,640

Runes and ammunition

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Air rune	225	6/128	1,125	450
	Rune arrow	36	5/128	1,404	8,640
	Water rune	150	4/128	750	300
	Chaos rune	80	4/128	3,680	4,320
	Law rune	45	4/128	6,660	6,480
	Death rune	40	4/128	7,320	4,320
	Blood rune	25	4/128	10,550	6,000
	Adamant bolts	75–99	3/128	11,250–14,850	2,550–3,366
	Runite bolts	35–44	3/128	4,760–5,984	6,300–7,920
	Soul rune	20	1/128	2,920	3,600

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	39–117	7–21
	Grimy marrentill	1–3	1/97.5	19–57	8–24
	Grimy tarromin	1–3	1/130	110–330	9–27
	Grimy harralander	1–3	1/167.2	707–2,121	9–27
	Grimy ranarr weed	1–3	1/212.8	7,357–22,071	18–54
	Grimy irit leaf	1–3	1/292.6	648–1,944	10–30
	Grimy avantoe	1–3	1/390.1	1,395–4,185	10–30
	Grimy kwuarm	1–3	1/468.1	1,377–4,131	12–36
	Grimy cadantine	1–3	1/585.1	1,350–4,050	13–39
	Grimy lantadyme	1–3	1/780.2	1,180–3,540	13–39
	Grimy dwarf weed	1–3	1/780.2	712–2,136	14–42

Resources

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Pure essence	250 (noted)	8/128	250	500
	Magic logs	35 (noted)	6/128	32,200	6,720
	Adamantite bar	10 (noted)	6/128	18,340	3,840
	Iron ore	200 (noted)	3/128	8,600	2,000
	Uncut ruby	10 (noted)	2/128	11,470	600
	Uncut diamond	5 (noted)	2/128	13,135	600

Other

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Coins	300	12/128	300	300
	Lobster	6	8/128	852	252
	Prayer potion(4)	2	7/128	19,926	228
	Unpowered orb	75 (noted)	2/128	9,225	4,500
	Runite crossbow (u)	1	2/128	9,249	9,700
	Ranarr seed	3	2/128	126,852	90
	Snapdragon seed	1	2/128	54,208	36

Rare drop table

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

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Nothing	N/A	1/235.16; Never	N/A	N/A
	Coins	3,000	1/260.06	3,000	3,000
	Loop half of key	1	1/270.95; 1/268.93	10,075	60
	Tooth half of key	1	1/270.95; 1/268.93	10,013	60
	Uncut sapphire	1	1/1,092.27; 1/554.67	318	15
	Runite bar	1	1/1,092.27	12,333	3,000
	Nature rune	67	1/1,820.44	12,127	7,236
	Rune 2h sword	1	1/1,820.44	37,733	38,400
	Rune battleaxe	1	1/1,820.44	24,446	24,960
	Uncut emerald	1	1/2,184.53; 1/1,109.33	506	30
	Law rune	45	1/2,730.67	6,660	6,480
	Death rune	45	1/2,730.67	8,235	4,860
	Steel arrow	150	1/2,730.67	1,350	1,050
	Rune arrow	42	1/2,730.67	1,638	10,080
	Adamant javelin	20	1/2,730.67	1,260	1,920
	Rune sq shield	1	1/2,730.67	22,425	23,040
	Dragonstone	1	1/2,730.67	11,660	6,000
	Silver ore	100 (noted)	1/2,730.67	3,700	4,500
	Uncut ruby	1	1/4,369.07; 1/2,218.67	1,147	60
	Rune kiteshield	1	1/5,461.33	31,945	32,640
	Dragon med helm	1	1/5,461.33	58,690	60,000
	Rune spear	1	1/5,765.37; 1/668.94	11,843	12,480
	Shield left half	1	1/11,530.73; 1/1,337.89	65,203	66,000
	Chaos talisman	1	1/11,650.84; 1/5,916.44	578	2
	Dragon spear	1	1/15,374.31; 1/1,783.85	37,313	37,440
	Uncut diamond	1	1/17,476.27; 1/8,874.67	2,627	120
	Rune javelin	5	1/34,952.53; 1/17,749.33	875	1,200

Tertiary

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	Price	High Alch
	Brimstone key	1	1/73	Not sold	N/A
	Clue scroll (elite)	1	1/350	Not sold	12
	Draconic visage	1	1/10,000	2,001,134	450,000

Combat Achievements

The following Combat Achievement tasks involve skeletal wyverns.

Name	Description	Difficulty	Category
A Frozen Foe from the Past	Kill a Skeletal Wyvern	Medium	Kill count

Changes

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.

Trivia

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