Skeletal Wyvern

Skeletal Wyverns are Slayer monsters which require a Slayer level of 72 in order to be killed. They are the only monster that drops granite legs. They also have a chance of dropping the draconic visage; however, it is still very rare to obtain it from them. An Elemental shield, Mind shield, or Dragonfire shield is required to reduce the damage of Skeletal Wyvern's icy fire attacks. Skeletal Wyverns can be found in the Asgarnian Ice Dungeon. They are the only monster in the game to drop Wyvern bones. Despite being skeletal, the Salve Amulet and its enhanced versions have no effect on them.

Skeletal Wyverns are assigned by Chaeldar and rarely assigned by Nieve to players over Combat level 95. It is unknown whether Nieve requires a minimum level, and it is unknown how often Chaeldar assigns Skeletal Wyverns.

Killing a Skeletal Wyvern grants 800 experience in the attack style that the player is training, as well as 266 Hitpoints experience.

Combat
Wyverns have high Defence, Attack, and Hitpoints, making them very challenging opponents. They attack with Melee, Ranged or their unique ice-breath attack. This attack can freeze players in a fashion similar to the Ancient Magicks ice spells. Players should wield a mind shield, elemental shield or dragonfire shield, which negates stat loss as well as lowering the max hit of ice breath attacks to 10.

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 Range is the suggested prayer to use on this fight due to the amount of range damage Skeletal Wyverns do, followed by Protect from Melee. It is recommended to use an abyssal whip at Skeletal Wyverns, the whip having greater accuracy than the Zamorakian hasta. Having 80+ Combat stats provides a greater advantage when killing Skeletal Wyverns.

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 unagressive before attempting this, otherwise they'll get hit by other wyverns when trying to safespot another. A good method to make them unagressive is wait in front of the main entrance for ten to twenty minutes. This will make the Wyverns unagressive near the entrance. Players can only walk around 2 steps inside the cave, if they go deeper, the Wyverns will get aggressive again.

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 * Asgarnian Ice Dungeon

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