Ancient Wyvern

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Ancient Wyvern
Release date	7 September 2017 (Update)
Members?	Yes
Combat level	210
Always drops	Wyvern bones
Examine	Looks old enough to be fossilised.
Examine	Looks old enough to be fossilised.
Combat info
Hitpoints	300
Aggressive	Yes
Poisonous	No
Max hit	• 16 (Melee) • 10 (Typeless Ranged) • 41 (Icy breath)
Weakness	Melee, dragon hunter crossbow
Attack Styles	Melee, Ranged, Icy breath
Attack Styles	Melee, Ranged, Icy breath
Slayer info
Slayer level	82
Slayer XP	315
Category	Fossil Island Wyvern
Assigned by
Assigned by
Combat stats
	150
	150
	150
	150
	150
	150
	90
	90
	90
	90
Aggressive stats
	+0
	+0
	+0
	+0
	+0
	+0
	+0
	+0
	+0
	+0
Defensive stats
	+70
	+70
	+70
	+70
	+70
	+70
	+170
	+170
	+120
	+120
Other Bonuses
	?
	?
	?
	?
	+0
	+0
	+0%
	+0%
Immunities
	Not immune
	Not immune
	Not immune
	Not immune
Attack speed
Attack speed

Ancient Wyverns are Slayer monsters that require a Slayer level of 82 in order to be harmed. They reside in the Wyvern Cave on Fossil Island and are the strongest species of Wyvern in Old School RuneScape. Like other Wyverns, they require an elemental, mind, dragonfire or ancient wyvern shield to be equipped in order to be slain.

In addition to being harder to fight, Ancient Wyverns share the ability with Taloned Wyverns to use an unblockable Ranged attack that resembles a lighter colored Water Blast. This attack ignores Protection prayers and hits around 10, though they can also miss. They also appear to use all Melee attack types. When fighting them, the highest defensive armour the player can access is best suited to use against them.

Locations

• Wyvern Cave

Drops

100%

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Wyvern bones	1	Always	2,725

Weapons/Armour

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Air battlestaff	2	Uncommon	17,896
	Mystic air staff	1	Uncommon	24,974
	Rune pickaxe	1	Uncommon	18,715
	Rune battleaxe	1	Uncommon	24,487
	Rune full helm	1	Uncommon	20,588
	Battlestaff	6 (noted)	Rare	48,966
	Granite longsword	1	Rare (1/600)	20,638
	Granite boots	1	Rare (1/600)	927,130

Runes/Ammunition

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Nature rune	25–50	Uncommon	5,425–10,850
	Death rune	30–60	Uncommon	6,090–12,180
	Blood rune	25–50	Uncommon	9,175–18,350
	Adamant arrow	36–84	Common	2,052–4,788
	Rune arrow	36–72	Uncommon	2,520–5,040
	Runite bolts	25–60	Rare	10,075–24,180

Resources

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Adamantite bar	3 (noted)	Uncommon	5,712
	Adamantite ore	20 (noted)	Uncommon	21,000
	Runite ore	1–3 (noted)	Uncommon	11,169–33,507
	Diamond	3–5 (noted)	Uncommon	5,673–9,455
	Grimy torstol	1	Uncommon	8,341
	Grimy ranarr weed	1–4	Uncommon	7,640–30,560
	Grimy irit leaf	3 (noted)	Common	2,325
	Grimy avantoe	3 (noted)	Common	5,442
	Grimy kwuarm	3 (noted)	Common	3,495
	Grimy cadantine	3 (noted)	Common	3,936
	Grimy lantadyme	3 (noted)	Common	4,173
	Grimy dwarf weed	3 (noted)	Common	1,344

Seeds

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Watermelon seed	15	Rare	1,065
	Seaweed spore	3–12	Uncommon	2,892–11,568
	Ranarr seed	1–3	Uncommon	45,466–136,398
	Teak seed	1	Uncommon	85
	Snapdragon seed	1	Rare	54,551
	Mahogany seed	1	Rare	3,029
	Yew seed	1	Rare	68,162
	Palm tree seed	1	Rare	39,781
	Magic seed	1	Rare	118,931
	Spirit seed	1	Rare	Not sold

Fossils

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Numulite	5–30	Common (108/175=62%)	100–600
	Unidentified small fossil	1	Uncommon (6/175=3.4%)	Not sold
	Unidentified medium fossil	1	Uncommon (3/175=1.7%)	Not sold
	Unidentified large fossil	1	Uncommon (12/875=1.37%)	Not sold
	Unidentified rare fossil	1	Rare (3/875=0.34%)	Not sold

Other

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Shark	5	Common	4,605
	Super combat potion(2)	1	Common	4,885
	Super restore(4)	2	Uncommon	19,892
	Coins	2,000–6,000	Uncommon	Not sold
	Runite crossbow (u)	1	Uncommon	9,599
	Supercompost	8 (noted)	Uncommon	3,648
	Onyx bolt tips	10–15	Uncommon	82,210–123,315
	Clue scroll (elite)	1	Rare	Not sold
	Wyvern visage	1	Very rare (1/10,000)	17,325,532

Rare drop table

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

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	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Coins	3,000	Common	Not sold
	Loop half of key	1	Common	10,307
	Tooth half of key	1	Common	10,840
	Chaos talisman	1	Common	505
	Uncut sapphire	1	Common	455
	Uncut emerald	1	Uncommon	679
	Uncut ruby	1	Uncommon	1,249
	Nature talisman	1	Uncommon	744
	Steel arrow	150	Uncommon	4,800
	Rune arrow	42	Uncommon	2,940
	Rune javelin	5	Uncommon	875
	Adamant javelin	20	Uncommon	1,220
	Runite bar	1	Uncommon	12,368
	Nature rune	67	Uncommon	14,539
	Law rune	45	Uncommon	7,470
	Death rune	45	Uncommon	9,135
	Rune battleaxe	1	Uncommon	24,487
	Rune 2h sword	1	Uncommon	37,758
	Rune sq shield	1	Uncommon	22,459
	Silver ore	100 (noted)	Uncommon	7,000
	Dragonstone	1	Uncommon	11,932
	Uncut diamond	1	Rare	2,627
	Dragon med helm	1	Rare	58,488
	Rune kiteshield	1	Rare	32,015
	Rune spear	1	Rare	11,933
	Shield left half	1	Rare	65,697
	Dragon spear	1	Rare	37,226

Trivia

• They appear to use all attack styles when using melee, depending on the animation they use: slashing when they use their talons, stabbing when they jab with their tail and crushing when they bite the target.
• Upon release, the wyvern's Defence level was 220. This was reduced to 150 in an update on 18 January 2018. This also changed its combat level from 227 to 210.
• Originally, ancient wyverns had a significantly worse drop table. After player feedback, it was improved in an update the next day.