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) • 44 (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 coloured 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
	Adamant arrow	36–84	Common	2,052–4,788
	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
	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
	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
	Grimy torstol	1	Uncommon	8,341
	Grimy ranarr weed	1–4	Uncommon	7,640–30,560
	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
	Mahogany logs	27–50 (noted)	Rare	11,151–20,650

Seeds

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Seaweed spore	3–24	Uncommon	2,892–23,136
	Ranarr seed	1–3	Uncommon	45,466–136,398
	Teak seed	1	Uncommon	85
	Snapdragon seed	1	Rare	54,551
	Torstol seed	1	Rare	58,385
	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
	Watermelon seed	15	Rare	1,065

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 has access to the standard rare drop table.

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

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.
• Originally, ancient wyverns had a significantly worse drop table. After player feedback, it was improved in an update the next day.
• 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.
• Upon release, Ancient Wyverns only dropped a maximum of 12 seaweed spores. This was increased to 24 in an update on 12 July 2018.