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Skeletal Wyverns are Slayer monsters that require a Slayer level of 72 in order to be killed. They can be found in the Asgarnian Ice Dungeon, and an elemental, mind, or dragonfire shield is required to reduce the damage of their icy fire attacks.
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. They are the only monster in the game to drop wyvern bones. Despite being undead creatures, as mentioned in Tarn's journal and their examine text, the Salve amulet and its enchanted versions do 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.
Combat
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 mind shield, elemental shield or dragonfire shield, 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, followed by Protect from Melee, 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. Contrary to popular belief, Magic is not effective against wyverns due to their Magic level and defence bonuses, but if using, then Fire Wave 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.
Location(s)
Drops
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Item Quantity Rarity GE market price 
Wyvern bones 1 Always 2,725
Weapons and armour
Item Quantity Rarity GE market price
Earth battlestaff 1 Uncommon 8,973
Rune axe 1 Uncommon 7,181
Rune battleaxe 1 Uncommon 24,487
Rune warhammer 1 Uncommon 24,832
Rune kiteshield 1 Uncommon 32,015
Rune full helm 1 Uncommon 20,588
Dragon platelegs 1 Rare (1/256) 161,162
Dragon plateskirt 1 Rare (1/256) 161,137
Granite legs 1 Rare (1/512) 39,626
Runes and talismans
Item Quantity Rarity GE market price
Air rune 225 Common 1,125
Water rune 150 Common 600
Pure essence 250 (noted) Uncommon 500
Chaos rune 80 Uncommon 7,120
Law rune 45 Uncommon 7,470
Death rune 40 Uncommon 8,120
Blood rune 25 Uncommon 9,175
Soul rune 20 Rare 2,920
Ammunition
Item Quantity Rarity GE market price
Adamant bolts 7–99 Uncommon 1,274–18,018
Runite bolts 5–44 Uncommon 2,015–17,732
Rune arrow 36 Uncommon 2,520
Seeds
Item Quantity Rarity GE market price
Ranarr seed 3 Uncommon 136,398
Snapdragon seed 1 Uncommon 54,551
Herbs
Item Quantity Rarity GE market price
Grimy guam leaf 1–3 Common 15–45
Grimy marrentill 1–3 Common 13–39
Grimy tarromin 1–3 Common 132–396
Grimy harralander 1–3 Common 674–2,022
Grimy ranarr weed 1–3 Uncommon 7,640–22,920
Grimy irit leaf 1–3 Uncommon 775–2,325
Grimy avantoe 1–3 Uncommon 1,814–5,442
Grimy kwuarm 1–3 Uncommon 1,165–3,495
Materials
Item Quantity Rarity GE market price
Magic logs 35 (noted) Uncommon 38,150
Adamantite bar 10 (noted) Uncommon 19,040
Unpowered orb 75 (noted) Uncommon 6,300
Iron ore 200 (noted) Uncommon 34,600
Uncut ruby 10 (noted) Uncommon 12,490
Uncut diamond 5 (noted) Uncommon 13,135
Battlestaff 10 (noted) Uncommon 81,610
Others
Item Quantity Rarity GE market price
Coins 300 Common Not sold
Prayer potion(4) 2 Uncommon 20,112
Lobster 6 Uncommon 1,002
Runite crossbow (u) 1 Uncommon 9,599
Clue scroll (elite) 1 Rare (1/350) Not sold
Draconic visage 1 Very rare (1/10,000) 4,940,340
Rare drop table
In addition to the drops above, this monster also has access to the rare drop table.
Show/hide rare drop table 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
- 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.
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