Spitting Wyvern

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Spitting Wyverns are Slayer monsters that require a Slayer level of 66 in order to be harmed. They reside in the Wyvern Cave on Fossil Island and are the weakest of the Fossil Island wyverns. Like other Wyverns, they require an elemental shield, mind shield, dragonfire shield or ancient wyvern shield to be equipped in order to be slain.

Unlike their Skeletal variant, Spitting Wyverns can use their icy breath from any distance. They will use Ranged when attacking from a distance, and will not try to use Melee unless the target is in melee range. Their Ranged attack is weak; however, it may hit the player multiple times if it is a successful hit.

If on a Slayer task, it is highly recommended that you kill this variant of Fossil Island wyvern because of its slow ranged attack speed and relatively low hits when it successfully lands this attack. Compared to the Long-tailed Wyvern, the next variant of wyvern, both Slayer and Combat experience are the same, and the Spitting Wyvern has arguably a better drop table, yielding more herb and seed drops compared to the Long-Tailed Wyvern. Coupled with the slow kill rate of Long-Tailed Wyverns, Spitting Wyverns are a better choice for killing in nearly all metrics.

Drops

100%

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Wyvern bones	1	Always	2,251

Weapons/Armour

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Adamant battleaxe	1	Uncommon	2,208
	Battlestaff	3–5 (noted)	Uncommon	24,765–41,275
	Air battlestaff	1	Uncommon	8,988
	Adamant crossbow (u)	1	Uncommon	914
	Rune pickaxe	1	Uncommon	18,756
	Adamant platebody	1	Uncommon	9,466
	Granite longsword	1	Rare (1/512)	81,433
	Granite boots	1	Very rare (1/2,560)	1,228,654

Materials

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Pure essence	150 (noted)	Common	300
	Adamantite bar	2–4 (noted)	Common	4,030–8,060
	Snape grass	10–15 (noted)	Uncommon	1,100–1,650
	Teak logs	20–35 (noted)	Uncommon	4,100–7,175
	Runite ore	1–2 (noted)	Uncommon	10,892–21,784

Runes and Ammunition

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Law rune	15	Uncommon	2,940
	Blood rune	15	Uncommon	4,995
	Death rune	15	Uncommon	3,105
	Chaos rune	15	Uncommon	1,215
	Soul rune	10	Uncommon	1,460
	Water rune	50	Uncommon	250
	Adamant arrow	36–42	Uncommon	2,844–3,318
	Runite bolts	12–29	Rare	5,868–14,181

Seeds

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Seaweed spore	12	Uncommon	6,216
	Ranarr seed	1	Uncommon	45,839
	Torstol seed	1	Uncommon	52,112
	Willow seed	1	Rare	3,749
	Maple seed	1	Rare	30,103
	Teak seed	1	Rare	91
	Mahogany seed	1	Rare	3,339
	Yew seed	1	Rare	69,904
	Palm tree seed	1	Rare	53,389
	Magic seed	1	Rare	138,201
	Spirit seed	1	Rare	Not sold

Herbs

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Grimy kwuarm	2 (noted)	Uncommon	2,724
	Grimy cadantine	2 (noted)	Uncommon	3,108
	Grimy lantadyme	2 (noted)	Uncommon	3,176
	Grimy dwarf weed	2 (noted)	Uncommon	1,106
	Grimy tarromin	1	Uncommon	142
	Grimy harralander	1	Uncommon	673
	Grimy ranarr weed	1	Uncommon	7,752
	Grimy irit leaf	1	Uncommon	852
	Grimy avantoe	1	Uncommon	2,103
	Grimy torstol	1	Uncommon	7,508

Fossils

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Numulite	1–24	Common (18/35=51%)	17–408
	Unidentified small fossil	1	Uncommon (1/35=2.9%)	Not sold
	Unidentified medium fossil	1	Uncommon (1/70=1.4%)	Not sold
	Unidentified large fossil	1	Uncommon (2/175=1.14%)	Not sold
	Unidentified rare fossil	1	Rare (1/350=0.29%)	Not sold

Other

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Lobster	2	Common	242
	Coins	3,000	Common	Not sold
	Prayer potion(4)	1	Uncommon	9,996
	Calcite	2	Uncommon	62
	Pyrophosphite	2	Uncommon	162
	Clue scroll (hard)	1	Rare	Not sold
	Wyvern visage	1	Very rare (1/12,000)	16,620,804

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 120. This was reduced to 90 in an update on 18 January 2018. This also changed its combat level from 146 to 139.
• Upon release, Spitting Wyverns only dropped a maximum of 6 seaweed spores. This was increased to 12 in an update on 12 July 2018.