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	2,229

Weapons/Armour

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Adamant battleaxe	1	Uncommon	2,225
	Battlestaff	3–5 (noted)	Uncommon	24,642–41,070
	Air battlestaff	1	Uncommon	9,005
	Adamant crossbow (u)	1	Uncommon	975
	Rune pickaxe	1	Uncommon	18,801
	Adamant platebody	1	Uncommon	9,514
	Granite longsword	1	Rare (1/512)	80,341
	Granite boots	1	Very rare (1/2,560)	1,330,079

Materials

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Pure essence	150 (noted)	Common	300
	Adamantite bar	2–4 (noted)	Common	4,004–8,008
	Snape grass	10–15 (noted)	Uncommon	1,090–1,635
	Teak logs	20–35 (noted)	Uncommon	3,420–5,985
	Runite ore	1–2 (noted)	Uncommon	11,406–22,812

Runes and Ammunition

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Law rune	15	Uncommon	2,760
	Blood rune	15	Uncommon	5,025
	Death rune	15	Uncommon	3,120
	Chaos rune	15	Uncommon	1,200
	Soul rune	10	Uncommon	1,470
	Water rune	50	Uncommon	250
	Adamant arrow	36–42	Uncommon	2,520–2,940
	Runite bolts	12–29	Rare	5,568–13,456

Seeds

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Seaweed spore	12	Uncommon	6,144
	Ranarr seed	1	Uncommon	49,706
	Torstol seed	1	Uncommon	59,510
	Willow seed	1	Rare	3,882
	Maple seed	1	Rare	29,411
	Teak seed	1	Rare	80
	Mahogany seed	1	Rare	3,350
	Yew seed	1	Rare	71,067
	Palm tree seed	1	Rare	53,252
	Magic seed	1	Rare	155,855
	Spirit seed	1	Rare	Not sold

Herbs

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE market price
	Grimy kwuarm	2 (noted)	Uncommon	2,398
	Grimy cadantine	2 (noted)	Uncommon	3,042
	Grimy lantadyme	2 (noted)	Uncommon	3,162
	Grimy dwarf weed	2 (noted)	Uncommon	1,076
	Grimy tarromin	1	Uncommon	154
	Grimy harralander	1	Uncommon	723
	Grimy ranarr weed	1	Uncommon	7,731
	Grimy irit leaf	1	Uncommon	839
	Grimy avantoe	1	Uncommon	2,071
	Grimy torstol	1	Uncommon	7,405

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	264
	Coins	3,000	Common	Not sold
	Prayer potion(4)	1	Uncommon	10,042
	Calcite	2	Uncommon	54
	Pyrophosphite	2	Uncommon	152
	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.