Skeletal Wyvern

Skeletal Wyverns (Draconis Ossis) pronounced /ˈwaɪvərn/ ("WHY-vurn") are very dangerous monsters that can drop granite legs and the rare draconic visage. Level 72 Slayer is required to kill them. An elemental, mind, body, cosmic, chaos, or dragonfire shield (not an anti-dragon shield) must be equipped when fighting wyverns, or else the player will be hit for very high damage. They are only found in the Asgarnian ice dungeon, in the chamber accessed from the southern wall of the icy area.

Killing a Skeletal Wyvern is one of the hard Falador Tasks as well as for the wish list of the Odd Old Man in the Fur 'n' Seek quest.

Skeletal Wyverns have an often under-rated earnings potential, as players on a slayer task with over 85+ range, 68 summoning and 80+ defence with full slayer helmet and using ranging/defence potions can easily make 200k+ an hour, including banking time. They are also a great source of crimson charms, although there are many (easier) alternatives if one is not on a slayer task.

Attacks
Wyverns have high Defence, Attack, and Life points, making them very challenging opponents. They attack with Melee, Range or their unique ice-breath attack. This attack can freeze players in a fashion similar to the Ancient Magicks ice spells. Players should wield a Mind shield, Elemental shield, Body shield, Cosmic shield, Chaos shield or Dragonfire shield, which negates stat loss as well as lowering the max hit of ice breath attacks to 129. 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. However, higher magic defence will make the max hit slightly lower. Protect from Magic/Deflect Magic prayers will lower the maximum hit of the ice-breath, but the range/melee protection prayers are far better to use compared to protect from magic. Note : both the antifire potion and the super antifire potions are useless against the ice-breath.

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Asgarnian Ice Dungeon (fairy ring AIQ)

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Trivia

 * A Wyvern is a legendary winged reptilian creature with a dragon's head, the hindquarters of a snake or lizard with two legs or none, and a barbed tail.
 * Even though the salve amulet has no effect on Skeletal Wyverns, they are mentioned in Tarn's diary:


 * The horns on the sides of the Skeletal Wyvern's skull look remarkably similar to those on the side of the dragon heads in the dragon forge.
 * No wyvern.jpg the 23 April 2010, some players experienced a graphical glitch which caused all wyverns in view to disappear; however, their life bar and shadow remained, making it look as if players are fighting the air.
 * Before the skeletal wyvern's attacks were updated, there was a glitch in which Protect from Melee would block both its melee attacks and breath attacks.

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