Ice giant


 * This article is about Ice giants found in various location across Gielinor. For the giants found under Daemonheim, see Ice giant (Daemonheim).

Ice giants are a type of giant often found in icy areas. They have a relatively high Constitution level and hit a maximum of 77 life points. Ice giants always drop big bones and tend to be weak against fire spells (magic). Many players seek these monsters for experience and charms. Ice giants were the third monster to ever hold the title of Strongest Monster in RuneScape.

Location

 * Asgarnian Ice Caves (along with ice warriors)
 * Chaos Tunnels (members only)
 * Frozen Waste Plateau in level 47-48 Wilderness
 * White Wolf Mountain between Taverley and Catherby (members only)

Safespot
There is a safe spot to range attack Ice giants in the Asgarnian Ice Caves. Another safe spot is in front of the cave that leads to some Skeletal Wyvern. Ice warriors however, can enter and can interrupt players when they are attacking the giants. Because ice giants are large monsters, they can also be corner safe-spotted at any stalagmite.

Training
Ice giants may be trained on in the dungeon south of Port Sarim very well, not terribly far from the bank, but there are only 3 of them that spawn there. Also, there are aggressive ice warriors which may interfere.

A good place is also present in White Wolf Mountain, containing 4 ice giants, and a large amount of safe spots, made of 2 dead trees and 3 ladders. The nearest bank is accessed by Gnome glider on top of this mountain, or in Catherby. To get to the location, you need to mine the rock slide to the north of the glider (requires level 50 Mining), take the southern ladder in place with ice warriors, travel through the tunnel to the south and climb up the ladder. The eastern half of the area is multi-combat. This place is very good for training. This spot is also an excellent P2P Ranged training spot for higher levelled rangers, as there are numerous safe spots to range ice giants. Melee with rune armour is also suggested as they have a very low chance to hit against the high defence bonuses that the armour provides.

100% drop

 * Big Bones

Weapons and armour

 * Iron battleaxe (common)
 * Dragon spear (m) (very rare)
 * Iron platelegs (common)
 * Iron two-handed sword (common)
 * Shield left half (m) (very rare)
 * Steel hatchet (common)
 * Steel sword (common)
 * Black kiteshield (uncommon)
 * Mithril square shield (rare)
 * Mithril mace (rare)
 * 2 or 5 adamant arrows (uncommon)
 * 5 rune javelins (m)

Runes
(All runes rare unless otherwise noted)
 * 37 body runes
 * 24 mind runes
 * 12 water runes
 * 6 nature runes
 * 3 law runes (uncommon)
 * 2 - 4 death runes
 * 2 - 4 cosmic runes
 * 2 - 4 blood runes (m)

Gems

 * Uncut sapphire (uncommon)
 * Uncut emerald (rare)
 * Uncut ruby (rare)
 * Uncut diamond (very rare)

Charms (members only)

 * Please note that there have been recorded drops without charms out of 2054 kills

Seeds (members only)

 * Strawberry seed
 * Whiteberry seed
 * Limpwurt seed
 * Spirit weed seed
 * Toadflax seed
 * Irit seed
 * Dwarf weed seed (rare)
 * Ranarr seed (rare)
 * Kwuarm seed
 * Watermelon seed
 * Harralander seed
 * Jangerberry seed
 * Wildblood seed
 * Mushroom spore
 * Marrentill seed
 * Cactus seed
 * Tarromin seed
 * Snapdragon seed (very rare)
 * Lantadyme seed
 * Belladonna seed (rare)
 * Avantoe seed
 * Poison ivy seed
 * Torstol seed (very rare)
 * Spirit weed seed (rare)
 * Cadantine seed

Other

 * Coins (very common)
 * Clue scroll (level 2) (m) (very rare)
 * Banana
 * Jug of wine (uncommon)
 * Mithril ore (rare)
 * Long bone (m)
 * Curved bone (m)
 * Ice giant ribs (m) (used in the Rag and Bone Man quest)
 * Loop half of a key (m) (rare)
 * Tooth half of a key (m) (very rare)
 * Cosmic talisman (m)
 * Nature talisman (m)

Trivia

 * It is interesting to note that although ice giants do not have any visible bones, they still drop big bones. This comes all the way back from RuneScape Classic when the ice giants looked like large people with blue beards.
 * When the ice giants walk, icicles appear on the ground.
 * They have 2 beating organs inside of them that seem to beat faster when the ice giants are hit, but slow down after.
 * Ice giants seem to "tap" one of their feet when standing still.
 * Before each attack (yours or its own) the icicles around its feet rise up.
 * When an ice giant is killed, it melts down and the icicles disappear, also the moss giant "melts" down too.
 * In Norse Mythology, Odin slew an ice giant, and formed it into Earth.
 * Before the graphical update, ice giants used to wield mithril 2h sword. In Runescape Classic they wield a staff.