Desert wyrm

This article is about summoning familiar. For slayer monster, see Desert strykewyrm.

Desert wyrm

Release	15 January 2008 (Update)
Summoning level	18
Duration (mins)	19
Points cost	1
Race	Wyrm
Abilities	+1 Mining level (through conversation), Burrow
Special moves	Electric Lash
Combat level	22
Examine	Surprisingly slime-free.
Combat stats Life points Max hit 900 40 Attack Defence Ranged Magic 18 18 18 18 Immune to poison Yes Attack style Melee

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The Desert wyrm is a level 18 Summoning familiar. It is summoned using a Desert wyrm pouch, which gives you 0.4 Summoning experience. The desert wyrm can be used for the following things:

• Combat: it has a combat level of 22 and can hit up to 45 damage. Additionally, its Electric Lash scroll can hit a max of 50 damage.
• Mining: it provides an invisible mining boost of 1 point. This ability makes the Desert wyrm fairly popular among low levelled miners. However, this bonus does not help mining rocks above your real level.
• Burrow: it will tunnel underground and drop an ore up to Iron on the ground. This is a special right-click ability and thus drains Summoning points each time it is used. It can only be used near a Mining rock. This can prove useful for higher level miners when mining iron at a spot where only two rocks surround them, as they can mine the two rocks very quickly, then right click the wyrm and select burrow before the next rock respawns. It should be noted that there must also be a nearby iron rock which the player doesn't mine. Otherwise burrow will not work, or the wyrm may bring up tin or copper from other rocks.

Desert wyrm pouch

Desert wyrm pouch

	Shards	Cost/XP	Charm	Tertiary
	45 ( 1,125)	45.6 coins		Bucket of sand
	Create XP	Use XP	Low alch	Hi alch	GE price
	31.2	0.4	619	929	832 (info)
	GE Database	Cost to make	Bogrog shard return		Shard return level
	Look up price	1,422	32 (800)		26
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	Examine text
	I can summon a desert wyrm familiar with this.

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Desert Wyrm pouch is made by using a Summoning pouch on a Summoning obelisk with 45 spirit shards, a green charm and a bucket of sand in the inventory. Making the pouch earns 31.2 experience points. Using the pouch to summon a Desert wyrm gains 0.4 experience points, and costs 1 Summoning points. If players exchange their Desert Wyrm pouches at Bogrog, they will receive 32 spirit shards per pouch.

One of these pouches is required to progress through the Spirit of Summer quest. The player must summon the familiar and add it to the second disc.

Electric lash scroll

Electric lash scroll

	Create XP	Use XP	Special move points
	0.4	0.4	6
	Low Alch	High Alch	GE Price
	61	92	51 (info)
	GE Database	Bogrog shard return	Shard return level
	Look up price	2 (50)	28
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	A scroll for a desert wyrm familiar.

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A player activating the scroll

Electric Lash scroll enables the use of the electric lash special move for a Desert wyrm. Using the pouch on a Summoning obelisk creates 10 scrolls.

Electric lash

Electric lash is the special move for Desert wyrms, which fires a small lightning bolt at the player's opponent and briefly stuns them. Activating this move will cost the player 6 special move points.

Dialogue

This article on a Summoning familiar has an associated dialogue page. Click here for a transcript of possible conversations with this familiar.

Trivia

• Its conversations are references to the British trade unions which will often go on strike. More accurately, it refers to the Scottish trade unions who saw most of their employment opportunities destroyed during the Age of Thatcherism.
• This familiar is used in Spirit of Summer to defeat the Spirit Beast.