Skeletal Wyvern

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Skeletal Wyvern



Release				12 December 2005 (Update)
Members				Yes
Options				Attack, Examine
Race				Wyvern, Skeleton
Examine				A very dangerous pile of animated wyvern bones.

Combat info

Combat level				109
Life points				12,500
Aggressive
Poisonous

Combat experience

XP				625
XP				510.8
XP				206.2
XP				56 (two-handed) 28 (one-handed and armour)

Slayer info

Level				72
Assignment				Skeletal wyverns, Undead, Skeletons
Master				Jacquelyn: 15–25 The Raptor: 130–170; 95–125 Vannaka: 40–60 Duradel: 40–80 Kuradal: 40–90 Laniakea: 120–160

Offensive
Max hit

1,100		1,100			1,100			0		2,000
Style						Rate
						4 ticks (2.4s)
Combat levels

78			78			78			1
Accuracy

1,829			1,829			1,829			0
Defensive
Armour				Weakness			Susceptible
1,608	78
Base hit chance

90			60			50			70
Immunities

Not immune			Not immune			Not immune			Not immune
Advanced data

NPC ID			3068
Links			bestiary • MRND

Skeletal Wyverns (Draconis ossis) are undead Slayer monsters that require level 72 Slayer to kill. They are the only monster to drop granite legs, and also have a chance of dropping the draconic visage. They can be found in the Asgarnian Ice Dungeon, in the chamber accessed from the southern wall of the icy area. Their living counterparts reside deeper in the same cave and in the Wilderness.

Their bones are highly valued for the production of super prayer potions, and subsequently, extreme prayer potions. They are also a good source of crimson charms, although there are many easier alternatives if one is not on a Slayer assignment.

Skeletal wyverns may be specifically assigned as a slayer task, but can optionally be killed for tasks of Skeletons and Undead. As the name implies, they cannot be killed for living wyvern tasks or vice versa.

Killing a Skeletal Wyvern is required for one of the Hard Falador achievements titled Why Oh Wyvern. Their tail bone is also required for the Odd Old Man's wish list after Fur 'n Seek.

Locations

Strategy

Skeletal Wyverns are fairly strong creatures compared to most other slayer monsters their level. They attack with melee, ranged and a particularly dangerous icy breath attack which deals high typeless damage and freezes players without proper protection.

An elemental, mind, body, cosmic or chaos shield will absorb most of the damage of the icy breath, and most forms of dragonfire protection will work as well, including the anti-dragon shield and Deflect Magic curse. However, antifire, super antifire, and brightfire potions do not provide any protection against the icy breath attack; only wyrmfire potions and overload salves (or the supreme/elder versions) grant full protection.

When attacking from a distance, Skeletal Wyverns will use both their ranged attack and their icy breath attack. If in melee distance, they will use as melee attack as well. For this reason, it is better for players with lower combat levels to use Protect from Missiles/Deflect Missiles and attack from a distance to minimise the damage taken.

Although they share many traits with dragons, Skeletal Wyverns are not dragons, and therefore are not susceptible to dragon slayer bonuses. However, they are susceptible to undead slayer bonuses, specifically the salve amulet (or its enchanted version), the Undead Slayer perk and the Undead Slayer ability.

Drops

The average Skeletal Wyvern kill is worth 12,617 coins.

100%

Pre-roll

^ Drop rate is increased to 1/496 with at least tier 2 luck
^ Drop rate is increased to 1/9700 with at least tier 2 luck

Runes and ammunition

Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price	High Alch
Soul rune	5–10	7/128	4,440–8,880	410–820
Air rune	10–64	6/128	290–1,856	30–192
Water rune	10–34	5/128	590–2,006	30–102
Rune bolts	5–22	5/128	590–2,596	900–3,960
Adamant bolts	5–29	5/128	350–2,030	170–986
Mithril bolts	8–35	5/128	304–1,330	96–420
Blood rune	2–11	4/128	784–4,312	220–1,210
Bone bolts	2–29	4/128	288–4,176	4–58
Law rune	2–5	3/128	396–990	150–375

Salvage

Gems

Seeds

There is a 3/128 chance of rolling the rare seed drop table. There is an additional 3/128 chance of rolling 2 fellstalk seeds.

Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price	High Alch
Fellstalk seed	2	3/128	15,928	76
Toadflax seed	1	1/198.4	323	20
Irit seed	1	1/294.3	363	38
Cave nightshade seed	1	1/294.3	349	106
Poison ivy seed	1	1/426.7	69	99
Avantoe seed	1	1/426.7	617	38
Cactus seed	1	1/449.1	555	59
Kwuarm seed	1	1/609.5	1,085	38
Snapdragon seed	1	1/948.1	1,471	38
Cadantine seed	1	1/1,422.2	342	38
Lantadyme seed	1	1/2,844.4	913	38
Dwarf weed seed	1	1/2,844.4	2,697	38
Spirit weed seed	1	1/2,844.4	2,188	10
Torstol seed	1	1/4,266.7	4,055	38

Herbs

There is a 17/128 chance of rolling the herb drop table.

Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price	High Alch
Grimy guam	1	1/30.1	373	18
Grimy marrentill	1	1/40.2	3,697	1
Grimy tarromin	1	1/53.5	208	1
Grimy harralander	1	1/68.8	4,724	1
Grimy ranarr	1	1/87.6	1,787	1
Grimy irit	1	1/120.5	507	1
Grimy avantoe	1	1/160.6	387	1
Grimy kwuarm	1	1/192.8	5,099	1
Grimy cadantine	1	1/240.9	896	1
Grimy lantadyme	1	1/321.3	4,303	1
Grimy dwarf weed	1	1/321.3	4,517	1

Coins

Other

Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price	High Alch
Sealed clue scroll (hard)	1	1/128^{[d 1]}	Not sold	N/A
Pure essence	60 (noted)	5/128	1,800	120
Super attack (1)	1	5/128	919	54
Lobster	3	2/128	357	480
Snakeskin chaps	1	2/128	4,784	705
Earth battlestaff	1	1/128	7,424	9,300
Adamant crossbow (unstrung)	1	1/128	12,944	280

^ Rolls separately, first.

Tertiary

Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price	High Alch
Bone fragments	1	72/150^{[d 1]}	Not sold	N/A
Skeletal wyvern tail-bone	1	1/4^{[d 2]}	1	1
Starved ancient effigy	1	1/15,432–1/77,160^{[d 3]}	Not sold	N/A
Mimic kill token	1	1/9,891	115,451	N/A

^ Only dropped during a Slayer assignment given by the Raptor or when using an appropriate Slayer Wildcard.
^ Only during the Fur 'n Seek wish list.
^ Only dropped if fewer than five ancient effigies are owned. The drop rate is decreased for every effigy owned, up to four effigies.

Charms

The quantity of charms dropped can be affected by a number of boosts including Familiarisation triple charm drops, Fang of Mohegan, and seasonal events such as Winter Weekends.

Money making guide

The following money making guide is available for Skeletal Wyvern:

Method	Hourly profit	Skills	Other requirements
Killing skeletal wyverns	3,716,166	72 required 89 or appropriate wyrmfire protection 80 recommended 80 recommended 68 recommended for Bunyip 108 recommended for Death note relic 21 recommended for Bonecrusher upgrade 92 recommended for Soulsplit	None

Achievements

Guardian of the Realm ( 0) – Obtained a collection of unique drops from Slayer monsters located within Asgarnia & Misthalin.
- Granite legs drop

Graphical updates

Skeletal Wyvern after Unknown date (edit)
Skeletal Wyvern after Unknown date (edit)

Update history

This information has been compiled as part of the update history project. Some updates may not be included – see here for how to help out!

update 2 March 2026 (Update):
- Default base hit chances increased:
  - Magic ('weak'): 65 → 70
  - Melee ('same'): 55 → 60
  - Ranged ('strong'): 45 → 50

patch 17 April 2023 (Update):
- Fixed the issue of incorrect souls being captured by Ushabti.

patch 11 April 2023 (Update):
- Skeletal creatures such as Skeletal Wyverns are now treated as Undead, and will work for Skeleton and Undead tasks.

patch 28 November 2022 (Update):
- Two of the four Skeletal Wyvern variants (versions 3 and 4) were affected by dragon modifiers. These have been removed – Skeletal Wyvern aren't dragons!

patch 4 December 2012 (Update):
- Ranged and magic dragonfire shields now protect against Skeletal Wyverns.

patch 15 December 2009 (Update):
- Deflect curses should now work correctly against Skeletal Wyverns.

patch 9 September 2008 (Update):
- One of the Skeletal Wyverns was appearing as level 158 rather than level 140, even though it was really no tougher than the other level 140 Wyverns. It's had its level adjusted to match the rest; this will not affect its difficulty in combat.

update 12 December 2005 (Update):
- Added to game.

Trivia

The salve amulet is effective on Skeletal Wyverns, they are mentioned in Tarn's diary.^[2]
As of 1 February 2018, the highest kill count for these monsters was 13,599 kills.^[3]
- This had increased to 15,295 by 6 May 2018.^[4]
The skeletal wyvern's specific name, ossis, means bone in Latin, referencing their skeletal nature.

References

^ Mod Timbo. Dev Blog: Revealing Drop Rates. Existing Game Content Forums. 17 November 2017. (Archived from the original on 16 April 2022.) Mod Timbo: "All draconic visage chances are 1/10,000 except for Celestial, Adamant, Rune Dragons, Abomination boss, Arhat and Anagami."
^ Tarn's diary, written by Tarn Razorlor, "Tarn's Lair", RuneScape. "All my long hours of research have finally paid off! Today I discovered an ancient journal in the great library, which detailed a ceremony for giving life back to greater beasts after they have died! I shall finally be able to unravel the secrets of the Skeletal Wyverns!"
^ Mod Shauny. Top 10 killers per Slayer Creature. Reddit. 2 February 2018. (Archived from the original on 28 February 2020.) Mod Shauny: "Here are the top 10 kills for each Slayer creature in RuneScape, be aware that we've not listed display names for privacy purposes however if you wish to brag about one number being yours then we won't stop you!"
^ Mod Shauny. Top Slayer Killers - 6th May 2018. Reddit. 6 May 2018. (Archived from the original on 28 February 2020.) Mod Shauny: "Here are the top 10 kills for each Slayer creature in RuneScape, be aware that we've not listed display names for privacy purposes however if you wish to brag about one number being yours then we won't stop you!"

[1] Drop rate is increased to 1/496 with at least tier 2 luck

[3] Drop rate is increased to 1/9700 with at least tier 2 luck

[4] Rolls separately, first.

[5] Only dropped during a Slayer assignment given by the Raptor or when using an appropriate Slayer Wildcard.

[6] Only during the Fur 'n Seek wish list.

[DLEffigy-7] Only dropped if fewer than five ancient effigies are owned. The drop rate is decreased for every effigy owned, up to four effigies.

[2] Mod Timbo. Dev Blog: Revealing Drop Rates. Existing Game Content Forums. 17 November 2017. (Archived from the original on 16 April 2022.) Mod Timbo: "All draconic visage chances are 1/10,000 except for Celestial, Adamant, Rune Dragons, Abomination boss, Arhat and Anagami."

[8] Tarn's diary, written by Tarn Razorlor, "Tarn's Lair", RuneScape. "All my long hours of research have finally paid off! Today I discovered an ancient journal in the great library, which detailed a ceremony for giving life back to greater beasts after they have died! I shall finally be able to unravel the secrets of the Skeletal Wyverns!"

[9] Mod Shauny. Top 10 killers per Slayer Creature. Reddit. 2 February 2018. (Archived from the original on 28 February 2020.) Mod Shauny: "Here are the top 10 kills for each Slayer creature in RuneScape, be aware that we've not listed display names for privacy purposes however if you wish to brag about one number being yours then we won't stop you!"

[10] Mod Shauny. Top Slayer Killers - 6th May 2018. Reddit. 6 May 2018. (Archived from the original on 28 February 2020.) Mod Shauny: "Here are the top 10 kills for each Slayer creature in RuneScape, be aware that we've not listed display names for privacy purposes however if you wish to brag about one number being yours then we won't stop you!"

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	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price	High Alch
	Granite legs	1	1/512; 1/496^{[d 1]}	36,942	39,600
	Draconic visage	1	1/10,000; 1/9,700^{[d 2]}^[1]	1,193,049	450,000

Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price	High Alch
Coins	50–349	15/128	50–349	50–349
Coins	30–229	10/128	30–229	30–229
Coins	20–519	6/128	20–519	20–519
Coins	250–499	3/128	250–499	250–499

Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price	High Alch
Gold charm	2	68.3/1,000	2	2
Green charm	2	34.1/1,000	2	2
Crimson charm	2	546/1,000	2	2
Blue charm	2	13.7/1,000	4	4

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price	High Alch
	Tiny spiky mithril salvage	1	4/128	683	600
	Tiny bladed adamant salvage	1	2/128	3,888	2,000

Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE price	High Alch
Uncut emerald	1	2/128	367	30
Uncut ruby	1	2/128	365	60
Uncut diamond	1	1/128	862	120