Slaying Skeletal Wyverns
Update Note: Use high defence armour such as torag or bandos instead of karils, because wyverns do not attack with magic based attacks. It was a mistake I made when making this guide on my second task, for more info look at the comments below. 
Recently Jagex updated slayer to allow us to get rewards from tasks we do, for example you get 15 points for doing a task from duradel (if you swap a task with turadel you have to do 5 tasks straight before you can get points). The points can be used to buy a few different things to help slayer including 10k xp, learning to make some slayer items, being able to block tasks you dont like and a few more. I learnt this the hard way when i did a couple of tasks and didn’t get points then read the slayer guide on the runescape site. I skipped a skeletal wyvern task thinking they were way to hard, I tried them today and I will tell you how I did it and what I got.
Skeletal Wyverns are level 140 and have 200 hitpoints and give 210 slayer xp and also can drop a draconic visage and granite platelegs as their top drops. They attack with an ice breath that can freeze you aswell as range and melee attacks. You can find Skeletal Wyverns at the ice cave south of port sarim just past the ice trolls and warriors.
I attempted 2 methods, the first one was using super restores and saradomin brews for food, and the second one was using a super set 4 super restores and the rest tuna and sweetcorn potatoes. After a little bit of killing with the brew/restore method I realized that it wasnt working that great because it lower attack and strength too often. I prefered the second method because it was easier and made me last alot longer without having to worry about potting all the time. Both methods used protection from melee prayer as they attack with that more often then range.
Each trip with the second method I managed to kill between 20 and 26 skeletal wyverns with around 30+ crimson charms per trip and some bolts from mithril – rune aswell as some runes.
For armour I used :
- Black mask, should use slayer helmet now though
- glory amulet
- attack cape (t)
- karils top and skirt
- barrows gloves
- dragon boots, I recommend bandos boots though if you want prayer bonus and a little extra defence
- ring of life
- whip
- and last but not least a mind shield, the most important piece of armour or you will get killed very quickly, this can be swapped for a dragonfire shield or elemental shield.
At the end of the 77 wyverns I got assigned I got around 80 crimson, over 40 gold and green and 2 blue charms. Around 60-70 addy bolts, 40 rune and mithril bolts (I didn’t get an accurate count as I banked everything after every trip). The code I used for the fairy rings was AIQ it teles you to the mudskipper island which is just south west of the cave entrance.
So all in all it wasn’t so hard of a task, just took a bit longer then most, but the way I see it. It’s worth doing if you want the points to be able to make a slayer helmet or other things. Don’t forget to take a mind shield or elemental or a dragonfire shield or you will get hit 50+s.
Happy slaying and goodluck with visages.
July 31st, 2008 at 6:16 pm
delarue should i wear your armour that you wear.. i have just turned 72 slayer and i got these as my task.. i have all your armour apart from cape
July 31st, 2008 at 6:38 pm
yeah, I just had them about twice in a row, halfway through my second task at the moment, I use a fury and dragonfire shield instead of the equip in the post, any skill cape or even an obsidian cape would work with that equipment, fire cape would work but would be a bit risky to try that’s why I never take mine since I only have one of them. I managed to kill 34 last load with the fury and dragonfire shield aswell as an extra prayer potion. Hope that helps, if not feel free to ask more.
July 31st, 2008 at 7:13 pm
tyvm thats alot of help
.. 1 more thing which prayer should i use ?
September 8th, 2008 at 11:13 am
I now have these as a task for the 1st time since the new slayer task system. Normally I would skip these, but I might try with this guide. I will let you know how it goes. Baker521, it seems that Delarue64 has put the preferred prayer method as melee.
September 8th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
I have finished the task of 69 Skeletal Wyverns at last. It took 3 trips and I ended up with 12 gold charms, 8 green charms, 68 crimson charms, 2 blue charms, 16 runite bolts, 21 addy bolts, 23 mith bolts, 180 pure essence, 40 soul runes, 11 blood runes and some ranarrs.
The task was not as bad as i thought, but it was a pain having to go back 2 times. I kept as many wyvern bones as I could too, as they can be used in my house to get some good prayer xp.
October 23rd, 2008 at 4:08 pm
I see that you use a fairy ring to get closer to the skeletal wyverns. Would you please share the code that you use?
October 23rd, 2008 at 5:20 pm
AIQ was the code I used from memory.
Thanks for the question, didn’t realise that I forgot to add it in, I’ll add it in now.
February 10th, 2009 at 10:29 am
hey i love this by the way fell free to add golu48 and what is the best way to get prayer for non mem big bones………..?
February 10th, 2009 at 10:30 am
o yea dose d slayer give u slayer xp my slaing lv is only 15 =/
February 10th, 2009 at 10:31 am
wnhat is that pic ove there is it 1 of naruto………..???!!!!!! well i dont like naruto but if u do its ok…………..
February 10th, 2009 at 11:01 am
for the bones i use to kill moss giants or hill giants seemed to be good for bones, although i’ve heard of somewhere in wildy where you can get alot of bones too. no dragon slayer doesn’t give slayer xp, and its not a naruto picture never liked naruto myself
November 15th, 2009 at 12:08 pm
I killed these last night for the special bone for the fur n seek wish list, found out that the magic freeze breath works no matter what armour you have. Bandos chestplate and tassets seemed to work good, hardly got hit, but I only killed about 10 before leaving when I got the bone. Dragonfire shield and bandos would be a good combination I rekon, but I can’t afford all that atm. Will update it when I get there.
Good luck every1, hope this info helps.
March 29th, 2011 at 9:30 am
Just wondering, but did you ever note what armour you used? I didn’t really have time to read the whole thing.
April 5th, 2011 at 7:38 pm
In the post I made it says that karils is best, but after more experimenting with equipment and as I stated earlier in the comment section of this post I found that bandos armour was better for skeletal wyverns because of the melee defence and strength bonus.