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Frost dragon

Release date	19 July 2010 (Update)
Members?	Yes
Combat level	160
XP per kill	1085.4 (and 358.2 experience)
Always drops	Frost dragon bones
Examine text	A dragon covered in frost and ice.
Combat stats LP Max hit 8500 300+ (Magic) 213 (Melee) 400, Possibly Higher (Range) 2500+ (Dragonfire) Varies (Recoil) Attack Defence Ranged Magic Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Other Immune to Poison? Immune to Stun? No Unknown edit Attack Speed Speed 6 (Interval: 2.4 seconds) Aggressive? Poisonous? Yes No Attack styles Weaknesses Magic Melee Ranged Dragonfire Recoil Stab Bane ammo

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Frost dragons reside in the Asgarnian Ice Dungeon resource dungeon. The dungeon requires level 85 Dungeoneering to access, and inside are a total of 12 dragons to kill. Frost dragons attack with all three combat styles, as well as with dragonfire. They are weak to stab attacks, making the chaotic rapier a popular weapon choice.

Killing frost dragons is highly profitable as their bones are currently worth 10,937 each. Players may gain upwards of 310,000 per full inventory of bones, more if using a Beast of Burden familiar.

CombatEdit

Frost Dragons may attack with either Ranged or Magic. Each Frost dragon will attack with EITHER their ranged or magic attack for the entire fight; which style it will use depends on whichever attack is randomly used FIRST - so keep an eye on the first attack, and pray accordingly for that kill.

When fighting Frost Dragons, a blue recoil orb will appear and start circling the dragon. It is important that you do NOT attack while the orb is out, as it will rebound any damage you would've dealt 100%. Therefore, it is important that you have your auto-retaliate switched OFF when fighting these dragons; when the orb appears, click away from the dragon to stop attacking and wait. The orb will circle 3 times before it disappears, after which you can resume killing your dragon (you and your cannon are able to deal damage to the dragon slightly before the orb disappears, at about 2.3-2.5 rotations). NOTE that some have noticed damage rebound before the orb is visible, so it is important to pay close attention. Another thing to take note, is if damage reflecting actions are performed(such as the Reflect ability, followed by simply attacking while the orb is circling), you will deal damage to the dragon, most likely because the two damage reflections cancel either other out. This can be useful for more efficient trips.

This makes frost dragons a slightly tougher monster to fight, but should not heavily hinder any legitimate player trying to kill them. Also note that a dreadnip will be able to deal damage normally and the damage will not be reflected, which can allow a kill if the dragon is low on health while the orb is active.

In the area containing the dragons are randomly appearing Frost dragon bones spawns. The bones from these spawns are unobtainable, even by Telekinetic Grab — this formerly caused bots to 'try' to pick up the bones, effectively incapacitating them. However, it seems that bots have been able to differentiate the random spawns from the legitimate spawns.

Following the release of EOC, cannons are highly unadvisable due to the multi-combat nature of frost dragons.

High populationEdit

After release of the Dungeoneering skill, players noticed that Frost Dragons were an efficient way of making money, millions of coins could be gained in a fairly short amount of time because of the high price of Frost dragon bones and the small chance of getting a Draconic visage. With the realization that a vast amount of wealth could be gained in this resource dungeon, players soon crowded the area making it difficult for many people to get high amount of coins per hour.

StrategiesEdit

Main article: Frost dragon/Strategies

DropsEdit

100% dropsEdit

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Frost dragon bones	1	1 Always	10,937

CharmsEdit

Charm drop percentages

No charms
15–16%	19–20%	42–44%	17–18%	4–5%

Represents 90% confidence range, based on a sample of 13,877 kills.
1 charm is dropped at a time.

Please add to the log (only if 50 or more creatures killed).

Weapons and armourEdit

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Adamant platebody	1	2 Common	9,748
	Rune arrow	12	2 Common	2,388
	Adamant kiteshield	1	3 Uncommon	2,818
	Rune longsword	1	3 Uncommon	18,488
	Rune scimitar	1	3 Uncommon	15,170

Runes and talismansEdit

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Water talisman	2 (noted)	2 Common	9,442
	Death rune	10, 15	3 Uncommon	930–1,395
	Air talisman	2 (noted)	3 Uncommon	290
	Pure essence	50, 200 (noted)	3 Uncommon	4,250–17,000
	Law rune	10	3 Uncommon	1,800
	Blood rune	10	3 Uncommon	1,630

HerbsEdit

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Grimy guam	1 (noted)	2 Common	539
	Grimy marrentill	1 (noted)	2 Common	44
	Grimy tarromin	1 (noted)	2 Common	249
	Grimy harralander	1 (noted)	2 Common	652
	Grimy ranarr	1 (noted)	2 Common	2,160
	Grimy irit	1 (noted)	2 Common	1,743
	Grimy avantoe	1 (noted)	2 Common	4,128
	Grimy kwuarm	1 (noted)	2 Common	2,471
	Grimy cadantine	1 (noted)	2 Common	2,507
	Grimy lantadyme	1 (noted)	2 Common	7,850
	Grimy dwarf weed	1 (noted)	2 Common	8,195
	Grimy snapdragon	1	5 Very rare	3,617

Other dropsEdit

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Coins	200–60,000	2 Common	Not sold
	Shark	1, 2	2 Common	849–1,698
	Water orb	2 (noted)	2 Common	1,648
	Adamant bar	3–15 (noted)	3 Uncommon	9,504–47,520
	Limpwurt root	1 (noted)	3 Uncommon	1,128
	Mahogany logs	3 (noted)	3 Uncommon	1,695
	Clue scroll (hard)	1	4 Rare	Not sold
	Court Summons	1	4 Rare	Not sold
	Spin ticket	1	4 Rare	Not sold
	Starved ancient effigy	1	4 Rare	Not sold
	Draconic visage	1	5 Very rare [1]	1,232,961

Rare drop table dropsEdit

This monster drops items from the rare drop table.
The ring of wealth improves the chances if equipped but is not required to access the table.

TriviaEdit

• When a player uses a bucket of milk on a frost dragon, a message in their chat box will appear saying "They're great!" which is a reference to the Frosties/Frosted Flakes breakfast cereal.
• Frost dragons are the only attackable dragon that does not drop a hide or bar upon death.

Artwork depicting a Frost Dragon

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