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Frost dragon

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Release date	19 July 2010 (Update)
Members?	Yes
Combat level	166
XP per kill	Unknown edit
Always drops	Frost dragon bones
Examine text	A dragon covered in frost and ice.
Combat stats LP Max hit 1600 232 (Magic) 213 (Melee) 302, Possibly Higher (Range) +500 (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 Ranged

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Frost dragons make lair 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. Like all dragons, 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 12,011 each. Players may gain upwards of 340,000 per full inventory of bones, more if using a Beast of Burden familiar.

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.

Cannons will not deal damage to the dragon while the orb is active, and the player will not receive any damage from fired cannonballs as long as the player is not attacking the dragon (you will receive cannon damage if you are attacking the dragon while the orb is out). 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.

Cannons can significantly reduce the time it takes to kill a frost dragon, but because this method is so popular many worlds are crowded with cannonners. It is also important that you pay attention so as not to lose any bones from kills that your cannon achieved while you were attacking another dragon.

In the area containing the dragons are randomly appearing frost bone spawns. The bones from these spawns are unobtainable, even by Telegrab — this will cause bots to 'try' to pick up the bones, effectively incapacitating them.

High population

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.

Strategies

Main article: Frost dragon/Strategies

Drops

100% drops

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Frost dragon bones	1	1 Always	12,011

Charms

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 armour

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Rune longsword	1	2 Common	18,902
	Rune arrow	12	2 Common	2,388
	Adamant kiteshield	1	3 Uncommon	2,935
	Adamant platebody	1	3 Uncommon	9,662

Runes/Talismans

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Water talisman	2 (noted)	2 Common	10,622
	Death rune	10, 15, 50	3 Uncommon	1,670–8,350
	Air talisman	2 (noted)	3 Uncommon	246
	Pure essence	50, 200 (noted)	3 Uncommon	3,400–13,600
	Law rune	10	3 Uncommon	1,900
	Blood rune	10, 50	3 Uncommon	2,780–13,900

Gems/Ores/Bars

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Adamant bar	3–15 (noted)	3 Uncommon	8,628–43,140

Herbs

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Grimy guam	1 (noted)	2 Common	332
	Grimy marrentill	1 (noted)	2 Common	56
	Grimy tarromin	1 (noted)	2 Common	157
	Grimy harralander	1 (noted)	2 Common	463
	Grimy ranarr	1 (noted)	2 Common	2,187
	Grimy irit	1 (noted)	2 Common	1,721
	Grimy avantoe	1 (noted)	2 Common	3,940
	Grimy kwuarm	1 (noted)	2 Common	2,148
	Grimy cadantine	1 (noted)	2 Common	2,015
	Grimy lantadyme	1 (noted)	2 Common	7,886
	Grimy dwarf weed	1 (noted)	2 Common	9,330
	Grimy snapdragon	1	5 Very rare	3,583

Other drops

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Coins	200–60,000	2 Common	Not sold
	Shark	1, 2	2 Common	825–1,650
	Water orb	2 (noted)	2 Common	1,396
	Limpwurt root	1 (noted)	3 Uncommon	1,022
	Mahogany logs	3 (noted)	3 Uncommon	1,659
	Clue scroll (hard)	1	4 Rare	Not sold
	Court Summons	1	4 Rare	Not sold
	Starved ancient effigy	1	4 Rare	Not sold
	Draconic visage	1	5 Very rare	1,268,652

Rare drop table drops

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.

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Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Coins	250; 381; 450; 3,000; 9,000; 12,000	2 Common	Not sold
	Uncut sapphire	1	2 Common	1,082
	Uncut emerald	1	2 Common	1,903
	Uncut ruby	1	2 Common	3,112
	Uncut diamond	1	3 Uncommon	7,034
	Loop half of a key	1	3 Uncommon	11,742
	Tooth half of a key	1	3 Uncommon	19,052
	Uncut dragonstone	1	4 Rare	12,885
	Dragonstone	1	4 Rare	10,585
	Dragon dagger	1	3 Uncommon	16,976
	Rune javelin	5	4 Rare	1,215
	Adamant javelin	20	5 Very rare	1,260
	Rune 2h sword	1	5 Very rare	37,933
	Rune spear	1	5 Very rare	11,988
	Dragon spear	1	5 Very rare	36,917
	Dragon dagger	50 (noted)	5 Very rare	848,800
	Rune sq shield	1	5 Very rare	22,727
	Rune kiteshield	1	5 Very rare	32,404
	Shield left half	1	5 Very rare	65,284
	Dragon helm	1	5 Very rare	59,501
	Adamant bolts	200	3 Uncommon	19,800
	Onyx bolts	150	4 Rare	1,305,000
	Rune arrow	150–200; 500	4 Rare	29,850–199
	Battlestaff	200 (noted)	4 Rare	1,680,000
	Air orb	1,000 (noted)	4 Rare	1,587,000
	Fire orb	1,000 (noted)	4 Rare	1,723,000
	Vecna skull	1	5 Very rare	92,454
	Water talisman	1	3 Uncommon	5,311
	Earth talisman	25–35 (noted)	3 Uncommon	19,025–26,635
	Fire talisman	25–35 (noted)	3 Uncommon	47,950–67,130
	Chaos talisman	1	3 Uncommon	177
	Nature talisman	1	3 Uncommon	193
	Pure essence	500–15,000 (noted)	3 Uncommon	34,000–1,020,000
	Nature rune	47–77	4 Rare	5,452–8,932
	Soul rune	20	4 Rare	2,480
	Law rune	45	4 Rare	8,550
	Death rune	50; 121	4 Rare	167
	Blood rune	50	4 Rare	13,900
	Raw swordfish	125 – 250; 1,000 (noted)	3 Uncommon	36,000–288
	Raw shark	250–500 (noted)	3 Uncommon	257,000–514,000
	Big bones	150 – 500 (noted)	3 Uncommon	67,350–224,500
	Coal	150–7,500 (noted)	3 Uncommon	38,250–1,912,500
	Adamantite ore	150–800 (noted)	3 Uncommon	214,650–1,144,800
	Silver ore	100 (noted)	4 Rare	11,100
	Runite ore	100 (noted)	4 Rare	1,056,000
	Adamant bar	1,000–7,000 (noted)	4 Rare	2,876,000–20,132,000
	Rune bar	1,50,150 (noted)	4 Rare	13,069–1,960,350
	Clean ranarr	33 (noted)	3 Uncommon	75,900
	Clean toadflax	25–250 (noted)	3 Uncommon	88,175–881,750
	Clean snapdragon	30–120 (noted)	3 Uncommon	106,230–424,920
	Clean torstol	10–100 (noted)	3 Uncommon	94,140–941,400
	Saradomin brew (4)	250 (noted)	5 Very rare	64,750
	Watermelon seed	3	3 Uncommon	5,859
	Yew seed	1–50	4 Rare	60,155–3,007,750
	Magic seed	1–6	4 Rare	164,810–988,860
	Palm tree seed	10	4 Rare	1,058,660
	Snapdragon seed	1	4 Rare	2,127
	Torstol seed	1–31	4 Rare	50,268–1,558,308
	Fellstalk seed	2	4 Rare	1,000
	Yew logs	100–20,000 (noted)	4 Rare	53,600–10,720,000

Trivia

• Frost dragons were the only monster in RuneScape that lived exclusively in a Resource dungeon. (Apart from Dungeoneering floors). This has now changed due to the release of A Clockwork Syringe.
• 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.
• Although Frost dragons are dragons, they cannot be assigned as a slayer task by any slayer master.
• Frost dragons are the only dragons that do not have a second drop; chromatic dragons drop dragonhide and metal dragons drop metal bars.
• In the 17 October 2011 update, Frost Dragons were changed significantly; Jagex developers hoped this would combat the heavy botting. They were given a ranged attack, similar to Mithril Dragons, as well as a new rebounding effect.

• Along with their update to their mechanics to combat bots, Jagex also created randomly appearing frost bone spawns. These spawns are unobtainable, even by telegrab. This is another thing made to stop bots. The way they are programmed make them pick up the bones by variables. The bones dropped by the dragons have the same code as the bones that can't be picked up; the bot will be stuck if it tries to pick up these bones.
• Due to the addition of attempts to stop the bots, the Frost dragon spawns have not been moved. One spawn on one side has a dragon stuck in water, and another (because of the extra rocks to block the bots from telegrabbing/getting the bones) will be stuck there. They can still move out, and their drop is still accessible.
• Frost dragons, along with Mithril dragons, are the only dragons to use all three sides of the combat triangle along with dragonfire.
• Despite having all three sides of combat, Frost dragons' magic and ranged attacks hit higher than Mithril dragons'. Their melee attack also hits almost as hard (less then 60 damage from Mithril dragon's max melee).
• When a Frost dragon respawns, it seems to have the similar effect of summoning, renewing or calling a familiar into action. This can suggest those in the Resource dungeon are not regular monsters, but summoned ones.
• On 23 November the rebound orb now takes more than five hits for it to appear.
• Dragonbane bolts can be used on frost dragons for higher damage.

Artwork depicting a Frost Dragon

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