Frost dragon

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This article is about the dragons found in resource dungeons. For the frost dragon found in Daemonheim, see Frost dragon (Daemonheim).

Frost dragon

Release date	19 July 2010 (Update)
Members?	Yes
Combat level	166
Life points	1600
Experience for killing	640 (213 Constitution experience)
Slayer level	Not assigned
Aggressive?	Yes
Poisonous?	No
Immune to poison?	No
Attack style	Magic, Melee, Ranged, Dragonfire, Recoil
Attack speed	AverageInterval: 3.6 seconds
Max hit	232 (Magic) 213 (Melee) 302, Possibly Higher (Range) +500 (Dragonfire) Varies (Recoil)
Weakness	stab, rangedstab, rangedstab, rangedstab, rangedstab, rangedstab, rangedstab, [[]]stab, rangedstab, ranged[[]], rangedstab, rangedstab, rangedStab, Ranged
Always drops	Frost dragon bones
Examine text	A dragon covered in frost and ice.

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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 each. Players may gain upwards of 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 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.

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.

Drops

100% drops

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Frost dragon bones	1	1 Always	9,636

Weapons and armour

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
Rune longsword	Rune longsword	1	3 Uncommon	18,916
	Rune arrow	12	2 Common	2,280
	Adamant kiteshield	1	3 Uncommon	3,103
	Adamant platebody	1	2 Common	9,727

Runes/Talismans

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Water talisman	2 (noted)	2 Common	8,970
	Death rune	10, 15	3 Uncommon	1,850–2,775
	Air talisman	2 (noted)	3 Uncommon	162
	Pure essence	50, 200 (noted)	3 Uncommon	5,350–21,400
	Law rune	10	3 Uncommon	1,490
	Blood rune	10	3 Uncommon	1,950

Gems/Ores/Bars

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Adamant bar	3–15 (noted)	3 Uncommon	6,525–32,625

Herbs

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Grimy guam	1 (noted)	2 Common	521
	Grimy marrentill	1 (noted)	2 Common	41
	Grimy tarromin	1 (noted)	2 Common	56
	Grimy harralander	1 (noted)	2 Common	385
	Grimy ranarr	1 (noted)	2 Common	3,508
	Grimy irit	1 (noted)	2 Common	1,496
	Grimy avantoe	1 (noted)	2 Common	2,877
	Grimy kwuarm	1 (noted)	2 Common	2,902
	Grimy cadantine	1 (noted)	2 Common	1,336
	Grimy lantadyme	1 (noted)	2 Common	6,002
	Grimy dwarf weed	1 (noted)	2 Common	7,525
	Grimy snapdragon	1	5 Very rare	5,660

Other drops

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Coins	200–60,000	2 Common	Not sold
	Shark	1, 2	2 Common	525–1,050
	Water orb	2 (noted)	2 Common	2,200
	Limpwurt root	1 (noted)	3 Uncommon	844
	Mahogany logs	3 (noted)	3 Uncommon	1,581
	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 <ref>Estimated at 1/6,929 using gathered Adventurer's Log data as of 18 September 2012.</ref>	4,299,605

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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 810 Uncut emerald 1 2 Common 1,295 Uncut ruby 1 2 Common 2,613 Loop half of a key 1 3 Uncommon 9,402 Tooth half of a key 1 3 Uncommon 12,758 Uncut diamond 1 3 Uncommon 9,520 Uncut dragonstone 1 4 Rare 13,572 Dragonstone 1 4 Rare 10,393 Dragon dagger 1 2 Common 17,356 Rune javelin 5 4 Rare 1,285 Adamant javelin 20 5 Very rare 800 Rune spear 1 5 Very rare 12,130 Dragon spear 1 5 Very rare 40,021 Dragon dagger 50 (noted) 5 Very rare 867,800 Rune kiteshield 1 5 Very rare 34,977 Shield left half 1 5 Very rare 65,553 Dragon helm 1 5 Very rare 60,107 Adamant bolts 200 3 Uncommon 31,600 Rune arrow 150–200, 500 4 Rare 28,500–95,000 Onyx bolts 150 4 Rare 1,315,350 Battlestaff 200 (noted) 4 Rare 1,612,200 Air orb 1000 (noted) 4 Rare 1,216,000 Fire orb 1000 (noted) 4 Rare 1,406,000 Vecna skull 1 5 Very rare 457,724 Water talisman 1 3 Uncommon 4,485 Earth talisman 25–35 (noted) 3 Uncommon 20,650–28,910 Fire talisman 25–35 (noted) 3 Uncommon 48,450–67,830 Chaos talisman 1 3 Uncommon 137 Nature talisman 1 3 Uncommon 165 Pure essence 500–15000 (noted) 3 Uncommon 53,500–1,605,000 Template:ExchangeItemNat Nature rune 47–77 4 Rare – Soul rune 20 4 Rare 6,360 Death rune 50, 121 4 Rare 9,250–22,385 Blood rune 50 4 Rare 9,750 Raw swordfish 125 – 250, 1000 (noted) 3 Uncommon 37,875–303,000 Raw shark 250–500 (noted) 3 Uncommon 129,750–259,500 Big bones 150 – 500 (noted) 3 Uncommon 52,650–175,500 Coal 150–7500 (noted) 3 Uncommon 39,450–1,972,500 Adamantite ore 150–800 (noted) 3 Uncommon 248,250–1,324,000 Silver ore 100 (noted) 4 Rare 9,200 Adamant bar 1000–7000 (noted) 4 Rare 2,175,000–15,225,000 Runite ore 100 (noted) 4 Rare 1,067,100 Rune bar 1,50,150 (noted) 4 Rare 13,029–1,954,350 Clean ranarr 33 (noted) 3 Uncommon 115,665 Clean toadflax 25–250 (noted) 3 Uncommon 69,100–691,000 Clean snapdragon 30–120 (noted) 3 Uncommon 168,210–672,840 Clean torstol 10–100 (noted) 3 Uncommon 277,960–2,779,600 Saradomin brew (4) 250 (noted) 5 Very rare 854,750 Watermelon seed 3 3 Uncommon 5,583 Yew seed 1–50 4 Rare 84,903–4,245,150 Magic seed 1–6 4 Rare 294,483–1,766,898 Palm tree seed 10 4 Rare 1,219,220 Snapdragon seed 1 4 Rare 26,078 Torstol seed 1–31 4 Rare 274,040–8,495,240 Fellstalk seed 2 4 Rare 2,052 Yew logs 100–20000 (noted) 4 Rare 49,400–9,880,000

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.

File:Frost Dragon water glitch.png

Frost Dragon water spawn.

• 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). Frost dragons have significantly lower defense and lifepoints, however.
• 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.
• Jagex made an attempt to stop bots from crowding Frost dragons by adding a blue orb that would cause damage if you dont stop attacking. As at October 10, 2012 they are still overcrowded and the blue orb remains in use.

• Artwork depicting a Frost Dragon

  Artwork depicting a Frost Dragon