RuneScape/Armor

Armor is worn to help protect oneself from attacks. Different kinds of armor provide different amounts of protection, but no armor can protect you completely. Some armor can even have disadvantages. For example, metal armor conducts magical energy and makes magic based attacks stronger.

Anything lower than mithril is pretty much useless although low level free players can use them the bonuses are pretty bad.

To learn more about combat, see the combat guide. Also please note in this guide I have considered Full Armour to be 1 Full Helmet, 1 Platebody, 1 Platelegs and 1 Square Shield, with the obvious exception of dragon.

Quest Armor
KHAZARD ARMOR - This armor is used in Fight Arena. In order to get into the Khazard Battlefield, you must be wearing this armor. However, change into better armor once you begin to fight the Khazard Ogre...

Dragon
The second most expensive armor in the game(This information is now outdated due to the introduction of Bandos and Third age melee armor). Most of the dragon pieces can be obtained from drops from monsters, the med. helmet, chain, legs, and the two handed sword can be obtained from drops. Although as of the release of barbarian assault the chain can be obtained there. The scimitar needs the completion of the Monkey Madness quest, and the longsword needs the Lost City quest (they can both be bought from stores in the unlocked areas). The mace requires the Heroes Quest.

You can also get the left half of the dragon square shield from drops from monsters, you need to buy the other half at the legends guild for 750k. You need 60 smithing to put them both together.


 * Dragon legs: 700-780k
 * Dragon med helm: 60k
 * Dragon Chainbody: 4 million gp
 * Dragon sq shield: 305k
 * Dragon sq shield right half: 750k
 * Dragon sq shield left half: 65k
 * Dragon Full Helmet:15 million gp


 * Full dragon plate armour set:roughly 25 million gp
 * Full dragon chain armor set:roughly 5 million gp

Armoured gloves
(gloves are non-tradeable and are purchesable during the "recipe for disaster" quest)


 * Bronze gloves: 150 gp
 * Iron gloves: 500 gp
 * Steel gloves: 1,500 gp
 * Mithril gloves: 2,500 gp
 * Adamant gloves: 4,500 gp
 * Rune gloves: 6,500 gp
 * Dragon gloves: 100k
 * Barrows gloves: 100k

Bronze Armor
The very worst kind, not worth buying because almost immediately you can get full iron. Just about useless (unless you are a lvl 100+ and like to show off your defensive skills).

Full Bronze 175 to 240 gp
 * Bronze Medium Helmet: 10 gp
 * Bronze Full Helmet: 20 gp
 * Bronze Square Shield: 30 gp
 * Bronze Kiteshield: 40 gp
 * Bronze Platelegs: 50 gp
 * Bronze Plateskirt: 50 to 80 gp
 * Bronze Chainbody: 75 gp
 * Bronze Platebody: 100 gp

You can use the bronze full helm, body, and legs at the warriors guild to fight against and kill. they drop about 5 tokens each kill but be warned... sometimes parts break, so bring extra pieces just in case.

Iron Armor
The first set of armor that is actually worth buying. Commonly used by pures who can't wear any real armor. Pretty useless.

Full Iron 650 to 1100 gp
 * Iron Medium Helmet: 50 gp
 * Iron Full Helmet: 75 gp
 * Iron Square Shield: 100 gp
 * Iron Kiteshield: 125 gp
 * Iron Platelegs: 150 gp
 * Iron Plateskirt: 150 to 280 gp
 * Iron Chainbody: 200 gp
 * Iron Platebody: 300 gp

Black Armor
Full Black 7500 to 12500 gp
 * Black Medium Helmet: 300 to 1,000 gp
 * Black Full Helmet: 1,500 to 2,500 gp
 * Black Square Shield: 1,000 gp
 * Black Kiteshield: 2,000 gp to 3,000 gp
 * Black Platelegs: 1,500 to 2,000 gp
 * Black Plateskirt: 1,500 gp to 2,000 gp
 * Black Chainbody: 1,000 gp to 2,000 gp
 * Black Platebody: 3,000 to 3,500 gp

Steel Armor
The first half useful set of armor for high levels, it's cheap and commonly made strictly for smithing exp. Not yet useful, but getting there.

Full Steel 2500 to 5000 gp
 * Steel Medium Helmet: 150 gp
 * Steel Full Helmet: 300 to 550 gp
 * Steel Square Shield: 350 gp
 * Steel Kiteshield: 850 to 1028 gp
 * Steel Platelegs: 500 to 1000 gp
 * Steel Plateskirt: 500 to 1000 gp
 * Steel Chainbody: 500 to 700 gp
 * Steel Platebody: 1,000 to 1,960 gp

Mithril Armor
The first set that is respectable, has a good defense and isn't outrageously expensive so it is common for PKers. Useful.

Full Mith 15000 to 25000 gp
 * Mithril Medium Helmet: 450 to 500 gp
 * Mithril Full Helmet: 1,000 gp
 * Mithril Square Shield: 1,000 gp
 * Mithril Kiteshield: 2,000 to 3,000 gp
 * Mithril Platelegs: 2,000 to 3,000 gp
 * Mithril Plateskirt: 2,000 to 3,000 gp
 * Mithril Chainbody: 2,000 to 4,000 gp
 * Mithril Platebody: 5,000 gp

Adamant Armor
Very possibly the bane of the armor market, it's barely worse than rune armor, but drastically cheaper. Very useful, especially for those without money and those who like to PK (and die). A full set of adamant armor (a.k.a. full addy) is worth 35,000 to 50,000gp.


 * Adamant Square Shield: 3,000 to 4,000 gp
 * Adamant Kiteshield: 5,000 to 8,000 gp
 * Adamant Platelegs: 4,500 to 5,000 gp
 * Adamant Plateskirt: 4,500 to 6,300 gp
 * Adamant Chainbody: 7,500 gp to 10,000 gp
 * Adamant Platebody: 16,000 gp to 18,000 gp

Rune Armor
The best armor available to F2P. A full set costs about 180-205k.

Full Rune 180000 to 205000 gp
 * Rune Medium Helmet: 10,000 to 20,000 gp
 * Rune Full Helmet: 25,000 to 35,000 gp
 * Rune Square Shield: 5000 to 20000gp
 * Rune Kiteshield: 45,000 to 55,000 gp
 * Rune Platelegs: 40000 to 50,000 gp
 * Rune Plateskirt: 35000 to 45,000 gp
 * Rune Chainbody:40,000 to 50,000 gp 32,000 to 40,000 in G E
 * Rune Platebody: 50,000 to 85,000 gp

Granite Armor
You can get the Body from Barbarian Assault, the Shield from Gargoyles, and the Legs from Skeletal Wyverns. This armor is an anti range armor, its melee defence stat are a bit worse than rune but it has an excellent range def bonus

Barrows (Set) Armor
Barrows armor are one of the best armors in the game, each set has its own effect that can be used when you have the full set of armor.

Ahrim Armor
The magic set of barrows armor pieces include:

Ahrim's Hood, Robe (top), robe (bottom), and staff.

When wearing the full set and using magic atk, the set will lower the strength of your opponent

Dharok Armor
Pieces include:
 * Dharok's great axe,
 * body,
 * legs, and
 * helmet.

Dharok's special ability: with full set and under 10% health, will hit high depending on boosts and strength (max hit seen is 2010)

This armor main use is for duel and minigame. It’s only good for training at ape atoll near the altar otherwise it’s to risky to use it

Guthan Armor
Guthan armor is the most expensive barrows armors.

Pieces include:

Guthan's helmet, warspear, chainskirt, and body.

The set effect of this armor is it drains health from your opponent every once in a while. You can tell when health is drained, because purple ghosts swirl around your enemy.

This armor is used specifically to train with because it considerably lowers the amount of food you use. It’s also useful when doing fight cave and training slayer.

Karil Armor
Karil is the ranger of the barrows brothers.

Pieces include:

Karil's coif, crossbow, leathertop, and leatherskirt.

Karil's set effect lowers your opponent's agility.

Karil's is good for duels against people with these following armors: ahrims

Torag Armor
Torag has the best defence of all the barrow armors, but his weapon is very bad. People normally use Torag armor and whips to fight when they can’t afford 3rd age or bandos.

Note: 3rd age armor is not recommended since it only has the attack bonus of about rune. It is mostly for looks.
 * Parts of the set
 * 1) Torag's hammer
 * 2) Torag's helmet
 * 3) Torag's body
 * 4) Torag's legs

Verac Armor
Verac's armor set contains:

Verac's flail, helmet, brassard, and skirt.

Verac's set effect has a 15% chance of hitting through armor/prayer, it will enable you to hit the Kalphite Queen in the anti-melee form.

Repair Cost

 * Barrows Weapons: 100,000
 * Barrows Bodies: 90,000
 * Barrows Legs: 80,000
 * Barrows Helmets: 60,000

Note: if your have a POH (player owned house) with an armor stand you can repair you barrow set for less than what it cost at a shop. You can get your armour repaired by Bob in Lumbridge, Dunstan in Burthorpe, Tindel in Port Khazard or the Squire on the Void Knights outpost.

Spined Armor
Made from dagganoth hide, this armor is mainly used by rangers, but it isn’t really worth the cost and isn’t that good.

Spined armour is approvimately 73k-86k and is only used for low rangers that wish to have a little bit of boost in their def. ( roughly 1 or 2 more points than green dhide.)

Rock-Shell Armor
Made from the shell of giant rock crab this armor is a melee armor, its power is the same as rune but it cost less

Skeletal Armor
An armor for mages and the best of the 3 dagannoth armors, skeletal armor offers a good defence bonus and a useful mage bonus. However, it's quite expensive, priced at about 200k each set, but it is well worth the cost to buy.

Ranger Armor
Rangers can use leather items along with other hide-based armors (Snakeskin and Dragonhide for example).

Leather

 * Leather Body: 10 gp
 * Leather Gloves: 3-5 gp
 * Leather gloves,like leather boots, are basic clothing and are made of leather. You can make them at lv. 1 crafting.
 * Leather Boots: 3-10 gp
 * Leather boots are a item you can make by low lv crafting leather. They are a relatively common item.
 * Leather Vambraces: 10 gp
 * Leather Chaps: 20-25 gp
 * Leather Cowl: 20-25 gp
 * Leather Coif: 50 gp
 * Leather hardleather body: 50-100 gp
 * Studded body: 500-1,000 gp
 * Studded chaps: 500-1,000 gp

Green Dragonhide

 * Green D'Hide Vambraces: 860gp (2,500 at Champions Guild)
 * Green D'Hide Chaps: 1.1k gp (3,900 at Champions Guild)
 * Green D'Hide Body: 5k gp (10,000 from Oziach)

Blue Dragonhide (Member item)

 * Blue d'hide vambraces: 860gp
 * Blue d'hide chaps: 1k
 * Blue d'hide body: 3k
 * Full set: 5k

Red Dragonhide (Member item)

 * Red d'hide vambraces: 1k
 * Red d'hide chaps: 6k
 * Red d'hide body: 8k
 * Full set: 15k

Black Dragonhide (Member item)

 * Black d'hide vambraces: 3k
 * Black d'hide chaps: 8k
 * Black d'hide body: 10k
 * Full set: 21k

Magic Armor (Robes)
Mages are best equipped to use light robe armor.

Magic robes

 * Blue Wizard robe: 10-50 gp
 * Blue wizard hat: 10-50 gp
 * Blue skirt (Non-magical): 5-20 gp (gives no magic bonus, matches blue robe colour)
 * Black wizard robe: 10-50 gp
 * Black wizard hat: 10-50 gp
 * Black skirt (Non-magical): 5-20 gp (gives no magic bonus, matches black robe colour)

Prayer robes

 * Priest Robe Top: 5-20 gp
 * Priest Robe Bottom: 5-25 gp
 * Shade Robe Top: can no longer be traded
 * Shade Robe Bottom: can no longer be traded
 * Monk Robe Top: 100-200 gp (can be found in Monastery, level 31 prayer required)
 * Monk Robe Bottom: 100-200 gp (can be found in Monastery, level 31 prayer required)