Rune equipment

Rune equipment is equipment stronger than adamant equipment. Rune equipment is often criticised as being too expensive, especially to free players. However, the price of rune equipment is controversial, as non-combat skillers who have a decently high level in their speciality and therefore make good money have no problem purchasing such items. In recent times, there has been a surge of players between 50-60 having a whole set of rune equipment, with some players just in their level 40s sometimes having a full rune armor set. There are even some players who have enough money to afford much more expensive variations of rune armor, such as trimmed, gold, or armor in the color of the gods.

Weapons
Rune weapons require an Attack level of 40 to wield. They were formerly the strongest weapons available to free players until the introduction of Corrupted dragon equipment which came with the PvP worlds update, however, they are still regarded as the best F2P weapons as they do not disappear like corrupt dragon. As with all runite items, rune weapons tend to exhibit a color that could be considered a darker form of teal.

Armour
Rune armour is the highest-quality non-degradable armour that free-to-play players can wear, and the second-highest quality armour on the standard metal armour spectrum (bronze to dragon). Rune armour requires 40 Defence to wear and Dragon Slayer to wear the rune platebody, but only 40 Defence (45 for rune berserker) to wear all other pieces (thus, Dragon Slayer need not be completed.) With a full set costing around 195000 coins, it provides excellent defence for its price. Rune armour is the best choice for warriors with level 40 defence, or non members who can't or choose, for various reasons(mainly due to cost), not to wear corrupt dragon armour. Another reason that corrupt dragon is not the best choice, is that it doesnt last too long when you wear it, perhaps making Rune armour the best free-players can wear.

Stats
The full set has the following statistics



Obtaining from the Champions' Guild
Rune Armour is the best type of armour in a non-member's world, the only armour that's better is the corrupt dragon armour, which crumbles to dust after 30 minutes. The rune platebody can only be worn after the completion of the Dragon Slayer quest, though all other pieces of rune armour can be worn even without its completion. Rune platelegs, rune plateskirts, rune chainbodies, rune swords, rune maces, etc. can be bought in Scavvo's Rune Store on the second floor in the Champions' Guild just south of Varrock, or the Grand Exchange.
 * Rune plateskirt: 64,000 coins
 * Rune platelegs: 64,000 coins
 * Rune chainbody: 50,000 coins
 * Rune longsword: 32,000 coins
 * Rune sword: 20,800 coins
 * Rune mace: 14,400 coins

Others
Ornamental rune armour, trimmed rune armour, God armour, and Gilded armour have the same bonuses as standard rune armour. These can be obtained from the member's only Treasure Trails.

Note: Other players cannot trim armour, no matter what scammers say.

Trimmed

 * Rune full helm (t) Cost: 312800 gp
 * Rune platebody (t) Cost: 346300 gp
 * Rune plateskirt (t) Cost: 54000gp
 * Rune platelegs (t) Cost: 189900 gp
 * Rune kiteshield (t) Cost: 253900 gp

Gold Trimmed

 * Rune full helm(g) Cost: 425000 gp
 * Rune platebody (g) Cost: 540100 gp
 * Rune plateskirt (g) Cost: 68900 gp
 * Rune platelegs (g) Cost: 277400 gp
 * Rune kiteshield (g) Cost: 381900 gp

Gilded

 * Gilded full helm
 * Gilded platebody
 * Gilded plateskirt
 * Gilded platelegs
 * Gilded kiteshield

Zamorak

 * Zamorak full helm
 * Zamorak platebody
 * Zamorak platelegs
 * Zamorak plateskirt
 * Zamorak kiteshield

Guthix

 * Guthix full helm
 * Guthix platebody
 * Guthix plateskirt
 * Guthix platelegs
 * Guthix kiteshield

Saradomin

 * Saradomin full helm
 * Saradomin platebody
 * Saradomin plateskirt
 * Saradomin platelegs
 * Saradomin kiteshield

Rune Armour in RSC
Long ago, in the early development stages of RuneScape Classic, rune armour didn't exist. Prior to its release, Jagex planned on making the colour of rune purple. There are images floating around the internet of a Purple Rune 2 Handed Sword in a trade screen from RuneScape Classic. Then when Rune was released it was changed to a cyan colour. Once RuneScape 2 was released the cyan colour of Rune armour was toned down into a more shaded colour.

Trivia

 * All the god armour, trimmed armour and gilded versions of rune have the same exact stats as regular rune; it is only a different colour.
 * Players can't trim rune armour, or any armour for that matter. This was a common scamming method before the trading update.
 * When you pull a Christmas cracker from the 2001 event, you receive a party hat and a random piece of rune armour. The party hats, (now 260M+) were often disregarded, as runite armour at the time was worth millions.

Rune equipment