Armour/Ranged armour

Ranged armour is generally crafted from tanned monster hides. Currently, cows, Cockroach soldiers, yaks, snakes, dragons, and dagannoths are the few creatures which drop hides upon death.

It provides great defence against magic attacks but low defence against melee attacks. Ranged armour is considerably lightweight compared to metal or stone melee armour. Low to medium level ranger armour is also cheaper by comparison. Because of this, it is often worn in place of melee armour by 'hybrid' warriors who are fighting against mages.

Leather armour
Leather armour is good for beginning rangers. They are very cheap and can also be crafted. It comes in 3 types:
 * Soft leather armour - No level requirements
 * Hard leather armour - Level 10 Ranged & Defence
 * Studded leather armour - Level 20 Ranged, and 20 Defence to wear the body
 * [[File:Coif.png]] Coif - Level 20 Ranged (part of the studded leather set, but often used with the higher level sets due to level requirement).

Frog-leather armour
Frog-leather armour is only available to members. Frog-leather armour is made by the Dorgeshuun goblins. Players must have level 25 Ranged and level 25 Defence to wear this armour. This armour is bought from Reldak in Dorgesh-Kaan.

Carapace armour
Carapace armour is ranged armour introduced with the Evolution of Combat that is better than studded leather armour but weaker than green d'hide armour. It requires 30 Defence to equip. Carapace armour can be worn by free players, and represents the level of ranged armour in between leather/hard leather armour and green d'hide armour for free players. The carapace helm is the  second best non-degrading ranged armour in the head slot for free players, under the Green d'hide coif 0. The carapace boots are the best ranged armour in the feet slot for free players.

Carapace armour can be made using the Crafting skill by members. Making carapace armour requires carapace, which is always dropped by Cockroach soldiers and less often by Cockroach workers and Cockroach drones.

Snakeskin armour
Snakeskin armour is only available to members. Snakeskin armour can be made through the Crafting skill from snakeskin, which can be obtained by killing snakes that appear in the Tai Bwo Wannai Cleanup, Temple Trekking minigames or by killing level 35 snakes at Mos Le'Harmless Island.

The whole snakeskin set is hardly worn by rangers due to the huge amount of snakeskin hides needed. However, the Snakeskin boots and bandana offer most rangers a much cheaper alternative to the highly priced Ranger boots and Robin Hood hat.

Void Knight Armour
The ranger helm grants the player a +10% bonus towards accuracy and damage, if the player is wearing the rest of the Void Knight equipment. It requires 42 Attack, Strength, Defence, Constitution, Ranged, and Magic with 22 Prayer to buy and wear them.

As some players find it more effective to wear full black dragonhide armour than a full set of Void Knight armour, due to the defence and lifepoints bonuses, this item is not frequently bought. However, those who do buy it can see a higher max hit and a higher average hit. Additionally, it classes as a hybrid set (besides the helmet), and as such gives equal magic, ranged and melee defence, making it an alternative choice in minigames where hybriding is common.

Spined armour
Spined armour is only available for members and is Fremennik armour for rangers. Players must complete The Fremennik Trials in order to equip the body, legs and helm. The helm, body and chaps provide a slight range attack bonus. Spined armour cannot be bought from stores and instead has to be earned from drops by the Dagannoths under Waterbirth Island.

Sacred clay range armour
When this armour is used to train range, the user's experience will be doubled, up to 24,450 total. It is buy-able reward from the Stealing Creation minigame. Requires 50 Range and Defence to wear.

Dragonhide armour
Dragonhide armour is the most popular and the recommended armour players wear when ranging. Free players can only wield blue dragonhide armour, and must complete the Dragon Slayer quest to wear the blue dragonhide body. Red, black, blessed and royal dragonhide are only available to members. Members can also craft dragonhide armour. Trimmed and Gold-trimmed versions on green and blue dragonhide armour have same stats as normal. Trimmed versions cannot be crafted.

Third age ranger armour
Third age ranger armour is high-level ranged armour, and currently the second best non-degradable ranged armour (just like its melee and magic counterparts). Members can obtain a set of third age ranger armour as a possible reward from level 3 treasure trails, however the armour is very rare and extremely expensive (it was the most expensive ranged armour in the game until Pernix was added). Third age ranger armour is reportedly made from white dragonhide. It requires 65 Range and 65 Defence to wear.

Karil the Tainted
Members can obtain a set of ranged barrows equipment, Karil the Tainted's set, as a reward from the Barrows minigame. When a player is ranging with the complete set, including Karil's crossbow, some ranged attacks have a chance of reducing the opponent's magic level. This special can be useful against enemies who use magical attacks. It requires 70 Range and Defence to wear.

Armadyl armour
Armadyl armour is high level ranged armour and it gives some of the best defense available to rangers. However, Armadyl armour is rarely seen as it is hard to obtain and is expensive to buy from the Grand Exchange. It is dropped by Kree'arra and his three sergeants in the God Wars Dungeon.

Morrigan's armour
Members can obtain these armour pieces as rare drops by killing Revenants. There are two versions of this equipment. Corrupted items require only 20 ranged and defence levels, but last only 15 minutes, while the normal items require 78 ranged and defence levels and lasts 1 hour.

Pernix armour
Pernix armour was the best set of ranged armour in the game, before the Player-Owned Ports, requiring 80 Ranged, Defence, and Constitution to wear. Its parts are obtained from Nex located in the Ancient Prison, and is considered a rare drop. After 10 hours of combat, it must be repaired (similar to Barrows equipment) before it can be used again. This set of armour is very expensive, even to maintain, and requires 80 Ranged, 80 Defence, and 80 Constitution to wear.

Death lotus armour
Members can create this armour by collecting Lacquer in their personal Player-owned port. There are two versions of this equipment. Superior items cannot be traded, are slightly stronger and can be repaired. See Death lotus armour for more info.

Sirenic armour
Sirenic armour is level 90 ranged armour and is the best set of ranged power armour in the game, surpassing Pernix with damage, as well as with armour and life bonus. Death lotus, which is ranged tank armour, is still superior over Sirenic in armour and life bonus. The armour is made out of Sirenic scales, which are rare drops from Slayer monsters.

Level 1: Soft Leather Armour













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Level 10: Hard Leather Armour









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Level 20: Studded Leather Armour













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Level 25: Frog-leather armour (m)







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Level 30: Carapace armour, F2P











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Level 30: Snakeskin armour, P2P











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Level 40: Green dragonhide, F2P











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Level 42: Void Knight Armour, P2P

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Level 50: Spined armour, P2P

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Level 50: Sacred clay range armour, P2P







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Level 50: Blue dragonhide, F2P

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Level 55: Red dragonhide, P2P

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Level 60: Black dragonhide, P2P

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Level 60: Blessed dragonhide, P2P









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Level 60: Demon slayer armour, P2P
This armour provides a bonus to damage and xp when fighting demons.


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Also available are Royal spiky vambraces, which match the 64 armour bonus of the normal vambraces but add an additional Ranged Bonus of 10. Royal spiky vambraces therefore roughly match some of the best gloves in the game for relatively cheap, approximately 7k gp as of this edit.

Level 65: Royal dragonhide, P2P

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Level 65: Third age ranger armour, P2P









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Level 70: Karil the Tainted, P2P







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Level 70: Armadyl armour, P2P











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Level 78: Morrigan's armour, P2P







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Level 80: Pernix armour, P2P











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Level 85: Death lotus armour, P2P
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Un-Tradeable "Superior" Version








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Level 90: Sirenic armour, P2P









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Other ranged equipment, P2P
Members also have access to many different kinds of Armour not available for F2p players. Ranger boots and robin hood hats are rare rewards from Treasure Trails, archers' rings can be obtained by killing Dagannoth Supreme under Waterbirth Island, archer helms can be bought from Rellekka after completing The Fremennik Trials quest and Glaiven Boots can be acquired from Glacors after Ritual of the Mahjarrat. Also, if you have 160 combat, you can enter the Dominion Tower and unlock Swift Gloves, which currently give the highest defence bonuses for range gloves in-game. However, they are degradable and don't last long.

Armour/Ranged armour