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 with 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 combat levels 50-60 owning a whole set of rune equipment, with some players just in their level 40s combat boasting a full rune armour set. There are even players who have enough money to afford much more expensive variations of rune armour, such as trimmed, gilded, or armour in the colour of the gods.

Weapons
Rune weapons require an Attack level of 40 (the rune cane required only 38) to wield. They were formerly the strongest weapons available to free players until the introduction of Corrupted dragon equipment, which came along 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 colour that could be considered a darker form of steel.

Ranged weapons

 * Rune crossbow
 * Rune bolts
 * Rune arrows
 * Rune brutal arrows
 * Rune darts
 * Rune javelin
 * Rune thrownaxe
 * Rune knife

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 metallic 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 195,000 coins, the armour 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 doesn't last very 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 for a non-member, the only armour that's better statistically 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 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: coins
 * Rune platebody (t) Cost: coins
 * Rune plateskirt (t) Cost: coins
 * Rune platelegs (t) Cost: coins
 * Rune kiteshield (t) Cost: coins

Gold Trimmed

 * Rune full helm(g) Cost: coins
 * Rune platebody (g) Cost: coins
 * Rune plateskirt (g) Cost: coins
 * Rune platelegs (g) Cost: coins
 * Rune kiteshield (g) Cost: coins

Gilded

 * Gilded full helm Cost: coins
 * Gilded platebody Cost: coins
 * Gilded plateskirt Cost: coins
 * Gilded platelegs Cost: coins
 * Gilded kiteshield Cost: coins

Zamorak

 * Zamorak full helm Cost: coins
 * Zamorak platebody Cost: coins
 * Zamorak platelegs Cost: coins
 * Zamorak plateskirt Cost: coins
 * Zamorak kiteshield Cost: coins

Guthix

 * Guthix full helm Cost: coins
 * Guthix platebody Cost: coins
 * Guthix plateskirt Cost: coins
 * Guthix platelegs Cost: coins
 * Guthix kiteshield Cost: coins

Saradomin

 * Saradomin full helm Cost: coins
 * Saradomin platebody Cost: coins
 * Saradomin plateskirt Cost: coins
 * Saradomin platelegs Cost: coins
 * Saradomin kiteshield Cost: coins

Rune Armour in RSC
Long ago, during 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. After 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, trimmed, 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 pulled a Christmas cracker from the 2001 event, you received 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 plate armour is the only armour to come in 7 distinct variations all with the same stats (Aside from gilded being P2P). The second highest are mystic armour and wizard robes with 4. Black plate, adamant plate, vestment, and runecrafter sets also have 3 variations.
 * On the 23rd of May in 2010, a glitch appeared in which players with access to the warriors guild, could duplicate rune armour sets. This was done by placing a helm, platebody and rune platelegs on the machine and eating a rotten apple just before the set died. Then, a player could say to the npc that his or her armour set had dissapeared, giving him or her another one, with the one on the ground too. This was patched within 24 hours of its discovery. All accounts who duplicated rune armour sets were banned.

Rune equipment