Bandos chestplate

Bandos chestplate is a part of the Bandos armour set, requiring 65 Defence to wear. It is dropped by General Graardor and his bodyguards in the God Wars Dungeon.

It is generally used as all-purpose torso armour because it offers a high defence bonus, a strength bonus, and a small prayer bonus. Because of this, many players believe it is the best non-degradable platebody in the game. However, it is slightly lower than the Dragon Platebody in stab and slash defence bonus, whereas the Bandos Chestplate has slightly higher Crush, Summoning, defence bonuses (although the difference is very small) and has significantly higher Ranged, Strength, and Prayer bonuses.

When worn by a female player, its appearance differs from when it is worn by a male player.

The bandos chestplate is tied for the highest strength bonus (+4) of any non-degradable chestplate or platebody in the game with the Fighter torso.

A little over one year after its release, the Bandos chestplate reached its minimum price ever at a little over 10 million coins in September 2008, It then slowly rose to over 13 million coins by May 2009. Then, mostly as a result of the addition of statuette drops to PvP worlds, the price gradually rose to its current price of about 24 million coins. There has been a generally downward trend in price since reaching its maximum price of 27.6 million coins on 22 December 2009. It is also very commonly used with the slayer helm because the set has no helmet. This piece of armour can NOT be made using the smithing skill.

Trivia

 * When the Bandos Chestplate is viewed from the Grand Exchange collection box, the body seems to have been turned from Grey to Black.
 * The inventory sprite for the Bandos Chestplate is missing both the shoulder spikes and the sleeve. It also resembles the male version of the chestplate more than the female version (due to Graador being male also).
 * The shoulder piece on the female version appears to be slightly bigger than the one on the male version. This may be due to the fact that the model for female characters is smaller than that of male characters, making the shoulder piece appear larger.
 * The Bandos Chestplate in correlation with Bandos Tassets, and other godwars armour can technically be classified as third age armour because of the fact that it should have been forged during the third age according to the timeline of Runescape.
 * When worn with a Skillcape, a glitch occurs causing a Skillcape shoulder peice to merge with the Bandos shoulder piece.