Dragon platebody

The long awaited Dragon platebody is an item that was released with the While Guthix Sleeps quest on 26 November 2008. It is one of the best platebodies in the game, lower than Torag's, Dharok's, Guthan's platebodies in stats and comparable to the Third Age platebody and the Bandos Chestplate. This item requires 60 Defence to wear, and level 92 Smithing is needed to repair the body from its 3 broken parts, along with 1 million coins for the purchase of a blast fusion hammer.

There are 3 parts needed to repair the Dragon platebody, they are:
 * Ruined dragon armour slice
 * Ruined dragon armour lump
 * Ruined dragon armour shard

After the completion of While Guthix Sleeps, it is possible to unlock the mithril door upstairs by the mithril dragons by using a half of the strange key acquired during the quest on a mithril dragon while both pieces of the key are in the player's inventory. This will fuse the pieces together into a dragonkin key. Beyond the mithril door are three hanging dragon skulls, rib cages, and a giant orb in the centre. Using fire wave on each head will cause a flame to appear in their mouths and they will be moved towards the orb in the centre. Once the orb is lit, the player can return to the mysterious forge and will find it full of molten lava. It is here, using a blast fusion hammer purchased from the Foreman at the Blast Furnace for 1,000,000 coins, that the player can fuse together the three parts of the dragon platebody with 92 Smithing.

Contrary to popular belief, the dragon platebody DOES NOT degrade, therefore once the three parts have been combined to create it, it does not need any further maintenance to preserve its statistical or aesthetic quality.

Note: Players DO NOT need to finish While Guthix Sleeps to wear the dragon platebody.

History
Multiple years before the release of the dragon platebody, spinning plates were released, joking that "dragon plates" (since the spinning plates had a picture of a dragon) were then available. With Jagex's joke, many players thought that such an item would never be released.

On 2 September 2008, a new banner was released after the Distractions and Diversions update, showing a female wearing what appeared to resemble a dragon platebody. Weeks ago an image representing the dragon platebody was posted onto the internet by an anonymous user, and resembles the one in the banner.

There is also speculation that the dragon platebody was shown in two newspost screenshots. The Clan Wars improvements was accompanied by an image of a player wearing what is believed to be a dragon armour body, although because the image is so small it is possible that it is a dragon chainbody. The PvP worlds update also revealed a screenshot, this time clearer, of what appears to be a player wearing a dragon platebody. Looking closely at the PvP picture, the piece of armour seems to have three horns on his shoulder and the dragon chainbody has only one horn each shoulder.

Trivia

 * The set of armour previously known as the dragon armour set (l)/(sk) was renamed as dragon chain armour set (l)/(sk).
 * The dragon platebody's price when released on the Grand Exchange, on 29 November 2008, was a total of 30 million coins. Three days later the price had risen to 39.6 million.
 * When the platebody was first released, level 99 Smithing was required to smith the three pieces together. It also was not possible to use the assist system. Both of these requisites were adjusted within a few days of the release, with the new required Smithing level changed to 92 and the assist system can be used..
 * The platebody has dropped a total of 11.6 million coins within less than a month since its release.
 * Soon after the major drop in price, the platebody sprung right back up because of a decreased drop rate for shards, lumps, and slices from the tormented demons, but fell down to 11 million.
 * Due to people complaining about the look, Jagex has posted a thread in the forum saying that they are taking suggestions on what to do with the dragon plate regarding looks. However, they did not say when they will update it, nor does this mean that they will update it.
 * While wearing a skillcape with the Dragon platebody, the dark red part surrounding the neck is hardly visible.
 * The plate looks different on female characters. The shoulders have larger spikes, which are the same color white as that on the dragon boots.