Dragon platebody

The 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 platebodies and the Bandos Chestplate. This item requires 60 Defence to wear, and level 92 Smithing is needed to repair the body, 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: Players need these three pieces to create a Dragon platebody. 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 your inventory. This will fuse the pieces together into a Dragonkin key. Beyond the mithril door are three hanging dragon skulls and ribcages 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.
 * Ruined dragon armour slice
 * Ruined dragon armour lump
 * Ruined dragon armour shard

Note: You 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 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. If you look 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 dragon armour set (l)/(sk) was renamed to dragon chain armour set (l)/(sk).
 * Oddly enough, the 3 pieces used to form the dragon platebody do not look anything like the platebody.
 * The dragon platebody's average highest price when released on Grand Exchange, 29th November 2008, was a total of 35.5 million coins. A day later the price raised to 39.6 million. Then 5th December 2008 it sank to 25.3 million.
 * When the platebody was first released, 99 smithing was needed to smith the pieces together. It also was not possible to use the assist system. Both of these were changed within a few days of release.