Chaotic kiteshield

The Chaotic kiteshield is a shield released with the Dungeoneering skill on 12 April 2010. The shield requires a Defence level of 80 and a Dungeoneering level of 80 to wield. At least two million Dungeoneering experience is required to attain the 200,000 tokens necessary to purchase the item. It is currently the best melee shield, with the highest stab, slash, crush and ranged defence bonus. This shield is rivaled by the Divine Spirit Shield and the Elysian Spirit Shield (because of their effects) for the best shield in the game.

After approximately 10 hours of combat, the chaotic kiteshield will degrade completely and must be recharged before it may be used again; it has a 20% charge on purchase. Once these charges have been used up, the shield may be recharged for a fee by the rewards trader. There are two methods of recharging: cash or a combination of cash and Dungeoneering tokens. A cash repair will cost up to 2 million coins; a combination of cash and tokens will cost up to 200,000 coins and a number of Dungeoneering tokens. Repairs cost 20,000 coins or 200 tokens per 1% charge depleted.

The chaotic kiteshield absorbs up to 7% of all received melee damage and up to 14% of all received ranged damage that would have hit for 200 damage or more; Magic damage is not absorbed at all. Any damage absorbed by the shield is noted in your chat window. "Soaking" damage reduces the charge on a shield more quickly than usual. Note that the shields absorb up to a percentage of damage. This does not mean it will block that much damage each time, rather it will often only block between 1 and 5% of damage for minor protection of under 20 LP in most cases, only aided by the fact that the formula used for calculating damage removes 200 LP off the original hit, then removes up to 14 or 7 percent (depending on the combat style) off the number obtained by the substraction. Therefore, the shield will never absorb a full 14/7%.

Repair costs
The shield is purchased at 20% charge. Repair costs come in 1% values; you can repair them at anytime when there's at least 1% charge missing.
 * 100% charged (Fully charged) – no cost.
 * 99% charged – 20,000 coins or 2,000 coins and 200 tokens.
 * 90% charged – 200,000 coins or 20,000 coins and 2,000 tokens.
 * 0% charged (No charge) – 2,000,000 coins or 200,000 coins and 20,000 tokens.

Trivia

 * The chaotic kiteshield has one of the highest skill requirement for any piece of equipment in the game, exceeding those of the PvP armour, except for the Inferno adze, some dungeoneering armours, the Demon horn necklace, Korasi's sword, and skillcapes.
 * On the day of its release, the chaotic kiteshield gave a +7.0 Strength bonus along with very similar bonuses to a charged dragonfire shield. A few hours later it was changed to its current stats.
 * The original price for this reward used to be 400k tokens (before the 21 April 2010 update).
 * Even though the chaotic kiteshield is a kiteshield, it provides no negative ranged attack bonuses.
 * Originally, players believed it to soak 10% melee damage and 20% ranged damage, as stated in the Runescape Knowledge Base. It was confirmed by Mod Ash on 11/9/10 that it soaked 7% melee damage and 14% ranged damage instead. This upset players that bought the shield for its original ability.
 * Unlike what many players may think, the shield doesn't soak 14/7% off the original hit, but rather 14/7% of the hit subtracted by 200.
 * There is currently a glitch; When you get attacked by an NPC while wielding the shield, it does an incorrect defence animation, as if there is nothing there at all.