Guthan's platebody

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Guthan's platebody is melee armour worn in the body slot that is part of Guthan The Infested's set of barrows equipment. To wear Guthan's platebody, a player must have 70 Defence. It is currently tied with Torag's platebody and Dharok's platebody as being the strongest platebody in the game, behind Statius's platebody and Torva platebody. Despite being cheaper than the Torag's or Dharok's platebody, the Guthan's platebody is rarely used outside of the Guthan's set. This is likely due to the belief by many players that the platebody has lower bonuses.

Torag's platebody, Dharok's platebody, and Guthan's platebody have identical stats, tied for second place for highest stab and ranged defence, third for slash defence and fourth for crush defence.

Being part of the Guthan's set, if Guthan's platebody is worn along with all of the other pieces of equipment in the set the player receives a special effect. Successful attacks have a chance of replenishing one Lifepoint for each damage the player deals. As with all Barrows equipment, this item cannot be made using the Smithing skill.

Despite Guthan's having more than average combat stats, it is mostly used by players to heal (and to save inventory space due to the need of food) and then they revert back to their regular melee armour. This method saves money and ultimately puts off having to repair the armour as regularly. Guthan's platebody is a cheap alternative for people who cannot afford a dragon chainbody or do not want to spend time getting a Fighter torso. Many summoning tanks use this armour as it is incredibly strong thus making a summoning pure almost invincible to much higher level players. The set effect also proves useful for training slayer due to Its healing effect.

Scammers have been known to offer studded bodies or hardleather bodies instead of Guthan's platebodies in hopes that the other player does not notice the difference. Due to the armour graphical update, however, this has become uncommon.


 * Guthan's platebody is only tradeable when undamaged or fully broken.
 * If you drop this item it will degrade to "0".

Trivia

 * The updated version of this armour seems to have some sort of undershirt when worn by a female player.
 * Male player's arms are much more muscular in this platebody than others that have no sleeves.
 * This platebody used to look exactly like a hardleather body except for having a row of studs.

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