Verac's brassard

Verac's brassard is melee armour worn in the Body slot that is part of Verac the Defiled's Barrows equipment. To wear Verac's brassard, a player must have 70 Defence.

As part of Verac's barrows set, if Verac's brassard is worn along with all of the other pieces of equipment in Verac's barrows set the player receives a special attack. Successful attacks have a chance of hitting through an opponent's defence and prayer, potentially causing heavy damage.

It is sometimes worn in place of a Dragon chainbody as it provides nearly identical stat bonuses and a healthy prayer bonus for less than 1/20th the price, while still looking somewhat-good with the rest of the Dragon armour set. This piece of armour gives the lowest defence stat-wise among other chest armour that requires 70 defence and is also lower than the Dragon platebody which only requires 60 defence. These stats make this less useful for the purpose of tanking, although this may be compensated by its very small magic and range attack penalty as well as a decent prayer bonus. Even though it gives a good defence bonus, only the shoulder and shield-wielding arm appear to be protected while wearing Verac's brassard–which would present an ergonomic as well as a protective problem.

The low negative magic bonus makes this plate one of the best to cast magic from, While at the same time providing a good defence and prayer bonus.

Repair
This can be fixed at Bob's Brilliant Axes in Lumbridge, Tindel Marchant in Port Khazard, or the smither at the Void Knights' Outpost. All three can fix it at any degrade stage. The cost to fix it depends on how much it has degraded. To fully fix from complete degradation costs 90,000 coins. Verac's armour will only degrade while wearing it during combat, and will degrade completely after worn for 14 hours of combat. A cheaper way to repair a Verac's Brassard is to take the degraded brassard to a Player-owned house and use it on an armour stand.

 * - Verac's brassard is only tradeable when undamaged or fully broken.

Graphics history
In the introduction of the Barrows armour sets, the top on Female characters looked the same as on male characters, thus rendering the female characters somewhat topless. When Jagex found out the problem, they fixed it in an update, causing the female characters to wear a piece of cloth on their chest as well. This piece of cloth only covers the front. It is not known if this is intentional.