Armour/Ranged armour

Ranged armour is generally crafted from tanned monster hides. Currently, cows, yaks, snakes, dragons, and dagannoths are the few creatures which drop hides upon death.

It provides great defence against magic attacks but low defence against melee attacks. Ranged armour usually has relatively high attack bonuses for Ranged attacks and can also be used to boost the effect of slayer dart.

Ranged armour is considerably lightweight compared to metal or stone melee armour. Low to medium level ranger armour is also cheaper by comparison and does not affect melee stats. For this, it is often worn in place of melee armour by 'hybrid' warriors who are fighting against mages.

Because some pieces of ranged armour require no defence level but provide large defence bonuses, ranged armour is preferred by pures.

Leather armour
Leather armour is good for beginning rangers. They are very cheap and can also be crafted. Leather armour could often be purchased at the general store in Al Kharid, as many crafters often sell leather items there, since they can get leather tanned in the city, however since the personalised stock update this is no longer possible.

Frog-leather armour
Frog-leather armour is only available to members. Frog-leather armour is made by the Dorgeshuun goblins. Players must have level 25 Ranged and level 25 Defence to wear this armour. This armour is bought from Reldak in Dorgesh-Kaan.

Snakeskin armour
Snakeskin armour is only available to members. Snakeskin armour can be made through the Crafting skill from snakeskin, which can be obtained by killing snakes that appear in the Tai Bwo Wannai Cleanup, Temple Trekking activities or by killing level 35 snakes at Mos'le Harmless Island.

The whole snakeskin set is hardly worn by rangers due to the huge amount of snakeskin hides needed. However, the Snakeskin boots and bandana offer most rangers a much cheaper alternative to the highly priced Ranger boots and Robin Hood hat.

Spined armour
Spined armour is only available for members and is Fremennik armour for rangers. The helm, body and chaps provide a slight range attack bonus. Spined armour cannot be bought from stores and instead has to be earned from drops by the Dagannoths under Waterbirth Island.

Dragonhide armour
Dragonhide armour is the most popular and the recommended armour players wear when ranging. Free players can only wield green dragonhide armour, and must complete the Dragon Slayer quest to wield the green dragonhide body. Blue, red, and black dragonhide is only available to members. Members can also craft dragonhide armour. Trimmed and Gold-trimmed versions on green and blue dragonhide armour have same stats as normal. Trimmed versions CANNOT be done with crafting.



Third age ranger armour
Third age ranger armour is high-level ranged armour, and currently the best non-degradable ranged armour (just like its melee and magic counterparts). Members can obtain a set of third age ranger armour as a possible reward from level 3 treasure trails, however the armour is very rare and extremely expensive (it was the most expensive ranged armour in the game until Pernix was added). Third age ranger armour is reportedly made from white dragonhide.

Karil the Tainted
Members can obtain a set of ranged barrows equipment, Karil the Tainted's, as a reward from the Barrows activity. When a player is ranging with the complete set, including Karil's crossbow, some ranged attacks have a chance of reducing the opponent's agility. This helps if your opponent tries to run away from you, as they can't run far with this special attack.

Armadyl armour
Armadyl armour is high level ranged armour. It gives the second highest range attack available. Armadyl armour is not often seen, due to its price and rarity. It is dropped by Kree'arra and his three sergeants in the God Wars Dungeon.

Void Knight Armour
The ranger helm grants the player a +10% bonus towards accuracy and damage, if the player is wearing the rest of the Void Knight equipment.

(*). Need 42 Attack, Strength, Defence, Constiution, Ranged, and Magic with 22 Prayer to buy and wear them.

As some players find it more effective to wear full black dragonhide armour than a full set of Void Knight armour, due to the high ranged accuracy bonus, this item is not frequently bought. However, those who do buy it can see a higher max hit and a higher average hit. For example, with 75 Ranged one can hit a maximum hit of 180 with full black dragonhide using a crystal bow, while with Void Knight range the max hit is 210.

Morrigan's armour
Members can obtain these armour pieces as rare drops by killing other Revenants. There are two versions of this equipment. Corrupted items require only 20 ranged and defence levels, but last only 15 minutes, while the normal items require 78 ranged and defence levels and lasts 1 hour. See Morrigan's Equipment for more info.

Pernix armour
Pernix armour is the best set of ranged armour in the game, requiring 80 Ranged, Defence, and Constitution to wear. Its parts are obtained from Nex located in the Ancient Prison, and is considered a rare drop. After 10 hours of combat, it must be repaired (similar to Barrows equipment) before it can be used again. The set does not include gloves/vambraces or boots, so the use of RFD gloves, Black dragonhide vambraces, Mercenary gloves, or Swift gloves, and Snakeskin boots, Ranger boots, or Glaiven boots are recommended to achieve an extremely accurate ranged attack. This set of armour is very expensive, even to maintain, and is usually worn by players with a high combat level.

Other armour
Members also have access to different kinds of armour. Ranger boots and robin hood hats are rare rewards from Treasure Trails, archers' rings can be obtained by killing Dagannoth Supreme under Waterbirth Island, archer helms can be bought from Rellekka after completing The Fremennik Trials quest and Glaiven Boots can be acquired from Glacors after Ritual of the Mahjarrat. Also, if you have 110 combat, you can enter the Dominion Tower and unlock Swift Gloves, which currently give the highest ranged attack bonus in-game. However, they are degradable and don't last long.

Armour/Ranged armour