Dragon kiteshield

The dragon kiteshield is one of the strongest kiteshields in the game, and a rare reward from the Queen Black Dragon's coffers. It requires 60 Defence to wear.

Item Comparison

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 * The dragon kiteshield is the ninth-strongest shield in the game, behind the Blessed Spirit Shield in overall defensive capability. It is the third-strongest kiteshield in the game, behind the chaotic kiteshield and third-age kiteshield.

Dropping monsters

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Trivia

 * The original price of the shield in the Grand Exchange upon release was 800,000gp - although players were paying up to 300 million coins to try and get a hold of it.
 * The shield's unplanned release was first confirmed definitively in a post by Mod Adj on Jagex's Youtube channel in the summer of 2010. However, the post emphasized that it would not be added until an ideal method of releasing it was developed.
 * The dragon kiteshield has been requested and talked of by players since the introduction of dragon equipment. Jagex referenced this through an April Fools joke on 1 April 2008, during which Diango was said to be selling "dragon kites," a slang term often applied to dragon kiteshields. When Diango was spoken to, it was revealed that these were in fact toy kites bearing a dragon symbol. Diango went on to say that the kites had been ordered a year before their arrival in Draynor Village, but that they had been stolen by someone that had taken the shipment's label, "Dragon Kites," to mean that they were actual shields.
 * Originally the individual images of dragon square shield right and left halves combined would have resembled a kiteshield rather than a square shield. Jagex later updated the item's images after players noticed this. The symbol on the old dragon sq shield strongly resembles the symbol on the Toy kite.
 * The term "dragon kiteshield" has also been applied by players to heraldic rune kiteshields bearing a dragon crest. These are made of runite, however, rather than dragon.
 * An anagram of dragon kiteshield, "a soldiered knight", was mentioned during the Chaos Elemental Letter 16, hinting that it would be dropped by the Queen Black Dragon, which was confirmed in the May 2012 Behind the Scenes.