Bandos chestplate

Bandos chestplate is a part of Bandos' armour, requiring 65 Defence to wear. It is dropped by General Graardor and his bodyguards in the God Wars Dungeon.

It is generally used as all-purpose torso armour because it offers a high defence bonus, a strength bonus, and a prayer bonus. Because of this, many players believe it is the best non-degrading platebody in the game. However it is slightly lower than the Dragon Platebody in stab and slash defence bonus, whereas the Bandos Chestplate has higher Crush, Summoning, Ranged, Strength bonus and also Prayer bonus, which the Dragon Platebody lacks.

Its appearance in the player's inventory is similar to Guthan's platebody, but when worn it actually resembles Verac's brassard merged with a steel platebody and adorned with spikes which greatly differs from what it looks like in the inventory.

When worn by a female player, the chestplate's appearance differs from the male version.

It has the highest strength bonus (+4) of any non-degradable chestplate in the game, together with the Fighter torso.

Upon the re-release of Bounty Hunter, the price of this item, amongst other items, had plummeted due to a substantial increase in supply. However, it has now recovered and even exceeded its pre-Bounty Hunter price of 12.7mil, though this price increase is likely fueled by speculation and mass-merchanting rather than anything substantial.

Trivia
In the Guitar Hero Series, Lars Umlaut wears a top similar to the Bandos chestplate, but the spikes on his chestplate are on his right shoulder.