Battle robes



Battle robes are a set of robes from the Fist of Guthix activity, made up of a hood, top, and bottom. A complete set requires 2750 Fist of Guthix tokens. While the complete set of battle robes is worn, there is a good chance that the robes will supply Mind, Chaos, Death or Blood runes when casting a combat spell.

The robes degrade over time similar to the Barrows equipment, and may only be traded when completely degraded. The Battle robes require 60 magic and 50 defence to wear. The Battle robes are available for members only.

Although they do give a better chance of producing you mind/chaos/death/blood runes, in a single cast it will only produce one type of these runes, such as only the chaos/death runes in an ancient combat cast. Also, it may not provide all of that type used, but when activated, will provide at least 1 of these runes. When they do activate, they give the message "Your spell draws some of its destructive power from your robes."

From a test involving 114 spell casts including Ice Rush, Ice Burst, Wind Bolt, Wind Blast, Wind Wave and Fire Wave, casted on a variety of monsters from Guards to Suqahs to Ice warriors, only 15% of these spells were supplemented with runes (Jagex has confirmed that they save runes 20% of the time). The monster and spell cast had no effect on when the set effect activated or to what extent (except of course how many runes could be supplied maximum). With regards to token cost then, these robes are much more inefficient than the Combat robes. However, they do have better defensive stats than Combat robes and Druidic mage robes.

If combined with a Staff of light, the chances of runes being supplied becomes 50%.

Battle Robes can be bought off the GE for around 80k for the hood, to 1m for the bottom and top, which can save a player a lot of time. However, they are extremely hard to buy in the GE due to an extremely high demand and a very limited supply. However, due to recent increases in price, these are becoming easier to buy on the G.E because the price per FOG token if you buy the robes is actually much higher than that of rune gauntlets(what everyone used to spend their FOG tokens on to make money).

Components and bonuses

 * Battle hood||0||0||0||+5||0||+7||+6||+8||+5||0||+8||0||0||0
 * Battle robe top ||0||0||0||+26||0||+17||+15||+20||+26||0||+30||0||0||0
 * Battle robe bottom||0||0||0||+20||0||+14||+11||+16||+20||0||+23||0||0||0
 * Battle robe bottom||0||0||0||+20||0||+14||+11||+16||+20||0||+23||0||0||0
 * Battle robe bottom||0||0||0||+20||0||+14||+11||+16||+20||0||+23||0||0||0


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Uncharged components and bonuses

 * Battle hood||0||0||0||+2||0||+3||+2||+3||+2||0||+3||0||0||0
 * Battle robe top ||0||0||0||+7||0||+4||+4||+5||+7||0||+8||0||0||0
 * Battle robe bottom||0||0||0||+6||0||+4||+3||+4||+6||0||+7||0||0||0
 * Battle robe bottom||0||0||0||+6||0||+4||+3||+4||+6||0||+7||0||0||0
 * Battle robe bottom||0||0||0||+6||0||+4||+3||+4||+6||0||+7||0||0||0


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Trivia

 * On the back of the fully charged Battle robes there appears to be a Guthixian symbol. However, the same symbol can be seen in enchanted robe top, and could also refer to Sliske, a Zarosian mahjarrat. Purple has been identified as the colour of Zaros, whose items in the game (Ancient hymnal, Ancient staff) are combat related.
 * At the moment, battle robes can be purchased off the Grand Exchange for around 1 Million GP per part of the set. however, this is highly unlikely due to the fact that almost no one sells them on the G.E.
 * On the back of the female robes, there are two half squares on the top and bottom, but on the male version there are four corners instead of two half squares. This is due to the slimmer profile of a female avatar, which effectively pushes the two corners on the top and bottom togeather because of space.