Virtus equipment

Virtus armour is a three-pieced degradable high level magic armour set which may be obtained as a drop from Nex in the Zaros themed God Wars Dungeon expansion, the Ancient Prison, first mentioned on 3 January 2011 and released on 10 January 2011. The Virtus magic armour set has a requirement of level 80 Defence, 80 Constitution, and 80 Magic to equip.

This armour also has a special effect. Each piece of the set boosts the wearer's maximum life points. In total, the full Virtus set boosts a player's life points by 400. This special effect also increases the amount of life points healed by Saradomin brews and the healing aura special move of the unicorn stallion, as the effects of such items depend on a player's maximum number of life points when calculating how much they heal.

All pieces of the armour set are dropped exclusively by Nex, who is the 2nd highest level boss monster in the game. In addition to their individual effects, having any Virtus, Pernix, or Torva item equipped counts as a god item for all four factions in God Wars Dungeon, causing all members of the warring factions to become passive to the player. However, the armour does not cause the God Wars bosses or their body guards to become docile towards the player.

Degrading and repair
The largest drawback to this armour set is that it degrades after 10 hours of combat. The pieces do not degrade in increments, rather they retain their stats throughout the ten hours and then immediately drop to 0. This percentage can be checked by right-clicking the armour piece and selecting 'check-charge' while it is either in your inventory or equipped. Each individual item in the set has a charge value that must be replenished either at Bob's Brilliant Axes or at an armour stand in a player-owned house. Repair costs at an armour stand decrease linearly based on the player's Smithing level. The cost is exactly half with a Smithing level of 100. Boosts such as the Smithing skillcape work.

Stats

 * Virtus mask.png||Mask||0||0||0||+9||-3||+20||+18||+20||+9||-1||+17||0||0||+1||0 || 6% || 3% || 0%||+66
 * Virtus robe top.png||Robe top ||0||0||0||+36||-11||+63||+50||+70||+36||0||+65||0||0||+1||0 || 12% || 6% || 0%||+200
 * Virtus robe legs.png||nowrap="nowrap"|Robe legs||0||0||0||+26||-8||+38||+40||+40||+28||0||+32||0||0||+1||0 || 8% || 4% || 0% ||+134
 * Virtus robe legs.png||nowrap="nowrap"|Robe legs||0||0||0||+26||-8||+38||+40||+40||+28||0||+32||0||0||+1||0 || 8% || 4% || 0% ||+134
 * Virtus robe legs.png||nowrap="nowrap"|Robe legs||0||0||0||+26||-8||+38||+40||+40||+28||0||+32||0||0||+1||0 || 8% || 4% || 0% ||+134


 * 0||0||0||+71||-22||+121||+108||+130||+73||-1||+114||0||0||+3||0 || 26% || 13% || 0%||+400
 * }

Trivia

 * Virtus is Latin for "virtue", "bravery", or "courage".
 * Players soloing the Corporeal Beast use this armour set over Pernix armour as the Virtus armour set still gives the life point boost and acceptable Magic defence without sacrificing the 20 accuracy points for melee weapons when wearing Pernix armour, although the Ganodermic armour set is proving much more popular, due to its high magic defence and a staggering 53% Magic absorption rate.
 * LolthenKILL, a player spoof, wears a full set of this armour during The Elder Kiln quest.
 * An oddity of Virtus armour is that the mask provides a negative ranged defence bonus. It is the only mage armour to do so, despite the fact it is supposedly the strongest of its combat class.