Dragon sq shield

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Dragon sq shield

Also known as?	Dragon square shield, D sq,
Members only?	Yes
Quest item?	Yes Legends Quest
Tradeable?	Yes
Equipable?	Yes
Stacks?	No
High Alchemy	300,000 coins
Low Alchemy	200,000 coins
Destroy	Drop
Store price	Not sold
Exchange price	299,900 coins update
GE Database	Look up price
Examine	An ancient and powerful looking Dragon Square shield.
Weight	3 kg
Click to enlarge

The Dragon square shield (Dragon sq shield) is a piece of dragon equipment, and among the better shields in the game. To wield the shield, a player must have at least 60 defence and must have completed the Legends Quest.

The dragon square shield is made of a left half and a right half, which may be combined by using them with a hammer on an anvil, with level 60 smithing required. The shield right half can be purchased in the Legends' Guild for 750,000 coins after completing the Legends Quest. The shield left half can only be obtained as a rare drop from any monster that drops gems. The drop rate of the left half from a monster is typically one chance in perhaps 1000-20000, depending on the monster. The halves of the shield cannot be re-obtained by splitting the shield after it is made.

Several years ago, the dragon square shield was the best shield in the game and was worth several million coins. However, the release of other shields and items that can be used in the shield slot has made the dragon square shield be less commonly used. For example, the Dragonfire shield is better than dragon square shields in all stats. Spirit shields are very good as well, sometimes even preferable to dragonfire shields. Also, the rune defender has very good attack bonuses and a strength bonus, which makes it preferable to dragon square shields in many cases.

Dragon square shields may also be obtained in their whole form as drops on PvP worlds. This source of shields has caused the price to fall significantly, all the way down to the high alchemy value of 300k. Due to the right half costing 750k in the store, this has made it infeasible to obtain the shields via smithing. This resulted in the devaluing of the shield left half all the way down to the high alchemy price of 60k, even though it is a very rare drop. There is now no reason to buy a shield right half from the store, and left halves should now be alched rather than smithed into shields.

Despuite being a square shield, the Dragon square shield does not include a negative magic defence bonus.

Bonuses Hover over image for type						A player with a dragon square shield equipped.
Attack bonus
0	0	0	-6	-2
Defence bonus
+50	+52	+48	0	+50	+50
Other bonuses
0		0		0
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[edit] Trivia

• Vannaka, the Combat Instructor and Slayer Master, wields a steel two-handed sword along with the dragon square shield at the same time.
• Originally the individual images of the shield's right and left halves combined would have resembled a kite shield rather than a square shield. This was fixed after player comments.

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• The symbol matches the one on the toy kite and the symbol of the Legends' Guild.
• Zamorak Warriors in the Chaos Tunnels seem to wield dragon square shields along with dragon long swords.

[edit] References

• Grand Exchange Database - Current price

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