Dragon equipment

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Dragon equipment are some of the most powerful pieces of armour and weapons in Gielinor. All dragon equipment is dark red in appearance, with the exception of dragon darts and dragon arrows.

[edit] Weapons

Dragon weapons are some of the most powerful weapons. Like dragon armour, (except the dragon platebody and dragon square shield) they are not smithable. Most dragon weapons are Pay-to-play only, with the exception of corrupt equipment and require level 60 Attack to wield. All dragon weapons (except for the dragon darts) have special attacks; each weapon has its own abilities and functions. Most dragon weapons require the completion of a specific quest to be wielded. They were created by the Dragonkin, as revealed by Mr. Mordaut in a Postbag from the Hedge. Dragon weapons are very popular with new members with 60+ Attack, as Lost City is very easy to complete and is an easy pathway to the Dragon longsword and Dragon dagger.

[edit] Dragon Weapons in the RuneScape Economy

Since their initial release, dragon weapons have profoundly affected the economy of the game. They have affected the economy for weapons in many ways - specifically runite weapons. At a time runite items were arguably the best in the game, and the introduction of dragon items encouraged players to save for and obtain them instead of runite, reducing demand and causing the prices of those items to fall.

[edit] Current Dragon Weapons

In order of release:

	Poisonable?	Requires	Exchange price	Release Date
Dragon longsword	No	Lost City	60,000 coins	27 February 2002
Dragon battleaxe	No	Heroes Quest	119,800 coins	27 February 2002
Dragon dagger	Yes	Lost City	29,800 coins	27 February 2002
Dragon mace	No	Heroes Quest	29,800 coins	27 February 2002
Dragon spear	Yes		37,276 coins	Unknown
Dragon halberd	No	Regicide	195,100 coins	20 September 2004
Dragon scimitar	No	Monkey Madness	99,800 coins	29 March 2005
Dragon hatchet	No		1,910,190 coins	7 November 2005
Dragon 2h sword	No		824,300 coins	20 February 2006
Dragon arrow	Yes	Dark bow	4,474 coins each	11 June 2007
Dragon dart	Yes		447 coins each	11 June 2007
Dragon claws	No		33,600,000 coins	26 November 2008

Dragon arrow and dragon dart tips are actually made from a dragon's talons and not from dragon metal, which may explain why the darts are the only "dragon" item with no special attack. They are the only dragon items that can be made using the Fletching skill.

[edit] Armour

A player getting 60 Defence and gaining the ability to wield dragon equipment.

Dragon armour is considered the next step up from Rune armour. All dragon armour requires level 60 Defence to wear and is members-only. Dragon armour is often overrated by F2P players, as most pieces of Barrows armour have better stats and are less expensive. They are a distinctive dark red in colour and are generally sold at fairly high prices, or are dropped by high-levelled monsters at a low drop rate. Dragon armour is considered one of the highest valued melee armour in the game. The dragon armour items are plate, chain, legs/skirt, full helm/med helm, square shield, boots, gloves/gauntlets. There is a Dragon chain armour set with the medium helm and the chainbody, and a Dragon plate armour set with the full helm and the platebody sold in the Grand Exchange.

It is often debated whether it is cheaper to buy Dragon armour or Barrows equipment, since Barrows equipment requires repairs every 10 hours of combat. Though barrows equipment has a much larger defence bonus than dragon armour does.

None of the Dragon armour or weapons can be made using the Smithing skill, with the exception of the Dragon platebody and the Dragon square shield, which can be made or repaired at 92 and 60 Smithing, respectively.

The Dragon square shield is created by combining a Shield left half with a Shield right half on an anvil, which requires 60 Smithing. Note you also need the Legends Quest completed to be able to wield or make this shield.

To repair the Dragon platebody, level 92 Smithing is needed, along with a Blast fusion hammer. There are 3 parts needed to repair the Dragon platebody: the Ruined dragon armour slice, the Ruined dragon armour lump and the Ruined dragon armour shard. The Assist system may be used.

[edit] Items

Name	Requires	Exchange Price	Release Date
Dragon med helm		60,000 coins	21 February 2001
Dragon sq shield	Legends Quest	362,600 coins	20 August 2003
Dragon chainbody		5,000,000 coins	7 September 2004
Dragon platelegs		702,400 coins	17 January 2005
Dragon plateskirt		173,800 coins	29 March 2005
Dragon gloves*	Recipe for Disaster	Untradeable; bought from Culinaromancer's Chest for 100,000 coins	15 March 2006
Dragon full helm		15,900,000 coins	3 July 2007
Dragon boots		407,700 coins	28 August 2007
Dragon gauntlets		60,900 coins	9 April 2008
Dragon platebody		10,100,000 coins	26 November 2008

* In-game they are just known as Gloves.

The dragon square shield can be made by using the two halves on an anvil. This requires level 60 Smithing.
To repair the dragon platebody you need all three pieces of dragon metal, a Blast fusion hammer and 92 smithing. Players can only smith this in the Ancient Caverns. This can be made with the Assist System and the player will gain 2000 smithing experience by doing so.

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Dragon plate set before the update on 25.3.09

Dragon plate set after the update on 25.3.09

[edit] Non-existent Dragon Items

There are several dragon items that have yet to be released. These items include:

[edit] Non-existent Dragon Weapons

Dragon sword
Dragon warhammer
Dragon pickaxe (Mod Mark recently confirmed that they will eventually release this item.^{[source needed]})
Dragon hasta
Dragon crossbow
Dragon bolts (bolts made of dragon metal)
Dragon throwing axes
Dragon knives
Dragon javelins
Dragon brutal arrows

[edit] Non-existent Dragon Armour

Dragon kiteshield
Dragon defender

Because of this, Jagex has come up with a few April Fool's jokes, with Dragon Plates and Dragon kites actually being toys that players can buy from Diango in the Draynor Village.

[edit] Trivia

All dragon items differ slightly in their appearances to their respective appearances in other metals.

The dragon med helm was the first piece of dragon equipment released.

[edit] See also

Corrupt dragon equipment