Guthan's platebody

Guthan's platebody

Guthan's platebody (fully broken)
Release date	9 May 2005 (Update)
Members?	Yes
Quest item?	No
Tradeable?	Yes*
Equipable?	Yes
Stacks?	No
High Alch	168,000 coins
Low Alch	112,000 coins
Destroy	Drop (If you drop this item it will break. Are you sure you want to drop it?)
Store price	Not sold
Examine	Guthan the Infested's platebody armour.
Weight	9 kg

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Guthan's Platebody

Guthan's platebody is melee armour worn in the body slot that is part of Guthan The Infested's set of barrows equipment. To wear Guthan's platebody, a player must have 70 Defence. It is currently tied with Torag's platebody and Dharok's platebody as being the strongest platebody in the game, behind Statius's platebody and Torva platebody. Despite being cheaper than the Torag's or Dharok's platebody, the Guthan's platebody is rarely used outside of the Guthan's set. This is likely due to the belief by many players that the platebody has lower bonuses.

Torag's platebody, Dharok's platebody, and Guthan's platebody have identical stats, tied for second place for highest stab and ranged defence, third for slash defence and fourth for crush defence.

Being part of the Guthan's set, if Guthan's platebody is worn along with all of the other pieces of equipment in the set the player receives a special effect. Successful attacks have a chance of replenishing one Lifepoint for each damage the player deals. As with all Barrows equipment, this item cannot be made using the Smithing skill.

Despite Guthan's having more than average combat stats, it is mostly used by players to heal (and to save inventory space due to the need of food) and then they revert back to their regular melee armour. This method saves money and ultimately puts off having to repair the armour as regularly. Guthan's platebody is a cheap alternative for people who cannot afford a dragon chainbody or do not want to spend time getting a Fighter torso. Many summoning tanks use this armour as it is incredibly strong thus making a summoning pure almost invincible to much higher level players. The set effect also proves useful for training slayer due to Its healing effect.

Scammers have been known to offer studded bodies or hardleather bodies instead of Guthan's platebodies in hopes that the other player does not notice the difference. Due to the armour graphical update, however, this has become uncommon.

• Guthan's platebody is only tradeable when undamaged or fully broken.
• If you drop this item it will degrade to "0".

Bonuses

Hover over image for type												A player wearing Guthan's platebody.
Attack bonus
0	0	0	-30	-10
Defence bonus
+122	+120	+107	-6	+132
Other bonuses				Slot
0	0	0%	0

Repair

Barrows equipment degrades as it is used. Equipment received from the Barrows minigame is fully repaired and can be used for 15 hours of combat until it degrades completely and requires repair before it can be used again. Barrows armour degrades even if the player is using protection prayers or not taking damage. Unlike the crystal shield and crystal bow, Barrows equipment does not suffer in performance as it degrades from fully repaired to broken. Fully repaired Barrows items start out with no numbers in their names, e.g. Karil's crossbow. It would become Karil's crossbow 100 the first time it's used in combat. Eventually it would degrade to Karil's crossbow 75, then 50, then 25 and finally 0 at which point the weapon would break and be unusable until repaired. Additionally, Barrows equipment may only be traded if fully repaired or fully broken.

When dropped or lost on death (even when placed under a gravestone), any piece of Barrows equipment will automatically degrade to 0. Players who attempt to drop Barrows equipment will receive a warning message about this.

There are two ways to repair Barrows armour. Players can talk to any of the NPCs listed below and they will repair the items for a price. Alternatively, players can repair the pieces themselves using an armour stand in any player-owned house. The equipment can be repaired at any stage of degrade, and the cost will be adjusted according to how much it has degraded. The repair costs below are as if the equipment has fully degraded.

The following NPCs can repair the armour:

• Bob - the axe seller in Lumbridge
• Tindel Marchant - the weapon and armour repairman at Port Khazard
• Dunstan - the smith in Burthorpe
• Squire - in the workshop area of the Void Knights' Outpost

Costs to repair barrows equipment	NPC	POH Armour Stand
		Level 1 Smithing	Level 99 Smithing
Helm	60,000	59,700	30,300
Body	90,000	89,550	45,450
Legs	80,000	79,600	40,400
Weapon	100,000	99,500	50,500
Total	330,000	328,350	166,650
The price is exactly 50% when operating a Smithing cape.

Enter your smithing level here to calculate how much it would cost to repair the Guthan's platebody on an Armour stand:

template = Barrows repair/calc
form = repairForm
result = repairResult
param = price||90000|hidden
param = level|Smithing Level (1-105)|1|int|1-105

Trivia

• The updated version of this armour seems to have some sort of undershirt when worn by a female player.
• Male player's arms are much more muscular in this platebody than others that have no sleeves.
• This platebody used to look exactly like a hardleather body except for having a row of studs.