Ranged armor

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This is a list of the armour that is generally worn by players who are using the Ranged skill. Ranged armour tends to have high Ranged attack bonuses and good Magic Defence bonuses. Ranged armour is usually made from animal hides, tanned dragonhide, or some other type of leather.

Ranged armour sets

Level	Level	Armour	Degrades?	Members?	Other skills/requirements
1	1 (10 for Hardleather body)	Leather armour	No	No	None
20	1 (20 for Studded body)	Studded leather armour	No	No	None
25	25	Frog-leather Armour	No	Yes	Death to the Dorgeshuun (only if buying the armour there)
30	30	Snakeskin armour	No	Yes	None
40	40	Spined armour	No	Yes	The Fremennik Trials
42	42	Void Knight Equipment	No	Yes	850 Pest Control points plus the following: 42 , , , , , , and 22
40	1 (40 for Green d'hide body)	Green dragonhide armour	No	No	Dragon Slayer (to wear the Green d'hide body)
50	1 (40 for Blue d'hide body)	Blue d'hide armour	No	Yes	None
60	1 (40 for Red d'hide body)	Red d'hide armour	No	Yes	None
70	1 (40 for Black d'hide body)	Black d'hide armour	No	Yes	None
65	45	Third-age ranger armour	No	Yes	None
70	70	Karil's armour	Yes	Yes	None
70	70	Armadyl armour	No	Yes	None

Ranged armour pieces

Level	Level	Armour	Degrades?	Members?	Other skills/requirements
1	1	Archers' ring	No	Yes	650,000 Nightmare Zone points only to imbue
1	1	Barrows gloves	No	Yes	Recipe for Disaster
30	1	Ava's attractor	No	Yes	Animal Magnetism
1	45	Archer helm	No	Yes	The Fremennik Trials
40	1	Robin hood hat	No	Yes	None
40	1	Rangers' tunic	No	Yes	None
40	1	Ranger boots	No	Yes	None
50	1	Ava's accumulator	No	Yes	Animal Magnetism
1	60	Odium ward	No	Yes	None
75	75	Pegasian boots	No	Yes	None
75	75	Twisted buckler	No	Yes	None
40	1	Ranger gloves	No	Yes	None
1	1	Book of law	No	Yes	Horror from the Deep quest
1	1	Book of balance	No	Yes	Horror from the Deep quest

Set items

Leather

Leather armour is good for beginning rangers. They are very cheap and can also be crafted. It comes in three types:

Soft leather armour - No level requirements
Hard leather armour - Level 1 Ranged and 10 Defence
Studded leather armour - Level 20 Ranged and 20 Defence to wear the body
Coif - Level 20 Ranged (part of the studded leather set but often used with the higher level sets due to level requirement)
Leather cowl
Leather body
Leather boots
Leather chaps
Leather vambraces
Hard leather body
Spiky vambraces
Studded body
Studded chaps

Frog-leather armour

Frog-leather armour is only available to members. Frog-leather armour is made by the Dorgeshuun goblins. Players must have level 25 Ranged and level 25 Defence to wear this armour. This armour is bought from Reldak in Dorgesh-Kaan.

Snakeskin

Snakeskin armour is only available to members. Snakeskin armour can be made through the Crafting skill from snakeskin, which can be obtained by killing snakes that appear in the Tai Bwo Wannai Cleanup, Temple Trekking minigames or by killing snakes at Mos Le'Harmless Island.

The whole snakeskin set is hardly worn by rangers due to the huge amount of snakeskin hides needed. However, the Snakeskin boots and bandana offer most rangers a much cheaper alternative to the highly-priced Ranger boots and Robin hood hat.

Dragonhide

Dragonhide armour is the most popular and the recommended armour players wear when ranging. Free players can only wield green dragonhide armour, and must complete the Dragon Slayer quest to wear the body. Blue, red, and black dragonhides are only available to members. Members can also craft dragonhide armour. Trimmed and gold-trimmed versions on green and blue dragonhide armour have the same stats as normal. Trimmed versions cannot be crafted. They can only be obtained through clue scrolls.

Green dragonhide

Blue dragonhide

Red dragonhide

Black dragonhide

Blessed dragonhide

There are six types of Blessed d'hide armour, each representing the six gods - Guthix (green), Saradomin (blue), Zamorak (red), Armadyl (white), Bandos (brown), and Ancient (purple). The armour has the same stats as those of black d'hide armour except for a +1 Prayer bonus on each piece.

Treasure Trail Rewards

Spined armour

Spined armour is only available for members and is Fremennik armour for rangers. Players must complete The Fremennik Trials in order to equip the body, legs, and helm. The helm, body, and chaps provide a slight Ranged attack bonus. Spined armour cannot be bought from stores and instead has to be earned from drops by the Dagannoths under Waterbirth Island.

Karil's set

Members can obtain a set of Ranged Barrows equipment, Karil the Tainted's set, as a reward from the Barrows minigame. When a player is ranging with the complete set, including Karil's crossbow, some Ranged attacks have a chance of reducing the opponent's Agility level. It requires 70 Ranged and Defence to wear.

Void Knight equipment

The Ranger helm grants the player a +10% bonus towards accuracy and a 10% increase in damage if the player is wearing the rest of the Void Knight equipment. It requires 42 Attack, Strength, Defence, Hitpoints, Ranged, and Magic along with 22 Prayer to buy (for 850 Pest Control points) and wear them.

Some players find it more effective to wear full black dragonhide armour than a full set of Void Knight armour, due to the Defence bonuses. However, those who do buy it can see a higher max hit and a higher average hit. Additionally, it classes as a hybrid set, and as such gives equal Magic, Ranged and Melee Defence, thus making it an alternative choice in minigames where hybridding is common.

Note that the armour is only range-based if you are wearing the Void ranger helm; if you are, your Ranged damage is increased by 10%.

Armadyl

Armadyl armour is high level Ranged armour, and it gives some of the best Defence available to rangers. However, Armadyl armour is rarely seen as it is hard to obtain and is expensive to buy. It is dropped by Kree'arra and his three sergeants in the God Wars Dungeon.

Third age

Third-age ranger armour is high-level Ranged armour, and currently the second best non-degradable Ranged armour (just like its Melee and Magic counterparts). Members can obtain a set of 3rd Age ranger armour as a possible reward from level 3 Treasure Trails; however, the armour is very rare and extremely expensive (it is the most expensive Ranged armour in the game). Third Age ranger armour is reportedly made from white dragonhide. It requires 65 Ranged and 45 Defence to wear.

Best F2P Ranged Armour Setup

Main article: Armour/Highest bonuses

Best F2P Ranged Armour

Note: Since fancy boots and fighting boots have a -1 ranged attack bonus, leather boots are better.

There are no rings available in F2P that give any stat increases.

Highest F2P Ranged Attack and Defence bonuses

Item	Attack Bonuses					Defence Bonuses					Other
Item
Coif	0	0	0	-1	+2	+4	+6	+8	+4	+4	0	0	0%	0
Green d'hide body	0	0	0	-15	+15	+40	+32	+45	+20	+40	0	0	0%	0
Green d'hide chaps	0	0	0	-10	+8	+22	+16	+24	+8	+22	0	0	0%	0
Green d'hide vamb	0	0	0	-10	+8	+3	+2	+4	+2	0	0	0	0%	0
Maple shortbow	0	0	0	0	+29	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0%	0
Amulet of power	+6	+6	+6	+6	+6	+6	+6	+6	+6	+6	+6	0	0%	+1
Team-36 cape	0	0	0	0	0	0	+1	+1	0	+2	0	0	0%	0
Leather boots	0	0	0	0	0	0	+1	+1	0	0	0	0	0%	0
Adamant arrow	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	+31	0%	0
Totals	+6	+6	+6	-30	+68	+79	+64	+89	+40	+74	+6	+31	0%	+1

Best P2P Ranged Armour Setup

Best P2P Ranged Armour

Ranged Attack of +232 and Ranged Strength of +125.

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Headgear	Void ⁽⁺⁰⁾ • Cowl ⁽⁺¹⁾ • Coif ⁽⁺²⁾ • Slayer helmet (i) ⁽⁺³⁾ • Snakeskin ⁽⁺⁴⁾ • Spined ⁽⁺⁶⁾ • Archer helm ⁽⁺⁶⁾ • Ranger hat ⁽⁺⁶⁾ • Blessed ⁽⁺⁷⁾ • Karil's ⁽⁺⁷⁾ • Robin hood hat ⁽⁺⁸⁾ • Third-age ⁽⁺⁹⁾ • Armadyl ⁽⁺¹⁰⁾ • Morrigan's ⁽⁺¹³⁾
Bodies	Void ⁽⁺⁰⁾ • Leather ⁽⁺²⁾ • Hardleather ⁽⁺⁸⁾ • Studded_(t)(g) ⁽⁺⁸⁾ • Frog-leather ⁽⁺¹⁰⁾ • Snakeskin ⁽⁺¹²⁾ • Rangers' ⁽⁺¹⁵⁾ • Spined ⁽⁺¹⁵⁾ • Green d'hide_(t)(g) ⁽⁺¹⁵⁾ • Blue d'hide_(t)(g) ⁽⁺²⁰⁾ • Red d'hide_(t)(g) ⁽⁺²⁵⁾ • Black d'hide_(t)(g) ⁽⁺³⁰⁾ • Blessed ⁽⁺³⁰⁾ • Third-age ⁽⁺³⁰⁾ • Karil's ⁽⁺³⁰⁾ • Armadyl ⁽⁺³³⁾ • Morrigan's ⁽⁺³⁶⁾
Legwear	Void ⁽⁺⁰⁾ • Frog-leather ⁽⁺²⁾ • Leather ⁽⁺⁴⁾ • Snakeskin ⁽⁺⁶⁾ • Studded_(t)(g) ⁽⁺⁶⁾ • Green d'hide_(t)(g) ⁽⁺⁸⁾ • Spined ⁽⁺⁸⁾ • Yak-hide ⁽⁺¹⁰⁾ • Blue d'hide_(t)(g) ⁽⁺¹¹⁾ • Red d'hide_(t)(g) ⁽⁺¹⁴⁾ • Penance skirt ⁽⁺¹⁵⁾ • Black d'hide_(t)(g) ⁽⁺¹⁷⁾ • Blessed ⁽⁺¹⁷⁾ • Third-age ⁽⁺¹⁷⁾ • Karil's ⁽⁺¹⁷⁾ • Armadyl ⁽⁺²⁰⁾ • Morrigan's ⁽⁺²³⁾
Vambraces	Void ⁽⁺⁰⁾ • Spined ⁽⁺⁰⁾ • Hardleather ⁽⁺¹⁾ • Bronze ⁽⁺²⁾ • Iron ⁽⁺³⁾ • Steel ⁽⁺⁴⁾ • Leather_(spiked) ⁽⁺⁴⁾ • Black ⁽⁺⁵⁾ • Mithril ⁽⁺⁶⁾ • Snakeskin ⁽⁺⁶⁾ • Combat bracelet ⁽⁺⁷⁾ • Regen bracelet ⁽⁺⁷⁾ • Adamant ⁽⁺⁷⁾ • Rune ⁽⁺⁸⁾ • Green d'hide_(spiked) ⁽⁺⁸⁾ • Dragon ⁽⁺⁹⁾ • Blue d'hide_(spiked) ⁽⁺⁹⁾ • Red d'hide_(spiked) ⁽⁺¹⁰⁾ • Black d'hide_(spiked) ⁽⁺¹¹⁾ • Blessed ⁽⁺¹¹⁾ • Third-age ⁽⁺¹¹⁾ • Ranger ⁽⁺¹¹⁾ • Barrows ⁽⁺¹²⁾
Boots	Spined ⁽⁺⁰⁾ • Frog-leather ⁽⁺²⁾ • Snakeskin ⁽⁺³⁾ • Blessed ⁽⁺⁷⁾ • Ranger ⁽⁺⁸⁾ • Pegasian ⁽⁺¹²⁾
Capes	Ranging ⁽⁺⁰⁾ • Fire cape ⁽⁺¹⁾ • Infernal cape ⁽⁺¹⁾ • Ava's attractor ⁽⁺²⁾ • Ava's accumulator ⁽⁺⁴⁾ • Ava's assembler ⁽⁺⁸⁾
Amulets	Accuracy ⁽⁺⁴⁾ • Power ⁽⁺⁶⁾ • Glory ⁽⁺¹⁰⁾ • Fury ⁽⁺¹⁰⁾ • Anguish ⁽⁺¹⁵⁾
Rings	Archers ⁽⁺⁴⁾ • Archers (i) ⁽⁺⁸⁾
Shields	Hard leather ⁽⁺²⁾ • Snakeskin ⁽⁺³⁾ • Green d'hide ⁽⁺⁴⁾ • Book of balance ⁽⁺⁴⁾• Blue d'hide ⁽⁺⁵⁾ • Red d'hide ⁽⁺⁶⁾ • Black d'hide ⁽⁺⁷⁾ • Unholy book ⁽⁺⁸⁾ • Book of law ⁽⁺¹⁰⁾ • Odium ward ⁽⁺¹²⁾ • Dragonfire ward ⁽⁺¹⁵⁾ • Twisted buckler ⁽⁺¹⁸⁾