Gearing up for runescape, what to wear. I know you didnt sign up for this, but hey. Im kinda bored of wow so im going back to runescape for a bit.  As you may have already heard. Yep im back to being a noob once again, or maybe i always was anyway, i am slowly piecing together the best bits of gear that arent too pricy in runescape, for your viewing pleasure. Please correct me if im wrong… this is a good base of gear anyway.

Melee Gear – Noob Guide

Bandos Armour Now alot of people say that you should wear the dragon boots as they have better str bonus these can be had for about 185k so not too pricey, so this is probably true for melee training as the Str or Strength bonuses make you hit harder, so thats always good. The problem with bandos is that its fairly pricey, coming in at 17.6 million for the Bandos chest, 19 million for the Bandos Tassets.

Item		Attack bonuses					Defence bonuses						Other				Absorption
	Bandos chestplate	0	0	0	-15	-10	+98	+93	+105	-6	+133	+52	+4	0	+1	0	4%	0%	9%
	Bandos tassets	0	0	0	-21	-7	+71	+63	+66	-4	+93	+25	+2	0	+1	0	3%	0%	6%
	Bandos boots	0	0	0	-5	-3	+17	+18	+19	0	0	+15	0	0	+1	0	0%	0%	0%
Totals		0	0	0	-41	-20	+187	+174	+190	-10	+226	+92	+6	0	+3	0	7%	0%	15%

More details on Bandos Armor Wiki

Another good piece of gear that is nice and easy to get is a regen bracelet, you wear this instead of gloves and can be had for about 150k. Its pretty good as it makes your health regen twice as fast and usually ticks for about 3-5 health every few seconds from my experience, so its free health and gives you a bit longer to be fighting with less bank runs.

Now if you are feeling keen, you can goto the warriors guild and get yourself a dragon defender to use instead of a shield, it counts as an offhand weapon and looks pretty pimp as well.

For main hand weapon a whip is usually the best bet unless you are training strength, where a dragon scimitar will probably server you better (if you have done the Monkey Madness quest), otherwise you can use a brackish blade, which are on the pricy side at around 550k (if you have no money like me).

Some other gear opinions that i have found are as follows (not sure what to choose, i guess it depends on skill level and funds) :

The Medium’ly Expensive Option

• HEAD: Torag’s Helm (217,684gp) / Guthan’s Helm (714,000gp)
• Neck: Amulet of Fury (10,233,873gp)
• BACK: Obsidian Cape (36k gp) (Until fire cape) 
• BODY: Torag’s (Set is 1.6m) / Guthan’s (2.2m) / Dharok’s (5.4m)
• GLOVES: Barrow Gloves - Not avail on Grand Exchange, have to do a quest/points. I much prefer the regen bracelet my self.
• RING: Ring of Life (8k)
• LEGS: Torag’s Legs/Guthan’s Legs/Dharok’s Legs 
• BOOTS: Dragon Boots (185,900)
• WEAPON: Armadyl Godsword (44,800,000 gp)

Totals (if you buy the full set) : ~ Around 56 million, due to the weapon. Give or take about 5 mil.

The Cheap’er Option

• Chest: fighter torso (babarian assault) *quert requirement
• Dragon Platelegs (171,236), 
• Dragon Boots (185,900)
• Abyssal Whip (801,000) (when 70′attack) 
• Dragon Long Sword (59,427) or Dragon Dagger (17,641) (p++) 
  • train slayer and do the “smoking kills” quest to get the Slayer Helm
• dragon defender (warriors guild)

Totals: Around the 1.2million GP mark