Artisan dragon platebody

The artisan dragon platebody is a platebody which requires level 65 Defence to wear and 113 Smithing to make. It requires five dragon bars to make, giving the player 4200 experience, and can only be made after the completion of the Dragonsmithing miniquest.

This platebody is popular for its robustness in appearance, bearing a more simplistic and conservative look and for how it can be smithed from scratch unlike the normal dragon platebody which typically costs a few million coins to produce assuming parts are bought, giving the artisan dragon platebody an advantage in being significantly less expensive. The trade-off is, as with all artisan dragon armor, that the pieces have lower alchemy values, require a Defence level of 65 as opposed to 60, and are mostly inferior in terms of statistics to their normal dragon counterparts, although they take a more hybrid-like and balanced stance and are lighter in weight. Regardless, artisan dragon equipment is generally phasing out ordinary dragon equipment in terms of popularity and trade, with exceptions including weapons such as the dragon dagger and the dragon sword.

Trivia

 * Shortly after the release of Dragonsmithing and the artisan dragon set, dragon items began to crash severely in the Grand Exchange, especially bad enough that the dragon platebody neared its high alchemy value.