Hydra platebody

The Hydra platebody is well known for its light weight (when compared to other plate metals) and high defence bonuses. It requires 75 Defence to wear and is one of the best platebodies in RuneScape.

There is only three ways to obtain a Hydra platebody. The most easiest way is to buy it from another player or in the Grand Exchange for over 13 million gp, although simple, as the Hydra platebody is rare it is likely anyone would sell it. It can also be bought from Tenas Morve at north of Seers' Village but in a very high price of 14,5 million gp. The last way is a rare drop (1 in 60 kills) from a lvl 492 Hydra in Brimhaven Dungeon where the steel dragons can be found.

Fixing and repairing
When you are equipped with Hydra platebody there is a 15% of chance that it might break or be overused once every 30 minutes. A very low odd but still it can happen! You can either fix it yourself or talk to Thurgo to fix the armor.

If you are going to fix it yourself you will need 70 Smithing and a hammer. Use the over used armor on an anvil and your character will start beat it's hammer on the armor making it thick again ready for use. This gives you 1,000 xp and if you have a Smithing Cape of Achievement it will give you 2,000 xp instead.

If you ask Thurgo to fix it you will need to give him 1,000 gp. If you have the Smithing skillcape you would only have to give him 100 gp, this is useful if you don't have the required Smithing level or is too away from an anvil but near Port Sarim.