Shadow gem Virtus armour

Shadow gem Virtus armour is a set of Treasure Hunter rewards from the Crystal Capsules promotion. It is a variant of Virtus equipment with a colour theme to match the other Crystal Capsules promotion rewards. It is fully functioning, degrading in the same manner as the normal items and protecting from all main factions in the God Wars Dungeon. However, no pieces of this set are augmentable.

Degrading and repair

Ancient armour degrades as it is used. Equipment received from Nex or Treasure Hunter is fully repaired and can be used for 60,000 charges of combat (though it degrades by 2 charges per hit, making the minimum time 5 hours) until it degrades completely and requires repair before it can be used again; it does not suffer in performance as it degrades from fully repaired to fully degraded. The remaining charges of Ancient armour can be checked by right-clicking it and selecting 'check-charge'. Additionally, Ancient armour may only be traded if fully repaired or fully degraded, excluding Shadow Gem variants. Items lose 20% charge if reclaimed from a gravestone after dying.

There are two ways to repair Ancient armour. Players can talk to any of the NPCs listed below and they will repair the items for a price, or repair the pieces themselves using an armour stand in any player-owned house for a reduced cost based on their Smithing level. The equipment can be repaired at any stage, 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 Ancient equipment	NPC	POH Armour Stand
		Level 1 Smithing	Level 99 Smithing
Helm	500,000	497,500	252,500
Body	2,000,000	1,990,000	1,010,000
Legs	1,000,000	995,000	505,000
Gloves	200,000	199,000	101,000
Boots	100,000	99,500	50,500
Total	3,800,000	3,781,000	1,919,000
The price is exactly 50% when boosted to 100 Smithing

Components

Item		Main-hand			Off-hand			Attribute			Style bonus
		Style	Dmg	Acc	Style	Dmg	Acc
	Shadow gem Virtus mask	-	-	-	-	-	-	338	110	2	-	-	20
	Shadow gem Virtus robe top	-	-	-	-	-	-	389	220	3	-	-	30
	Shadow gem Virtus robe legs	-	-	-	-	-	-	372	165	2	-	-	25
	Shadow gem Virtus gloves	-	-	-	-	-	-	84	-	2	-	-	12
	Shadow gem Virtus boots	-	-	-	-	-	-	84	-	2	-	-	12
Totals		-	-	-	-	-	-	1267	495	11	-	-	99

Update history

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• patch 28 September 2020 (Update):
  • Players are now able to reclaim the 'Shadow Gem Virtus' items from Diango.

• patch 21 October 2019 (Update):
  • Shadow Gem Virtus death reclaim costs now matches the normal Virtus death reclaim costs.

• patch 14 October 2019 (Update):
  • Added destroy warning to Shadow gem Virtus when destroying from the clean up filter.

• update 16 September 2019 (Update):
  • Added to game.