Guardian boots

Guardian boots
Released							26 October 2017 (Update)
Members							Yes
Quest item							No
Properties
Tradeable							Yes
Equipable							Yes
Stackable							No
Noteable							Yes
Options							Wear, Drop
Examine							Some sturdy Bandos boots, made sturdier with the blackened tourmaline core of the Grotesque Guardians.
Values
Value							305,000 coins
High alch							183,000 coins
Low alch							122,000 coins
Weight							7 kg
Grand Exchange
Exchange							7,188,892 coins (info)
Buy limit							8
Daily volume							313
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Advanced data
Item ID							21733

Guardian boots are a pair of upgraded Bandos boots which require level 75 Defence to wear. They are the predominantly defensive counterpart to primordial boots, providing the best melee and ranged defence bonuses of any footwear.

They can be created by using a black tourmaline core with a pair of Bandos boots, and this process is irreversible. When a player does this, a message in the chatbox will state "The second you hold your tourmaline core by the Bandos boots, the core is absorbed rapidly. Perhaps there is some link between the metal in Bandos and tourmaline..."

Like the Bandos boots used in their creation, they will render followers of Bandos unaggressive to the wearer in the God Wars Dungeon.

The high ranged defence bonus of Guardian boots makes them even more desirable than regular Bandos boots for players trying to maximise their defensive bonuses. Furthermore, they are effective when combined with the rest of the Bandos armour when trying to achieve an extremely high ranged defence bonus. Guardian boots do not penalise ranged and magic attack bonuses as much as the original Bandos boots.

It should be noted that Guardian boots are, along with their predecessor Bandos boots and successor Echo boots, several times heavier than any other pair of boots in the game, with a weight of 7 kg. This makes them impractical for travel and dangerous skilling activities with lots of running such as Pyramid Plunder or ZMI.

Guardian boots can be further upgraded by adding an echo crystal, turning them into echo boots. This adds +2 prayer bonus and gives a unique passive effect to the boots.

Combat stats

Attack bonuses
+0	+0	+0	-3	-1
Defence bonuses
+32	+32	+32	-3	+24
Other bonuses				Slot
+3	+0	+0%	+2	List

Creation

Requirements

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Materials

Item		Quantity	Cost
	Bandos boots	1	181,300
	Black tourmaline core	1	7,166,309
Total cost			7,347,609
	Guardian boots	1	7,188,892
Profit			−158,717

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Treasure Trails

Tier	Emotes	STASH location	Items	Cost
Master	Jump for Joy	West of the pier in Zul-Andra, next to a tree		7,955,135

Changes

Date	Changes
[[{{#explode:21 June 2023| |0}} {{#explode:21 June 2023| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:21 June 2023| |2}}]] (update | poll)	Ultimate Iron players are now able to store the Guardian boots in the S.T.A.S.H. unit west of the pier in Zul-Andra.