Torva armour

Torva armour is a set of equipment requiring level 80 Defence to equip. The individual armour pieces are obtainable only as rewards from Nex.

The pieces of armour are dropped in a broken state, and must be repaired using Bandosian components made by breaking down Bandos chestplates and tassets. Breaking down the components can only be performed at the Ancient Forge within the God Wars Dungeon's Ancient Prison.

Components

Item		GE Price
	Torva full helm	200,944,233
	Torva platebody	351,730,806
	Torva platelegs	268,215,589
Total		820,890,628

Components (damaged)

Item		GE Price
	Torva full helm (damaged)	191,093,609
	Torva platebody (damaged)	333,270,569
	Torva platelegs (damaged)	250,499,700
	Bandosian components x5	48,494,155
Total		823,358,033

Sanguine torva

Torva armour pieces can be cosmetically enhanced via the ancient blood ornament kit. This requires the player to have defeated the awakened versions of Vardorvis, The Leviathan, The Whisperer and Duke Sucellus at least once. The kit has unlimited uses, though converting a piece of torva armour into its sanguine variant requires an additional 20,000 blood runes.

Item
	Sanguine torva full helm
	Sanguine torva platebody
	Sanguine torva platelegs

Gallery

• 
  A male player wearing the full Torva armour set.
• 
  A female player wearing the full Torva armour set.
• 
  A male player wearing the full Sanguine Torva armour set.
• 
  A female player wearing the full Sanguine Torva armour set.

Historical

Torva armour was one of the original rewards from Nex upon its release in RuneScape, and replaced the Virtus robes as the original reward; the robes would later be obtained as drops from The Forgotten Four after completion of Desert Treasure II - The Fallen Empire.

Compared to Old School RuneScape's version of the set, the original set had several differences:

• Having the armour equipped made all factions in the God Wars Dungeon unaggressive, rather than just Zarosian NPCs.
• The armour lasted for 15 hours in combat before needing to be repaired, and each piece of the set boosted Hitpoints by a certain amount, equal to 40 Hitpoints:

RuneScape 2 (pre-EoC) stats

Item		Hitpoints boost	Base repair cost	Skill requirements
	Torva full helm	6.6	500,000	80 80 80
	Torva platebody	20	2,000,000
	Torva platelegs	13.4	1,000,000

The armour had the following bonuses:

Item		Attack bonuses					Defence bonuses					Other
	Torva full helm	0	0	0	-7	-3	+68	+73	+65	-2	+74	+3	0	0%	+1
	Torva platebody	0	0	0	-31	-11	+156	+140	+120	-10	+160	+4	0	0%	+1
	Torva platelegs	0	0	0	-21	-8	+112	+100	+95	-5	+125	+2	0	0%	+1
Totals		0	0	0	-59	-22	+336	+313	+280	-17	+359	+9	0	0%	+3

Appearance

The appearance of Torva armour was graphically updated on 3 August 2023, as it was believed to have clashed with the "simple and bold aesthetics" of Old School's art style. The level of detail of the original was designed for the larger world scale of RuneScape, and thus was believed to have appeared "cluttered and out-of place".

A non-trivial number of players disagreed with said change, mostly due to nostalgia towards its iconic appearance in its original release in RuneScape 2 in 2011. As such, unobtainable variants of the full helm, platebody, and platelegs were released as a compromise to allow the third party client RuneLite to use the assets for various plugins which changed the appearance of the player character (such as Fashionscape and Weapon/Gear/Animation Replacer), although other players would not be able to see said player overriding their appearance:

• 
  A male player wearing the retro Torva armour set.
• 
  A female player wearing the retro Torva armour set.

Prior to Torva armour's graphical update, a newspost was released detailing the reasons for the change, as well as proposed alterations to the design:

• 
  8 November 2021
  The first design is made public in the Nex Rewards blog.
• 
  12 November 2021
  A second design replaces the first in an updated blog post.
• 
  10 February 2022
  A simplified version is scrapped from poll 76.
• 
  12 July 2023
  A rework of the armour set is presented in the blood torva poll blog.
• 
  12 July 2023
  An all-around view of the design.
• 
  14 July 2023
  The final iteration is added to the poll blog after integrating feedback.
• 
  16 August 2023
  An update brings adjustments to the waist and neck area.