Platebody

A Platebody (also called pl8 or simply body) is a type of armour worn mainly by warriors over the torso section of their body. Among melee attack types, platebody provides good defence against the slash attack type but is more vulnerable to the crush attack type. Platebodies give penalties towards ranged attacks as well as both magic attack and defence. However, platebodies also have very good defence against ranged attacks.

The only exception to the table above is the Dragon platebody, which does not have a negative Ranged attack bonus.

Platebodies are made with the Smithing skill or purchased at the plate body shop, which is identified by the icon on the map.

This piece of armour will interfere with Ava's accumulator and Ava's attractor.

Wikipedia Article on Platemail

Trivia

 * In Runescape Classic, platebodies came in both male and female varieties. Males could only wear male platebodies, but females could wear both varieties. However, one could have his or her platebody smithed into the other gender's platebody by the blacksmith Thrander in Varrock. This was changed in RuneScape 2, where the platebody was not gender-specific, and could be worn by either gender without having to change it. There is still a notable graphical difference between the two platebodies when they are worn, however; platebodies worn by females will be curvier.