Materials needed for a full set of Splitbark armour include 11 fine cloth, 11 bark, and 77,000 coins. Splitbark armour is often used for its rare combination of providing a sizeable magical attack bonus while still maintaining defensive bonuses to both melee and magic defence. The melee defensive bonuses offered by Splitbark are similar to those of Mithril armour. While this is useful, especially for up-close combat against enemies by which there is no "safe spot", many players with the same required Magic level of 40, and especially a lower required Defence level of 20, would likely favour the Mystic robes set for farcasting and safe-spotting, due to a considerably higher magic attack and defence bonus, though no melee defence is offered by Mystic.