~ History of Third Age ~
The melee, ranging, and mage armors were released in December 2006 as very rare rewards from hard clue scrolls (back then there were only 3 types of clues – easy, medium, and hard). Jagex wrote..."The luckiest players will be given items from the 3rd Age sets, which cover all combat styles and consist of level 65 armors whose stats justify the rarity of their appearance."
Overall, the idea seems to originate from J. R. R. Tolkein's Lord of the Rings series. In Tolkein's universe, the Third Age is the time when the events portrayed in the original trilogy happen. (The crowning of Aragorn as King Elessar marks the beginning of the Fourth Age.)
The original third age sets are one of the few items not to have been graphically updated over the years, and so they still retain their old 2006-vintage looks. The exception is the mage top, which was somewhat shortened in order to fix graphical glitches.
In July 2010, Jagex announced that they would be introducing a fourth type of “elite” clue scroll, with the possibility of rewarding the adventurous with new third age druidic armor.
The drop rate of third-age from hard clues has been revealed in OSRS:
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The chance of hitting the third age table from the megarare table is 1/10 making *any* third age item 1/3350 and a specific item 1/40200.
Experiments done by the unofficial wiki suggest a similar drop rate of 1/3600 in RS3 for third-age from hard clues. That's 1/3600 for any piece, and 1/43,200 for each of 12 pieces.
In May 2015, Jagex revealed the druidic drop rate from elite clues as 1/7426 for any piece, and 1/37,128 for each of 5 pieces.
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