barrows > bandos. But bandos might be less expensive if your planning on useing either armor for a long time, because of the repairs full bandos is, what, 40m? That could repair a full barrows set at 50 smithing 160 times. From zero. Who here is going to spend 2400 hours in combat? Not even 99 slayer will make bandos more cost effective. and then u sell bandos when ur done and proberbly get all or most or even more money back.