Obligator rules raid week as raw herring takes off

The Fractured Archive is still the story of the week, and its loot is soaking up a huge share of the gp on the Grand Exchange. Further down the price list, a humble free-to-play fish had the wildest day of all.

The Obligator keeps the GE busy

3.818B gp · ▼ 0.6% in 24h · 405 traded (1.546T gp) · 2.8× usual volume

The Obligator is the crush megarare from The Fractured Archive, the raid that launched this week. Jagex describes it as “a ferocious Crush-based megarare” that can hit several enemies in a line or swap that for faster attacks. It only trades while fully uncharged, which is why the GE lists it as “Obligator (uncharged)”.

The price barely moved today, but the volume is the headline: more gp changed hands on the Obligator than on any other item, Twisted bow included. Launch week loot rarely sits still for long, so expect it to stay lively.

Obligator (uncharged) price chart

Ascension crossbows find their feet

611.7M gp · ▲ 2.3% in 24h · 1,053 traded (629.6B gp) · 2.7× usual volume

The raid’s other big tradeable is a pair of dual-wield crossbows that fire the new Ascension bolts. The launch post calls them “effectively a raid-tier upgrade to the Toxic Blowpipe”, and that’s enough to send plenty of players to the GE.

They ticked up slightly on the day while trading well above their usual volume, and they now sit in the most-traded list right alongside the Twisted bow, Tumeken’s shadow and the Scythe of Vitur.

Ascension crossbows price chart

Raw herring goes swimming upstream

437 gp · ▲ 198.6% in 24h · ▲ 257.2% in 7d · 225,633 traded (33.01M gp)

Raw herring is the biggest mover of the day, and it’s been climbing all week. This is the fish you catch at Draynor with a rod and some bait, so a jump like this is unusual, and it came on real volume.

The cause isn’t clear yet. We found nothing in this week’s updates that touches herring, so for now it’s a mystery worth keeping an eye on.

Raw herring price chart

Bagged magic trees drop hard

43,762 gp · ▼ 60.5% in 24h · ▼ 23.7% in 7d · 2,685 traded (117.5M gp) · 7.1× usual volume

Bagged magic trees are the Construction item for planting a magic tree in your player-owned house garden. They fell sharply today, and the selling came at many times the usual volume.

We couldn’t find an update or announcement behind it, so the cause isn’t clear yet.

Bagged magic tree price chart

Ray barbs on the rise

178.2K gp · ▲ 52.9% in 24h · ▲ 30.4% in 7d · 938 traded (109.4M gp)

Ray barbs had a big day on solid gp volume, adding to a climb that was already under way this week.

We didn’t find a source that explains the move, so the cause isn’t clear yet.

Ray barbs price chart

What to watch

The Fractured Archive is less than a week old, so watch how the Obligator and Ascension crossbows settle as more drops reach the market. And keep an eye on raw herring: if something is driving demand for the Draynor favourite, it should come out soon.

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Prices are hourly averages from the OSRS Wiki real-time prices API, through 24 Oct, 22:00 UTC. Not trading advice.

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