Obligator slides 32.4% as Fractured Archive loot cools off

The Fractured Archive is nearly a week old, and the raid’s loot finally blinked. All three of its big tradeables fell hard on heavy volume, while a clue scroll teleport and a humble baked potato had the best day of their lives.

The Obligator takes a tumble

2.562B gp · ▼ 32.4% in 24h · 733 traded (1.878T gp) · 3.2× usual volume

Yesterday the Obligator held steady. Today it gave a big chunk of that back, and it did it while trading more gp than any other item on the Grand Exchange, Twisted bow included. That’s a lot of crush megarares changing hands.

We found no update or hotfix behind the drop. The launch post hasn’t changed in the last few days, and the only fresh official mention is a RuneFest merch drop of Obligator pins, which won’t help you at Nex. The cause isn’t clear yet.

Obligator (uncharged) price chart

Ascension crossbows follow it down

411.8M gp · ▼ 31.3% in 24h · 1,445 traded (595B gp) · 2.5× usual volume

The raid’s dual-wield crossbows, billed in the launch post as “effectively a raid-tier upgrade to the Toxic Blowpipe”, slid almost in step with the Obligator. They still sit among the most-traded items in the game, right next to the Scythe of Vitur.

As with the Obligator, we couldn’t find an announcement behind the fall, so the cause isn’t clear yet.

Ascension crossbows price chart

Ascension shards get cut in half

648 gp · ▼ 49.6% in 24h · 1,247,746 traded (808.8M gp) · 3.2× usual volume

Shards are the raid’s stackable resource: they charge the Archivist’s Folio and the Obligator, and they’re made into bolts for the Ascension crossbows. Over a million of them changed hands today.

The launch post lists a few shard known issues, including a Grand Exchange limit of 100 that Jagex calls “set too low”, but nothing in the last few days changes how shards drop or what they’re used for. The cause of today’s slide isn’t clear yet.

Ascension shards price chart

Iorwerth camp teleports take off

7,125 gp · ▲ 107.7% in 24h · ▲ 123.6% in 7d · 21,402 traded (73.41M gp)

This scroll, which comes from Treasure Trails and drops you outside Prifddinas near Lord Iorwerth, more than doubled on real volume. It’s been climbing all week, too.

We found nothing in recent updates that touches the scroll or the camp, so the cause isn’t clear yet.

Iorwerth camp teleport price chart

Chilli potatoes heat up

281 gp · ▲ 129.2% in 24h · ▲ 136.2% in 7d · 84,777 traded (10.38M gp) · 28.5× usual volume

The chilli potato is the day’s biggest mover, and it fired every signal we track. Trading ran at many times its usual pace, which is a lot of excitement for a baked potato with chilli con carne on top. Its fellow foods Uncooked dragonfruit pie and Dragonfruit also jumped today.

No update we could find mentions any of them, so the cause isn’t clear yet.

Chilli potato price chart

What to watch

Watch whether the Obligator, crossbows and shards keep sliding or find a floor as the raid enters its second week. And if anyone works out why chilli potatoes and Iorwerth camp teleports are suddenly in demand, we’ll be first in the queue to tell you.

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Prices are hourly averages from the OSRS Wiki real-time prices API, through 25 Oct, 23:00 UTC. Not trading advice.

Nemo signing off from Chinchompa News.