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Ascension shards surge after buy limit leaps from 100 to 30,000
Ascension shards rocket after a buy limit change, Halloween masks slump, Dragon platebody spikes and the Obligator keeps the GE busy.
By The Market desk2 min read
Items in this story
- 735 gp-0.1%
- 4,188 gp-52.2%
- 7,870 gp-7.2%
- 8,964 gp+8%
- 2.197M gp+0.4%
- 2.358B gp-12.9%
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Latest hourly price and 24h change.
Halloween is here, the Fractured Archive got a round of tweaks, and one small change to a buy limit lit up the Grand Exchange.
Shards unleashed
2,080 gp · ▲ 313.3% in 24h · ▲ 85.1% in 7d · 3,399,344 traded (1.711B gp) · 3.6× usual volume
Today’s Halloween Event 2026, TFA Tweaks & More! update raised the Grand Exchange buy limit for Ascension shards from 100 to 30,000. The same post also lets the Jeweller’s Chisel work on shards. With the cap gone, players could finally buy shards in bulk, and they did. Over a billion gp changed hands in a single day, making this the biggest story on the board.
Masks off
2,203 gp · ▼ 75.8% in 24h · ▼ 77.7% in 7d · 5,240 traded (11.54M gp) · 11× usual volume
2,557 gp · ▼ 69% in 24h · ▼ 79.1% in 7d · 5,398 traded (13.8M gp) · 11.4× usual volume
2,483 gp · ▼ 62.8% in 24h · ▼ 74.3% in 7d · 5,370 traded (13.33M gp) · 11.8× usual volume
Green, red and blue Halloween masks all fell hard, on many times their usual volume. The drop landed the same day the Halloween event opened in Rimmington, but the post doesn’t mention masks, so the cause isn’t clear yet. Either way, the free-to-play classics are a lot cheaper than they were last week.
Green halloween mask price chart · Red halloween mask price chart · Blue halloween mask price chart
Dragon plate climbs
3.639M gp · ▲ 78.1% in 24h · ▲ 64% in 7d · 193 traded (394.3M gp)
Dragon platebody jumped, with a very wide gap between buy and sell prices. Volume was around normal, so this is a price story more than a rush. No recent update mentions it, and the cause isn’t clear yet.
The Obligator still rules
3.077B gp · ▲ 5.8% in 24h · ▼ 25.2% in 7d · 569 traded (1.655T gp)
The Fractured Archive’s megarare once again moved more gp than anything else on the exchange. It’s down on the week but ticked up today. The only change in today’s update was cosmetic: a new drop model and inventory icon.
Obligator (uncharged) price chart
What to watch
Now that shards can be bought in bulk, watch whether the volume holds once the first rush is over. The Halloween event is on for the next few weeks.
Prices are hourly averages from the OSRS Wiki real-time prices API, through 28 Oct, 23:00 UTC. Not trading advice.
Nemo signing off from Chinchompa News.