Zombie helmet surges 521% as Horn of Bran slide deepens

A quiet Saturday for the endgame megarares, but the mid-market had fireworks — led by a crush helmet nobody saw coming.

Zombie helmet goes vertical

754.9K gp · ▲ 111.6% in 24h · ▲ 521% in 7d · 1,816 traded (648M gp) · 5× usual volume

The Zombie helmet — crafted from broken drops at Zemouregal’s Fort — has more than quintupled in a week and doubled again overnight. Volume hit five times its daily average, with 648M gp changing hands. The helm is the best defensive option among crush-focused headgear and sits on the recommended setup list for a string of bosses from Corporeal Beast to The Nightmare.

No game update this week has directly buffed it, and it doesn’t appear in any recent patch notes. The cause isn’t clear yet, but with volume this heavy the demand looks genuine — not a thin flip.

Zombie helmet price chart

Horn of Bran keeps falling

304.1M gp · ▼ 3.9% in 24h · ▼ 31.5% in 7d · 1,034 traded (314.4B gp)

Yesterday’s 316M floor didn’t hold. The Horn of Bran shed another 3.9% today, extending its slide to 31.5% on the week — down from about 444M seven days ago. The sell-off began after Sunday’s Quest Month post revealed TFA loot weights and pegged the Horn at 3 in 15, making it the second-most common unique behind the Rondache. A wiki update today filled in more of the table, adding the Archivist’s Folio rate (1 in 15) and Elemental Fragment rate (1 in 20 with dupe protection) — more data for sellers to price off.

Still, 314B gp traded in a day means plenty of buyers are stepping in at these levels. Promised TFA balance tweaks — including encounter difficulty and Ascension shard rates — could reset the outlook in either direction.

Horn of Bran price chart

Blighted anglerfish crater

36 gp · ▼ 40.6% in 24h · ▼ 45.6% in 7d · 2,559,206 traded (93.35M gp)

Blighted anglerfish — the PvP-only healing food — lost over 40% of their value in a single day on more than 2.5 million units. These are sourced from Last Man Standing and used exclusively in PvP, so their price tracks how much Wilderness activity is happening.

The cause of this week’s PvP slowdown isn’t clear, but the price signal is loud — two and a half million units dumped in a single day.

Blighted anglerfish price chart

Teleport scrolls still climbing

1,610 gp · ▲ 61.1% in 24h · ▲ 146.7% in 7d · 52,978 traded (52.93M gp)

The Civitas illa Fortis teleport nearly tripled this week and jumped another 61% today on over 52,000 scrolls traded. The Lumberyard teleport followed the same path, up 53.8% in a day and 56.7% on the week. This is the third straight day of a broad teleport-scroll surge — yesterday it was Ourania tablets, and the Civitas scroll was already climbing midweek.

No recent update has changed the destinations these scrolls serve, and the movers span different activities and areas of the map. When multiple teleports in unrelated parts of the game rise together, the driver is usually something market-wide rather than a single piece of content.

Civitas illa Fortis teleport price chart

What to watch

TFA balance tweaks are overdue — they were promised for this week in Sunday’s post, and any change to encounter difficulty or Ascension shard rates will move TFA uniques again. The Zombie helmet rally at five times normal volume is the kind of move that either marks a genuine re-pricing or a blowoff top; the next few days should tell. And the broad teleport surge is now in its fourth day — if it keeps spreading, something structural may be at play.

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Prices are hourly averages from the OSRS Wiki real-time prices API, through 8 Nov, 23:00 UTC. Not trading advice.

Nemo signing off from Chinchompa News.