Summer Sweep-Up Gear & PvM Changes

OSRS Grand Exchange market analysis · Jul 22, 2026 · 15 items affected

Market analysis

Live Inquisitor and Sanguinesti buffs beat speculative CoX scroll rally. The desk's biggest read here is that the confirmed, live buffs to crush gear and blood magic setups will move GP immediately, while the much-hyped Chambers of Xeric unique reweighting is still just a proposal Jagex is nervously testing the waters on. Inquisitor's mace, hauberk, great helm and plateskirt all gain flat accuracy, strength and crush damage percentages while losing their negative stab/slash penalties, effectively turning a niche crush set into a guaranteed max hit machine for PvM. Sanguinesti staff gets cheaper to run and hits harder with more frequent, bigger heals, and Soulreaper axe strips its HP drain downside while adding real accuracy and minimum hit scaling on the special. None of that requires community sentiment or a future patch, it's live today, so the buy pressure on those items starts the moment players log in and see the numbers.

Day one sees immediate re-gearing demand: PvMers who shelved Inquisitor pieces for Torva or Bandos will start pricing crush setups back in for Vorkath, ToA and Nex-style content, and that demand should hold rather than fade since it's a permanent stat change. Sanguinesti staff demand compounds over the following days as blood rune costs drop and word spreads that Wardens in ToA no longer resist its leech, making it a staple healer weapon again. The CoX proposal is a different animal, it's explicitly labeled as not-yet-shipped, so any price movement in Twisted bow, Dragon claws, Kodai insignia, Elder maul, Dinh's bulwark, Twisted buckler, Dragon hunter crossbow or the Ancestral and prayer scroll items right now is pure speculation on whether Jagex follows through with those exact weights. That speculative trade can pop fast on the announcement and just as fast unwind if community backlash forces a softer revision, since Jagex flagged they're already nervous about the scale of the numbers.

Buyers here are mid-to-high tier PvM accounts re-equipping for crush content and blood spell efficiency, plus speculative flippers who read the CoX blog and want to front-run a supply shock. Sellers on the other side are raiders who prefer to cash out uniques now near current highs rather than risk holding through a rebalance that could flood the market with Twisted bows and Kodai insignias. Blood rune sellers will see softer demand as the Sanguinesti charge cost drop reduces consumption per cast, and the mass refund on login adds a small one-time supply bump to boot. Ancestral piece holders are the most exposed sellers if the CM weighting hits, since a 53-64% supply increase would be the largest single unique buff in the whole proposal.

Several changes look exciting in the patch notes but don't clear the bar for a real GE call. Burning claws' special attack energy cost bump from 30% to 35% is a real nerf but claws are already a niche PvP/PvM special weapon with thin volume, so the price drag will be marginal at best. Ancient sceptre and Master wand magic damage boosts are genuine buffs but these are low-volume, already-cheap items where a percentage bump won't move meaningful GP. Rosewood blowpipe's rune dart cap increase mostly affects the small Zalcano skilling crowd, not the broader PvM economy, so any bump in rune dart consumption will be gradual and easy to miss in the order book. Gauntlet prep streamlining will increase Crystal shard and seed supply over time, but the Gauntlet playerbase is small enough that this shows up as slow price drift rather than a sharp move.

Watch for Jagex's follow-up decision on the Chambers of Xeric weighting proposal, since that is what actually locks in the supply shift for scrolls and uniques rather than just pricing in rumor. If they ship the numbers as published, expect a second, sharper leg down in Twisted bow, Kodai insignia, Dragon claws and the raid uniques, and a real supply-driven crash in Ancestral pieces beyond today's speculative move.

Impacted items

• Sanguinesti staff (uncharged) · rising. Higher heal chance, bigger heal proc damage, +1 max hit and a cut charge cost make this a strictly better weapon with lower running costs. Wardens in ToA no longer resisting its leech adds a new high-value use case. Expect sustained buy pressure from returning and new users alike.
• Inquisitor's mace · rising. Gains flat accuracy and strength to match its Oathplate equivalent plus a crush damage bonus, and loses negative stab/slash penalties. This makes crush setups viable in more scenarios without downside, pulling demand away from alternative crush weapons.
• Inquisitor's great helm · rising. The +7 strength and crush accuracy boost guarantees max hits in many setups and can add extra max hits in others. This is the standout piece of the set buff and should see the strongest price response of the three armour pieces.
• Inquisitor's hauberk · rising. Matches its Oathplate crush accuracy and doubles its crush damage percentage bonus, removing the old set-effect requirement. Full-set demand rises since each piece is now independently strong rather than needing the whole set to shine.
• Inquisitor's plateskirt · rising. Doubles its crush damage and accuracy bonus from 0.5% to 1% and drops the negative stab/slash penalty, even though its base stats were already capped. This rounds out the set buff and should track the other Inquisitor pieces upward.
• Soulreaper axe · rising. Removing the HP drain downside while doubling special attack accuracy scaling and adding minimum hit scaling per stack turns this into a much safer, harder-hitting weapon. Expect increased demand from players who avoided it due to the self-damage mechanic.
• Blood rune · falling. Sanguinesti staff charge cost drops from 3 to 2 runes per cast, cutting per-hour consumption by a third for a very popular weapon. A one-time refund of stored charge runes on login also adds a modest supply bump. Net effect is softer demand pressure on an otherwise heavily-traded rune.
• Amulet of fury · rising. Wardens in Tombs of Amascut no longer resist its life leech effect, opening up a new high-value fight where the amulet's healing matters. This adds incremental demand on top of its existing melee DPS use cases.
• Dexterous prayer scroll · rising. The proposed Chambers rebalance cuts its drop weight by roughly 20% in normal mode and 26% in Challenge Mode. This is speculative since Jagex has not shipped it, but the scale of the cut is large enough that anticipatory buying is rational.
• Arcane prayer scroll · rising. Same proposed weight cut as its Dexterous counterpart, shrinking supply meaningfully if implemented. Price action right now is pure front-running of an unconfirmed future patch, so it carries real reversal risk.
• Twisted bow · falling. Weight redistribution off the prayer scrolls onto the general unique table increases its proposed drop rate by roughly 15-23%. As the single most valuable Chambers unique, even a proposal-stage signal invites pre-emptive selling from holders.
• Dragon hunter crossbow · falling. Same proposed weight increase applies here, making it proportionally more common if the rebalance ships. Sellers with large stacks are the most likely to front-run this now rather than risk a confirmed supply shock later.
• Dinh's bulwark · falling. Gets the same proportional weight bump as the other general uniques under the proposal. Lower relative value than Twisted bow means less urgency to sell now, but the direction of pressure is the same.
• Dragon claws · falling. Weight increase under the proposed table makes claws more common, adding to existing supply from other drop sources. Price softness here is more speculative than confirmed given the proposal's non-final status.
• Elder maul · falling. Shares in the same proposed weight redistribution, becoming proportionally more available if Jagex ships the numbers as published. Lower baseline value limits how much capital rotates out of it pre-emptively.

Source: official Old School RuneScape update. The analysis above is our own.

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