I'm not here to answer, but rather ask.

 

[hide] For those of you who don't know, ever since skillcapes were introduced to the game, many 'buyable' skills turned from profitable (some even very profitable like Herblore) to expensive (or very expensive- Herblore).

 

Cooking was obviously one of those skills. Almost all raw foods immediately changed in price and Cooking was no longer profitable. Although not costing money either for a while.

 

After a little while Cooking became a 'loss-of-money' skill.

 

Only a very limited number of cooked foods still cost more than their raw counterpart. Anchovies, for example, which give low Cooking exp are not widely used to train the skill. Cooked anchovies are needed for Anchovy Pizza. For these reasons anchovies are in higher demand than supply..[/hide]

Raw shark - 1504

Cooked Shark - 1507

 

Its a 3gp difference. Not that big of a deal. PKing uses a lot of sharks and some solo merch prolly dumped a few thousand.

Raw shark - 1504

Cooked Shark - 1507

 

Its a 3gp difference. Not that big of a deal. PKing uses a lot of sharks and some solo merch prolly dumped a few thousand.

It was higher a few days ago.

 

 

However, even if the price was equal, why? You'd expect one of the more popular ways of training Cooking to be expensive, especialy considering it also is one of the faster exp-rates too.

That's how it used to be back in Classic, all the time.

That's how it used to be back in Classic, all the time.

 

Because there was no reason for cooked sharks to be worth less than raw... Now there is, yet it's not like that.

it's probably cause the number of pvpers/pkers outnumber the skillers today. think about it. we have new prayers, godswords, summons... everything that pumps more pvpers into the game than skillers.

This is quite simple basically the price of sharks and raw sharks have certain demands, and as has allready been mentioned, pking would have increased the demand for cooked sharks substaintallly, whilst cooking raw sharks, has become more expensive with the cost of sharks gradually increasing over the years from there low of about 800ea. while the bots were at there peak.

 

Also don't forget if you buy 100 sharks, and burn 10 (you can't get 100% sucess rate like other foods) the resale value of those sharks has dropped, I think this is a key factor to why raw sharks are falling behind cooked sharks, players are less willing to lose 1.5k ea. burnt shark, and coupled with increased demand factors of cooked sharks prices have gone up.

 

And then again there are always merchants out there, all it takes are a couple of people to have the same idea of buying cooked sharks, or selling raw, and prices will jump/fall, and finally possibly with the recent increases in shark prices, the number coming into the market may have increased (i.e supply of raw sharks has increased).

Because sharks arent the best way to train cooking? monkfish or lobbies tend to be better.

Plus all you need is an influx of fishers so raw shark supply > raw shark demand

In general its because of high level updates.

 

Rs focuses on the high level updates and thus people will generally force their way to the high levels.

 

Xp is more valuable than gp because of a variety of things.

 

Mostly high level untradeable updates that confer powerful bonuses or have a sense of pride.

 

Skills like herblore are like having a good strong weapon.

OT: so what's the best way to 99 cooking from 80 these days? :unsure:

Its karma, it will change back soon my guess..

 

and cooking sharks is the best way for high levels.. and there are definitely more "skillers" then "pkers" (the most of them also skill anyways)

Its karma, it will change back soon my guess..

 

and cooking sharks is the best way for high levels.. and there are definitely more "skillers" then "pkers" (the most of them also skill anyways)

karma? Please keep it serious.

It's just going to shoot back up again with the increased demand from the lower price.

It must be because everyone who wanted 99 cooking must have it, by now.

 

Oh, and also the high level updates.

Niiiice, when I got 99 Cooking I actually made a slight profit. :thumbsup:

Cooking exp is worthless ^^

Cooking xp = total xp = not worthless

Cooking xp = total xp = not worthless

 

I dunno, I always felt that raising cooking so you have more total exp is a bit shameless.

Perhaps everyone realized that 99 cooking was useless?

Cooking xp = total xp = not worthless

 

I dunno, I always felt that raising cooking so you have more total exp is a bit shameless.

 

If being able to profit and gain xp at the same time is shameless, sure.

It's hardly a permanent thing. Next update or two, cooked will go down and/or raw will go up, and it'll be back to normal. It's just an economic fluke.

Not surprised. Many things have very high prices. It's from the huge influx of gp so prices of everything go up.

This happens all the time

It must be because everyone who wanted 99 cooking must have it, by now.

 

Oh, and also the high level updates.

This is what I was thinking as I read this.

 

However, wouldn't the high level updates force both prices down? (Living Rock Cavern fish are better than sharks... And most high level PKers are probably using those instead...)

Living Rock Cavern fish are better than sharks...

 

 

Win. :thumbup: