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TWIRP Composite Indexes Report and Analysis (2008/05/05) TWIRP Skill Indexes Report and Analysis (2008/05/05)

In this section of the weekly TWIRP report I list the biggest winners and losers of the week, meaning the items and indexes that gained and lost the most on a percentage basis. If you are not familiar with TWIRP please refer to the TWIRP Quick Guide.

Top ten item winners of the week:

1. Weapon poison (++): +45.9% pppp
   
   
2. Butter: +21.8% ppp
   
   
3. Bronze arrow: +20.0% ppp
   
   
4. Coconut: +17.9% ppp
   
   
5. Sapphire: +17.4% ppp
   
   
6. Admiral pie: +15.1% ppp
   
   
7. Super antipoison potion: +13.6% ppp
   
   
8. Magic potion: +13.5% ppp
   
   
9. Lobster: +13.4% ppp
   
   
10. Cactus spine: +13.2% ppp

Top ten item losers of the week:

1. Ahrim's set: -17.5% qqq
   
   
2. Toadflax seed: -16.9% qqq
   
   
3. Energy potion: -16.1% qqq
   
   
4. Cadantine seed: -15.3% qqq
   
   
5. Limestone brick: -14.3% qqq
   
   
6. Chinchompa: -13.8% qqq
   
   
7. Pharaoh’s sceptre (full): -13.6% qqq
   
   
8. Irit seed: -11.6% qqq
   
   
9. Cadantine: -11.5% qqq
   
   
10. Seaweed: -11.4% qqq

Top five index winners of the week:

1. Fishing Trawler Income: +8.2% pp
   
   
2. Fishing Income: +6.4% pp
   
   
3. Gem Drop Value: +6.2% pp
   
   
4. Mining Income: +2.1% p
   
   
5. Woodcutting Income: +1.6% p

Top five index losers of the week:

1. Food Affordability: -4.4% q
   
   
2. Runecrafting Yield: -4.2% q
   
   
3. Hunter Income: -3.7% q
   
   
4. High-Level Herb Seed Drop Value: -2.8% q
   
   
5. Key Items Affordability: -2.7% q

I already discussed the super weapon poison situation in my overview discussion. In my opinion, what people are doing there is tantamount to bug abuse, and I would expect Jagex to take action quickly to correct this problem. (Of course, they won’t fix the underlying problems with the Grand Exchange that cause players to do this, but that’s a rant for another time.)

Next in the winners’ list we have... butter. It was 41 gp when TWIRP started and is now near 400 gp. Why? Simple: it’s a royal pain in the behind to make, but you need it for baked potatoes. With other good-healing foods soaring in value, players want to make tuna potatoes and they need butter. You can also see several other food and potion items among the winners.

It was quite clearly a good week for fishermen (and fisherwomen, of course), and a bad week for anyone looking to buy supplies. Gems also had a nice uptick in value.

TWIRP Composite Indexes Report and Analysis (2008/05/05) TWIRP Skill Indexes Report and Analysis (2008/05/05)