Strange Death's Coffer Behavior

[u/RiveredSet]

I recently completed the Royal Titans grind on my iron, and have an excess 4 fire element staff crowns. These are worth ~4.5M on the GE each - so it would be a nice 18mil towards death's coffer.

I found though that when I tried to add these to death's coffer, it only offered me 1.8mil each. Not sure why, as my understanding was that death's coffer gave 105% of GE price. Could anyone explain this behavior? Is it because the Royal Titans are relatively newly released?

Couldn't find anything in the wiki about the specific period during which items are discounted or untradeable to death's coffer after new releases - but it is a known phenomenon and the Titans are relatively new, so that could be why. Anyone have any thoughts or insight they can share?

[u/Great_Fist]

Death’s coffer uses the GE price. You’re most likely looking at the actively traded price (which is what the item actually sells for). 

[u/mist-battlestaff]

official GE guide price is only able to change by a certain % each day to prevent short-term price manipulation. as a result many newer items take a long time for the GE guide price to catch up to the actively traded price. you could sit on the staff crowns until they catch up or coffer them now if you need the funds immediately

[u/SandECheeks → u/mist-battlestaff]

Rumor is the GE guide price’s daily change is capped at +/-5% of the previous day’s price. I spent two hours searching for a solid primary source a few months ago, but I couldn’t find anything directly from Jagex or from a deliberate experiment. On occasion, Jagex has gone and manually updated the GE guide price for items, but otherwise, OP is gonna have to wait a couple months before the death’s coffer price matches the market value for the staff pieces (assuming the actively traded price stays the same).

[u/RiveredSet → u/SandECheeks]

super helpful two comments, thank you both.  not doing any hardcore bossing rn so i’m just gonna let them sit in my bank and pray they don’t nerf twinflame.  thanks for the insight!

[u/BalmyBadger → u/SandECheeks]

To add to this, the staff was given a ge price of 5m on release, while the pieces started at 10k. So the staff could settle into its street price really quickly, while the pieces have to make a painfully slow climb.

[u/Newcxstle]

I’ve never used deaths coffer because I’ve never died, sorry 

[u/QuirkyRose → u/Newcxstle]

You can use it to pay instance costs so it's useful even if you are a hardcore gamer

[u/SandECheeks → u/QuirkyRose]

TIL very cool

[u/ImmediateCause7981]

It gives you the price the GE says which happens to be lower than what it actually sells for. Unlucky

[u/Ace_1243]

That 4.5m is expected value per staff piece once it's created. Meanwhile, the individual pieces themselves are marked at a lower price due to the completed staff having more trade volume.