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Ominous Octopus

Ominous Octopus is a Rare Cooking used in 3 recipes (Cooking and Skinning).

Ominous Octopus stacks to 1,000. 3 recipes consume it, taught by Cooking and Skinning.

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Verified US market

Lowest listed price19 gold79 silver
Median listing40 gold
48,794 available201 listings
Verified priceAuction Housecommodity

Commodities share one Auction House per region, so this price applies account-wide on US realms. Verify in-game before you trade.

In-game tooltip for Ominous Octopus: "A rare creature in Voidstorm. Can be bought and sold on the Auction House."

What Ominous Octopus is used in

Cooking

RecipeSkill tier and categoryNeedsOther reagentsMakesLists at (US)Reagents per craft
Crimson CalamariMidnight Cooking, Advanced, grey at 906Crimson Calamari88 gold146 gold
Null and Void PlateMidnight Cooking, Advanced, grey at 751Null and Void Plate14 gold27 gold

Skinning

RecipeSkill tier and categoryNeedsOther reagentsMakesLists at (US)Reagents per craft
Majestic Voidstorm LureMidnight Skinning, Majestic Beast Lures4Majestic Voidstorm Lure94 gold

"Needs" is how many one craft consumes. Reagent cost adds up the required materials at the cheapest current listing of each; it is left blank when any reagent has no live price. Recipes, quantities, products and skill tiers are read from the game data.

Crafting value of Ominous Octopus

Ominous Octopus goes into 3 recipes: 2 in Cooking and 1 in Skinning. They come from Midnight Cooking and Midnight Skinning.

The highest-listed product is Crimson Calamari, from Midnight Cooking, at 88 gold50 silver on the US Auction House.

One craft of Crimson Calamari takes 6 Ominous Octopus plus 6 Sanguithorn, 3 A Big Ol' Stick of Butter and 3 Pouch of Spices; at current prices those reagents cost 146 gold4 silver per craft.

Ominous Octopus is about 97% of that reagent bill at its current price; Sanguithorn, A Big Ol' Stick of Butter and Pouch of Spices make up the rest.

The cheapest craft that uses Ominous Octopus is Null and Void Plate (Midnight Cooking): its reagents cost 27 gold and Null and Void Plate lists at 14 gold98 silver.

2 of the 3 distinct products have a current US commodity price.

Leveling and recipes for Ominous Octopus

Leveling with Ominous Octopus: Null and Void Plate (Advanced) turns yellow at Cooking skill 60 and grey at 75. Crimson Calamari (Advanced) turns yellow at Cooking skill 75 and grey at 90.

Reagents used with Ominous Octopus

Ominous Octopus is most often combined with A Big Ol' Stick of Butter, which shares 2 of its 3 recipes; next come Pouch of Spices, Sanguithorn and Tavern Fixings.

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What Ominous Octopus is crafted into

Crimson Calamari (Food & Drink). Made with Crimson Calamari, 6 Ominous Octopus per craft.

Majestic Voidstorm Lure (Other). Made with Majestic Voidstorm Lure, 4 Ominous Octopus per craft.

Null and Void Plate (Food & Drink). Made with Null and Void Plate, 1 Ominous Octopus per craft.

Ominous Octopus: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 12% below its 30-day median. Over these 30 days the lowest listing moved more than tenfold, so a single snapshot can sit far from typical.

Now23 gold53 silver
30-day low1 silver Oct 16
30-day high60 gold Nov 6
30-day median26 gold73 silver
7-day median26 gold36 silver
Hourly snapshots684

US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.

Ominous Octopus by region

Americas and Oceania (US) has the lowest listing of the regions we track. Each region is a separate Auction House, so gold and items do not move between them.

RegionLowest listed priceListingsUnits
Americas and Oceania (US)19 gold79 silver20148,794
Europe (EU)23 gold70 silver27139,635

Other reagents in the same recipe tiers as Ominous Octopus

Midnight Cooking has 48 recipes. Besides Ominous Octopus, the reagents they call for most are Tavern Fixings (22 recipes), Pouch of Spices (17 recipes), Thalassian Fillet (16 recipes), A Big Ol' Stick of Butter (14 recipes), Plant Protein (13 recipes), Cooking Spirits (12 recipes), Mana-Wyrm Essence (12 recipes), Practically Pork (10 recipes), Petrified Root (7 recipes), Neutralized Venom Clot (5 recipes).

Midnight Skinning has 9 recipes. Besides Ominous Octopus, the reagents they call for most are Arcane Wyrmfish (1 recipe), Fungalskin Pike (1 recipe), Gore Guppy (1 recipe), Lynxfish (1 recipe), Mote of Light (1 recipe), Mote of Primal Energy (1 recipe), Mote of Pure Void (1 recipe), Mote of Wild Magic (1 recipe), Null Voidfish (1 recipe), Tender Lumifin (1 recipe).

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