Is This Pic FAKE? Unusual description on a weapon.

Basically this weapon has been put up for auction. I have seen it many many months ago on guru.

However, the requirement looks weird. Any other unconditional weapons I have seen or owned have Requirement and not req in their description.

Could it be fake or is there a reason for the unusual description?

"req." was the old style which was changed to "requires" to make it more clear I suppose, if that's what you were wondering.

This screenshot must have been taken before the update that changed it.

Was some non-requirement weapons way back in the early days of GW

It's real. There were some items with unconditional damage in Prophecies which are now removed and very rare.

they updated the "req" abbreviation to "requirement", seeing this is an old screenshot it could be correct.

I thought they'd changed all existing req. weapons to Requirement personally. Like they did with Precious and Improved Sale Value. My moneys on fake tbh, unless the screeny was taken before they changed it, then its probably real.

I think it's about the damage bonus with no drawbacks.

Yes, a couple of those exist, but I don't think they drop anymore

Herb knows plenty about the no negatives, that's not the issue.

I'm pretty sure that it used they used to have req instead of requires, just seems odd that they wouldn't make a new screenie for the auction.

Ive checked all my screenshots of other unconditional weapons which are really old and they have req. not requirement. All my unconditional weapons have requirement so I got confused hence why I thought it was fake.

Requirement unconditionals: -


Req. unconditionals: -


Same Axe post update: -


There is an auction for the weapon in question using the really really old screenshot. Even though the weapon appears to be real. I now doubt the authenticy of the auction purely because the new owner is using the old owner's screenshot :S

Here is old thread and the weapon was sold after that: -
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...d.php?t=117009

Strange same picture is being used with a new owner and rediculous description: -
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/auction/item.php/id=398265

Conveniently he doesnt play much so wont be around to show it in-game.... Maybe he does own it and decided to use a pic which is waaay old.

Well thank you everyone. Your info has been most useful.

I don't see why it would be fake....

If you are referring to original pic. All the unconditionals weps I have seen recently had Requirement. The pic on auction had Req. I was confused as to why it would have Req.

It later turns out through the above posts old weapons had Req. which were later updated.

If you are referring to the auction. I believe that it could be fake. The original owner sold the item for 120 ecto I believe. The new owner is not the owner who bought it off of the original ower. Therefore since the first owner the weapon has changed hands two times. Seems very strange that the new owner should use the first owner's picture even though the new owner never puchased it off the original owner. All I can think of is someone stumbled upon the original picture and thought it would be funny to make an auction with it in. I could be totally wrong but am struggling to find an explanation. I would love to buy the sword but I dont have time to go about chasing after something which could be fake. I think im going to email him and see what is the deal with using old pics.