All item duplication exploit (do not name players please)

I just got my 1st Lucky title this weekend
and got lots of pressys
oh well if there is a rollback for a few days hope we get the festival back
3rd time lucky they say.

I neither duplicated, not bought any of these items. I however am a bit concerned with how Anet will handle this particular exploit. Anything other than taking the duped armbraces out of the game (and this is going to affect those who have paid for them) is going to be unfair to players.

If they have to roll back the entire game to "fix" this it would be 100% BS as players like myself who were completely oblivious to this until today have spent our time playing the game, leveling characters, gaining titles which would all go poof?!?

Hopefully it is dupe-free. Besides, look at all the insanely rich people now because of this.

All we need now is....

"2021 Armbraces of Truth have been sold to the merchant"

"Mallyx walks the earth"

some want a rollback but i have made about 450k in this weekend i dont want lost all i made and getted my lucky title too
i think the rollback isnt the best option

lmao ^^

yeh let's do this
a Guild Wars World Event, but i dont wanna get Green item crap ^^

i got my cartographer titles this weekend, i don't need a rollback, just get over armbraces that's not so bad

How about they make the armbrace useless. The DoA trader now gives you something else that is not an armbrace, say....a Necklace of Truth. Obviously some people worked hard for their armbraces; so you can change your armbraces for the necklace but their is a limit on how many you can change. An amount of 2 limit maybe more~ or a time limit, all those with armbrace in the last 3 days can change them ~dunno just an idea.

No roll-back please, ANet!!! Just ban all who used this exploit! That's all we really need.

lol lets hunt uber diablo err i mean uber mallyx

You sir have just made my day
Sells SoJ to merchant

anyways back on topic they should delete each duped armbraces people who payed for them knew the risk just like that time when the Ascalon axe was out the SoA.

Rollback is not an option.It won't fix this even if they ban all players they can buy the game again do it all and use the exploit.And someone said a new char can do it so its even worse.rollback=angry players and no fix.the only rollback that will fix all this will be a 2 year rollback.Why things happen in good moments?Gw:en is coming and this.

Tanque Solution(lol):Make all players that trade ambraces of truth for anything(includes the collector that gives weapons)be killable in the outpost and get perma death when they die!This includes selin the ambrace to the merchant(if you can since i never had an ambrace).Of course they can't figth back.

YAY..I smell a tripple gemstone drop weekend comming up....

OH I think a lot of people are looking at armbraces are at fault, I rather think duping items are, I mean if it is just armbraces then make em customized (soz if someone said this).

I think the best way A-net can fix this is to give everyone who asks for it their own Vizu mini-pet. A-net if you give me a mini-Vizu I am willing to forget all about this sordid affair.

I cant belive someone can get to may Armbrace of Truth for a normal way...

If you dupe a Armbrace of Truth...
You can dupe anything?... ectos? safires?...
...

How fix it? i scared...

Reroll, not the answer to me...

How many stacks of armbraces, ectos, safires, diamonds... are in storage just now?

There's an in-game rumor that trading is now impossible. Can anyone confirm? I'm traveling with an ancient laptop, and it would take me fifteen to twenty minutes to try to confirm.

The claim is that trading now gives an error message. Could just be some yahoo that doesn't understand that you can't hold over 100k in your hands at one time.

I'm sure they will fix or have fixed the exploit. The question now is how ANet is going to deal with the already duped items that players have in their inventories and flood the market.

well lets hope anet will come with a good solution.
i know 1 thing the gw econemy is holy for GW.

Pray for a rollback? Only a rollback of the armbrace trader and armbraces themselves would be fair. An entire rollback of the game would cost those of us who were completely oblivious to this until today a great deal in hours spent just playing the game. And I don't know about you but my time is a bit more valuable to me that 1,000's of armbraces.

I pray Anet has more sense of fair play than that!

HAHAHA, ace!

That would be soo Anet (don't get me wrong, I like those dudez )

How about a three-for-one Armbrace weekend after that?

Cheers and heads up,
Timebandit

I have decided not to try to buy an armbrance-.-
I really dont want my GW:EN money to be drained buying an armbrance just to have it deleted.

lol, i just sold a mini - thorn wolf for 150 armbraces :S Am i screwed? It was tempting... i only have 35, cuz i gave them to my guild and that stuff..


oh my god , im screwed =|

stop whining and stop begging for a Rollback

All the ambraces gained THAT day should be removed
not the whole guildwars world reset that would be punishing all the players

Gaile any update on which course of action u guys are taking? Wouldn't be smart for people to be playing now if you were to be doing a rollback of [insert time frame]. And I think a rollback for the moment when this thread was created is a viable option, because they want to get rid of them fast.

well the ones that have really been hurt by this are people that have trade legit items for these armbraces....either way you go they are screwed. the common people such as myself ....it really doesn't affect since this type of money and items are normally out of our league....but for the high end players...the legit ones...it sucks.

Wow lol..this will not get rid of them, I'm assuming this has been going on for over a month, and that would be a pretty lenient assumption.

The rollback is a rumor, it will never happen.

If Anet has the ability to roll back a month,i doubt they will.I don't think they are stupid enough to do that,too many people would quit/cry on forums imo.

I think Gaile might be sleeping now considering things like time zones. Its now 6:54 in Seattle.

I have never even seen an Armbrace now I don't want to.
Well I'm not playing anymore till they decide what to do but
I want my "Fesitval" presents and lucky title retained please.

On the bright side this does mean i was 100% correct at the start of this thread

It HAS been going on for way longer than 1 month, it has nothing to do with DoA and people just recently got way too greedy and started duplicating Armbraces.

Problem is theres probably quite alot of lesser things that have been duped for personal gain... put 1750 Creme Brules into a trade window and duplicate them a few times, entire account has Conoisseur. Duplicate a few r8 Crystallines your account has a full set of them and your Koss can suck in style. Copy a few lots of Ectos/Shards and your account gets FoW.

Obviously someone just got greedy and stupid recently... whose to say the others using it weren't more careful.

Waiting for Anet official position regarding this subject.

/pulls chair

Should I laugh or cry now? It took me a fricken month of in-game working (merchanting, farming) to obtain all the gemsets for an armbrace and now ppl get 150 armbraces for a stupid minipet. It feels so unfair...

PS. Nothing against you personally TiNkLeR, but this software error just sucks.

They should just spot anyone with more than 10 of these things and replace x with 10. Job done!

It's probably been said before, but he more oppinions the better, aye... The best idea in my opinion is the following.
- Like Passive Keke said, create a new item, say, the Necklace of Truth.
- From now on, all Armbraces of Truth are completely useless.
- Tormented Weapons can be acquired by handing over a Necklace.
- A new quest is added, like with 'Money Back Guarantee'. This involves bringing the quest giver 1 Armbrace of Truth. As a reward, you recieve one Necklace of Truth.
- This way, people that have acquired teir Armbrace by hard work and saving will not have done it for nothing.
- The people that have duped 100's of Armbraces are stuck with useless items.

The only flaw imo being is that people who have acquired more then one Armbrace the legal way are stuck with it... But otherwise it's as fair as I can imagine.

Hello.
Just a quick reminder to all the dupers out there, this is what the Guild Wars EULA clearly says about messing around with us honorable players.

Direct quote from GuildWars.com:

*EDIT* This also goes to all of you who KNOW you have been trading with dupers. Doing so creates, just as the rules says, a substantial real or potential harm to the community.

So before you go back to Guild Wars, thinking that you can get away from this. Remember, A-Net has logs. A-Net has SQL. A-Net has a permanent account termnation for you.

And to all of those who deny you are duping, stop it. We know you are. A-Net has helpers.

People talking about a rollback for 'just a couple of days' please calm down real fast.

This exploit has been possible for ages, it seems, and what impact has it had on the average player? Answer: NONE AT ALL.

What impact would a rollback, any kind of rollback, whether a hour, a day, a month have on the average player? HUGE IMPACT.

The main impact would be to utterly destroy confidence that GW is worth investing any time in. With no new campaigns for a year, and the introduction of HM, the game is a lot about grind. Now you want A-Net to press a key and wipe away people's achievements?

Just as an example:

This weekend, with the festival re-run, my PC spent 45 hours connected to GW getting from Lucky 1 to Lucky 3 (for a poxy 4% lockpick retention benefit). I spent the whole weekend sitting on 9 rings grabbing fesitval prizes and, after these fesitval prizes had dried up, I went and maybe put in 10-15 hours' Hard Mode farming with my 55 monk to raise cash to keep buying festival tickets so I could get up over 300,000 on Lucky before the festival finished.

Basically I have spent the whole weekend in front of the PC and already felt like an idiot for ignoring the real world, but I justified it to myself that it was a festival and these things only happen a handful of times a year and the opportunity must be used, and in the long term I would benefit from the grind investment (I certainly didn't have 'fun'….just the grim satisfaction that comes from sustained grind…fun is for another day).

Now, shortsighted people are saying that due to some scam that affects 0.001% of the GW community, people like me should have their weekend's efforts erased. Well, let's just say that it will be the end of GW and GW:EN for me, and a huge host of ordinary players. The vast majority of us don't play DOA and have never seen a tormented weapon anyway and - for the benefit of anyone that wants to see them - check them out on wiki. They are totally fugly and have the stats of something that can be made for free by picking up bits and pieces that drop when you kill any old monsters.

This is madness. ANY KIND OF ROLLBACK WILL KILL GW FOR VERY MANY PEOPLE. DO NOT DO IT.

I think that Gaile needs to come on here or somewhere and state categorically that A-Net are not going to rollback over this. Already everyone in my guild is saying don't play GW until this is confirmed - you're wasting your time, they're going to rollback everything we do, blah. In times of crisis we need the government (A-Net) to communicate properly and build confidence. A-Net please communicate now that you are not going to rollback. The longer this goes on without communication, the more damage is done to confidence. What's the point of anyone playing at all with the threat of rollback over them?

me just woke up, me want to sleep forever.........................Q_Q

WTB Armbraces =] PM Me ingame =]

I know that and it's not only for ambraces, also for ecto's and the likes.

But imagne this conversation while pugging. (Yeah who does that these days anyways? )
Person A: Oh nice torment shield you have, where does that drop?
Person B: Option 1) I farmed a lot of hours in doa to get it
Option 2) Payed 100K + 60Ecto's plus for it
Person C: Ha ha ha ha noob lol i got this tormented sword + shield for 50k both sucker
Person B: rage quit!
Person A: Damn I would like some duped stuff too