PLEASE stop trying to buy armbraces, youre hurting yourself

Ok, quick post, maybe people will agree with this, STOP BUYING ARMBRACES. If anything, we should be protesting the people selling them for cheap to rid their account of them, not helping them. I agree, people with legit armbraces have it rough right now, and I fell absolutely terrible for you, but these "

WTB armbrace 50k, HAVE to stop.

Wait till anet figures out more action to take, or until more bans are issued, but by feeding these people purging themselves of armbraces, you are killing the market. Not just on armbraces, on everything.

I'm sure people will disagree with me, but it'd be comforting to know that some agree. I just hate seeing people that are ALMOST as bad as the dupers that are trying to buy for 10k. Please, just stop.


/my 2 bits
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This is all over ascalon id1/2, 2 districts of 'WTB ambraces'.

i said 'wts ambrace 5 charr carvings' the amount of pms and party invites was stupid i had to go offline.

as OP said, stop trying to buy ambraces, your only get angry in the end.

When you pay for my account, then you can tell me what to do.

Actually, the reason you should stop buying them is because you may be confused for a duper lol, they may be tainted or traceable. Moral reasons come second to most people sadly..

This makes me wonder how anet determines when someone is a duper not not... if this is done why "watching" ppl sell/buy armbraces then i think that is a very smelly method

Im not gonna buy any and risk getting banned.

The thing is that if there are still people with large amounts of duped armbraces, they certainly aren't looking to sell them quick for crappy prices. They aren't desperate for gold but they got the power to undercut any legitimate armbrace seller. They will always have the cheapest ones anyway. It all depends on how many of them will actually survive the banfest.

While the hordes of WTB spammers spam various stupid prices, the actual prices sellers ask for has dropped significantly too. I've seen today some sellers selling at 100k+40e when a week ago it was more like 100k+60e.

i was planning on saving up for an armbrace for a tormented scythe, but im not to going to buy if i can get banned for it

I don't see why people have to find a reason that's in their interest to not buy an armbrace... Morals seem to have gone out of fashion...

somebody gave an example where the same thing happened in Runescape. in the end the items were not removed because they have traded countless hands and too many ppl would be banned if so. so... if I can buy an ambrace now for 50k and later when the market has returned to normal sell it for 100k+40e i'd be making loads. Thats why ppl are buying like mad. How do u think ppl in the got rich? because they took chances, exploited exploits (eg, SF tank runs) or buy low sell high. In this case it is all of the above.

Still buying like mad, a ton of people will still have arm braces selling it for high prices eventually there just gonna lower over all im guessing. 100k is what i think they will turn into maybe

Bart, I played Runescape for 2+ years, and owned one of the items you're talking about. Your information is a tad incorrect.

These rare items were a christmas drop that were tradebale, and just became more expensive because people were destroying them and there was no way to get them. There was no legitamte reason to ban people or remove them. It wasn't a bug that they were tradeable, and not a bug they would never drop again. They're like the asian minipets.

~Edit, I AGREE that a lot of online gamers get rich by exploiting the exploited, your idea is correct.


But back on topic, yes, it's a very bad idea to buy or sell armbraces now. Even if you trade a duped one in for a tormented item, you're still going to be traced if you held it, and the tormented item has the code that was given from the NPC for the code of the armbrace, so you're still traceable.

I personally bought a tormented sheild today (For the normal amount, I did not buy it from someone who was trying to get rid of thier items for a cheap price), but before I found out about the duping. I'm debating selling it, though the seller swears that his armbrace was legit, even though he bought it from someone else two days ago.

I don't want to be banned or risk it vanishing on me, that's a lot of money.

However, there's not much chance it's an illegal item, being most armbraces that were duped were cleared from all the bans of the stack traders.

Possibly the most ignorant response feasible. I'm not trying to tell you what to do, I'm asking, for the benefit of the community, and the game which I truly have loved until this has ruined the market, to not buy armbraces temporarily. There are always people that are looking on the bright side, and trying to make a quick buck, but do people not realize that this is a slippery slope to crashing the gw market?

This is a much bigger ordeal than "omfg, super cheap armbraces wtb 10 for 100k" It is already having sever ramifications to the market. Ectos flux about 1k per day, anywhere from 4.7 to 5.5k, minipets seem to be dropping, Gwens are going up, and other very odd trends, market-wise.

Im asking only to let the market stabilize from this travesty, then buy armbraces to your hearts content. It will help everyone in the long run alot more than you're helping yourself now. Thats all.

Market does not matter much.
People has been banned for purchasing duped armbraces. That's the real reason not to buy them until all this is oever.

Now they are even selling that 'hot stuff' for 10k, and one guy was spamming ES-1 Cavalon with a 'Free armbraces' page.

Well if it indeed does go to 100k, i wouldnt be so mad ^^

Well, I just hope Anet doe NOT consider a rollback. I am one of the buyers that would be hit a large amount of cash for the tormented item I purchased today, unknowing at the time of the duplication.

I sold my mini Oni to a people at almost 8/12 16:00(GMT+8) in Ascalon inter#1.
He paid me 8 Armbrace of truth
I lost my oni and 'm in a terror of baning cuz I got 8 armbrace.

I dont know that there are some dupers in Guild Wars..until I saw the thread in Guru yesterday.
I TRUSTED ANET that they'll prevent those things (like dupe or somthing)NOT happened.
BUT GG said they had "NOTICED THIS LONG TIME AGO".
Why dont stop those dupers before they offer ridiculous amount of armbraces buying rare minis?
Why dont stop those dupers before they ruin the market of GW?
ANET just NOTICED dupings and did NOTHING.

I sent a mail to [email protected] but they haven't give me a response....

I don't care for the economy, I just want a cheap armbrace. As you can't tell if one is duped or legit, I would be a fool for passing a good offer.

It's a GAME.
We aren't dealing with people's lives.
If it goes to hell - we'll just find a different game.
But as long as we play - we should make the most of it!
So - bring on those cheap things and let's go down in flames!

Why armbrace is that cheap?! Haven't played for about 2 months.