Not so much of a scam, but maybe unwise or unaware player.
Kamadan:
Party Search:
WTS Moa Eggs 15k each.
I inquired him, playing clueless, on why they were so expensive.
Other player says that they are VERY RARE and are needed to get the Rare Black Moa Chick.
To confirm, I ask are the eggs or the Moa rare?
Other player says both are rare to obtain.
I nod to myself and proceed to tell him that these "rare" eggs are found for free outside of Ft Ranik and anyone could go there and rerun and pickup as many as they like.
Other player responds with a "What are you talking about?" and then stops responding to me. Minute later his party search sale disappears.
What is the most pathetic scamming attempt that you encountered?
Jaythen Tyradel
doudou_steve
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Not so much of a scam, but maybe unwise or unaware player.
Kamadan: Party Search: WTS Moa Eggs 15k each. I inquired him, playing clueless, on why they were so expensive. Other player says that they are VERY RARE and are needed to get the Rare Black Moa Chick. To confirm, I ask are the eggs or the Moa rare? Other player says both are rare to obtain. I nod to myself and proceed to tell him that these "rare" eggs are found for free outside of Ft Ranik and anyone could go there and rerun and pickup as many as they like. Other player responds with a "What are you talking about?" and then stops responding to me. Minute later his party search sale disappears. |
I was like omg.
Pyro maniac
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In my case, someone wanted to buy moa egg 20k each and when i told him where you can find them he said: i'm too LAZY.
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Tender Wolf
Someone was spamming this in Great Temple of Balthazar:
W T B <GuildWars> Accounts Prophecies=200K <level 20 in it 250KOR300K><The selling quickly>
W T B <GuildWars> Accounts Prophecies=200K <level 20 in it 250KOR300K><The selling quickly>
Master Sword Keeper
Im tired of seeing those ones appearing around Guild Wars...Everytime I see it, just makes me feel so helpless knowing that Anet isnt able to do anything about it....
Reporting doesnt work. Doesnt anyone know that tryin to Buy/Sell accounts is illegal?
Sheesh.
oh yea. had someone try to sell me a moa chick egg lol.
Reporting doesnt work. Doesnt anyone know that tryin to Buy/Sell accounts is illegal?
Sheesh.
oh yea. had someone try to sell me a moa chick egg lol.
snodaard
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One particular scam made me laugh hard one day.
At that time I was doign my Mesmer FoW, and already was with all my ectos needed, then someone saw that I was buying and said: (always in whisper)SCAMMER: Hey, do you have lot of ectos, right??? ME: Yeah SCAMMER: Nice, I dicovered a glitch in Dunes of Despair that duplicate your items, want me to show you??? ME: Sure (Lol, he really belives that I am beliveing in his story) ...Inside Dunes of Despair Mission... SCAMMER: Ok, now, to start the glitch, first we must come to that dune ME: Ok (lol) SCAMMER: Ok, now, here, at this exact point, drop all your ectos so I can make the code glitch ME: Ok. (lolololololololololololol) ... Then I drop some Demonic Remais... SCAMMER: Not Demonic, the glitch only works in ectos and shards ME: Right, and I am Madonna... ... Quit Mission, Ignore Player, Report to A.Net... |
MercenaryKnight
A person in fow armor and chaos gloves wants to buy my mini kuunavang. So instead of 100k + the ecto it's 100g with the ecto.
Guess the trick to getting expensive items is cheating everyone out of their items.
Guess the trick to getting expensive items is cheating everyone out of their items.
Numa Pompilius
I think the most pathetic scam I've seen was a guy in Droknars Forge who advertised this offer:
"GIVE ME YOUR EXPENSIVE WEAPONS AND I'LL DUPE THEM FOR YOU!"
The most pathetic period is a "scam" I pulled myself. I was bored and started advertising that:
"SCAM! GIVE ME 5K AND I'LL SCAM YOU! 100% SUCCESS! NO NOOBS!"
That was pathetic, but it what made it truly pathetic was that I
a) got offers from people who wanted to give me 5K to scam them, and
b) dozens of upset whispers from people that they'd report me for scamming.
"GIVE ME YOUR EXPENSIVE WEAPONS AND I'LL DUPE THEM FOR YOU!"
The most pathetic period is a "scam" I pulled myself. I was bored and started advertising that:
"SCAM! GIVE ME 5K AND I'LL SCAM YOU! 100% SUCCESS! NO NOOBS!"
That was pathetic, but it what made it truly pathetic was that I
a) got offers from people who wanted to give me 5K to scam them, and
b) dozens of upset whispers from people that they'd report me for scamming.
HawkofStorms
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The most pathetic period is a "scam" I pulled myself. I was bored and started advertising that: "SCAM! GIVE ME 5K AND I'LL SCAM YOU! 100% SUCCESS! NO NOOBS!" That was pathetic, but it what made it truly pathetic was that I a) got offers from people who wanted to give me 5K to scam them, and b) dozens of upset whispers from people that they'd report me for scamming. |
Draco Angelus
This was a good while ago before factions was out:
I found a Sup vigor rune one day and decided to salvage it before ID-ing it, me totally happy for getting a Sup Vig, but I intended to sell it unidentified to make it a bit more valuable.
so i went to Droks and put this in the trade chat:
"WTS Unidentified Rune, 35k" (fair price at that time)
surely enough people were starting to call me a scammer, telling me it could be any superior rune.
I keep insisting it's fair, you can tell by the rune's Icon. this went on for about 30 mins until I noticed my SUBLIME blunder of not putting VIGOR in the trade chat.
to add insult to injury, one guy whispers me he'll buy it for 30k+ 1ecto. Fair enough, I was getting annoyed with trade spam (I despise vending).
you traded XXXX an Superior Rune
XXXX traded you an Ecto and 30g.
.........
.....*Faceplant*
I found a Sup vigor rune one day and decided to salvage it before ID-ing it, me totally happy for getting a Sup Vig, but I intended to sell it unidentified to make it a bit more valuable.
so i went to Droks and put this in the trade chat:
"WTS Unidentified Rune, 35k" (fair price at that time)
surely enough people were starting to call me a scammer, telling me it could be any superior rune.
I keep insisting it's fair, you can tell by the rune's Icon. this went on for about 30 mins until I noticed my SUBLIME blunder of not putting VIGOR in the trade chat.
to add insult to injury, one guy whispers me he'll buy it for 30k+ 1ecto. Fair enough, I was getting annoyed with trade spam (I despise vending).
you traded XXXX an Superior Rune
XXXX traded you an Ecto and 30g.
.........
.....*Faceplant*
DarkGanni
Here's a good one, I was in Kamadan selling my stygian reaver and this guy PMs, I'll buy 100k+50ectos (more than i was selling), then he makes me switch dists to meet him, a naked wammo, says do you remember that dupe trick there was a few months ago, I was like yeah yeah and so he takes me outside to see the axe then says: I have to make sure that axe isn't duped, duped items can't be dropped and so he asks me to follow him. That's where I insult him and leave.
I found it very pathetic.
The End.
- Ganni
I found it very pathetic.
The End.
- Ganni
Adeno
Hello all! I'm new in the forums (but a few weeks old in the auction section) and I'd like to share my "almost-got-scammed" story with you.
I just recently got this game last Christmas of 2007 as a gift to myself (along with factions, nightfall, and eye of the north). Being new, I decided to move along the storyline of Prophecies first, which led me to finishing Eye of the North by a small detour.
Anyway, just today, I decided to continue on the Prophecies storyline and I got to the mission in Desperate Dunes, part of the ascension quest. I was tired and I didn't really want to get lost in the desert again, plus I was eating lunch at the time, so I hired this "mission runner" who was shouting there. I'll keep his name secret for now, you'll learn why. All I can tell you is his name consists of "Mr" followed by a Mexican type of food.
After I hired him, he asked for the first half of the payment before the start of the mission, which I gave him. We chatted a bit and talked about stuff as he started the mission.
At the beginning of the mission, I asked him if he could finish it alone, and he reassured me that he can. He went off (this mission involves protecting a ghost hero) and died running. I cheered for him because I wasn't really in a hurry to finish the mission and told him that he could do it, then we had a few laughs.
After a few unsuccessful attempts, he confessed to me that he was really going to scam me, but he just couldn't because he thought I was "cool" and he had a change of heart. He returned me my money and I just told him it's fine and thanked him for returning my gold, then he left.
I guess my experience from other games holds true here as well, that if you're nice and polite to people, they'll have a harder time trying to do bad things to you
I just recently got this game last Christmas of 2007 as a gift to myself (along with factions, nightfall, and eye of the north). Being new, I decided to move along the storyline of Prophecies first, which led me to finishing Eye of the North by a small detour.
Anyway, just today, I decided to continue on the Prophecies storyline and I got to the mission in Desperate Dunes, part of the ascension quest. I was tired and I didn't really want to get lost in the desert again, plus I was eating lunch at the time, so I hired this "mission runner" who was shouting there. I'll keep his name secret for now, you'll learn why. All I can tell you is his name consists of "Mr" followed by a Mexican type of food.
After I hired him, he asked for the first half of the payment before the start of the mission, which I gave him. We chatted a bit and talked about stuff as he started the mission.
At the beginning of the mission, I asked him if he could finish it alone, and he reassured me that he can. He went off (this mission involves protecting a ghost hero) and died running. I cheered for him because I wasn't really in a hurry to finish the mission and told him that he could do it, then we had a few laughs.
After a few unsuccessful attempts, he confessed to me that he was really going to scam me, but he just couldn't because he thought I was "cool" and he had a change of heart. He returned me my money and I just told him it's fine and thanked him for returning my gold, then he left.
I guess my experience from other games holds true here as well, that if you're nice and polite to people, they'll have a harder time trying to do bad things to you
1 up and 2 down
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Hello all! I'm new in the forums (but a few weeks old in the auction section) and I'd like to share my "almost-got-scammed" story with you.
I just recently got this game last Christmas of 2007 as a gift to myself (along with factions, nightfall, and eye of the north). Being new, I decided to move along the storyline of Prophecies first, which led me to finishing Eye of the North by a small detour. Anyway, just today, I decided to continue on the Prophecies storyline and I got to the mission in Desperate Dunes, part of the ascension quest. I was tired and I didn't really want to get lost in the desert again, plus I was eating lunch at the time, so I hired this "mission runner" who was shouting there. I'll keep his name secret for now, you'll learn why. All I can tell you is his name consists of "Mr" followed by a Mexican type of food. After I hired him, he asked for the first half of the payment before the start of the mission, which I gave him. We chatted a bit and talked about stuff as he started the mission. At the beginning of the mission, I asked him if he could finish it alone, and he reassured me that he can. He went off (this mission involves protecting a ghost hero) and died running. I cheered for him because I wasn't really in a hurry to finish the mission and told him that he could do it, then we had a few laughs. After a few unsuccessful attempts, he confessed to me that he was really going to scam me, but he just couldn't because he thought I was "cool" and he had a change of heart. He returned me my money and I just told him it's fine and thanked him for returning my gold, then he left. I guess my experience from other games holds true here as well, that if you're nice and polite to people, they'll have a harder time trying to do bad things to you |
You were lucky you found a "nice" scammer. But if you think that being nice and polite will make scammers have a harder time scamming you, then you are wrong.
~ Dan ~
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Smile Like Umean It
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SNIPPY
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So, you didn't get scammed out of your gold, you still got scammed out of your time.
Question though. Have you actually ever tried the Dunes of Despair mission before this?
Jules Grimm
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What is the worst and stupidest scamming attemt you encountered?? I was selling a req 9 Stormbow perf for 75k.... the buyer agreed, and put in 75g and tried to convince me to press accept.... lol...
if you're sleepy you might fall for it... but this is the bottom i've reached... |
Whats worse is i know if i was the buyer i would have opened trade and given the balance
spun ducky
A good one I saw the other day was a guy advertising selling a torment shield for 100k+30ectos or willing to trade for 25 Lunar Tokens. It was also interesting enough another guy in LA was spamming selling 25 Lunar tokens for 100k. I messaged the seller of the shield since by chance I still had some lunar tokens of my own sitting around and for those who don't know they are of no value unless by chance the lunar fortune collector shows up again and even then not worth near 100k. So he constantly refuses to do the trade then stops answering then I talk to the other guy who was selling the tokens for 100k and hes like its a good deal you should buy them and I told him he should trade them to that guy for the torment shield he can make big money. The guy then precedes to tell me some BS about how he already traded 25 to that guy for 5 superior vigors so I told him he should trade me the vigors for my 25 tokens since according to him they are worth 100k far more than 25 tokens. He refuses but insist I should buy his tokens since I can get such a sweet deal on the torment shield. It obviously was 2 friends working together and anyone that actually bought the tokens from the one would be greatly disappointed when the guy with the shield ignored them.
StormDragonZ
I'm not a scammer, but just for fun, I say:
"Anyone have an Ectoplasm I could borrow?"
"Anyone have an Ectoplasm I could borrow?"
sangdynasty
I JUST had it happen to me again...like 30 minutes ago and I stumbled on this thread in my search for a Ceratadon Mini...
"Would you let me take a screenshot of your Mini Panda out on the map?" was the polite request by PM as I logged in for the afternoon. I should have known when he wanted me to come to Kamadan after I guested him to my guild hall that something was awry....
Once on the map he followed with the request that I drop it on ground so he could {printscreen} it....
I will paraphrase my response as not to offend anyone...
"DO YOU #$%^ing think im a $%*#ing R3T4RD?????" (or something like that but not as classy), I screamed at him in chat.
He replied with all the lame things one might expect - "I dont want it, I just want the screenshot of the writing", "I'm way over here. How could I get there that fast?" on ad nauseum...
I really dont know why I stayed the several minutes and tried to explain that this was a REALLY lame scamming tactic and that there was no way in the underworld that I would ever do something so idiotic. But i did...
He then asked, after continued denial of his TRUE motives, "Would you give me 5 ectos toward my obsidian armor?"
Something inside my head popped (really I felt it) and I suddenly smelled pancakes for some reason. I feared that I was having a stroke and got the heck out of there.
A few minutes later once the stroke symptoms had passesd I messsaged him and asked that he please remove me from his friend list and NEVER to contact me again.
He replied, "I will remove you from my list when you give me 30 ectos."
IGNORED and FLAMED like Chicago in 1871. I'm not kidding guys, ALL decency and tact flew out the window (I know and I'm always such a calm nice guy...)
mod Edit: Name removed, we don't allow names to be posted
Thanks for making this thread.
Regards,
Sang
"Would you let me take a screenshot of your Mini Panda out on the map?" was the polite request by PM as I logged in for the afternoon. I should have known when he wanted me to come to Kamadan after I guested him to my guild hall that something was awry....
Once on the map he followed with the request that I drop it on ground so he could {printscreen} it....
I will paraphrase my response as not to offend anyone...
"DO YOU #$%^ing think im a $%*#ing R3T4RD?????" (or something like that but not as classy), I screamed at him in chat.
He replied with all the lame things one might expect - "I dont want it, I just want the screenshot of the writing", "I'm way over here. How could I get there that fast?" on ad nauseum...
I really dont know why I stayed the several minutes and tried to explain that this was a REALLY lame scamming tactic and that there was no way in the underworld that I would ever do something so idiotic. But i did...
He then asked, after continued denial of his TRUE motives, "Would you give me 5 ectos toward my obsidian armor?"
Something inside my head popped (really I felt it) and I suddenly smelled pancakes for some reason. I feared that I was having a stroke and got the heck out of there.
A few minutes later once the stroke symptoms had passesd I messsaged him and asked that he please remove me from his friend list and NEVER to contact me again.
He replied, "I will remove you from my list when you give me 30 ectos."
IGNORED and FLAMED like Chicago in 1871. I'm not kidding guys, ALL decency and tact flew out the window (I know and I'm always such a calm nice guy...)
mod Edit: Name removed, we don't allow names to be posted
Thanks for making this thread.
Regards,
Sang
Master Mayhem
i accidently scammed a bot once,
a bot was selling 10 ectos for 49k, and i accidently wrote 4k900, the bot and I accept. I wanted to give the remaining gold, but he goes 'thank you' and logs off.
a bot was selling 10 ectos for 49k, and i accidently wrote 4k900, the bot and I accept. I wanted to give the remaining gold, but he goes 'thank you' and logs off.
Nemo the Capitalist
sighs....loses hope for humanity
Snow Bunny
i was trying to buy a q7 15Al Darkwing shield for a friend, him being lazy and all (no u) and a guy pms me with "I have the shield, 15AL, but it's blue, that ok?" I respond affirmatively, and he says,"ima log soonz so just put up teh 40k, kkks?" I go,"Whatever", and put up the 40k. He puts up a R11 shield, I decline, he puts up a R12, I decline, then R9, I decline.
He says,"You RED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GOing nub, stop declining, this is r7 good shit"
I /ignore, and log
He says,"You RED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GOing nub, stop declining, this is r7 good shit"
I /ignore, and log
Tender Wolf
Someone was just spamming in Lion's Arch:
Trading Guild Wars gold for Neopoints!!!
Trading Guild Wars gold for Neopoints!!!
Qwertyfied
As mentioned previously, the one where two friends in the same district do the - WTS XYZ 100k, WTB XYZ 100k +30e. For the fun of it i usually pm the person buying, informing them of the great deal they could be getting. Usually it results in a slot on their ignore list, or some verbal abuse, but frankly i don't care.
Skyy High
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A good one I saw the other day was a guy advertising selling a torment shield for 100k+30ectos or willing to trade for 25 Lunar Tokens. It was also interesting enough another guy in LA was spamming selling 25 Lunar tokens for 100k. I messaged the seller of the shield since by chance I still had some lunar tokens of my own sitting around and for those who don't know they are of no value unless by chance the lunar fortune collector shows up again and even then not worth near 100k. So he constantly refuses to do the trade then stops answering then I talk to the other guy who was selling the tokens for 100k and hes like its a good deal you should buy them and I told him he should trade them to that guy for the torment shield he can make big money. The guy then precedes to tell me some BS about how he already traded 25 to that guy for 5 superior vigors so I told him he should trade me the vigors for my 25 tokens since according to him they are worth 100k far more than 25 tokens. He refuses but insist I should buy his tokens since I can get such a sweet deal on the torment shield. It obviously was 2 friends working together and anyone that actually bought the tokens from the one would be greatly disappointed when the guy with the shield ignored them.
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/bang head
mrmango
At least that's a cool way of sadly owning market traders.
slowerpoke
WTS/B GW ACCOUNT xxk
Crenait
I'm trying to sell off my Luxon guild with a full hall, since I dont want to run a guild anymore and want to just join one. I get a whisper about how I just stole the guild from someone by hacking them, and if I dont give them the guild they'll report me. they then say something about how thiefs have bad spelling and grammer so I correct them by spelling grammar right, and they ignore me 
Krukmeister
Me! XD
Okay, when I started playing GW (about 2,5 years now) I sold starter shields!
Sold them for 10 gold, made about 1k profit out of it! -O_
Well i have seen some people trying to sell a req 9 zodiac axe for 100k 20e about two weeks ago, I laughed at him so hard, he put me on ignore...
Okay, when I started playing GW (about 2,5 years now) I sold starter shields!
Sold them for 10 gold, made about 1k profit out of it! -O_
Well i have seen some people trying to sell a req 9 zodiac axe for 100k 20e about two weeks ago, I laughed at him so hard, he put me on ignore...
dirran
Being misled about the Bonus Mission Pack being exclusive.
Ku Ku
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Stupidest attempt i've seen is someone offerring some Stones of the Elements and Enslavement Stones instead of DoA Gems.
What made it funnier was that the names actually appeared in the trade window without having to scroll over the items thanks to that neat update a while back. |
Ah those look identical to the gems however - a friend of mine (you know, tierd late at night doing a far amount of trading with different people etc) Got caught out with one of those, luckily it was just one XD
Sergeant of Marines
Me: WTS Tormented Str Shield 100k +30
other: you trade?
Me: Depends on what ya got =D
other: open trade wit me plz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Me: (opens Trade)
other: (puts up a non-max Dead Sword) These are uber rare dude, you want to trade for your shield???????????????????????
Me: /sigh, no thx
other: you damn noob, you are (insert your best ideas)
/ignore
other: you trade?
Me: Depends on what ya got =D
other: open trade wit me plz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Me: (opens Trade)
other: (puts up a non-max Dead Sword) These are uber rare dude, you want to trade for your shield???????????????????????
Me: /sigh, no thx
other: you damn noob, you are (insert your best ideas)
/ignore
MithranArkanere
Scammer Guido: safire cheap buy 1k?
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Ice
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Ice
Biostem
This may be the wrong place to post this, but since it came up I'll ask:
If people are buying GW accounts for gold, to which account would the payment go? Also wouldn't the mere act of transferring ownership of an acct violate the TOS/EULA, thus resulting in that account being shut down?
If people are buying GW accounts for gold, to which account would the payment go? Also wouldn't the mere act of transferring ownership of an acct violate the TOS/EULA, thus resulting in that account being shut down?
Charr Supporter
One time my friend, I think it was 2006 Wintersday, actually fell for the "frozen ectos turn into real ectos" scam. He was telling it to me like he had made an amazing discovery and when I told him he seemed amazed.
Melinda1984
saw this one earlier today i pmed my lols to him
while standing in ascalon city i see in all chat "running to ascalon cheap 2k!"
had to call my brother and boyfriend into the room to see it i thought it was that funny lol
while standing in ascalon city i see in all chat "running to ascalon cheap 2k!"
had to call my brother and boyfriend into the room to see it i thought it was that funny lol
Shakti
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This may be the wrong place to post this, but since it came up I'll ask:
If people are buying GW accounts for gold, to which account would the payment go? Also wouldn't the mere act of transferring ownership of an acct violate the TOS/EULA, thus resulting in that account being shut down? |
b) yes yes yes...see above scam thing
SunnyBombFire
i got scammed by account buying >.< i thought if i could buy an account for my bro he would play with me... after i gave him all i got (a chaos axe req either 9/10/ gargash bow/ a nonmax chaos axe and 2k) he gave me a pw like hamburger and i logged out to loggin the account. after it said that it was the wrong pw i logged back in and demanded my money back.... he logged out as usual and after a while i pmed him like 1 week after. he said he'll give all the stuff back but i have to pay him 50k... i was really poor and so he said he would give it out on a dick. my friend reported him as he was smarter than me and i never heard of that guy again
Komerad
I take screens and report all.
The droks runner i reported where I got a first answer from anet that 'the honesty of the people cannot be controlled by them'... complete story. I kept discussing it with them. As basicly such an answer for me means that such types of scams are allowed and thus I get rich too. Well to make a whole story short.. Never seen him again...
I have a second account where all scammers go to the friendslist just to see how long it takes b4 they got shut down. Aslong as they come online in a town where I am I keep warning the whole town max 2 weeks tho
as I never seen a reported scammer open longer than that.
The droks runner i reported where I got a first answer from anet that 'the honesty of the people cannot be controlled by them'... complete story. I kept discussing it with them. As basicly such an answer for me means that such types of scams are allowed and thus I get rich too. Well to make a whole story short.. Never seen him again...
I have a second account where all scammers go to the friendslist
just to see how long it takes b4 they got shut down. Aslong as they come online in a town where I am I keep warning the whole town max 2 weeks thoas I never seen a reported scammer open longer than that.
Tender Wolf
WTS "Just My Luck" quest item - 2k --> You get 500g, 5k exp, and 25 Lunar Tokens
EXCHANGE RAT AND PERF GREEN LONGBOW FOR 900 CANDYS
EXCHANGE RAT AND PERF GREEN LONGBOW FOR 900 CANDYS