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Divinus Stella · Aug 12, 2007, 10:46 PM // 22:46

Been around longer than a week, about a month ago i saw someone selling 90~ armbraces, at the time i put it down to ebay gold but ive been seeing a lot of them around just this week.

WTB Tormented Shield 3k!

Shanaeri Rynale · Aug 12, 2007, 10:47 PM // 22:47

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Originally Posted by yesitsrob

Depend on their means of getting the ambraces, do they get multiple ambraces, or multiple gems to get the ambraces? And would this mean torment weapons are untradable too? Or the gems... Whatever the case they clearly didn't genuinely get them... even if all you did was DoA, and didn't sleep, you'd not get this many. >_>

Agreed, small price to pay if the only other alternative is a roll back.

I suspect it's an exploit somehow. Maybe, Get a gem set, bring the swap window out, trade it with someone else and then craft the item leaving the gems intact. No idea. But a few days ago there was a post here claiming a dupe program that would do armbraces, it was removed PDQ but I remember seeing it.

Neo Nugget · Aug 12, 2007, 10:48 PM // 22:48

Thats ridiculous!
i know i am NEVER going to get an armbrace ever and these people have TONS!>.<

But if i start seeing people selling armbraces for 5k..........i might buy one.....or a few more.....i would like to have those weps

But seriously, i wonder whats going to be done about this?What if they dont even work?Fakes?

Atlas Ravens · Aug 12, 2007, 10:49 PM // 22:49

Could this be the result of neither ebay gold or dupes but rather some players running their own bots for personal ingame profit? If gold sellers run bots to make real cash then why couldn't individuals run bots to obtain wealth for high-end in-game purchases? Anet might be so incredibly inefficient in catching bots that this is happening regularly.

max gladius · Aug 12, 2007, 10:51 PM // 22:51

atlas, im guessing uve never been to mallyx or such... that area is very changing, and botting would be almost impossible from my experiences.

And a full month roll-back would be insane... and i wouldnt expect it, i would expect, and love to see, mas bans

Diddy bow · Aug 12, 2007, 10:52 PM // 22:52

Makes sence, somhow they dupe this items. Relising they are gonna get a perma ban they offer huge ammounts of armbraces for pet-A therefor they think they are safe because they have ditched the blood coverd cash or w/e.

SerenitySilverstar · Aug 12, 2007, 10:52 PM // 22:52

Go check out the Buy Forum. There's some very QQ WTB threads there.

This is disturbing. I've been seeing the same gold seller in Kamadan for a month. I'm sure they've been banned multiple times, but they just keep coming back.

I feel awful for Anet's team trying to chase all these bots/problems/gold sellers down. But looking at this discussion, it looks like something has gone insane.

makosi · Aug 12, 2007, 10:53 PM // 22:53

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Originally Posted by Malice Black

Just popped into Ascalon Inter1, nothing out of the ordinary. Load of wammos in their black FoW (Zzz)

Lol, I went there too. They're like clones. Maybe someone found a black-FoW-wammo-duping hax?

bamm bamm bamm · Aug 12, 2007, 10:53 PM // 22:53

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Originally Posted by Atlas Ravens

Could this be the result of neither ebay gold or dupes but rather some players running their own bots for personal ingame profit? If gold sellers run bots to make real cash then why couldn't individuals run bots to obtain wealth for high-end in-game purchases? Anet might be so incredibly inefficient in catching bots that this is happening regularly.

Who knows, but I think even bots would have a difficult time matching these figures.

o m g pizowned · Aug 12, 2007, 10:56 PM // 22:56

nah they can't re-roll a month malice. i just hope they unstack them, or delete all armbraces in the game which i'm sure they can't do

Net Flanders · Aug 12, 2007, 11:04 PM // 23:04

it would be easier, to ban all who have 400+ armbraces got within a day... not with trading, I mean from nothing - farmed or from trader :x

korcan · Aug 12, 2007, 11:04 PM // 23:04

this problem has apparently been around for the past month or so. if thats the case, there is no way that anet can do anything about it.

i think it would be next to impossible for anet to track down all the armbraces in the game that were somehow duped/glitched/whatever in order to ban players.

Malice Black · Aug 12, 2007, 11:04 PM // 23:04

To be honest I think I'm past caring. This game just isn't what it use to be.

Racthoh · Aug 12, 2007, 11:04 PM // 23:04

My guess; Mallyx quest bugged allowing players to accept the reward multiple times allowing them to get stacks of gems then exchanging those for ambraces (since there is a spirit of truth right there beside Mallyx's corpse).

undeadgun · Aug 12, 2007, 11:07 PM // 23:07

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Originally Posted by Malice Black

To be honest I think I'm past caring. This game just isn't what it use to be.

i 100% agree with u

Exigate · Aug 12, 2007, 11:08 PM // 23:08

It seems they're all offering really high prices on minipets/crystallines probably just so they can dupe them and make ALOT more money..

Diddy bow · Aug 12, 2007, 11:09 PM // 23:09

Well they could just change all the armbraces into chitin fragments, they have changed items before right? But then people who have deped them might be making weapons, or just buying pandas or w/e. So it would be really unfair on the honest people with the arm braces and the people who did it would probs get away. So either the exploit or whatever it is is fixed or we do a one month rollback... Either way i would boycott armbraces for now and hope a-net fixes the exploit and temporaraly removes the trader who transfers them into weapons. Hope this isnt beond a fix

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Atlas Ravens · Aug 12, 2007, 11:10 PM // 23:10

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Originally Posted by max gladius

atlas, im guessing uve never been to mallyx or such... that area is very changing, and botting would be almost impossible from my experiences.

Not what I was getting at. Botting wherever the botting has been good for the last year type of people could have very easily attained that level of wealth to buy the armbraces themselves. A place to park their ill gotten money. Thanks also for guessing that I have never been to Mallyx or such, but you would be wrong.

warren_kn · Aug 12, 2007, 11:13 PM // 23:13

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Originally Posted by Racthoh

My guess; Mallyx quest bugged allowing players to accept the reward multiple times allowing them to get stacks of gems then exchanging those for ambraces (since there is a spirit of truth right there beside Mallyx's corpse).

Either that, or the coding for the Coffers was unintentionally altered making the chance of an Armbrace greater.

makosi · Aug 12, 2007, 11:19 PM // 23:19

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Originally Posted by warren_kn

Either that, or the coding for the Coffers was unintentionally altered making the chance of an Armbrace greater.

Maybe but I think we'd all know about it soon enough if that was the case. People generally tell their friends and guildies if they have such luck.