Op dinsdag 01 januari 2002 19:14 schreef Cthulhu het volgende:
Die screens zijn echt, ik heb al iemand ontmoet die 25 accounts vol had met alleen maar jordans, als jullie willen kan ik die dupe methode wel posten, hij werkt nu toch niet meer.(ik heb hem niet gebruikt, toen ze hem bekend maakten, had blizzard het al gepatched)
edit, hier wordt dus de soj dupemethode uitgelegd:
I was the initial finder of the fastest and most powerful duping method ever, that was patched recently. Here I'll briefly describe how I found it, what it involved and what happened.
First, I would like to say that I am not a newbie posting this with nothing to back me up. TechWarrior, Lyncian and ThoHell can all verify that what I say is accurate and that I initially came across it. I'd like to thank Tech for writing the first program needed for the dupe, that was later greatly improved on by himself, and finally augmented by my automation program. ThoHell also wrote his own modules for this, that he used.
By the way, this is not my normal nick. In order to avoid spam, Lyncian suggested this nick to post this thread with.
This method allows someone to quickly (up to 3-4 items PER SECOND) dupe any item in the game without using up any quests nor needing much setup (it will work in act1 with a level 1 mule character, for example). It does not mark the item with a socket or personalization.
Properly automated by a program, this method can generate thousands of items in minutes. With a mule set up with an item grabber, one can fill whole accounts with items faster then any other method. Ever.
When I discovered this method, I told a few trusted friends, but after a week, the public socket/personalize method was released on cheatlist and the economy died. At that point, we emailed the method in to blizzard to be fixed immediately. Since then, the method was leaked and a few people on cheatlist found it out. Thankfully, the forums went down for a few days, so it could not get leaked to a thousand people here. I had nothing to do with the forums going down btw, DDOS is illegal.
Now, the method is fixed and almost no one on cheatlist got a chance to use it. Why is this? Because you publically posted a very easy and damaging dupe method (the socket/personalize one) and went crazy with it. I don't mean to be rude to anyone, but if you guys were sensible, I would have had no qualms about releasing it.
By the way, the method mentioned in Lyncian's recent Stones Duping thread (with the screenshots of heaps of stones all over act1 ground), was this exact method. I didn't post anything in that thread, but patiently waited for this one. I was somewhat annoyed that other people got credit for it.
How the method works
Here is an explanation of what had to be done to dupe with this method while it still worked. This has been patched, so the information here is completely harmless.
Going into trade saves the items on a character, and closing trade reverts them back to how they were at the save. We all know this from the waypoint duping method and the socket/personalize one. All that was needed for a working dupe method was a way of getting an item onto the ground while in trade. Obviously dropping items manually or with packets or all sorts of obvious exploits like that immediately click the client.
Here's the key point Imbuing an invalid item will make it drop at your feet.
That's all there is to it. Go to trade, pick up the item on your cursor (hence sniffing the item code in the 0x17 packet), and send an imbue packet for that code (0x38 packet). An exact copy of the item falls to the floor at your feet, and when you close trade, the original remains in your inventory.
There you go, you have now duped the item.
From there, you can write an automation program that goes into trade for you, does this for each item in your inventory (and stash too, if you want), then closes trade, waits until you are allowed to trade again and repeats the whole process. With this program, someone can make hundreds of thousands of items in a day.
Of course, most of the items have to be 'permed'. That is the process that everyone knows of opening trade with a mule holding the items, closing trade, then leaving the game with the item.
This only has to be done on items spawned in patch 1.07 or later, with a few exceptions (runeword combos etc). Old converted-from-classic items like 99% of the Stones that people have can be freely duped to death without deleting each other.
This is where I would like to say a few things that I wouldn't normally say
To the people that designed/released the socket/personalize dupe You ruined it all for everyone (Public duping is extremely bad. It kills the game. Because my method used the same packet, this was also killed by the same patch.)
To the people who talk about 1x1 items being automatically perm Go do some research before you post

This is utter rubbish. Want a technical debate over it?
To anyone who attempted to dupe with the imbue window then said it can only do White text items I find this hilarious. We initially did the method with a small change to the client so that any item could be placed in the imbue window, and followed the same style of instructions used in the public socket/personalize dupe method, though obviously without that knowledge, as it was released later. Even with this method, you'll be able to dupe perfectly, albiet slowly (and you need the quest, but it doesn't get used up). This always worked and has been sitting there for people to exploit!
I saw a post where someone said that they tried imbue duping, and that it was silly because it could only dupe white text items. They then suggested that that thread in question should be closed! I almost fell off my chair in laughter. If you had only tried hacking the client so that it will accept any item in the imbue window (NOPing a few tests, Tech did it very fast, but that's because he is the best -ever- at stuff like this), you would be able to dupe. That's so ironic.
This whole duping thing has left me feeling very bad. I don't like it anymore. I'm now completely on blizzard's side in that I agree that it is ruining the game.
Here's a big hint for all you prospective dupers If you find a method, KEEP IT A SECRET!!! Don't let it get public. My method managed to stay secret for over a week or two (only ruined by the fact that the socket/personalize one was released). Also note that most people you tell WILL betray you. People talk, it's human nature.
By the way, if anyone recognises who I am, PM me with your guess. Do not name me in this thread, I will not be pleased.
Before you flame me, read the following points
1) I have the permission of three moderators to post this.
2) I am not sorry that I did not give the method out to cheatlist. I don't care if it's against the rules for me to post about a method that wasn't publically released, as I am making this post to EDUCATE you about a method that you all missed out on.
3) I do not intend to release future methods to the public.
4) After this was patched, I had to decide whether or not to post anything. I decided to, because some people would be interested in what was involved in the method. I won't appreciate any nasty comments.
5) Also, don't bother posting that this is made up or incorrect. I don't want to have to waste my time shooting down your arguments and getting the mods to verify what I say to prove it to you. If you don't believe me, then you're fighting a losing battle. I don't mean to sound arrogant here, but I just don't want an onslaught of "no u r wrong coz u have a postcount of 1" posts.
Also, I hope you all appreciate how much Lyncian does for this forum. Many of you are acting so immature towards her and questioning why she should be a mod. She's trustworthy, highly clever and moral. What more do you need?
Well there we go. I've said my bit, now it's time for your comments. I'll reply in detail if I need to.
Btw, I hope you all had a good Christmas, and I wish you a happy new year.
Prodigy_One.
See you in the Galaxies Far, Far Away ....