just what happened

[harconst]

just what happened

hello everyone.
although i have been playing diablo ii for 4 years,i started playing on battlenet
just a couple weeks ago, so i have a question.
Yesterday , someone joined my trade game , and since noone else had joined,
we started chatting. after showing me his gear( which was great consisting of expensive runewords mostly ), i showed him mine.he then traded me , and gave me an IST rune , a unique ring , and skullders armor.i closed the traded window , thanked him , and exited. guess what , when i joined an other game, the items where not there. is this the so called 'poofing'? i though it was just for runes?
can they dupe anything , even simple armor? then , how can we protect ourshelves from such trades in the future?
thanks for the help.

ps: i just signed up here , but i read these forums for over 3 years :smiley:

 

[nicro tower]

the only way to protect urself from duping is not trading with other players.
and yes its possible to dupe anything... but mostly expensive runewords are duped.

and none of the "perming" tricks necessarily(yes corrected it!!) works....

 

[Kijya]

If you cheak out the trade forums here and trade with trusteble members you are pretty safe for all the normal items, note that hr's are still duped ... If you ever find one use it in a legit runeword with other runes you've found yourself, trading a legit hr away is a waste.

welcome to the forum :wave: (as a member instead of a lurker :wink3

 

[nicro tower]

lol i forgot welcome to the forums
*waves*

 

[harconst]

thank you for your answers.
happy to finnaly register.
i think i will start using the trade forums.
Just in case , if a rune is a dupe, but i manage to socket it before it pofs,
am i safe? thanks again

 

[Kijya]

thank you for your answers.
happy to finnaly register.
i think i will start using the trade forums.
Just in case , if a rune is a dupe, but i manage to socket it before it pofs,
am i safe? thanks again

You're not completly safe, a full ruststorm should still find and delete them, atleast that's what I've heared, but those are really rare, never been throught one myself and cannot give you any specific details about it. Never had a rune poof when inside a rw.

 

[nicro tower]

ive seen a coh missing a ber be4.... the rw still works but... u have a missing rune. and the rw might get deleted as a dupe later

 

[Kijya]

ive seen a coh missing a ber be4.... the rw still works but... u have a missing rune. and the rw might get deleted as a dupe later

what happens if you socket another rune into it? runeword would screw up would be my guess ...

 

[Angelus Dominus]

ive seen a coh missing a ber be4.... the rw still works but... u have a missing rune. and the rw might get deleted as a dupe later

I have never encountered something like that. :shocked: