Two (Formerly) Working Duping Methods in Diablo 3

Posted 11 June 2012 by Flux

As a site policy we do not post duping or hacking methods, or allow links to such things, or to gold or item sellers. (Though that’s seeming an archaic rule, now that D3′s incorporated RMT as their long term financial model?) But with two new duping techniques functioning on the realms (earlier this weekend, at least. Both are reportedly disabled by hotfixes), and numerous players sending in links about it, and the YouTube videos showign them with tons of views, we figure you guys need to know what’s going on.

So here’s what’s happening, and yes, you’re free to post ranting furious comments about “thanks for the online only DRM Bobby!!1!!” if it makes you feel better.

The first method is a trick to get unlimited free crafting rolls. It requires one player to give the materials to the other, then leave the game in an odd way. This resets their account to where it was before joining the game, which restores their inventory to where it was previously, while the other player keeps the mats they were given by crafting them into items before anything resets. This method has been hotfixed and no longer functions as detailed:

  1. A gives resources to B.
  2. B crafts items using them.
  3. B gives crafted items to A.
  4. B moves to the new save point or waypoint.
  5. A leaves the room (When A leaves the room, A loses all crafted items received from B, but gets all resources back as well. Therefore, A lose nothing and gains nothing)
  6. The room automatically terminated (server detects anomaly?)
  7. At this point, server lost the track of B giving crafted items back to A (from step 3), thus B still has crafted items. Therefore, B freely gets crafted items. (Because, A gets back resources)

Video of it below, and you’ll probably want to mute it unless you speak Korean and like bad music.


The other technique is less complicated, and involves abusing the item buyback tab between two characters on the same account. Video showing it below is crappy video quality, but one I saw earlier showing it off with narration has since been deleted from YouTube account.

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50 Opinions have been expressed on “Two (Formerly) Working Duping Methods in Diablo 3”
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  • thanks for the online only DRM Bobby!!1!!

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      Angerwagon
      June 11, 2012 at 03:39

      So when do you guys think Diablo 3 will be ready for release?

      • I would say 1 month after PvP release.

        I will probably get bored with the game by then so …

    • All I can say is, thank god they nerfed the gold find in act 1 because that was just about to collapse the game. :roll:

      Honestly, I have been in the minority defending D3/inferno/etc and after this gold find/jacked repair bills bit I’m now done too. I have officially flip-flopped.

      • Do you have to be 100% positive or 100% negative to voice your opinion? Maybe it’s just a moderatly entertaining game with quite a bit of work left to be finished.

        Fanboys/Haters..

        • Indeed, this is how I feel. I got into closed beta, but pretty much nothing I ever suggested or reported got fixed before release. And they rush it out the door before even adding PvP.

          On the one hand I like getting to play the whole game sooner instead of just to Skeleton King, but on the other, the ‘professional polish’ you see from most Blizzard games is just missing. =/

          • I agree, though the majority of the game feels great, I feel the end game and a lot of the end game mechanics are very unpolished. If you look at what Jay Wilson said for Inferno mode it reflects that, “We got it to a point where some of our most hardcore play testers felt it was good…and then we doubled it! So trust us it’s going to be hard.” I don’t think that sounds like polish it’s just like a guess. Or something that will be done in the hopes of holding people off from finishing the game. As long as we waited for the game it does in fact feel rushed. And though I’m not hating it because I’m really glad I got to play it before I die, I always praise Blizzard for releasing a completed game…and I can’t with good conscious say that now cause this game is missing big pieces to it and a lot of stuff seems ill thought out. Now I do see the bigger picture of things, and how Diablo 2 was a cool game when it came out but wasn’t the behemoth it is today until Lord of Destruction patch 1.13 or 1.10? Whichever added skill synergies, so I’m very optimistic for the future of Diablo 3 but right now I feel like it’s a very unstable environment and a lot is being changed so we’ll see where it lands.

  • Oh weird.. it’s from Asia. Stereotypes are coolest because they are usually true :wink:

    • And what makes you think that others are not doing it in other servers? It is just that a few fools from korea (in this case) are silly enough (or civic minded enough) to post it on the net :P

      The other servers runs the same codes so do not kid yourself that others are not doing it there too.

  • Asian servers – /shock.

  • Just because the videos show it happening in the Asian server doesn’t mean that it wasn’t going on in the other servers. Smart people don’t let on about exploits they find until they are done milking it for themselves. I wouldn’t be surprised if hundreds of people were taking advantage of these methods in the US servers

  • What if asians were never smart… But we were just too dumb

  • They were confirmed not working on the NA servers and only on Asia. Try again.

  • Mute unless you’re Korean and like bad music. I know most people don’t like Korean music but that’s really racist.

  • ^^ I’m somehow at a loss to how that is in any way racist. Please elaborate.

    He is obvisouly just giving his opinion that the background music is bad (definitely not racist) isnt he? And that we will not understand anything else said if we do not speak the language; so you are better off muting it?

    • I assume he’s just trolling, since he changed the meaning by misquoting the words in the post, and the music in the video isn’t Korean anyway.

      • No clue what language it is, but if you listen past the first song or two (try 2:00) there’s definitely non-english singing in the background.

  • They found one way to break Bli$$’s perfect online only game, they can and WILL find another. It’s only a matter of time. Just keep patching it up through Hot fixes, they never gonna stop, especially when Real money is involved.

  • So some crafty people figured out how to dupe items, which was then fixed by Blizzard. I mean do you expect every piece of software to be absolutely bug and exploit-free? What perfect world do you live in…

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