Rust Storm poofed my Jah!!!

[UdneekgniM]

Damn you Blizzard :(

I'm going to search through the forum to get a better understanding of how Rust Storm works, but I just realized my one and only high rune, Jah, disappeared. I'd estimate that it was under my ownership for a couple weeks by now, and I didn't really touch it much because I wasn't interested in making Enigma or any other runewords involving Jah.

Also, I'm pretty sure the person I acquired it from is a reputable trader from the US West trade forums.

Recently, I've been looking to acquire a Ber rune to create Chains of Honor, so I try to offer my Jah rune for Ber rune. I don't get many interested traders (meaning no one), so I decide to check on it and find out I can't find it anywhere!

That about sums it up. I thought the rune was pretty legit since it didn't poof on me immediately after the trade, but Blizzard and Rust Storm have to be mean and take it away after a couple weeks. :(

[UdneekgniM]

hmmm found this quote which might explain what the hell happened to my Jah

Ok, basically Blizzard[Battle.net] has implemented a thing called the Rust Storm. What this does is when two items[runes in your case] with the same ID[an internal number] enter a game, one of them is destroyed[normally the first person to leave loses the item]. Although this Rust Storm was proven to be effective, people would dupe runes and then cube them up, giving them a new, legitimate ID. In all cases, if you're worried about losing runes, I'd just buy the runeword straight-up.

guess I should have muled the Jah (kept it on my lvl 86 Pally) to my lvl 1 rune mule instead of being afraid of the unspeakable happening (I self mule) :(

[xlodtraderx]

this on laddar or non?

[shidenx]

Actually if you did'nt find it yourself, you can't assume its legit.

[UdneekgniM]

non-ladder

I know that if I trade for any high rune, then the likelihood of it being a dupe is probably around 100%. It just seemed to me that since the Jah was sticking around for a while, I thought it was going to stay there for a long while. =(

I always thought Rust Storm scanned your accounts for dupes when you logged in, but I didn't know it also checked for dupes when joining a game and when others join a game.

[skilledlord]

hope it doesn't happen to mine, i think i'll trade mine away.

[nakozan]

luckily i only got 1 HR left :) and that one i found myself yesterday, but sry for your loss

[DjinnNTawnik]

BUY the runes straight up huh. Honestly i think theres something seriously twisted in the spending of real money on video game items (...supressing bad memories of EverCrack)..

[Killfrenzy]

BUY the runes straight up huh. Honestly i think theres something seriously twisted in the spending of real money on video game items (...supressing bad memories of EverCrack)..

I think he meant to trade for the pre-made runeword, not to BUY it with actual money. Most people around here are very anti-d2-gear-on-ebay. Either that or they hide their activities to prevent themselves being excomunicated

[DjinnNTawnik]

kewl, i cant stand those ebayers

[TyrionXavier]

I've had runes I've found disappear on me.

Lost a Zod and a Ber. Only rune I haven't found so far in this game is Sur.

Sucks. A lot.

[Omikron8]

From the looks of things of the latest ruststorm item deletions, runes made from cubing up DUPED runes are also going poof. Apparently it isn't as simple as "They get a new ID so they can't be detected".

[chuwawa]

I've had runes I've found disappear on me.

Lost a Zod and a Ber. Only rune I haven't found so far in this game is Sur.

Sucks. A lot.


Anyone else smell that??

[AlvinYork]

I dunno if I smell that, but why does everything smell like fish?

[Alywin]

Copied from my other posts.


Trading high runes, no matter on this forum or not, always bears the risk that the runes are duped. The thing is that over 95% of the high runes are duped themselves undoubtedly anyway, no matter who now holds them. Unless you traded with a very reputable forum members swearing to you that he found it himself instead of from trading.....