rune poofing?

[bonespike]

So far I never had the please of aquiring a high rune :tongue: , but anyways I am somewhat concerned about this thing called "rune poofing":

How many dupes are out there? I play on closed b-net europe. After so many patches (1.11b) is it still not safe to trade for high runes?

From what I have heard, Blizzard can recognise dupes and will silently remove them from time to time. That's what they call poofing, right?

Does anyone know how often these checks are performed?
Can I keep a traded rune for three days and assume it is safe (legit)?

I would really hate to build an expensive runeword and then have a rune vanish out of it's socket, wasting the entire runeword. I have heard this could happen.

[Kleany]

cant happen, when u socket it, it becomes perm

[Stompwampa]

cant happen, when u socket it, it becomes perm


FALSE! :wink3:


I'm gonna say it again...there is no way to 100% perm any item. Period. If It's duped, it can poof.

Granted, it's commonly believed that poofing happens much less when a rune is in a runeword...but that still can't stop it...

There are quite a few screenies floating around of IthBer or JahIth Enigma armors....

if anyone tells you they know how to perm, they are lying. It cannot be done...unless you're perming a new character of course ;-)

[ZygFryD]

The only way to be sure that the rune will not puff is to find it yourself. Otherwise, assume it is a dupe and it will not last forever.

[Gorny]

cant happen, when u socket it, it becomes perm


Not true, there is no such thing as perming.

[zebulin]

is it possible that when a rune is socketed it will only be recognized as a dupe if someone is encountered that not only had a dupe of your rune but had set it in the same runeword as you have?

[bonespike]

Hm, so it's not possible to be sure.
Finding all the high runes myself, and exactly the ones I need, is hardly an option.
How does everyone else then build their enigmas and all that stuff?

Is it worth just taking the risk, trading for HR as if like "gambling" for a legit one? :laugh:

Thank you for all the replies!

[Lawrencearm]

So if your rune in your rune word poofs, are the benefits and bonuses of the runeword still there?

[Gungak]

I was just wondering, if you got 2 traded Hrs (duped ones) and you then did the recipe in cube to make them another I.E 2 Ohm Runes + 1 Diamond = Lo Rune

Would/could it still poof?

[Epheira]

they get a new item ID so yes i think

[aman]

There is no way to prevent a duped rune from dissapearing.

If it is a dupe eventually it will dissapear

that includes cubing etc

[zebulin]

There is no way to prevent a duped rune from dissapearing.

If it is a dupe eventually it will dissapear

that includes cubing etc


so if I painstakingly cube a perfect diamond up from 81 chipped diamonds one of which was a dupe there would be a chance of the perfect diamond poofing? Granted gems arent the same as runes (nobody bothers duping them afaik) but I find it very hard to believe that every item has it's entire cubing pedigree encoded into it's id. From whence comes the idea that cubing wouldn't "perm" the resulting rune?

[Stompwampa]

so if I painstakingly cube a perfect diamond up from 81 chipped diamonds one of which was a dupe there would be a chance of the perfect diamond poofing? Granted gems arent the same as runes (nobody bothers duping them afaik) but I find it very hard to believe that every item has it's entire cubing pedigree encoded into it's id. From whence comes the idea that cubing wouldn't "perm" the resulting rune?


it's best not to try an think about it ;-)

the fact of the matter is, that if it's duped, it can poof. that's all there is to it.

and as far as I know, even if your HR's poof from a runeword, I believe the runeword still mainains all of it's stats and properties...someone correct me if i'm wrong.

that's why they say if you're gonna trade for HR's, put it in a rune word before you even exit that game...that way if it does poof, you'll more than likely still have the rune word...essentially...