It can provide a negative effect on the in-game economy and should have been fixed a long time ago..
These aren't from hacked accounts either, They obtained by dupes/exploits by either the guild bank/void storage etc... I won't be going into full detail
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This has been said before, it will be said again
Items cannot be duped in WOW.
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/6490540008#12

s the others mentioned the term 'duped' usually refers to the act of duplicating an item. It is commonly believed that a number of items, that are usually considered to be rare, are being 'duped' and sold to other players.
While many of these items are certainly obtained by the compromise and exploitation of an account, the items themselves are not being 'duped' by them.
It should be noted that the items can be sold by legitimate players as well as those who may have obtained them through illicit means. If you suspect someone of exploiting in some way, please use the right click report feature using the 'cheating' category, so the matter can be looked into.

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/8568988141#4

What is happening is usually a misunderstood process in that the items aren't technically 'Duped'. They will usually use compromised accounts and other exploitative methods to acquire the materials that they are selling.
The accounts that are selling the items are often compromised themselves and you'll see a series of characters often with the same or similar name, offering those items for sale.
It is important to use the right click report feature and report for: Spam, when you see such advertisements. This is the best and quickest method to generate reports on these accounts which can in turn allow the account to be locked when evidence of a compromise is found.

Wow,..downvoted for telling the truth. Take careful note of who i quoted, O wise one.

These aren't from hacked accounts either, They obtained by dupes/exploits by either the guild bank/void storage etc... I won't be going into full detail

You wont because you cant. You cannot dupe things in WOW.

Every game has dupers, they are just people finding flaws in the game engine. Not something you can Turkey fix.

This has been said before, it will be said again
Items cannot be duped in WOW.
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/6490540008#12
[quote]s the others mentioned the term 'duped' usually refers to the act of duplicating an item. It is commonly believed that a number of items, that are usually considered to be rare, are being 'duped' and sold to other players.
While many of these items are certainly obtained by the compromise and exploitation of an account, the items themselves are not being 'duped' by them.
It should be noted that the items can be sold by legitimate players as well as those who may have obtained them through illicit means. If you suspect someone of exploiting in some way, please use the right click report feature using the 'cheating' category, so the matter can be looked into.

flat out wrong, items are obviously being duped currently. It would take over 70 years of continuous raiding from a 30 man guild, assuming that a boe will drop from 1 out of 20 adds that you kill in BRF (which the drop rate isn't nearly that high) to farm the ilvl 700 boe's going into just my servers auction house. Running those numbers, it's not even possible for my entire servers population to mythic trash farm that many by staying up and farming BRF trash 24 hours a day, 7 days per week. Every single person, every single minute of every single day, won't even come close.
Explanation?
Duping, obviously, duh.

However, Blizz is pretty on top of it. When you report it in the auction house, they react pretty quickly and the items are down (from that particular seller) fairly quickly.

This has been said before, it will be said again
Items cannot be duped in WOW.
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/6490540008#12
[quote]s the others mentioned the term 'duped' usually refers to the act of duplicating an item. It is commonly believed that a number of items, that are usually considered to be rare, are being 'duped' and sold to other players.
While many of these items are certainly obtained by the compromise and exploitation of an account, the items themselves are not being 'duped' by them.
It should be noted that the items can be sold by legitimate players as well as those who may have obtained them through illicit means. If you suspect someone of exploiting in some way, please use the right click report feature using the 'cheating' category, so the matter can be looked into.

I hate this silly 'items can't be duped' mentality. During MoP various customer service support members verified that duping is a thing and does happen. But Blizzard is saying, by sheer technicality, and I can't possibly stress that enough; sheer technicality, that items can't be 'duped' through hacks and programs.
People instantly assume 'oh, that must mean all forms of duping are 100% impossible, end of story. Anyone else who says otherwise is completely wrong.'
They're wrong. The bottom line is, duping can't be done through hacks or cheat programs. The only way to accomplish doing so would require the person to hack directly into Blizzard servers which is hugely illegal.
However duping can still be done through exploits. There was literally a screenshot posted a month ago showing someone duplicating tons of super expensive materials and items through a exploit.
I can't say how the exploit is done because that would be a forum ban for me, but I can say that duping does happen through exploits.
Not through hacks or cheating programs, but exploits.
Blizzard just doesn't like to consider it 'duplicating' by sheer technical basis even though that's exactly what it is; obtaining a second copy of a item through a exploit which is what these people do on a daily basis. But that's not 'duping' by Blizzard's definition because its not technically being done as a hack.

Every game has dupers, they are just people finding flaws in the game engine. Not something you can Turkey fix.

Duping occurs in client-client systems like Diablo II when there's a disagreement between the two clients over which one has scope over the item; generally this is because one of them transferred it to the other, then was disconnected before it could be told that the item was transferred and remove its own copy.
This can't happen in a client-server system like WoW (or Diablo III; that's the single biggest reason they switched how D3 functions). If the client is disconnected, the server will just tell it that it's missing the item the next time it connects. The client doesn't actually keep item information from session to session the way it does in a client-client game. The only way duping could occur is if someone were able to crash the server on demand which, it's safe to say, is not a thing that happens very often if ever.

flat out wrong,

Hey, whatever floats your boat but Vrak knows what he is talking about

tems are obviously being duped currently

No.

. It would take over 70 years of continuous raiding from a 30 man guild, assuming that a boe will drop from 1 out of 20 adds that you kill in BRF (which the drop rate isn't nearly that high) to farm the ilvl 700 boe's going into just my servers auction house. Running those numbers, it's not even possible for my entire servers population to mythic trash farm that many by staying up and farming BRF trash 24 hours a day, 7 days per week. Every single person, every single minute of every single day, won't even come close.
Explanation?
Duping, obviously, duh.

Correlation =/= causation

flat out wrong,

Hey, whatever floats your boat but Vrak knows what he is talking about

tems are obviously being duped currently

No.

. It would take over 70 years of continuous raiding from a 30 man guild, assuming that a boe will drop from 1 out of 20 adds that you kill in BRF (which the drop rate isn't nearly that high) to farm the ilvl 700 boe's going into just my servers auction house. Running those numbers, it's not even possible for my entire servers population to mythic trash farm that many by staying up and farming BRF trash 24 hours a day, 7 days per week. Every single person, every single minute of every single day, won't even come close.
Explanation?
Duping, obviously, duh.

Correlation =/= causation

When MoP had a duping pandemic Blizzard customer service directly confirmed a multitude of different times that duping is a thing and they even did 1 time refunds on items that were proven to be duplicated while they explained to the ticket creators how to spot and avoid buying duplicated items.
Blizzard themselves confirmed on many different occasions during this time that duping is a thing. The blue you're quoting is saying duping can't be done through hacking, but it can be done through exploiting.
But I'm not going to sit here trying to argue with you. Blizzard customer service confirmed duplicating is a thing and you're misinterpting the article you're quoting. If that's still not enough proof for you, then you're fooling yourself.

When MoP had a duping pandemic Blizzard customer service directly confirmed a multitude of different times that duping is a thing and they even did 1 time refunds on items that were proven to be duplicated while they explained to the ticket creators how to spot and avoid buying duplicated item

[Citation needed]

But I'm not going to sit here trying to argue with you. Blizzard customer service confirmed duplicating is a thing and you're misinterpting the article you're quoting. If that's still not enough proof for you, then you're fooling yourself.

Source please.

If duping doesn't exist please explain why there are regularly 3-7 copies of the exact same mythic warforged items with the exact same secondary bonus stats on my server's AH. I would need a far more powerful computer to calculate the odds of the exact same items dropping. The prices on these BOEs are a fraction of the asking price of other buyers, thereby significantly impacting the economy. Let's not mention the parade of $600 swift spectral tigers being sold for 300k gold. Please don't try and dupe me into believing that duping doesn't exist.

If duping doesn't exist please explain why there are regularly 3-7 copies of the exact same mythic warforged items with the exact same secondary bonus stats on my server's AH.

Any number of reasons. Same drops. If these are BOE then they may be trash drops. NONE of this says 'duped'.

The prices on these BOEs are a fraction of the asking price of other buyers, thereby significantly impacting the economy. Let's not mention the parade of $600 swift spectral tigers being sold for 300k gold.

So? Maybe the others were overpriced. AGAIN, no proof of 'duping'.

Please don't try and dupe me into believing that duping doesn't exist.

The quotes above are for FORUM BLUES or do you SERIOUSLY need me to explain that to you. Vrakthris is a forum support agent and what he says is EX CATHEDRA i.e he is speaking on behalf of Blizzard.
How much more authoritative or definitive do you need?
You cannot dupe items in WOW. I am honestly getting sick to death of repeating this, and if you are that torn about it , I suggest you actually draft a message to the Cust Support staff and send in a ticket asking them what you are asking here.
You will get the same answer I have given you..

How much more authoritative or definitive do you need?

There's a certain point where you have to recognize that people are sitting around with fingers in their ears and won't accept evidence to sway them. No matter what the evidence is.
As Terry Pratchett wrote:
The turtle moves.
People just 'know.' It's 'obvious.'
Unfortunately, once a person has accepted something as fact, it's unlikely they'll change their minds. No matter how wrong they are.

Items cannot be duped in WOW.

ignorance is bliss, I know first hand that items can be duped and are being duped. Hell a few patches ago my cousin and I came across a way to duplicate gold. Only lasted a few weeks but boy was that fun.

By 'duping', are you all claiming that people are able to create items out of thin air?

By 'duping', are you all claiming that people are able to create items out of thin air?

replicating the same item over and over again. Its more like re-generating it rather then creating it out of thin air.

05/03/2015 06:03 AMPosted by Cocoa

All you have to do is look at the market price on the Jeweled Onyx Panther to know that something is fishy.

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