Q: Omgz!!1 I found this website, 
, and they said that they would sell me a
working dupe for only $5!!1 Is it for real??/?SHIFT + SLASH?/?
A: No. You will, at best, pay for directions on how to perform an old non-functional dupe that has long since been patched. A much more
likely scenario, however, is that you will receive a Trojan or virus which will attempt to steal your cdkeys, accounts, or worse. Never download anything
posted on a free hosting service with an extension such as .nl or tripod. In any event, no matter how convincing the website seems to be, it is a scam 100%.
You will never receive a working dupe in this way.
Furthermore, never ask in a forum weather or not a dupe is legit. You will always receive the same resounding "NO", followed by several pages of flaming and
"omg what a noob."
Q: Can someone please scan this file for me to see if its a Trojan?
A: No. There's no point in wasting your time. If you found a dupe at a 3rd party site, it is either completely worthless, or trojaned.
If you want to check to see if a file is infected, your best bet is to use an online meta-scanner engine. These are servers which will upload your file, scan
it with multiple antiviruses, and return the results. The best meta-scanners are:
and
These services
have size limitations and are rather slow, especially for large files. To scan multiple files, you have to archive them and upload the archive.
No antivirus can say with 100% certainty weather or not something is infected, and even a "multi-scanner" will not detect custom designed, or unique exploits
and trojans. No scanner is a substitute for using common sense when downloading executables. It is not usually difficult to tell weather or not a program is
from a reputable source. Always do some research, checking multiple sources before downloading anything questionable. Remember, if it sounds too good to be
true, It is.
Q: Where can I find a working public dupe method?
A: Reliable public dupe methods are exceptionally rare and short lived. Blizzard is quick to patch any major dupe exploits that are made
known to the general population. If there is currently a public dupe method available, it will almost certainly be posted here:
If discovered, Public dupes are usually unreliable, complex, and difficult to perform.
Q: I have tons of money to burn and want to buy a private dupe. How can i go about doing so?
A: Not by asking on a forum. Private dupes are not for sale. Even for outrageous sums of money, you would be hard-pressed to find a
legitimate working method. Don't waste your time or money.
If you still feel like squandering your money, your best bet is probably to go to the source and email the ebayers and item shops with your offers. Don't
hold your breath on a response.
Again, asking this on any forum will usually result in mass flames, pissed off mods, and most likely, a locked topic.
Q: I heard that if you perform certain actions in just the right way in-game, it is possible to cause enough lag on the server-side to
desynch the game, thereby duping your items. Is this true?
A: Probably not. In the past, people have had limited success with lagging games using methods such as 7 guys throwing poison javelins
at bone walls, or causing the torch to rapidly cast inferno while firing arrows at cows in the secret cow level. Such crude methods usually have a high
failure rate, and are quickly patched if they are even remotely successful. You must know that these methods rely on causing lag on the server-side, not to
be confused with the apparent lag caused on the client-side. Even then, it is relatively easy for blizzard to safeguard against accidental duping by
exploiting this method.
Example: You can pay $20 dollars at
for such a "dupe program". For your twenty dollars, you will receive an executable which has no function
other than to display the following message in a text box:
Quote:
In order to dupe your items complete all of the following:
1) Click Run Hack to enable the hacking process
2) Zon/Necro/Mule all go into the same game.
3) Necro bone walls the hell out of the Blood Moor. You need a LOT of bonewalls. Also, don't box in the Zon's, if possible.
4) Zon's poison javs the hell out of the bone walls, also cast slow missile. The necro also poison nova's the bone walls.
5) The combination of all this causes mager server side lag.
6) Once the mules ping hits a huge rate, somebody else logs into the mules account.
7) Select the char the mule is using.
Attempt to join the game the mule is in. You should get 'Failed to join'
9) Keep trying to get in untill you get 'Game does not exist'. The game is now de-synched.
10) Mule outside of game makes a new game, drops all the stuff.
11) New mule picks up the stuff. Save and exit.
The small button at the bottom of this window labeled "Run Hack" has no function other than to open a
second message box displaying the message: "Duping Process Can Now Begin".
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Q: Okay, but if there is no known method of duping, where do all the duped runes, sojs, jewels, and other items come from on the
realms?
A: Obviously the dupes are coming from somewhere, but it is not known who does the duping, or even that these items are the result of an
actual item duplication process. Any answer you hear to this on any forum is total speculation.
One theory is that its just a closely guarded secret kept by item shop owners and small groups of individuals, or even only a single person or group that
wholesales to all the item shops. Others speculate that the duped items come from people with special permissions, such as the realm hosts, or even battlenet
themselves. But again, this is only speculation. To my knowledge, no credible Diablo "authority" has any hard answers, or has even witnessed a dupe procedure.
And if they do, they aren't giving any hints... (and with good reason.)
Q: Why is duping so secretive? Why is it so hard to find a dupe method? How do the item shops operate?
A: If the dupes are the result of an exploit or flaw, it is probably not very obvious, as people have reverse engineered and analyzed
every last corner of the game, and carefully reviewed any information that can be obtained from the realm servers.
Rumors spread like wildfire amongst the d2 communities. If there is a real dupe exploit, and more than a handful of people knew how to do it, then it would be very easy for the technique to get slipped to the public, and there would be no more duping fun.
Item shops obtain their items either through creating/duplicating the items themselves, purchasing the items, finding the items, or stealing the items. Regardless of where the dupes come from, there is obviously some serious motivation to keep the source a secret. Item sales are certainly a lucrative business, as some eBay shops have hundreds of thousands of feedbacks from customers.
Q: Blizzard owns the servers and controls all of the items. Why can't they track where the items come from and fix the dupe?
A: Also unknown. There are a few possible solutions:
They might just not care, as is evidenced by the slow patching of d2jsp and other easily detectable exploits. This seems unlikely since duping is one of the most prominent problems with the Diablo community.
Due to technical reasons, the dupe might just not be fixable. This is evidenced by implementing dupe scans and item identifiers that cause items to poof, but no fix to the source of the problem. This also seems unlikely because they control all aspects of their servers. Any exploit should in theory be easily traceable and fixable. Also, if this were the case, there would be no point in keeping the dupe a secret since releasing it would not threaten the dupe method itself. This would also ruin battlenet entirely since the economy would be come inflated with dupes, making items worthless.
It might be an inside job, as described above. This would explain a whole lot. Dupes are prominent, yet nobody knows the method. They don't fix the problem, yet they crack down on other minor hacks like maphacks and bots. They do dupescans to keep the number of duped items in circulation under control, but still don't fix the problem. Doing something like this could also be very profitable. Again, this is all speculation, but possible.
Q: Omg! I just accidentally duped an item!! How'd that happen?
A: Computers aren't perfect. Random glitches, including dupes, do occasionally happen. Its likely that your dupe will disappear as soon
as you leave your game, and that your dupe procedure (if you can remember how you did it) cannot be replicated. There are some bugs, especially when trading,
that can cause a false dupe to appear as a remnant image. This is just a client-side fluke, and no corresponding item exists server-side.
If you can manage to reproduce the results of your method then... if you're smart, you'll keep it to yourself... ^^
Q: My friend knows a guy who has a friend who knows a guy that works for an item store who can dupe and says he'll hook us up for a
price. Omg isn't this awesome!?!
A:No. Your friend's friend is full of B.S. As is described above, the number of people that perform "duping" is very limited. They have
no reason to share their secrets. Please don't fall for such a lame scam...
