Guild Wars 2

Not seen this one before, any idea what the source is?

There’s rumors that there’s an exploit that allows you to skin an item, and not have it Account/Soul Bound. If this is true, the security team’s gonna be busy banning a lot of accounts.

Well, it’s gone now (and all the buy offers were seemingly refunded).

Smooth Penguin.5294:

There’s rumors that there’s an exploit that allows you to skin an item, and not have it Account/Soul Bound. If this is true, the security team’s gonna be busy banning a lot of accounts.

Ahh, mass bannings. The best way to take massive quantities of gold out of the economy.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

There’s rumors that there’s an exploit that allows you to skin an item, and not have it Account/Soul Bound. If this is true, the security team’s gonna be busy banning a lot of accounts.

Link?

If it was skinned wouldn’t it have the proper level?

Ghastly Grinning Shield skin – drop in event dungeon
Ghastly Grinning Shield – this shield can be made

Evilek.5690:

Ghastly Grinning Shield skin – drop in event dungeon
Ghastly Grinning Shield – this shield can be made

There has never been a craftable version of the Ghastly Grinning Shield, let alone a tradeable one. The only shields with this skin that exist are shields that have had this skin applied to it, which also causes that shield to become account/soul bound and not tradeable.

This is the GW2spidy for the item being reported. It has no history and suddenly appeared May 8th:
http://www.gw2spidy.com/item/36332

“This was caused by a temporary issue with this specific item being listable on the BLTC. The item has since been removed from the BLTC and the issue has been fixed. All Buy Orders for this item have been canceled and the gold will be in the respective orderer’s pickup tab. The original seller has had their listing price refunded, the item was returned to them and is no longer tradeable as intended.”
-Chris Clearly, our favorite admin

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/252uyf/lvl_0_gastly_grinning_shield_on_tp/

Chris is no mere admin. He’s in charge of the security of the game.

I’m glad the rumors of a hack are false.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

Chris is no mere admin. He’s in charge of the security of the game.

I’m glad the rumors of a hack are false.

I remember reading how he was doing the Jungle Wurm with BG and was trolling in chat while waiting for it to spawn. Unbeknownst to the people on TS that he was actively listening, they were openly discussing hacks or other tricks on repeatedly spamming map joining

That was actually a TTS run, and I was there when people started openly talking about macros and hacks. He was kind enough to not ban people, and explained why Anet had those policies.