Guild Wars 2

Wasn’t sure where to post this, but I think a player was manipulating something, so I didn’t want to list it as a bug. Anyway, I was in Lion’s Arch (on Ferguson’s Crossing), hanging around waiting for an update, and someone started linking random weapons with no names. If this has been talked about before, I couldn’t find it, even searching Google.
I tried taking screenshots, but apparently those don’t capture the popups when you’re hovering over things. You can see the four posts of his with the empty brackets though. The last three posts had seemingly normal pictures and basic but fairly strong stats, no extra stuff like toughness or anything, no level requirement, and were soulbound on acquire. The first post had all that but the picture looked like someone pasted a sword into MSPaint and wrote “Dredge Weapon” around it in red.
Probably nothing to panic over, but I rarely get as into a game as I have GW2 and I’d hate to have that ruined by someone glitching it or doing something weird to hack accounts (not sure how that stuff works).

Happens sometimes when you Chat Link their item code thing, can find them here:

http://www.gw2db.com/items/56205-frostfang

Ah, so it was just a glitch? Lol I’m so paranoid sometimes, but it’s late and my caffeine’s wearing off. Guess I’ll go sleep until the effigy ceremony starts.

It’s not really a “glitch”, as it is .dat file mining. See, every item in the game has a “code” related to that item. That code can be typed in chat in sequence to reveal the particular item. Sometimes the code of an item is added to the game w/o a name because the item isn’t completely finished yet (and the name is sometimes withheld to prevent spoilers to those that do .dat mine).

The code is something like [&AgGuqQAA] and it’s for a new steampunk looking shield to be released in the content patch on the 25th. If you replaced the “u” with a “v”, you’d get a pistol. “n” is a new mini pet. “q” is a hammer, “t” is a mace, “r” is a scepter, “y” is a rifle.