In the beginning I had joined a group known as RAoV. I had seen a lot of their videos on YouTube and I was very excited to see a exploiting team on WoW. I contacted Shorty and told him that I could help them find exploits for their videos. I had to prove myself worthy first which didn't take long. Eventually we all got comfortable with each other. Shorty and I messed around with quests, vehicles, game mechanics, etc. Shorty was the only person in the group that was willing to help test my ideas, Snyth was busy doing his own thing.
One night I was messing around with trading around 10 or 11 PM. I wanted to figure out if it was possible to trade someone really fast and have them enter an instance portal and get the trade window inside the instance. maybe 30-45 minutes of screwing around with my eyes about to fall out of my head, something strange happened. I tried to log out for the night and it wouldn't let me. I clicked it 5 or 10 times to be sure I wasn't lagging or still online client-side. I was still in-game and extremely excited. I told Shorty(raov members)about my findings and he was freaking out, we were both ecstatic. I closed my client to test something for him and the effects were lost. We spent another ~2 hours trying to recreate this, we figured it out and I went to sleep around 3 AM.
When I played RuneScape there were bugs that we referred to as "Forced Logouts", that was the first thing that came to mind. In RS you'd become unattackable and non-interactable, seems like I had the right idea..
Well, after a while of messing with it for hours and hours, all hope was nearly lost until I came across something incredible. I had switched over to my Rogue for some reason, he had the Glyph: Cheat Death. I logged in and recreated the bug, I gave up on what I was testing and went to duel some people in Gold Shire. Cheat Death, when you drop below a certain Health %, you're healed for X amount of health. This effect was only supposed to occur every 30 seconds or so. It constantly activated making it impossible to die. It was pretty awesome to see some results for the amount of time we put into this idea.
One or two days after I discovered ^, Shorty told me he had tried to make something with a profession. He noticed that if you created an item it wouldn't create the item or use up the materials. It was useless at that stage but we knew there was more to it, we couldn't give up. Shortly after, we figured out why the items weren't being created and why the materials weren't being used. The game thought that you were offline, it wasn't allowed to modify the values of the items in your bags BUT there was a small fault with the item stacking system which is explained below.
There were three requirements to make the duplication bug itself, possible.
1. When you clicked log out and remained logged in, you'd have to disconnect from the game and log back in. You'd have 15 minutes to duplicate items. As soon as you clicked log out you'd be set to AFK and it couldn't be changed.
2. You had to have one of the items that you were going to duplicate already in your inventory.. and it has to be stackable. For Example: Place 1 Eternal Fire(or X stacks of 1) in your inventory and spam click the materials. It would create the item(s) with one set of materials without using them in the process.
3. The last requirement was deleting one item from each stack to update the new values with the server because the items were created while, "technically", offline.
This exploit was fixed after being posted publicly. Every exploit posted on public forums will eventually fixed.
@Shorty/Michael - You're a cool kid, I have nothing against you, truly. It wasn't fair that you blocked me after the exploit was leaked because you made a mistake.
@Snyth - You're a prick. You wouldn't help me with any of my "useless" ideas. You beat around the bush and tried to tell me that every minor/major idea I had spoken to you about was "technically" useless or impossible.
Tale my advice, if you think you've found something useful, take your time with it before posting it for publicity, it's worth it.
Thanks for reading.
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