If you want safety, avoid Ists and Vex+ (high) runes. I just trade away my high runes as soon as I get them from trades. Affectionately called 'perming', it involves you posting the details which are then deleted by Dredd while he grumbles something about *myth-spreading* and *quit trying to bypass Blizzard's dupe-detection methods* and so forth. There is a belief amongst traders of high runes about a way to work around Passive Ruststorm. Passive Ruststorm only deletes duped items on characters as they leave games. 'True' Ruststorm will comb the whole of Battle.Net and destroy every single duped rune and item it can find in a single instant. Passive Ruststorm is a seperate, although related entity. The true Ruststorm program is usually announced when it is run.

Of course this has never been proven and is only speculation.ĭuring an active Ruststorm, ALL Bugs and Dupes, Duped Runewords, Duped Ingredients in runewords are deleted. So in my example I used Enigma, so if the theory about a failed ruststorm is true you will have an 'Ith-nigma'.Įnigma, Archon Plate, blank space, Ith, blank space. What happens during an active ruststorm, when it detects a dupe, it will automatically delete it, no matter where/what it is.Īs you said Sparky, what will happen if you socket a rune and turn it into a runeword? An Active Ruststorm will delete the WHOLE item, not just the rune, so if you just so happened to use a very elaborate (legit) 15ed Archon Plate and socketed it with a duped Jah and Ber, you can say goodbye to the whole thing, just because there are duped runes in it.Īlthough there have been theories and speculation that sometimes an active ruststorm will not delete the whole runeword but only the duped runes.

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