Creating runewords

[Banjotron]

Creating runewords

Ok. I've now gotten most of the baseline gear for my frost maiden, and so I'm going to focus my efforts on getting an Infinity merc. Of course, there's only one problem with that. Until now, I've avoided trading for HR's because so many (probably 90+%, I figure) are duped. Of course, no HR's means no Infinity, so my hand has been forced here.

To avoid poofing, my plan is to simply get the needed HR's one at a time and immediately throw them into my pole. Will that work? Like trading for a Ber, Mal, Ber, and Ist over a week or two? I guess it boils down to two questions.

It doesn't matter how long it takes, as long as you slot them in the right order, right?

And runes don't poof once socketed, right? (barring an active ruststorm, which is a pretty rare event)

 

[wan]

Re: Creating runewords

It doesn't matter how long it takes, as long as you slot them in the right order, right?

As long as the order of the runes is right, it will work.

I'm afraid that's the only question I can answer

 

[SnickerSnack]

Re: Creating runewords

No one knows for sure that a socketed rune cannot poof, though it does seem to works that way. You could try trading for an existing infinity. Get one with low-mid rolls and it is unlikely that it is a dupe.

 

[Mursilis]

Although it would still have been most likely made from duped runes, and therefore available to poof at any time.

 

[GoldenBird]

Re: Creating runewords

No one knows for sure that a socketed rune cannot poof, though it does seem to works that way. You could try trading for an existing infinity. Get one with low-mid rolls and it is unlikely that it is a dupe.

Here's basically how it works:

Every item has a "serial number" assigned to it. When someone dupes, the duplicate of the item has the same serial number. The anti-hack systems check that there are no duplicate serial numbers, and if there, they poof the duped items. However, when something is socketed into an item or cubed, whether duped or not, the items create a new item with a new serial number, and thus they will no longer be recognized as dupes and will not poof.

Apparently there is a scan that runs that can poof items with duped things socketed into them, but I've heard it's scarcely run.

 

[Hrus]

Re: Creating runewords

Golden Bird: I think there has to be something more to it, because runes don't have fingerprints and I think making a rune from two lower ones doesn't make that rune save from poofing...