POE 2 - Widespread Cheating? Crashes Used To Dupe Items, Rig Vaal Orbs & More. Path of Exile 2

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They then developed a variant of this to start Trials of the Sekhema when the Temporalis relic was applied... but without (permanently) consuming the relic.

A similar exploit happened once in POE1 but was patched pretty fast and all involved were permanently banned. It... might have gone on longer in POE2.

I don't accept all the claims of the Reddit thread (although I don't think the OP is lying, I think there's just a risk they've been misled about some things) - some of them might be 'market PVP'.

However on the main point - I dug into Ingenuity, an item the thread did not discuss, and everything I saw pointed to widespread rigging of Vaal Orb results through this exploit.

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[ryanburchell]

"headstart in collecting pixels in a game youre about to get banned from" made me laugh haha great vid love your content

[Bonobogiraffe]

I'm so happy that people are trying their hardest to break the game during early access. If people waited to exploit those weaknesses during the first league, i would be so much more mad.

[rhettorical]

I figured something like this would happen, I'm just surprised it took this long. If anyone was wondering why they stated clearly that Early Access stuff would never carry over to Standard league, this is one reason why.

[Ohnonono]

Given that real money trade sites are selling divines for like 5-10 bucks each, I imagine gheres a strong incentive for orb sellers to learn and exploit this regardless of whether they get banned or not.

[rpgambit]

Vaal orbs seem to divine the item then apply -22% to +22% on the numerical values. I don't know if that's exactly right but that's what I've been seeing and it matches my experience so far

[XxIcedecknightxX]

I like the logic with less lower rolled corruptions but I think there is a fallacy there in thinking that if it rolled bad people will still always sell it vs if it rolled well. You're not as likely try to sell a bad item as trying to sell a good one.

[THEFLLOFMN]

Lots of people are saying their accounts have been hacked recently after trading.

[CactuarNick]

Wow it's crazy because in the first week I had a crash where I logged back in and had to put in one of my passive points again because it rolled me back, I didn't even think that if someone figured out how to replicate that crash, that they could definitely dupe items. Holy shit. Great job reporting on the PoE news as usual, Sir Gog.

[Nokkyu]

Happy new year !
I love these reports in whats going on in parts of the Community I generally stay away from, but it still feeds into my curiosity :)

[Jimmy-jrwc]

This is also why mirrors jumped from 200 divines recently to over 400+ divines.
the Temporalis dupers were offloading their "cheaply" sold Temporalis' into divines, and then divines into mirrors.
A cursory glance with one singular google search reveals that PoE2 mirrors sell for 700$USD.
Yes, they made bank.

[paulm]

People seem to deeply underestimate that organizations making a living off this game via RMT

[ElewIV]

I'm not at all surprised this is happening. A brand new game with the devs on vacation several weeks. Between this and the state of the economy I'm 100% sure when they release the next class they're gonna treat it like a new league.

[PSYCHNVT]

I got rollbacked once just after finding a div orb and then opening the breach, everything just froze, so I just killed the process. When I started the game again, all the portals were gone and my inventory was empty.

[thayalol]

Not sure if I agree with the logic of "there should be more bias towards the low rolls"... Whenever I mass corrupted uniques, I'd simply destroy the bad outcomes, they'd never end up in the market at all.

[marcopazzi]

I get it is a problem, but I am really sad that the real crashes are not yet addressed, on my 9800x3d I get crashes and my internet rig never crashes, the issue is that I have a 4090 and a 6700xt on the Intel rig so can't play the game at max settings :(
There is a tred on the forum more then 500 pages and I have to use a 3rd party program PoEuncrasher so dosent lock up my pc but just crashes, without that I was restarting pc...

[grimnasher]

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[Sync_Oh]

Your content is soo good! Happy new year my man!

[freddief]

this and all the threads about people being "hacked" is so bad from the reddit mod teams, not having a megathread for a potential ongoing security issue is legitimately insane, even if its unconfirmed

[ThiisIsMeThen]

how can we know that we purchased a duped item? and what are the risk for normal users that just might got a duped item from PoE2 trade?

[spencers]

I bought the vaal omen yesterday to vaal my howa and then when I used an orb it didn't get used up. So idk what happened with that. I didnt crash or anything so i really have no clue. I did use the orb from my stash and not in inventory so maybe that made it? But the howa was in my inventory.Idk