Exploitable Bug | Unequipping gear resets quality

[brandon0061]

This is a bug that has two potential exploit paths.

First, the bug: Unequipping a piece of gear resets quality if it was reforged. It will go all the way back down to normal quality. However, it will keep its stats.

This allows for two very clear exploit paths:

1. It is possible to continuously reforge a weapon, unequip it, and do the cycle over again. The stats will stay the same. Doing this on a very low level character yields incredible results for a low gold cost and allows for the second exploit below. It is possible to reach a weapon power that goes above 1 billion. The system then displays it back down to zero, but it keeps its gold value - possibly a display bug because it was never thought possible that a weapon could have that much power.

2. Using the above exploit, the value of the reforged gear continues to grow exponentially. Doing this on a low level character where reforge prices are cheap allows for huge wealth accumulation. It is possible to make billions of gold relatively quickly.

Fixing the quality reset bug should resolve both exploit paths.

[brandon0061]

Furthermore it appears as though some types of items have an additional issue: unequipping items can cause certain stats to drop off whether they were reforged or not.

Scenario that just happened:

-Equipped a shield in the off hand slot with Def and Con and block originally.
-Removed the item and upon viewing it in the inventory, it only has Def now.

A second scenario with screenshots showing the exact actual path with screenshots. In this scenario, the agility was lost.

The item as originally viewed in the inventory.

The item shown equipped originally.

The item as shown in the inventory immediately after unequipping it.

This shows the item equipped again just to show that the stats aren't hidden but in fact missing.

[brandon0061]

I believe that this issue and #111 are actually more related.

[binary-knight]

actually, an issue with the save system. Upon each auto-save (pick up gear, transfer gear, equip, remove, etc) it was dropping certain data fields. Good find. :)