There has been a stealth nerf in this publish. Vine Cord Sandles lose properties when you equip them, permanently. I don't think this was a good way to solve the issue, now some lucky few who don't have them equipped have nice rares which will still be worth quite a bit and legitimate players who spent hundreds of millions on them are left with plain sandles.

*Update*

They will lose properties if picked up and placed in your backpack. It is not confirmed yet if you can move them along the ground.

No offense, but tough luck to the players who spent so much on items they knew were duped. When you play with fire, you get burnt.

Also, I wonder if its when you equip them, or when you move them.

Woot!

Score one for the good guys. Now they just need to do the same with the necromancer shroud, the Ari shroud, the Bal shroud, the lieutenant sash, the gladiators collar, the good Samaritan robe, etc... etc...

One down, about a dozen to go

A couple years ago it wasn't know that these were duped. Also not everyone knows what is duped and what isn't. If you believe everything posted on Stratics then every single rare out there is currently duped. Some people say stuff is duped just to try and get it at a lower price.

This will have a huge effect on the rares market. I have heard this effected all vinecords even if they were not equiped.

What is the next valuable rare?

I am glad I never went ahead and purchased the Vine Cord Sandles I wanted to give out as a reward in the faction event. That would have been yet another time that OSI has screwed me over.

Well considering there was only 1 per shard given out, that makes the majority of them duped. Also, the original didn't have resists did it? Making any with resists duped.

Obviously the majority of these items were duped, or the devs wouldn't have taken action.

How wasn't it known? It was an event item that only one person got.

All vine cords in circulation were duped, the original pair was banned along with the owner.

No loss here, and I know for a fact there are people out there with dozens of them that survived the dupe bans. Well... not anymore

Never heard the original owner got banned, but makes sense. The dupes had to come from someplace, and being the only person with a pair... well, it kinda makes your stand out like a flamingo in a penguin parade! :p