Item recharging is an exploit of game mechanics

[pickled_heretic]

Originally Posted by YendorLootmonkey [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Speculation.



You're right. Also:

Moss-covered twig in the primary hand - addressed back in the day, within several months after enough entered the game.

Binding in firepots - addressed back in the day, within two weeks.

Item recharging - not addressed for YEARS when the simple fix was to make the buyback costs billions of platinum, until presumably rechargeable items entering the game that could be recharged in this fashion in later expansions were truly OP, THEN addressed.

Follow the classic timeline, unless it's an exploit. No one here has proven rechargeable items is an exploit -- it is just people's opinions. It was an acceptable mechanic in classic. You don't think Verant had logs as to what was going on with every transaction on every vendor in the game? Pretty sure they knew what was going down. In fact, it was probably a Verant developer who knew how the data structures worked that was the first one to teach everyone in his play guild how to recharge items.

gms helped people recharge their items with vendors in botb, for what it's worth. if it were an exploit it would definitely not be something gms would assist you with.