Originally Posted by
Wya Tob
Jagex is the one who changed the dueling interface, the duel arena is now a place where you can ONLY stake coins/platinum tokens. As we use the current osrs cache we have to use their interface, so it's not so easy as to just remove the "restriction".
Item staking in my opinion shouldn't be a thing as it over values items like it did on osrs. As soon as the duel arena item staking was removed from osrs the prices on all the items crashed because people hoarded them for Odds-Staking and rwt. We are not allowing people to scam, the person who got scammed is allowing themselves to be scammed by using an outside game mechanic that isn't meant for the real game.
The dueling arena isn't a place to stake items anymore, rs3 changed this years ago and osrs did finally as well. It's just how staking is and will be.