Clearing the actual rift is incredibly fast with ww barb..
Solo hota is not something I would recommend. WW or Rend really.
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Clearing the actual rift is incredibly fast with ww barb..
Solo hota is not something I would recommend. WW or Rend really.
rukland
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I kinda agree, my current build is HotA and it's decent for solo. 60 is not hard, but to push past that with out heavy fishing I am working on my WW set.
Sure, if you're swimming in ancients. :3
I almost have a full ancient IK set and I only have one crappily rolled ancient BK and no armor pieces. Dat RNG.
Well my aim is just to hit 60 for the season journey stuff, I don't think there's a higher GR required.
NaDannMaGoGo
Member
So, 3 days ago I started my HC journey and after getting powerleveled to 70 I decided to just try going at it solo, with only the 600k gold from the rifts to spare, no items.
Had a really good time, with quite a good item drop luck at the beginning which propelled me forwards quickly. Just about zero lag, too.
Well, and just as I'm about to finish this GR I get some bug I've never encountered yet where the screen gets fucked up, I can't even really pause and as a result lose my HC char. Chatting afterwards was very sluggish, too. I suppose some server bullshit occurred but yeh, that's why playing HC just kind of sucks. e: I even completely lost control over my hero. Otherwise I probably could've gotten away. But like that, nope.
Had a really good time, with quite a good item drop luck at the beginning which propelled me forwards quickly. Just about zero lag, too.
Well, and just as I'm about to finish this GR I get some bug I've never encountered yet where the screen gets fucked up, I can't even really pause and as a result lose my HC char. Chatting afterwards was very sluggish, too. I suppose some server bullshit occurred but yeh, that's why playing HC just kind of sucks. e: I even completely lost control over my hero. Otherwise I probably could've gotten away. But like that, nope.
NaDannMaGoGo
Member
^ For UE set you don't need Calamity. Cube a thunderfury instead to trigger BotT.
RIP
I realized a few years earlier that Blizzard's D3 servers are fucked and that I shouldn't be cocky solo. Bad luck it happened to you, mate. Though powerleveling only took, like, 20 minutes.
Regular drops.
Is it worth switching from hota without the ancient weapons?
I have everything, just not the ancient weapons (I have an ancient gavel already).
Farming in hota isn't too bad since everything dies so quickly and I always have Furious Charge up. The playstyle in hota isn't as fun as ww though.
Should be pretty easy to get from cubing up rares since you only have 3 choices for the one you want.
Can you use the cube to upgrade a rare follower item into a leg one? I spent most of my time on non-season after a quick run to 70 when the season started, so I didn't need to test if it worked but now that I'm playing a bit of season and farming various mats, it's something I'd like to know.
Edit: Ahah looks like the answer is right above (and below) my head. Good to know.
Edit: Ahah looks like the answer is right above (and below) my head. Good to know.
Yes
Depends what you are farming. If you are sticking to torment 8 then non ancient weapons are perfectly fine for farming.
Also known as "the Scrimshaw", or "Scrimshawing".
NaDannMaGoGo
Member
Lmao, always that GR scaling being exploited. Since you need several billion XP at some point and Crusterian bracers only really make sense if the gold is similarly high...they be rich.
PuppetSlave
Member
Thanks, missing a lot of the gear in that build. My build is more toward the rend/ww. Will keep doing rifts to get me closer to your build
Yea I imagine the multiplier must be pretty high if you go into like a 75, and I wonder if it was multiplying again with gold find or something. I haven't actually been able to find much about it, but I saw the hotfix and the official forums are all laughing about oh, that's the thing they fix
If I don't care about ranking, is there much more I can do for this guy? (I have Focus and Restraint, just have to change a few stats on them and swap out the boots for IK boots and then I think I'm done with him?) Or should I just try doing season and forget about my Barb...?
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Isny-1167/hero/35089091
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Isny-1167/hero/35089091
NaDannMaGoGo
Member
Dayum, I actually just got banned. Since I'm not botting it's gotta be for the Hellfire exploit which I used for normal rifts, not GRs, one day. Well that sucks for me, having invested a lot of time this season, but at least Blizz will now actually ban for exploits, when they were way too lenient on that in the pasthence why I felt like trying that one myself.
I suppose I'll buy the game when it's on sale again for next season. First the HC death, then the account death. Next... x_x
I suppose I'll buy the game when it's on sale again for next season. First the HC death, then the account death. Next... x_x
Lé Blade Runner
Member
What? Why? Was he botting?
There's going to be a lot of fallout on this one. Bliz rarely does anything, so people were really confident they'd be alright. If Bliz was consistent with exploits average people would stay the hell away from them.
Wonder which other gaffers are going down.
Youtube mirror: https://youtu.be/yX2nohb6-Jg?t=246 (4:10)
Seems like a mix of permanent bans and 2 week suspensions. Maybe based on leaderboard rank or streaming?
https://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo/comments/3lyvxe/someone_got_banned/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo/comments/3lyy02/more_and_more_people_getting_banned/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo/comments/3lyxzl/got_suspended_for_14_days_for_exploitation_of/
NaDannMaGoGo
Member
Can confirm. If anything I expected them to look at exploiters who used it to push GRs. Looks like they finally started a shift to a stricter direction in regards to exploits etc., if nothing else to also get their public image up in that regard. When famous streamers do this stuff and reddit has several threads on this issue up every week, it kinda taints your game's quality and company stance.
I got perma banned and didn't touch GRs when using the exploit. I did however use it on a character I had reached top1000 GRs (WD) beforehand. So maybe that put the nail on my coffin. May have just cross-checked which exploiters/chars are also within the leaderboards.
Probably on how many they did. I'm sure a lot of people tried it out once just to see
Yeah I wonder how they handle that stuff anyway. Like how do they even know who used the exploit? Can they just run some program or what. IDK shit about all that technical stuff so on the outside looking in it's fascinating to see.
Damn. RIP EU clan grift pushing.
Blizzard's Warden program is a very powerful tool...
Assuming they have decent server side records they'll be able to see who had more than 5 passives active at one time pretty easily I would think.
D3 is an online game with most stuff running serverside, no? I'd imagine most of what we do is logged on their end and they only need to search the logs, which would still require time (I just read their announcement regarding this exploit I didn't know and it was on the 11 and people getting banned today) but supposedly they have all the data they need to research patterns in cases like this as they know how the exploit is achieved.
Its either gabynator-banned or 2 weeks suspension banned.
Lol @ exploiters.
If they store the number of active passives of a character on their database, then it's easy. Just query all characters that have more than 5 active passives. Get the account id of that character and ban it.
If the exploit leaves a certain code or text on an account then the better.
Lol @ exploiters.
If they store the number of active passives of a character on their database, then it's easy. Just query all characters that have more than 5 active passives. Get the account id of that character and ban it.
If the exploit leaves a certain code or text on an account then the better.
NaDannMaGoGo
Member
In this case they can just sweep their database for the specific info. Since the Hellfire exploit remained even through logging out/in, death etc. that meant this data was saved somewhere. So it should've been relatively easy to acquire all the required info to get those exploiters.
Now what's really difficult is catching botters, which is why it'll always remain a problem. Though I hope Blizz will eventually take action against the most obvious "24h a day players". Even there it can be argued that someone could simply let his sibling take over, which supposedly isn't allowed either but Blizz wouldn't really ever ban an account because someone let other present family members play, too. Of course that a complete lie in most cases, but one mustn't risk banning innocent people.
I don't really like the way Blizzard handles the banninv. IMO they should fix the hotfix then reset the leaderboards.
Banning for 3rd party programs is fine but banning for use of in-game mechanics/bugs shouldn't be bannable. That's the developers faults for havings bugs in the game to begin with. Otherwise they should be banning every Monk using snap shotting techniques.
Banning for 3rd party programs is fine but banning for use of in-game mechanics/bugs shouldn't be bannable. That's the developers faults for havings bugs in the game to begin with. Otherwise they should be banning every Monk using snap shotting techniques.
Isny#1167
EDIT: Aww booo I got trolled too
Was there ever official recognition that this was a problem in the first place? It not then yeah they probably shouldn't ban people. Acknowledge the bug exists, put a sunset date on it, roll the leaderboards back, and ban anyone that uses it after the fact.
Was there ever official recognition that this was a problem in the first place? It not then yeah they probably shouldn't ban people. Acknowledge the bug exists, put a sunset date on it, roll the leaderboards back, and ban anyone that uses it after the fact.
Since the passives persisted between logouts (part of the profile at some level), I bet there were some traces of the extra passives in the "view hero details" snapshot taken at GR completion. So, they could just query that and filter down to any with 6 or more passive effects enabled.
NaDannMaGoGo
Member
EDIT: Aww booo I got trolled too
Was there ever official recognition that this was a problem in the first place? It not then yeah they probably shouldn't ban people. Acknowledge the bug exists, put a sunset date on it, roll the leaderboards back, and ban anyone that uses it after the fact.
They did actually acknowledge it and threatened punishment IIRC.