Diablo III is now waiting for 1,000,000 MF swap tears

[Nicho Void]

Hit 60 last night. Was in a 4 man public group trying to take Hell Diablo. No dice. The phase with the clones kept destroying us. Going 1 on 1 with yourself and getting obliterated feels good/bad.

[Kalorn]

The whole 'Session ID' hack rumour is nothing more than scaremongering by people who are too afraid to admit that they have shitty account security.

Thousands of people have their accounts hacked each day because they fail at basic pc awareness - and download things such as keyloggers or reply to phishing mails.

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/top...46?page=29#571

We've been taking the situation extremely seriously from the start, and have done everything possible to verify how and in what circumstances these compromises are occurring. Despite the claims and theories being made, we have yet to find any situations in which a person's account was not compromised through traditional means of someone else logging into their account through the use of their password. While the authenticator isn't a 100% guarantee of account security, we have yet to investigate a compromise report in which an authenticator was attached beforehand.

[Sponk]

http://www.quartertothree.com/the-beginners-guide-to-diablo-iii/

[blaad]

http://www.quartertothree.com/the-beginners-guide-to-diablo-iii/

awesome find, +rep

[filingo]

The whole 'Session ID' hack rumour is nothing more than scaremongering by people who are too afraid to admit that they have shitty account security.

Thousands of people have their accounts hacked each day because they fail at basic pc awareness - and download things such as keyloggers or reply to phishing mails.

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/top...46?page=29#571

We've been taking the situation extremely seriously from the start, and have done everything possible to verify how and in what circumstances these compromises are occurring. Despite the claims and theories being made, we have yet to find any situations in which a person's account was not compromised through traditional means of someone else logging into their account through the use of their password. While the authenticator isn't a 100% guarantee of account security, we have yet to investigate a compromise report in which an authenticator was attached beforehand.

it sounds like there was enough of a problem for the eu servers to go down for quite a while this weekend, which to me suggests maybe something more than scaremongering by stupid people~

who knows, something has been happening enough for mainstream gaming websites to comment on it (rps, eurogamer)

i think people playing diablo should know that "something" has been happening and should maybe

a) change their password
b) dont let that random called xxthaipenisgirlxx join their game

[Shade Millith]

The whole 'Session ID' hack rumour is nothing more than scaremongering by people who are too afraid to admit that they have shitty account security.

Thousands of people have their accounts hacked each day because they fail at basic pc awareness - and download things such as keyloggers or reply to phishing mails.

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/top...46?page=29#571

We've been taking the situation extremely seriously from the start, and have done everything possible to verify how and in what circumstances these compromises are occurring. Despite the claims and theories being made, we have yet to find any situations in which a person's account was not compromised through traditional means of someone else logging into their account through the use of their password. While the authenticator isn't a 100% guarantee of account security, we have yet to investigate a compromise report in which an authenticator was attached beforehand.

I honestly don't believe them. As I posted on Bliz forums

I know. I've given my theory on what happened using the evidence presented to me. You've given yours, and we'll have to wait to see what happens.

1) Hundreds have been suddenly hit within the last day or so. This makes it sound like some one or group found an exploit, and have started using it. If it was simple phishing/keylogger it wouldn't have had this massive spike but a rather a constant amount.

2) They cannot access anything other than the last character used. They don't seem to have full access to the account, so it's a higher possibility that they managed to grab control of the character, rather than the account. Otherwise they'd have hit more than my friends low level alts.

3) Up until last night, my guys have never had trouble with account details. If it was a single one of us, then we'd shrug it off. If it was two within two weeks, then we'd shrug it off. But it was two within a single day, for the same game.

4) The two guys that got hit, were playing together in an accidental (We think, they thought it was a private game) public game. At one point, a character joined. He was woefully underleveled and geared, teleported to them, got one shotted, then left the game. I don't believe this was coincidence. A few hours later, they got hit.

5) (Maybe) We've now got an 8 hour downtime. It says it was scheduled, but was it scheduled to be eight hours long? I haven't been keeping up, so I honestly don't know. But from here, it sounds like a 'Oh !@#$, we need to fix this'.

[Nicho Void]

Given what you've said, if I were a Blizz employee, I'd look at the recent players list. Is that information somehow being stored locally on people's machines with character IDs or some shit?

[Cool09]

That sounds pretty likely.

Hopefully they solve the issue.

Going through nightmare as a wizard. Still playing around with my build. I've had great success with blizzard + the electric orb thing. Cold blooded means enemies in the blizzard take +20% damage, so they die horribly to the orbs while being slowed to a crawl. Enchant weapon for that nice +15% damage. Ice armour + galvanizing ward makes me quite tough, with diamond skin and teleport (images rune) means I hardly ever die. When feeling ballsy I'll swap the teleport for archon (with teleport for those oh shit waller moments) because the archon is just so fun.

Venom hydra for bosses because its OP. Beat belial and got the acheivment for not being hit by a single meteor or fire thing. EZ

[Trindermon]

I honestly don't believe them. As I posted on Bliz forums

I know. I've given my theory on what happened using the evidence presented to me. You've given yours, and we'll have to wait to see what happens.

1) Hundreds have been suddenly hit within the last day or so. This makes it sound like some one or group found an exploit, and have started using it. If it was simple phishing/keylogger it wouldn't have had this massive spike but a rather a constant amount.

2) They cannot access anything other than the last character used. They don't seem to have full access to the account, so it's a higher possibility that they managed to grab control of the character, rather than the account. Otherwise they'd have hit more than my friends low level alts.

3) Up until last night, my guys have never had trouble with account details. If it was a single one of us, then we'd shrug it off. If it was two within two weeks, then we'd shrug it off. But it was two within a single day, for the same game.

4) The two guys that got hit, were playing together in an accidental (We think, they thought it was a private game) public game. At one point, a character joined. He was woefully underleveled and geared, teleported to them, got one shotted, then left the game. I don't believe this was coincidence. A few hours later, they got hit.

5) (Maybe) We've now got an 8 hour downtime. It says it was scheduled, but was it scheduled to be eight hours long? I haven't been keeping up, so I honestly don't know. But from here, it sounds like a 'Oh !@#$, we need to fix this'.

You reasoning is utterly crazy beans - utterly crazy beans. ./grin

[Xennith]

Cold blooded only applies to cold damage inflicted to frozen or chilled enemies. The hard bit of the cryomancer build I'm working on at the moment is deciding between AoE ray of frost, or single target.

[Lilalaunebör]

That sounds pretty likely.

Hopefully they solve the issue.

Going through nightmare as a wizard. Still playing around with my build. I've had great success with blizzard + the electric orb thing. Cold blooded means enemies in the blizzard take +20% damage, so they die horribly to the orbs while being slowed to a crawl. Enchant weapon for that nice +15% damage. Ice armour + galvanizing ward makes me quite tough, with diamond skin and teleport (images rune) means I hardly ever die. When feeling ballsy I'll swap the teleport for archon (with teleport for those oh shit waller moments) because the archon is just so fun.

Venom hydra for bosses because its OP. Beat belial and got the acheivment for not being hit by a single meteor or fire thing. EZ

Im currently trying this build on hell act 2:

http://eu.battle.net/d3/de/calculato...lOX!Ygf!bbZbZa

With a slow (1.0) 2hander.

Ray of frost with rune is the highest sustainable single target dps, without taking regen passives.

Venom Hydra is op vs anything thats standing still.

I use wave of force instead of frost nova since the damage is nothing to sneeze at. Rune depends on preference, i use force affinity so i can spam it more with critical mass, but exploding wave would be MASSIVE burst aoe, and impactful wave would be stronger cc.

Im pretty sure i dont need the blizzard rune, could be swapped for anything, they're all good (well, the first one not so much).
However, will probably switch blizzard out to teleport with fracture or wormhole if im playing in a group - its the only thing that will save you from those deadly purple ray mobs. Might go for exploding wave then to keep my aoe damage up.

Energy armor with pinpoint barrier for those critical mass procs, 1s less cd on wave/skin is the difference between life and death. Crystal shell rune is a must, its often the only way to survive boss fights.
If i still die too much ill have to swap glass cannon to illusionist or blur, but i dont expect i will.

Not a lot of damage (a max dps build can get like 30-40% more i guess), but you cant dps if youre dead.


Also archon is funny but shit later on since you cant use diamond skin/flash while in it, at the very least get the teleport rune for it. You can always wait for cds after the fight is over, but not being able to shield/flash out of damage loses you the fight.

[Xennith]

Does that ray of frost rune actually make it free or is it wrong?

[Lilalaunebör]

Does that ray of frost rune actually make it free or is it wrong?

Its wrong, its 12 arcane/cast. So at 1.0 attack speed its sustainable with ap/crit on your helmet, but if you use a 1.4 wand + offhand it will suck too much mana without a regen passive imo.

[jbend9620]

the reasoning that it's "an exploit" because a lot of people suddenly got hit within the last couple days doesn't hold water when you consider the in game gold selling spam also popped up within the last couple days.

also that bit about no investigated hack cases having an authenticator attached beforehand.

[Space Panda]

my account is fine. i feel left out!

and i finished nightmare last night. wasn't really that bad except for some of those assholes with crazy combinations, like vortex and laz0rz. nerf scorch.

[Roam]

Reached 60 (from 57 to 60 in like.. an hour and a half), nephalem valor buff is awesome. Love the Monk, had my doubts but such an awesome class. <3 Doing fine so far, about to start inferno with lolgear, should be a harsh wakeup call.

[The Djego]

So always on DRM... it's shitty, people getting lag playing single player games, "Error 37" etc.. but there still isn't a Diablo 3 crack out. All I see in the usual places are honeypot fake releases that harvest account details, etc.

Blizzard must be p happy about that given I'd assume the lion share of the purchases are going to be early in the games life, and there will be people who would've torrented it and given up waiting by now and bought it.

Well you basically need a server emulator not a crack here. Given it was done for the beta, it will be done for retail to, but it will take quite some time and will probably have quite a bit more bugs and cheaters plus being behind the constant patch cycle most of the time.

I finished normal yesterday with my wizard at L34, didn't found it to hard, even if cc + powerful one hits where really a game against my ping to get the armor spell up in time before you get smashed. Other than that I really liked the templer with the charge and taunt ability's that did came quite handy.

Trying a barbar now and while still on act 1 I really did feel this is something I have seen before(rage mechanics, cleave, thunderclap, vengeance, heroic leap and heroic throw does ring a bell). Revenge with the self heal really surprised me, nearly looks like D3 devs trolling wow devs about the new tanking system in mop.

[Pattern]

Isn't it almost an MMO? Not sure what the fuss about DRM is about in that context.

[damaslaus]

rolling with this

http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/calculato...XSO!YXf!YabaZY

with 600~hp/s regen, 6k hp, 5.8k DPS with a 2.4% lifesteal in hell mode. Seems to be working great solo (templar follower) and with group (barb tank)

[The Djego]

Isn't it almost an MMO? Not sure what the fuse about DRM is about in that context.

It basically uses MMO mechanics for DRM, with the option of single or multi player instances. It is not really a MMO, in my opinion. Mostly because the interaction(both rp or simply class interaction) isn't this much pronounced. Ofc somebody could say the endgame of many MMOs is basically instances/raids so it isn't this different if you want to look at it from this point of view.