[Exploit] All bosses drop items with ~double chance

As described here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5AD5U1sDZc

It is easily possible to questbug all act bosses and quest bosses in every game for a signficant (2x) increase in drop chances.

This exploit allows some players, especially those who are using multiboxing and already have an advantage over normal players because they receive p2-8 loot simply for owning an extra-copy and multiboxing it, to receive an additional double loot quality over everybody else who is playing the game legitimately.

Are we really expected to purchase multiple copies of D2R to have an even shot at the economy?

Solution: Quest drops should be personalized loot and can only be collected when the player is present while the kill is being taken.
Or: remove quest drops and make all boss drops be quest drops by default.

In any case this exploit should not be possible.

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Did you even watch the video? You don’t need two accounts or two systems. Also, this doesn’t do anything anymore. According to blizzard all bosses are “quest bugged” for everyone, unlike the original.

Checkout a drop chance calculator and you’ll see regular vs quest drops are not 2x, closer to 10% but that’s moot as per the above.

I did watch the video and i also have the ability to read and comprehend numbers.
Not needing a second account or multiboxing just makes it more of a problem. But obviously abusing this is far easier if you are already using multiboxing and there is little to not reason not to do it on top of multiboxing. (also it is easier in d2r because games are instantly permed)

Mephisto, 1player, 200 mf:
arach
1:836 - quest
1:1261 - no quest

harle
1:579 - quest
1:874 - no quest

reapers toll
1:560 - quest
1:844 - no quest

is it factor x2? No, not quite. Is it significant? Yes!

As seen above the difference is far more than 10%. And also far from being moot.
Getting an almost double chance on almost all important items apart from runes in the game just by precreating a game with another character, is as exploit-y as it gets. It has nothing to do about “knowing the game” and “mastering it”. It is straight-up abuse. And anybody who doesnt do it is at a ridiculous advantage with close to no effort involved.

Can you link that statement?

Thanks anyway for the bump.

Well if you check the video description and the comments, they agree this is fake news actually. He even delisted the video because of that. So nothing to see here.

Even if it gave people an advantage, you realize its for everyone right not just a small select group? just ignore it… go about your day, enjoy the game and have fun.

There is no agreement on the video being false in the comments.
Literally all comments on the first page are positive and “thankful”.

Where are you taking your information from?

How can you possibly argue that giving 2x loot based on a hidden, not documented and obviously bugged exploit is not an unfair advantage.
And yes, there is a race. It is called economy!
There is a finite market. With finite players. If one player dishes out 2x the items into the economy, that player can easily make twice the income than everybody else. And for what? For exploiting a bug.

It’s not for everyone. Everyone is playing the game as it is supposed to be played: kill bosses repeatedly.
A selective group of people has decided that they want to abuse a bug to double their drops. That is not something that everybody can do. Most people do not have that knowledge! Nor any chance to even guess that this exploit exists.

I have more fun in a fair game that doesnt reward cheaters and exploiters. There are some exploits in d2 that you might consider “legacy” (skipping staff quest, rushing through classic, andi bug). But this one is clearly affecting all bosses and practically doubling their drops. That is not acceptable as a “know your stuff better” advantage.

Making Diablo 2 fair would literally break all of the fun parts of the game. Do you know what a 1 or 2 portal means? Have you ever rolled hardcore mode and entrusted strangers to level with or rush you? Have you ever been TPPK’d? (god damn now that was a good time). You should be playing Diablo 2 with fear in your heart at all times not walking on sunshine and rainbows. This is a place of scams, tricksters, and cold-blooded killers. Play single player and don’t worry about others, or come online and be ready for UNFAIR gameplay! Why re-release a game and try to change it’s core functionality or culture? Its literally what we all came back for. Blizzard needs to take a clue and lift the F’ING chat filter too.

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Last time i checked the exploits you are referring to are already fixed.

Anyways, i take your lousy defense as an even more lousy attempt to keep this exploit for your own gains.
As usually with your “d2 is a harsh place”-people you just want to secure your riches and dont give a flip about the general playerbase.

Maybe you should go to single player and put your toxicity there. Luckily the d2 community has more amicable and helpful people than you.

I can guarantee you that 99% of the playerbase did not come to exploit their loot chances to be 2x those of the other players.

the point is tho everyone could go and make a game with a Grushed character or join someone starting A1 and get the quest bugged bosses tho they dont bother to do it or refused to do it, quest bug andy has been around since LONG ago, so yes its EVERYONE just some are to lazy to go out of there way to do it an just wanna enjoy the game. please dont cry anymore… its dumb and pointless.
they should be focusing on stuff that actually brakes the game like your merc or summons getting stuck and not teleporting to you or the fps issues introduced with this patch, not junk like this.

No, it is not everyone.
Not every person watches streams all day and reads the forum.
I personally had to tell at least 10 people how andi bug works in the first week of d2r.

Given an elitist crowd 2x loot for no reason does break the game.

Some might ask that.
Because, what the video description actually reads is:

While this does work for some bosses, it does not work in the way presented in this video. The bug seems to work for quest animations with Countess, Baal, and, oddly enough, Diablo. Other bosses don’t seem to be Q-Bugged, unfortunately.

So, even with the unlisted video, it still affects 3 high profile boss kills. Maybe not all (who is left? oh yeah, mephisto), but still significant.

So while it is certainly entertaining by its own standard to read your insults, maybe you should just take a deep breath and read your own referenced texts before you make your next post.
Still there is no comments that “agree this is fake news actually” that can be easily found under the video. Just because the comments that are visible now are made by “monkeys” (according to you) they are not any less of a comment.

Dear god… which 3 bosses does it affect? That dude is retarded and believed he Hax00r3d the game, but the truth is he had no idea wtf he was doing.

There’s the andy bug, AND THAT’S IT. No other boss is getting bugged like that. It’s FALSE. Try it yourself dear lord.

This game is 20 years old. People just want easy views and start to spread shiet and pretend they understand all those bugs (Who he clearly didn’t, as he had to say “it doesnt work that way or that it wasn’t working” after a video where he firmly declares it’s working with no proof at all).

There’s ONLY one way you can get quest rewards from bosses besides Andariel:

h t t p s : / / forums . d2jsp . org / topic . php?t=14955227&f=161 (delete the empty spaces)

And it’s so complex, dumb and timewasting because it forces you to play with a character underlevelled who can’t finish the game to get some extra loot from ONE of the other bosses, while trading survivality, killspeed and fun making it pointless.

Dont believe everything those Mr.Noones are saying. There is no proof. Its just fake news to sell you smoke and you are panicking for nothing.

You just believe every single shiet you see on the internet or what?

And if you keep being a brickhead and not believing me, try it yourself, it doesn’t even take much time, but i can asure you you will be sorry for wasting so much time and energy freaking out for nothing.

One of the internet laws you should never forget: Proof or GTFO.

You are forgetting the other law:

If you are talking about an exploit and 5 1-post accounts are shouting “THERE IS NO EXPLOIT”. Then there is probably an exploit.

Well look, at this point i’m pretty sure you are just trolling or have mental issues.

I will say it a THIRD time: Go and try it yourself and tell us, he gave you the key, didn’t he? Go on and uncover the truth! /facepalm