Is Diablo2 Dex legit? Cooleys Video

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Hey,

Cooley shows the Diablo2 Dex Tool in his new video, which automatically
reads all items you find into a kind of library.

I asked around and people already used it or used similar tools for other games, but… is this tool completely safe/legit ?

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idk, I saw that video and questioned the same thing. It’s reading from the game, so is it reading from memory then(I’m not a dev, so I don’t know how this part works tbh)?

It is part of overwolf from curse gaming and I tried to get the grail to work but it was bloated and full of ads and I could never get it to work.

I uninstalled it and won’t be using it. But it does make me a little weary in regards to how it reads from your game without you having to do anything. Especially that it allows you to just pop it on, reads your items, then you can set up a trade immediately from what it has read from the game.

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  1. Stop watching cooley.
  2. Cooley would let a virus infect your computer to gain 10 cents from a view on YT
  3. My guess is that the tool underneath the ToS would be a bannable offense, but I also seriously doubt they would bother banning for it. Just like if d2 map assist was ONLY a loot filter probably nobody would get banned, but because it was a MH some losers got the hammer.
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Well, thats a lot of would and if. Guess chances Blizzard is reacting on this are low :smiley: ?

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Sorry I wouldn’t want anyone to be misled by a post. It is a lot of not fully clear statements.

I can make these clear statements.

You 100% could be banned for using that program.

I think that there is 0% chance that they will do it.

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The ToS is writting in a way where you’re basically at the will of the company. You also even if you were improperly banned, lets say they banned you from this program, and you could legally prove that it wasn’t against the rules, you would have ZERO recourse for reversing their decision. There is nothing you could do.

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Also, in this same vein, aren’t loot filters the same thing? Reading from the game to do something for you? Like, it only changes things on your side, not everyone else’s side. So wouldn’t this be the same thing as a loot filter to those saying Loot filters are bannable? So if this is fine, a filter should be fine as well no?

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Personally loot filter and some inventory type program for your character shouldn’t even be allowed 3rd party additions, they should be a part of the game.

But my guess is that both technically could be banned based off the ToS being writing to encompass all things.

Meanwhile I don’t think either of those two would ever get you banned.

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Any 3rd party that is not specifically allowed by Blizzard might lead to a ban.

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yet it somehow reads in game information and then collects that data and puts it into their program which is an exe you have to run. So it’s still collecting data from within game.

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If it works online then it probably reads game memory which isn’t allowed for D2R.

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I use it , for grail

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That would be reading the .d2s save files that are stored locally on your computer, on Bnet the save files are stored on their servers and thus are not available to the end user to read, meaning you could only read what’s on your saves by sniffing/reading the game memory which as I said isn’t allowed.

It’d be really cool if they set up an official API for that kind of stuff though.

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For local single player characters yes…

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Don’t make such statements when you don’t know how server / client interactions work.

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It doesn’t read from blizzard’s servers, it taps into the game’s memory allocation in windows. you know how your PC has xx gigabytes of RAM? the app reads what’s occupying that space.

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Single player or are you talking about online?

It has a trade option and who is on and what realm they are on, so yeah it’s definitely reading online bnet players and the items that they have. I couldn’t get it to register my items, so I uninstalled it. It’s also bloated by overwolf and there are ads on the program that you can get rid of by being a supporter.

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Which if I am not mistaken is also against ToS right?

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I’m not really sure tbh, there doesn’t seem to be much transparency on that sort of stuff. I’m pretty drawn to the concept of being able to insta-list my in-stash items for trade though.

No. The files that you’re referring to are kept on your hdd, it’s a very different beast to accessing ram.

Tbh I’m not sure if you’re just trolling or not…

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