this has been happening off and on for awhile but today 11-22-2024 i found 1ea telling of beads, 1ea carrion wind, and 3ea other rare rings missing for my stash. i know they were there, left the game and came back 5 minutes later to see they were gone. as i said this is an on-going problem. usually only 2 rings are missing but today was a heavy lose.
You’re very likely running into the hard coded 8 kilobyte limit for the character file. If you store a lot of 1x1 items like amulets, rings and gems for crafting, it can cause your character file to exceed 8 kilobytes during the game. When you exit the game, if the character file save exceeds 8 kilobytes, it is truncated to 8 kilobytes, and any items beyond that 8kb limit will be missing the next time you play.
Wait, what?
Welcome to the 21st Century…
as you explain it i must agree that is what is happening, thanl you
So smaller items should be put in the shared stash to prevent this?
I can’t believe that hasn’t been fixed
We can “fix” the issue by setting a maximum number of those items we can store on a character… That is until Blizzard fixes it via two ways:
EZ fix #1: Lower the personal stash size to make exceeding the 8KB limit “impossible”.
“fix” #2: Dig into the “hard code” and “update” the truncate function. Likely create 30+ more bugs.
Hint: The issue didn’t happen with the old stash size, so there’s a start.
This is an offline only bug, if I’m not mistaken. Please correct if I’m wrong, cause I’ve got runes at stake online lol. I just haven’t seen this yet in online play.
I’d have to go with option#1 in the case that this is offline only, as you can create infinite mules for storage space anyway.
EDIT: as much as i want option 2, and a proper fix, I can’t, at this point, trust these guys to stick around and iron out the possible bugs that come with it.