I know the general rule is “one key = one action” for Diablo as it doesn’t support macros officially (unlike WoW).
My question was whether or not someone can give me an example in which pressing a macro to unleash multiple actions at the same time would be beneficial in D3… in a manner, so that you can clear a higher GR than you would otherwise be unable to.
The major problems in D3 (at least from what I’ve heard exists and from basic logic as to how it would apply to the game) are: bots, maphack and… in some cases people using a program to automate some actions (which is not even a macro).
But then again, I don’t cheat in video games and I don’t know all the tricks, only what I’ve heard or read about, so I must be missing somehting. What advantage are macros granting in D3?
Yeah, but let’s be honest here, that’s not even a macro.
A macro would be, that I press one key, but I’ve bound several actions to it… and if the game allows, I unleash them all at the same time…
What you’re talking about is straight up automation.
In the case of Wizards, I only remember Archon, which for some reason was designed in a rather stupid manner. The common sense would be, that one of the skills should have a toggle option, and yet it doesn’t.
Some people address that though the Num Lock trick, others resort to straight up automation.
Well to be fair it isn’t automation because if it was automated you wouldn’t need to press the button in the first place
Whereas with the macro you hit a button and if you do a mash fest with the one button you are getting all 4 getting hit in sequence, plus I don’t know if you can add timers into the macros so that 1 button goes off then 1 sec later the second button goes off etc
A macro can activate skill 1 delay, 2 delay, 3, 4, delay - all with one keystroke. That makes more than one skill activate per keystroke. That is automation. It is more than one in-game action per keypress. That is where it is an unfair advantage over those using the base game.
Wizard is the most common one I hear about using them. I think the goal for Blizz is to change the rotations so players don’t feel the need to use that sort of thing.
Do you know if numlocking considered “more than one skill activate per keystroke”? I’m just wondering because its really nice to not have to manually devour all the time on necro, but I don’t want to be banned if its against the rules. There are so many non-answers online about it. Some people say you can, some say you can’t. I don’t really know what to believe.
That has been around for so many years and requires NO other software. I don’t have an answer though. Blizz has never said. By definition is against the rules, as it is not intended behavior.
Part of stopping it is detection of course. So if that changes then there could be penalties.
It seems that AutoHotKeys can permanently enable (keep on) NumLock, so it is within the realm of possibility that the devs could implement this via a software code addition to D3 and nix that issue instantly.
I hope Blizz ends up taking action against cheating soon.
This would be excellent for actual D3 players.
There are a ton of people that run their bots all day and night long, then log on just to physically play for an hour. Its sad.
I too have heard that it’s okay and not. The time I did it was with my Barb Shout (the defense one), because I would always forget to use it because I was caught up with leaping around and doing a HoTA smash. Of course this was many many seasons ago.
But it became very annoying when I was in town and it would cast all by itself every 20 seconds on its own. Then I tried it with Wrath so I could cast it the second I could use it, but then I remembered that I also liked to have control for defensive purposes. So I just stopped using it.
A macro is just you telling your keyboard when you want it to press certain buttons, thus firing your abilities to an exact timing you prefer without doing so manually. It’s not using the ability any faster than you could otherwise. It’s not defeating cooldowns. Many higher end keyboards have macro functionality built into the keyboard with macro keys, specifically designed for gaming. I don’t see what anyone’s problems with macros is. There is no justification for it and requires the one issuing the complaint to not fundamentally understand what a macro is.
It is the most basic of computer coding and in of itself doesn’t constitute as a 3rd party program or software.
Something D3 and D2 have in common. Both old games that are dominated by bots. Both games Blizzard “knows the issue is a sensitive topic for players”. Sounds like D3 is getting a similar level of support as D2 now. I wouldn’t expect anything to be done about bots ever. You will just have to deal with it until Diablo 4 probably.
I’m not sure when you’ve started playing D2, but before 1.10 patch in late 1.09d version there were hacked items in closed battle.net. To name a few - Buriza Armor, Oculus Ring, Horadric Boots and non-legendary yellow helm with 600+ % of magic find. I might still have them somewhere in the saved game files (back then there was an unofficial way to make a copy of your closed battle.net character and save it to your local offline characters).
well,i won’t say its fair, but i am still on 3rd place of the solo leaderboard
with 41xx paragon and i could even reach the 1st place if i had 2-3 days for push.
Here’s the thing i wanna make clear. ‘Most of Bot-haters’ are not actually involved in the issue ’ the fairness of competing’ cause they can’t compete top level players even if all bots get banned. ‘Bot-haters who are actually capable of the competition’ have nothing to do with the issue as well, cause they all bot now, although they didn’t long ago.
There are a few legit competitive players out there still.
It feels hopeless to try and push higher ranks when botters have taken over this game.
I like the paragon limit proposal for seasons.
From my understanding that was all because of 1.09d and were all legit and not hacked.
Hacked items would qualify only in this way. They were created by a third party program and brought into the game some how.
If someone finds an item with 600% Magic Find that dropped from Diablo - that isn’t a hacked item. That’s the game itself and what the developers intended.
I heard 1.09 had a bunch of crazy items that you could find, in fact I hear some people prefer 1.09 over the latest patches cause of it.