Are you saying Players are allowed to use TurboHud however. You completely avoided the question. Will an account using THUD risk getting banned
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Thank you for the reply. I wasnât sure whether to make the post or not given its title. Whatâs more I had only expected anecdotal evidence from other players.
Perhaps the TH team will pick up on this and release something more paletable for the gameâs community. Despite d3âs RPG dungeon crawling routes it is currently a cognitive competition*. As always, where thereâs competition, unfair advantages arenât welcome.
*If you are happy comparing how you fare to those above and below you taking gear and paragon into account. It leads to an interesting interpretation of âwho is the best ayer this season?â. You could put forth an argument for a top 100 player whoâs there despite a combination of low paragon and lacking several ancient pieces in his loadout too. Hmm we should have a thread for this too and cast nominations and votes!
Seems pretty clear to me. Last sentence of second last paragraph says itâs seen as something that should not be used.
No need to say whether itâs bannable at this point. Have decency and donât use it
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Hey Matthew, what about these cool features in a game you sell and support?
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/blizzard/t/best-pvm-necromancer-build/2235/28?u=atomicpunk-11379
As one legit player to another, do you feel my pain?
Players who play by Blizzardâs rules get left in the dust and players who break Blizzardâs rules win.
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Should not be used and banable are different. Hence i was exact clarification on it. As that was a Cloudy responce
I should not eat that cake as ill gain weighr. Doesnt mean it will kill me.
You should not use ThuD as it gives you features Blizzard are go lazy to implement. This doesnt mean Bannable.
Blizzard needs to come out with an official stance
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What about Macros that automate some keyclicks?
such as the ones used in StarpackâŚ
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These should be in the game. D3 UI/tool tips are severely misleading. Majority of the in game mechanics for all classes now are not learnt through tool tips but with thud. Perhaps your team can extract the âcool stuffâ onto D3.
Mechanic example:
Monk passive Relentless Assualt: You deal xx% damage from Blind, Freeze or Stun.
Monk Ceasar Momentom: Enemies Take xxx% damage from Blind, Frozen or Stunned.
On Juggarnault which is immune to CC: RA will not proc but Cesar will. Difference is enemies still take damage from CC proc xxx% when immune.
There are numerous other âhiddenâ mechanics in the game. Some like the example above leads to misunderstandings and debate among players
Things like:
-stricken stacks
-what progression pylon was spawn
-how many mobs in the pack are debuffed from curse/strongarm/locus swarm etc.
These things do not add advantage but mainly provides players with info for proper gameplay. We all know D3 is flawed and the game was shipped out incomplete. Reaper of Souls fixed some, but not all of the flaws. If the game is complete, demand of thud will not exist. Certainly not at this popularity rate.
What i am really targeting is the info system for D3 can be extremely unclear in a GR environment, especially in a large pull of 100 mobs in 4p mode. There are numerous instances non thud zmk lost the position of where the wizard is.
Regards of botting, its exactly what JohnTravolta commented. Incentives. We are in 2019, 7 yrs after game release, yet there are still time sink systems in this game.
Such as:
Why do i have to manually calculate how many gems i need to craft on imperial grade when needing Flawless Royals? Why cant you auto craft 100 Flawless when there are enough lower tier gems available?
Why cant you click legendary gems faster? Its not so bad if you level 3 main gems to 100. But to full 150 augment 10 characters?
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TurboHud is more of a user experience enhancement tool. They have some really cool features that IMO shouldâve been in the game, like mini-map icons and statistics. And the maker is constantly removing plug-ins that act like automation or give unfair advantages, to keep it fair. I think we should treat TurboHud like those WoW plug-ins.
As for bots, I hate to compete with players who bot 24/7 every season⌠But to remove bots, you guys should remove the incentives for botting. Think of some creative ways, for example, clear tickets or something like many mobile games have. Redesign the infinite power scaling with paragon farming and do something creative instead. Make customizable user generated rift maps that people will enjoy creating, sharing and playing instead of boring rift farming grinding over and over. Make the game less grindy and more creative. More high quality game content. And this applies to D4 design as well. Thereâre always some die hard botters who donât really care if they get banned and theyâll just buy new accounts next season. And you canât really compete with them.
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i hate this mindset, itâs so wrong and full of failure. On the surface level, yes, the player base would lose half the players on day 1. On day 10 though, so many players will have returned due to having a fair and equal playing field set by the devâs that the player base would likely be 10 time what it was the day before the ban wave.
PEOPLE WANT A FAIR PLAYING FIELD. The player base is low because it currently is not. If you build it, they will come.
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as my opinion thud is a add-on, like wow got plenty of them, for every kind of situations, so why ban for that, either as some sayd, you will kill the only remaining comunity of OG player, the only one who will be happy is the nob with no ladder board ambition, the bot are pains for sure, but thud is a simply add-on who help ne waste time, dodge elite anoying sht, and help clear bounty asap only no*b baby cry about that
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WoW addons are lua files that modify the UI only. They are built in Blizzardâs sandbox using Blizzardâs interface. If Blizzard does not like something in an addon, they break the addon. Blizzardâs controls everything.
THUD is a third party overlay that reads D3 memory, to give an advantage to players. That is not allowed. Blizzard has no control over it and it does things the game does not natively do.
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I think the only problem with hud is that it has a sort of half baked map hack built into it. If it wasnât for that one aspect of the program Iâd say it was 100% fine. Now with that being said. This game doesnât really have any real PvP and knowing where to go doesnât really hurt anyone or give you much of an advantage other than to being able to make it through a rift faster. I guess that matters if your some hardcore ladder junky but for most people it wouldnât really effect them. So the program walks a kinda gray area in the rules. Its not a flat out game breaking hack. But its also not completely fair to all players either.
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Im confused also. bots getting banned but the program in its itâs current state should not be used? I donât even jnow what the program entails but it sounds like a suggestion⌠botting you getting banned⌠using the program in a non botting way ok?
this makes more sense.
THUD Reads D3 Memory and displays the Current Info. WoW Addons write information and saves it. like gatherlite will save every node you have ever gathered from on your maps, that options is not in the game, DPS meters dont exsist in the base game either for WoW so their for its reading and writing information on the screen their is a map addon on too that removes all fog of war in WoW. how is this any different the THUD it reads and displays current information doesnt write any information into the game its self all it does is create a UI system so you can easily see elites affixes and where they are visible on screen. this aint altering the memory in any way. THUD doesnt Turn the UI in the game from a Demonic Gothic look to say a Mech Droid UI overlay from some space game with Map markers permanently in files saving every loot node. i dont think you understand how THUD actually works regardless of what the files /dot type.
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Blizzard confirming their stance on THuD? 
At at the end of daysâŚthe first sign shall appear on the forums.
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It would be nice if you just auto-looted all crafting materialsâŚ
itâs an inconvenience considering the share screen clutter, same with goldâŚ
A better item filter interface and options built into the game.
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I can not find the original response from the creator of THUD way back when it first came onto the main stream game play. But he stated that THUD did infact violate the ToA you agreed to when you clicked I Agree without actually reading it. That being said I feel no simpothy what so ever if someone were to get banned for using it. You clearly made a conscious choice to cheat to get ahead now you must deal with the consequences of being a cheater.
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What difference does it make though, really. People are clearing GR150. Even if you remove the botters you still wonât be first.
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If there were no botters I would be rank 1
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