Thank you for this exposed
This is kind of unfair to suspended or close people abusing this mechanic without an in-game or in-battlenet warning. (I donât really know what it is, but I smell how it works from âutilizing a group buffâ)
First there was no post clearly stating how the buff works. It was intended to let the players find out how it works themselves, and therefor this abuse doesnât seem to be using a bug. It is how the buff was implemented.
Itâs totally reasonable to clear the leaderboard records which abused the bug, but not suspension on account.
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Although not 100 percent certain, theoretically this exploit can be done solo without the assistance of other people in the group. Will just take additional time, prep, and work to set it up.
I would urge you to provide this notice, as a further deterrent to players who would cheat, and as balm for a community who has watched cheating on the leaderboards for far too long. It also would directly answer questions about why the leaderboards have changed, instead of leaving us to guess.
thank you!
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Are you kidding me?
Maybe someone who is native English speaker can write open letter to him. He needs to discontinue development of his tool ASAP. That is the best case scenario. He needs to show that he cares about people and their accounts more than he does about their donations. As we could read on this forum also he said couple of times that he will stop supporting his app if Blizzard makes official stance against it.
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Hopefully they ban his real account also.
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It is necessary. Because theres a blurred line between the things that happened here.
- If this was done by 4 players in a 4 player rift is it exploiting?
- If this was done as a solo player in a solo game in a solo rift is it exploiting?
Because its doable as a single player and its not hard. And honestly the action itself isnt far off from just gathering all the trash mobs on a rift floor and killing them to nuke down the elites youve trailed the entire way. its simply a difference in location and time.
IMO the seasonal buff needs to reset when you leave a GR in any way.
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this. this is why there needs to be clarity on what exactly is being considered âthe exploitâ. Because to me doing this as a solo for the solo leaderboards is not an exploit. or doing it in a 4 man for the 4 man leader boards is not a exploit. Finding a unique way to use a ability isnt a exploit.
In my opinion, and what needs clarity is if the exploit is using 4man to get on the solo leaderboard or if its the action itself.
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With all due respect, Iâd rather see a Blizzard reply to this. Even good boys like Quin and Lord Fluffy have numlock guides on their YouTube channels, which does precisely what you describe, automating key presses. And when I messaged Nev about this on Reddit, she told me that Blizzard has no comment about specific macros at this time.
I figured Itâs now or never to get a definitive ruling in triplicate about what is and is not within the rules. Until further notice from Blizzard, I will take the line âWhile any kind of botting software falls clearly under violation of our Terms of Service, for Diablo III, this also includes any kind of overlay software, map hacks, or any other addons or alterations to the client.â hyper literally.
So if itâs not an addon or alteration to the client, or some other extremely clear ToS violation, itâs within the rules.
If Nev wishes to correct me on that one way or the other I would be immensely grateful.
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So other players grouping mobs around a waypoint for you is the exploit? Not that the seasonal buff is able to stack while youâre not there?
So if you group all the mobs yourself and use the same tactic in a solo game/rift itâs ok?
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By a literal interpretation of what was said, that was the thing ruled an exploit. So should be fine for pure solo use if you prep every zone yourself. Wonât work on necro or DH but should work on the other classes.
BIG QUESTION!? Why you fix the exploit so quick but not the lag we always get in greaters?
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I think the lag is hard to fix because D3 was not originally designed around the idea that area damage would be proccing multiple quadrillions of damage per tick.
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i cant believe that blizz act like they didnt know⌠there were so many bugreports on the ptr phase⌠were talked about it in chat⌠its obvious that this happens. we know our d3 programmers. they fail every time they creating new content. u only watch the casuals crying and refuse to improve ur game⌠it could cost moneyâŚ
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I donât think this Blue has any idea what heâs talking about. He should probably go talk to his manager so he understands what is actually happening
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try to play without areadamage⌠known problem since area damage existâŚ
It is not something they can fix with this game engine.
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With snapshotting and numlock around since Diablo 3 exists you now complain about guys who use the season mechanic kinda like intended. It is intended that players can carry the stacks over to other zones etc.
IMO this is not really cheating. And itâs not automating the game in any way. If you think about this, snapshotting is in every way much more abusing game mechanics then carrying the league mechanic stacks from one zone to another.
From the perspective of a new player for example: itâs much more likely they discover that they can get the season mechanic stacks from another zone outside the greater rift than snappshotting mechanics (e.g. applying exploding palm manually to a mob to carry the 400% damage buff through the whole floor, even after the effect ran out).
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Even without area damage there is a lot lag! So thatâs not the only problem it seemsâŚ
According to the Blue posts, the exploit here has to do with multiple players helping one player in a solo GR. It has nothing to do with the seasonal buff.