∞ Infinity Damage

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PTR - For those who haven’t seen it, in Rob’s new video, he has what looks like maybe a thorns/ww barb doing what looks like 1.1 nonillion damage. After a little bit of compounding damage, the numbers convert to the ∞ infinity symbol ∞.

What I find hilarious about this is that someone at Blizzard had to code that symbol to appear if damage scaled that high.

I mean… it’s already many magnitudes higher than the HP of any fathomable enemy. Why it doesn’t just hit a Final Fantasy style 99999 cap somewhere is silly!

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I’m not going to give some dude more clicks, but that sounds funny.

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Blizzard Math: When all else fails, to infinite and… we’ll just stop there.

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A Chinese player came up with it. Rob translated his guide. Orange tempers 4tw lol

Anyways clearly bugged :laughing: :rofl: :joy:

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I think that’s the real reason for the PTR, to find broken builds before they go live.

I’m surprised there aren’t more like this with such big changes about to happen.

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Buzz Lightyear: To infinity and beyond!

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Yes, credit where it’s due. 透了个明 & 咸鱼小罗 found the bug. Pronounced Tòule gè míng & xián yú xiǎo luō if anything online is to be believed.

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Because Blizzard will normalize the name, we shall call him Tom.

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Challenge complete: integer overflow

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There’s always an Asian better than you.

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Most likely it was just in whatever library they use for formatting the numbers and nobody actually thought about it.

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Do high damage numbers mean more stress on the servers or is that a myth?

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If they release the build as is, we can give you an answer.

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Raxx put out a video a few days ago of a rogue spinning to win build, something double dipping maybe on vulnerable and critical strike damage but It could be that is working as intended. Even when he took off a few pieces of good gear it was still strong.

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To be fair. Most people don’t look for infinite loop. There’s a select few. The PTR is a great place to test for it considering Mark the cheat exist.

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Going to have to invent a new system of math notation to display the damage numbers next season.

Barbillions → Blizzillions.

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hey leave my female barb out of this! haha yeah thats my barbs name

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Memes aside, it brings up the question with the stat squish…did they test this internally? Rob doesn’t have some secret, and he didn’t design the game.

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Their nonsensical “Only Buffs, no Nerfs” strategy is going to struggle with infinity dmg :woman_shrugging:

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Imagine how much damage Rob would be doing if they didn’t do the stat squish.

:thinking:

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