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[Lucavi00]

This is nothing compared to wows launch. Not even close by a mile. I haven't had any issues whatsoever, log in or other wise. Maybe I'm just lucky. I also don't plan on ever being hacked but that's because I've had a blizzard authenticator for 2 yrs or more. I'd highly suggest anyone with a smart phone get it. Do not get the dial in authentication device as d3 does not support it.

[Rize]

http://arstechnica.c...hacking-victim/

It wasn't until I had been through this entire process, and I was talking about potential security threats with an expert, that I realized that my password security might not have been as airtight as I thought. The password I've been using for my Battle.net account was the same one I used to use on services such as Twitter and PSN before they were potentially compromised through well-publicized hacking scandals. I've updated most of my crucial accounts with much more secure, unique passwords since then, but I'd forgotten to change my Battle.net password in that time (and simply forgot that the old password was in any way insecure).

Note the reused password compromised from another site that was hacked. For those who swear up and down that they would never fall for a phishing scam (probably true) and do not have any viruses (might be true), I'm guessing this is the culprit.

[Lucavi00]

Bashiok addresses 35 small improvements for D3.

http://us.battle.net...830?page=10#189

[SenJ]

Na, it's the same email I've been using since 2001. However, this is the first time ever in my gaming 'career' that something like this has happened. And my password is pretty long with caps, lowercase, letter, numbers AND symbols. I'm in the military man, I know all about changing passwords, making sure the strength is good, phishing etc. Not only that, like you said, it should be far more rare for guys like peeps on this board to fall prey against stuff like that. But, it does happen. And I'm not saying I want so much security that it takes away from the game itself (again, the shit they have us do in the military for the sake of 'security' is maddening at times). But there has to be a happy medium. I can't justify dumping tons of my free time (which is far more limited when school starts back) only to get rollback and have to start over with gear/quests/levels. And you only get 2 rollbacks before use of the RMAH is restricted all together for you. The whole thing just stinks man, no two ways about it.

All that being said, I'm really not sure it was password related or if I was hacked at all. Again, something just doesn't seem right about all of it. Why not take everything? Or at least sell it to the in game vender then take all my gold? What I've been reading is some people are having an issue of items just straight up disappearing. Which kind of makes sense. I mean, why not take my 700 dps axe with 250 int? Or the rare ammy I have with nice stats, or the belt with 30+ all res and 15 mf with good int and vit? All of these items are worth cash also. It just doesn't make sense for them to leave any of those. In any case, I've got a ticket open with Blizzard and I'm using the authenticator, so hopefully this won't happen again and can get resolved asap. I'm out of town right now anyway, but I want to be able to play the game that I payed 60 bucks for as some point.

If you aren't entirely burnt out on the experience I can help you get some stuff back, or stuff off the AH in the meantime. I don't have a ton of money, but it's probably enough to get a few decent pieces.

[Brandon Strader]

Na, it's the same email I've been using since 2001. However, this is the first time ever in my gaming 'career' that something like this has happened. And my password is pretty long with caps, lowercase, letter, numbers AND symbols. I'm in the military man, I know all about changing passwords, making sure the strength is good, phishing etc. Not only that, like you said, it should be far more rare for guys like peeps on this board to fall prey against stuff like that. But, it does happen. And I'm not saying I want so much security that it takes away from the game itself (again, the shit they have us do in the military for the sake of 'security' is maddening at times). But there has to be a happy medium. I can't justify dumping tons of my free time (which is far more limited when school starts back) only to get rollback and have to start over with gear/quests/levels. And you only get 2 rollbacks before use of the RMAH is restricted all together for you. The whole thing just stinks man, no two ways about it.

All that being said, I'm really not sure it was password related or if I was hacked at all. Again, something just doesn't seem right about all of it. Why not take everything? Or at least sell it to the in game vender then take all my gold? What I've been reading is some people are having an issue of items just straight up disappearing. Which kind of makes sense. I mean, why not take my 700 dps axe with 250 int? Or the rare ammy I have with nice stats, or the belt with 30+ all res and 15 mf with good int and vit? All of these items are worth cash also. It just doesn't make sense for them to leave any of those. In any case, I've got a ticket open with Blizzard and I'm using the authenticator, so hopefully this won't happen again and can get resolved asap. I'm out of town right now anyway, but I want to be able to play the game that I payed 60 bucks for as some point.

If you aren't entirely burnt out on the experience I can help you get some stuff back, or stuff off the AH in the meantime. I don't have a ton of money, but it's probably enough to get a few decent pieces.

Yeah I could help too, I usually just sell that stuff. But I'll start saving, what was it, Barbarian gear?

[Kilu]

I haven't played any after the 1.0.2a patch. A friend of mine said that people were complaining about missing items and character as well as client crashes. That seems like a problem.

[Disposable Hero]

I haven't played any after the 1.0.2a patch. A friend of mine said that people were complaining about missing items and character as well as client crashes. That seems like a problem.

Yeah this is what I'm talking about. I just don't think I got hacked or w/e. I think it's more a server issue, but of course Blizzard won't admit to that. I do hate burning up a rollback on something like this, but I guess I'm going to go ahead and do it.

But na, I'm not anywhere close to being 'burned out'. I know that Diablo is a grind, and I knew that before the game launched. Just kinda sucks when we're all making improvements incrementally and then something like this happens and sets you back a few days. I have been reading more on theorycrafting and the math behind the scenes if anyone is interested. Arreat Summit was the authority for Diablo 2, and it looks like a guy from diablonut has done most of the datamining for a lot of early info. The forum I've been checking out is here:

http://diablo.incgam...orums/forum.php

Pretty solid site with good discussion about secondary stats, budgets (per item slot), and builds. Really good reads on the early info collected from the game. I'll be around tomorrow night though. I'm planning on making next week a huge push to get more elite gear. A dude on that forum said he runs nightmare gold find runs (for speed, since gold drops dont seem to change drastically between difficulties) with 180% gf and nets 200k an hour. Thats a pretty good rate. I think the best I've done so far is 100-150k an hour and that was last Wednesday with Ashane in hell. I want to be able to get a decent 1h weapon with a good shield or source and start getting geared for inferno. Just gonna have to farm the gold to get there.

[Ashane]

A dude on that forum said he runs nightmare gold find runs (for speed, since gold drops dont seem to change drastically between difficulties) with 180% gf and nets 200k an hour. Thats a pretty good rate.

Yeah, I've actually been doing this a little bit lately since I picked up a set of gold find gear. Doing runs of Act 3 Siegebreaker through Azmodan on Nightmare wearing all gold find gear (150%, 225% with 5 stacks/NV). There's more champs and clustered packs of enemies (i.e. those spiders in the Arreat Caves) than anywhere else in the game I'm aware of. Takes me about a half hour and I get 100k, so sounds like I'm going at the same rate as this dude. It's mind-numbingly boring though, lol, so I haven't been playing D3 much since you went out of town... I'll usually just pop in to do a run or two and check the AH.

What I'd really like to do are chest runs in Inferno since apparently there's people making millions a day off em, even though they've probably been nerfed at this point. There was a lot of interesting talk over at d2jsp a few days ago about this particular chest run that's confirmed working. Apparently you can bug the game and get the quest in Act 3 Inferno by joining a pub game of the same quest in Hell and then leaving if you're not good enough to quest up to that point on your own... You can also get Tyrael somehow and have him fight the hard stuff for you. My only concern is there's no way I'm joining any pub games with so many people getting hacked...

Rize and I got to The Butcher in Inferno a couple days ago, but we couldn't take him out... I tried soloing him later on and could only get him down to 1/3 health on my best attempt. Definitely gotta gear up better. I think some runs of Skeleton King on Inferno might be worthwhile for potential rares to sell on the AH instead of nm gf runs. Either way, let's give The Butcher a shot when you're back tomorrow.

[SenJ]

Lost my first HC character to act 2 normal thanks to lagging at the start of an event. Barbatory lived a short and fulfilling life, killing everything in his wake until being run through by the fallen. RIP.

My first Inferno butcher kill took about 10-12k dps and ~ 25k hp and a solid number of attempts getting him to 10-20% and then getting RNG'd by the floor + chains or hitting the enrage timer. Skeleton King runs + some AH thrifting and you'll be able to kill the Butcher no problem.

[XMark]

"Oh, I'm just gonna check my auction house items and log off."
"Oh, I'm just gonna play to the next checkpoint."
"Oh, I'm just gonna find some items on the auction house before I log off."
"Well, I bought some items so might was well go back into the game and equip 'em."
"Oh, I'm just gonna play to the next checkpoint."

[Disposable Hero]

Account restored. And I got all my items back, which was the big thing. Was concerned about the pimp boots I had bought earlier in the day. Ended up losing a few hundred thousand gold, but that can be recooped quickly. I'm playing tonight if anyone wants to rock some games with me. Got to clean up my stash and get some auctions up then I'll be ready to roll after I eat.

[Disposable Hero]

Well inferno isn't TOTALLY ridiculous after all. Don't get me wrong, there are some champ packs that have to be skipped, which I think is a little crappy. But it feels pretty doable after the first act. I hope they don't patch it too much in 1.0.3. My biggest complaint are the mods on some champs. Invulnerable minions is straight garbage for one. I do hope they tweak some of this. But the butcher only took me, Rize, and this chick from OCR twice to down. Not too shabby. Working today until 5 eastern and I'm back on for the grind.

[GENTLYPORKING]

Got to Act II in Hell with my lvl. 56 monk. I was getting destroyed in the beginning because I've ran with two 1-handed weapons the whole time. Switched to 1-handed and a shield and now I am surviving much better.

[Rize]

I read somewhere that the drop rate for legendaries is variable based on how many of an item are in existence on the servers. What that means is that if you don't farm like a Chinese gold farmer, your chance of getting legendaries is virtually nil. Your best chance of getting legendaries is in difficulties and acts with the fewest players playing and nobody bothering to farm. That's probably late nightmare and early hell (because people who get that far mostly breeze through all that). Of course, the legendaries that drop there aren't that great.

In Diablo 2 Blizzard managed the game's economy only to the extent needed to keep players playing (i.e. for people to have fun). In Diablo 3 they are managing the economy in a way designed to make money as the first priority. Keeping players playing is a huge part of this of course. Without volume of players, all the items generated by the early players will be more than enough to sate the remaining players keeping prices low. Basically, if the number of players is growing, then things are well. If the number is shrinking, then the value of items is shrinking and they have to put a tight clamp on new item generation to maintain the value of items that are up for auction.

Blizzard has a difficult design problem in D3. How do you make rare and highly desirable items that people are willing to pay top dollar for? You have to make sure they are both scarce and necessary for survival (Inferno mode). But how do you keep players playing when the gear they need isn't available for a reasonable cost? This is a catch-22. Blizzard would have done better to just focus on making the game fun. If the game is fun and lots of people play it, the RMAH will take care of itself. They don't need expensive items, they could just take the 15% on micro transactions.

In D2 I felt I was being entertained. In D3 I feel like I'm being exploited. And yet I can't wait to get home and keep playing. The game mechanics are still good for now. The AH to me just functions like a shop in an RPG. I grind for gold and then spend it. However, once the RMAH goes live I think I will have to quit. I'm not spending a dime of real money, and if I sell in game gear for real money the same rule applies. That money is going to my bank account. So basically the shop will be gone, but the shop is clearly essential to proceeding. So I'm enjoying it while I can.

Maybe I'll play again later after a big patch that fixes things. Actually, I'm guessing that a big update that fixes things to some extent will accompany the launch of the RMAH. They will need the excitement to counteract the negative effects of the RMAH.

[EBattousai]

I find myself spending all of my money on jewelcrafting / blacksmithing upgrades and crafting gems. Not sure how you guys are making hundreds of thousands of gold. I've only sold a few yellows and a legendary on the AH so far.

Hell is hard for a monk, getting stepped on like an autumn leaf. I still haven't found a build that I'm in love with.