I'd like to know if Macro are allowed for Diablo 3. I read a couple posts about 1 button 1 action but i do not fully understand. I am using a Macro for a Flash Fire Wizard that spams 1,3 and 4 to maintain tal rasha stacks and a Macro for spaming explosive blasts on ET wiz.
Are those kind of spam Macros in particular against the Terms and Conditions? I heared that you can only get banned if your game files get read, or your gameplay becomes automatic.
I hope you can enlighten me if i am in danger to get banned. (Blue post would be best)
i am using razer synapse to spam macro 1,2,3 for invoker sader and tal rasha WoH. Does anyone know any real case using macro on razer synapse get ban? I mean what is the point of buying mechanical keyboard with macro but cannot use it ( its similar to num lock trick but at least i can turn it on/off)
I use that same build for my wiz & i dont need a macro , learn to play it without it , or else you wont really learn to use ur rotations if you have something holding your hand.
simple macros should at most get a temp ban and first a warning. There are tons of people who have misunderstood what blues said about macro usage on a number of threads and believe that certain types of macros which do exactly the same thing as numlock are ok and not against the TOS. There is a lot of confusion regarding this. Warn first and at most give a few day ban. A lot of people do not realize that it is against the TOS. Then again more complex macros that automate a lot of gameplay should be a perma ban also.
There is a lot of confusion with regards to macros. A lot of people do not realize that the macros they are using is against the TOS and believe it to be ok. There were a few posts made by blues on the forums about this and due to the language used a lot of people misunderstood those posts and believed that certain types of macros were ok (ie similar to the numlock thing). These people SHOULD NOT be perma banned. Give a warning first so they are made aware and at most a temp ban maybe 3 days or so. Of course if the macro is more advanced and automates a lot of gameplay then a perma ban may be reasonable. I know of a few people who were banned for a very basic numlock type macro and they were shocked when banned. They had no idea it was bannable and based on a misunderstanding and misinterpretation of words used by mods on the forums thought it was fine to use like that. A couple of people I spoke to were so disappointed after appealing and having their appeals overturned that they said they would never buy another Blizz game again even though they were massive fans of Blizzard and supporters in the past. I believe in those cases a perma ban is WAY too harsh and not justified. I also read about the steelseries mouse thing and after carefully analyzing and weighing it I believe this is something that needs to be addressed in the future. For gods sake ban the botters and thud users and some advanced macro users but do not punish those using simple macros who have no idea that this could be against the TOS due to a misunderstanding. You are punishing some very loyal gamers and fans who are far from being a cheater or ever having the intention of wanting to cheat.
Just going to chime in here and say the "numlock" trick as it's been called has been around for awhile. Blizzard has to know about it and has yet to fix or remove it from the game.The numlock functionality simply replicates continually pressing an assigned hotkey with out having to actually press that key. It could be considered automation, it could not since no 3rd party software is involved unless you want to count your keyboard and mouse drivers which is a bit of a stretch.
If blizzard was that dead set on removing any kind of automation they would have removed the numlock trick long ago. While not necessarily a green light to use macros I would use the numlock trick instead until blizzard makes some kind of announcement acknowledging it as a bug and that using it is an abuse of in game mechanics.
Given blizzard's history of "creative" fixes for things, I don't foresee them removing the numlock trick until they either implement an automatic toggle in game for abilities that are necessary to spam or change everything around to where spamming isn't necessary.
Only thing I ever did to modify my game is moving all skills to G keys on keyboard and additional buttons on mouse. Can't understand why is it so important to use macros or even num lock trick in D3. If you use those you lack control, and kinda dumb down the game even more.
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I'd like to know if Macro are allowed for Diablo 3. I read a couple posts about 1 button 1 action but i do not fully understand. I am using a Macro for a Flash Fire Wizard that spams 1,3 and 4 to maintain tal rasha stacks and a Macro for spaming explosive blasts on ET wiz.
Are those kind of spam Macros in particular against the Terms and Conditions? I heared that you can only get banned if your game files get read, or your gameplay becomes automatic.
I hope you can enlighten me if i am in danger to get banned. (Blue post would be best)
Thanks for reading
Kolloph
i am using razer synapse to spam macro 1,2,3 for invoker sader and tal rasha WoH. Does anyone know any real case using macro on razer synapse get ban? I mean what is the point of buying mechanical keyboard with macro but cannot use it ( its similar to num lock trick but at least i can turn it on/off)
I use that same build for my wiz & i dont need a macro , learn to play it without it , or else you wont really learn to use ur rotations if you have something holding your hand.
One mind cannot contain all wisdom...
yeah, if you are playing like 5-6 hours daily, there is a good chance you will be getting Carpal tunnel syndrome
I guess it's part of the game since the game understands simple numlocks which can be done with any commercial keyboard.
They need to worry about botters before they go after people using razor synapse..
um, that's not correct!
simple macros should at most get a temp ban and first a warning. There are tons of people who have misunderstood what blues said about macro usage on a number of threads and believe that certain types of macros which do exactly the same thing as numlock are ok and not against the TOS. There is a lot of confusion regarding this. Warn first and at most give a few day ban. A lot of people do not realize that it is against the TOS. Then again more complex macros that automate a lot of gameplay should be a perma ban also.
There is a lot of confusion with regards to macros. A lot of people do not realize that the macros they are using is against the TOS and believe it to be ok. There were a few posts made by blues on the forums about this and due to the language used a lot of people misunderstood those posts and believed that certain types of macros were ok (ie similar to the numlock thing). These people SHOULD NOT be perma banned. Give a warning first so they are made aware and at most a temp ban maybe 3 days or so. Of course if the macro is more advanced and automates a lot of gameplay then a perma ban may be reasonable. I know of a few people who were banned for a very basic numlock type macro and they were shocked when banned. They had no idea it was bannable and based on a misunderstanding and misinterpretation of words used by mods on the forums thought it was fine to use like that. A couple of people I spoke to were so disappointed after appealing and having their appeals overturned that they said they would never buy another Blizz game again even though they were massive fans of Blizzard and supporters in the past. I believe in those cases a perma ban is WAY too harsh and not justified. I also read about the steelseries mouse thing and after carefully analyzing and weighing it I believe this is something that needs to be addressed in the future. For gods sake ban the botters and thud users and some advanced macro users but do not punish those using simple macros who have no idea that this could be against the TOS due to a misunderstanding. You are punishing some very loyal gamers and fans who are far from being a cheater or ever having the intention of wanting to cheat.
Just going to chime in here and say the "numlock" trick as it's been called has been around for awhile. Blizzard has to know about it and has yet to fix or remove it from the game.The numlock functionality simply replicates continually pressing an assigned hotkey with out having to actually press that key. It could be considered automation, it could not since no 3rd party software is involved unless you want to count your keyboard and mouse drivers which is a bit of a stretch.
If blizzard was that dead set on removing any kind of automation they would have removed the numlock trick long ago. While not necessarily a green light to use macros I would use the numlock trick instead until blizzard makes some kind of announcement acknowledging it as a bug and that using it is an abuse of in game mechanics.
Given blizzard's history of "creative" fixes for things, I don't foresee them removing the numlock trick until they either implement an automatic toggle in game for abilities that are necessary to spam or change everything around to where spamming isn't necessary.
Good luck detecting keyboard macros that i use in game. You can't ban someone based on USB keyboard input.
Only thing I ever did to modify my game is moving all skills to G keys on keyboard and additional buttons on mouse. Can't understand why is it so important to use macros or even num lock trick in D3. If you use those you lack control, and kinda dumb down the game even more.
Season 6 barbarian solo sc EU grift 85 12m 23.199s MotE build