His contests are legit. I checked out his stream for the first time tonight after hearing about this 1 billion gold contest and was plesently surprised to see he was doing contests for free items. Luckily I won a batch of i63's, which ended up being more than a characters inventory full and gave my fresh 60 barb a few upgrades. str,vit, ias, 10% crit gloves ftw xD
The contest was completely randomized. He took everyones battletag and put them into a list on random.org and hit the randomize button for all to see live on stream. I assume he will be doing something similar for the 1 billion gold contest as well.
"Bashiok has just posted confirming that they have yet to see any accounts comprised other than normal means. updating that section to match his new post"
Blizzard has been telling people that their accounts have not been compromised despite their gold and gear disappearing and random new people added to their friends list. They are still offering these people rollbacks to my knowledge.
Blizzard isn't lying when they say no accounts have been compromised other than normal means because most of the "hacked" accounts weren't compromised just accessed through an exploit. In other words the hackers/exploiters don't have any information about the account and can't access it without you all ready being in game and through the authentication process. After reading the battlenet forums off and on over the last 6 hours or so it appears that the majority of the people making these claims have had their characters cleaned but still have access to their accounts. Relatively, there are very few people who are claiming that their account and/or email passwords have been changed, which is common practice when phising or keyloggers are in use.
Legally Blizzard is only obligated to announce their security measures have been breached if personal information was gained by the parties that broke through their system. Why would Blizzard announce to the world that they have a faulty security setup if they don't need to? Considering the RMAH that is set to release in a week the answer should be fairly obvious -- They wouldn't announce it. I probably wouldn't make a public statement about it either if I was in their shoes.
Of course this could possibly be wrong, but I am not making any of this up as it has all been gathered first hand from the battlenet forums. Take a look at the blue topics tracker in the top left corner or at the battlenet forums and you will see that this is a very hot topic. I have never seen this big of an increase in "hacked" accounts with any releases of other Blizzard games and they all use the same authentication setup. The shear number of people getting simultaneously hacked suggests that the problem isn't everyone visiting the same lame phising site.
I was reading up about the hacking on European battlenet forums. In one post there are two reports from people who bought brand new computers days before the release of D3. If it isn't an issue on blizzards side than how do you explain this? The computers came from the factory with keyloggers allready on them?
"My roommate and one of my friends got hacked too, hacker even killed my roommates hardcore champpion. Both of them lost all items and money, blizard rolled back their accounts and both lost loads of items and lots of levels. Blizard also replyed that the account can only be rolled back twice. My rommates computer was just bought for diablo, he had almost no other programs, had not visited any suspicious sites and we ran a virus scan, but no keylogger or trojans were found."
It is kinda funny they killed off his hardcore character xD.
"Having spent a lot of money on blizzard products, and 100% knowing the hacking was nothing to do with me since my computer is literally 2 days old i feel like the least I'm owed and everyone else is owed is an explanation."
Here is a game reporter claiming she was hacked even with an authenticator, I'm not sure why she refers to herself in 3rd person. Maybe random people stating it got passed their authenticator isn't credible enough for some but here is someone with a bit more credibility stating it.
"This reporter, after having her own account with authenticator hacked, firmly believes this is a serious security breach on Blizzard’s side, though they either do not want to admit it, or are still unaware of the problem. Many who have had their account on Diablo 3 hacked were logged in at the time of the hack and support staff tells them there was no evidence of their account being hacked. That indicates there is an exploit in the system being taken advantage of."
People are getting their hackers(or the character's they traded the gold too) randomly added to their friends/recently played list. There are many people getting hacked but only a handful of these random friends, meaning it is either a few people or small group of people doing the hacks. This isn't anything surprising, but if it were keyloggers wouldn't this imply that all these people getting hacked visited the same site? If this is the case than pinpointing said sites should be easy considering how many people are complaining about being hacked.
Like others have said, the massive influx of people getting hacked leads me to the obvious conclusion that the problem is server side. Sure there are probably people with keyloggers too, like the user that had the password changed but this backdoor entry into accounts makes much more sense, especially with blizzard telling a lot of people they have no log of their accounts being comprimised. I.E.- The session ID didn't change and the hackers skipped the authentication process. This is also why people with authenticators are getting hacked.
Edit- Looks like someone all ready posted this info but I will keep it on
Just read this on official forums. A blue replied but didn't confirm nor deny it. Seems like the issue is on Blizzards end after all.
"an exploit was discovered by duplicating a session ID basically, if you join a public game with people, they can view your session ID and spoof it to login as you without need for a password or email or anyting if you play with people, try not to play in public games bro, only with people you know"
If this is the case we should expect to see servers going down shortly I would think.
This is the thread its in, http://us.battle.net...opic/5149539239 not much else to read though. I just logged in to delete randoms off my friends list, not sure if it would help or not but I just want to be safe as possible lol. I kept getting errors trying to remove people from friends and getting disconnected...
It doesn't explain every hacking incident, like one of the users in here that had their password changed which requires their email be hacked too.
I will almost guarantee these issues are client side and not server side. I agree with Doez even though I do feel sorry for the people who get hacked. It is their own fault the majority of the time. Good luck to everyone having these Issues, but from what the OP said you will likely need to purchase an authenticator if you want your account restored.
This is what I'm using at level 58. I plan on buying the best weapon available as soon as I hit 60. Apparently I put a black line across the image and didn't realize until just now lol.
how do you see your dps? is there some sort of mod to do that?
Ps. level 44 with an 80 dps wand, generally dont have problems killing stuff - i've only just killed Belial on NM, so not that far along
You can find DPS by looking at your Character Panel and under your main stats (int/str/ etc.) there is one called Damage. If you mouse over it , it says that is DPS based on a few contributing factors like crit and so on. I think people are confused because it says Damage and not DPS so people in these threads should just call it Damage to avoid the confusion. Either way you know where to find it.
This is a bit off topic but a possible tip related to farming in the same area. I imagine doing loot runs in the Act 3 towers (specificly the Tower of Cursed ) is among the best place to farm bosses with the Nephalem Valor buff. If you take the WP to the Tower of Cursed level 1 and work your way down. There is usually 4-6 elite groups on the way down to the heart. The area is always laid out the same, very straight forward, relatively small, aswell it is big enough that you won't be fighting in too tight of close quarters. I'm not sure if the Mistress of Pain (think thats her name lol) mini boss is affected by Nephalem Valor or contributes to the buff but she is one of the easiest fights in the game anyways so it might be worth while to start the quest before 'Kill Azmodan'. I'm only on in the middle of Act 3 hell but this was the best spot I found for filling up your inventory fast in NM and imagine it is the same in hell/inferno especially with the MF buff.
The only problem I invision is that the mobs should all be around lvl 63 and you might need to be extremely well geared to farm this in Inferno mode consistantly.
Also, when you first take the Cursed Tower lvl 1 WP, a group of elites will sometimes spawn on the lower ledge right next to the WP. You can safely take this group down from the higher ledge using the gap to your advantage. Just watch out for Mortars/Vortex/Teleporting groups xD.
That's pretty amazing how fast you killed it. Blizzard said no one on their team beat Inferno mode and now I question the competence of Blizzard's employees gaming skills. Sure they can make decent games but they can't even test it properly. If the people who know the game inside and out can't beat it but a bunch of random people can within a week of the game being released than something is wrong.
I am absolutely enjoying playing D3 but Torchlight 2 is looking an awful lot more tempting now than it did a week ago.
Fetish Sycophants- The 3% chance to summon the Fetishes sounds weak but you can get a mini army going on pretty quickly, especially if you mow down a couple groups.
Mass Confusion- Wasn't expecting to be able to kill the confused enemies, thought they would be considered allies at that state. It surprised me anyways xD
I would be kinda pissed if it took forever to level to 60 in D3, atleast with the way the skill system is in the game. If I had to spend months on the same character just to get access to the last few skills than I would probably give up and start a new character.
You should have also mentioned that it was only hard in D2 to level up from about level 60/70ish to 99. You could get to level 60 in a day.
OK....if thats the case then make the legendaries atleast drop more, theres no reason that I see a rare every 10 mins thats good/amazing but then get a legendary after 40 hours and its crap. If rares and magics are suppose to be better than legendaries then let them drop less, it doesnt make sense that the best items in the game are the most common and the rarest items are barely useable.
Legendaries probably could use a bit of a buff, then again I haven't seen to many and compared them to similar level magic/rare items. However, if they make legendaries clearly superior than it will be just like D2. Everyone will be wearing the exact same gear at the end of the game and they will be farming to find 'perfect' pieces of the exact same gear they are wearing. If rares and magic items are viable alternatives than this won't happen, atleast not to the extent of D2. I've only got one Legendary item but it is better than any other items of the same type that I have found.
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The contest was completely randomized. He took everyones battletag and put them into a list on random.org and hit the randomize button for all to see live on stream. I assume he will be doing something similar for the 1 billion gold contest as well.
Blizzard has been telling people that their accounts have not been compromised despite their gold and gear disappearing and random new people added to their friends list. They are still offering these people rollbacks to my knowledge.
Blizzard isn't lying when they say no accounts have been compromised other than normal means because most of the "hacked" accounts weren't compromised just accessed through an exploit. In other words the hackers/exploiters don't have any information about the account and can't access it without you all ready being in game and through the authentication process. After reading the battlenet forums off and on over the last 6 hours or so it appears that the majority of the people making these claims have had their characters cleaned but still have access to their accounts. Relatively, there are very few people who are claiming that their account and/or email passwords have been changed, which is common practice when phising or keyloggers are in use.
Legally Blizzard is only obligated to announce their security measures have been breached if personal information was gained by the parties that broke through their system. Why would Blizzard announce to the world that they have a faulty security setup if they don't need to? Considering the RMAH that is set to release in a week the answer should be fairly obvious -- They wouldn't announce it. I probably wouldn't make a public statement about it either if I was in their shoes.
Of course this could possibly be wrong, but I am not making any of this up as it has all been gathered first hand from the battlenet forums. Take a look at the blue topics tracker in the top left corner or at the battlenet forums and you will see that this is a very hot topic. I have never seen this big of an increase in "hacked" accounts with any releases of other Blizzard games and they all use the same authentication setup. The shear number of people getting simultaneously hacked suggests that the problem isn't everyone visiting the same lame phising site.
"My roommate and one of my friends got hacked too, hacker even killed my roommates hardcore champpion. Both of them lost all items and money, blizard rolled back their accounts and both lost loads of items and lots of levels. Blizard also replyed that the account can only be rolled back twice. My rommates computer was just bought for diablo, he had almost no other programs, had not visited any suspicious sites and we ran a virus scan, but no keylogger or trojans were found."
It is kinda funny they killed off his hardcore character xD.
"Having spent a lot of money on blizzard products, and 100% knowing the hacking was nothing to do with me since my computer is literally 2 days old i feel like the least I'm owed and everyone else is owed is an explanation."
Here is a game reporter claiming she was hacked even with an authenticator, I'm not sure why she refers to herself in 3rd person. Maybe random people stating it got passed their authenticator isn't credible enough for some but here is someone with a bit more credibility stating it.
"This reporter, after having her own account with authenticator hacked, firmly believes this is a serious security breach on Blizzard’s side, though they either do not want to admit it, or are still unaware of the problem. Many who have had their account on Diablo 3 hacked were logged in at the time of the hack and support staff tells them there was no evidence of their account being hacked. That indicates there is an exploit in the system being taken advantage of."
Like others have said, the massive influx of people getting hacked leads me to the obvious conclusion that the problem is server side. Sure there are probably people with keyloggers too, like the user that had the password changed but this backdoor entry into accounts makes much more sense, especially with blizzard telling a lot of people they have no log of their accounts being comprimised. I.E.- The session ID didn't change and the hackers skipped the authentication process. This is also why people with authenticators are getting hacked.
Just read this on official forums. A blue replied but didn't confirm nor deny it. Seems like the issue is on Blizzards end after all.
"an exploit was discovered by duplicating a session ID basically, if you join a public game with people, they can view your session ID and spoof it to login as you without need for a password or email or anyting if you play with people, try not to play in public games bro, only with people you know"
If this is the case we should expect to see servers going down shortly I would think.
This is the thread its in, http://us.battle.net...opic/5149539239 not much else to read though. I just logged in to delete randoms off my friends list, not sure if it would help or not but I just want to be safe as possible lol. I kept getting errors trying to remove people from friends and getting disconnected...
It doesn't explain every hacking incident, like one of the users in here that had their password changed which requires their email be hacked too.
You can find DPS by looking at your Character Panel and under your main stats (int/str/ etc.) there is one called Damage. If you mouse over it , it says that is DPS based on a few contributing factors like crit and so on. I think people are confused because it says Damage and not DPS so people in these threads should just call it Damage to avoid the confusion. Either way you know where to find it.
The only problem I invision is that the mobs should all be around lvl 63 and you might need to be extremely well geared to farm this in Inferno mode consistantly.
Also, when you first take the Cursed Tower lvl 1 WP, a group of elites will sometimes spawn on the lower ledge right next to the WP. You can safely take this group down from the higher ledge using the gap to your advantage. Just watch out for Mortars/Vortex/Teleporting groups xD.
I am absolutely enjoying playing D3 but Torchlight 2 is looking an awful lot more tempting now than it did a week ago.
Mass Confusion- Wasn't expecting to be able to kill the confused enemies, thought they would be considered allies at that state. It surprised me anyways xD
You should have also mentioned that it was only hard in D2 to level up from about level 60/70ish to 99. You could get to level 60 in a day.
Legendaries probably could use a bit of a buff, then again I haven't seen to many and compared them to similar level magic/rare items. However, if they make legendaries clearly superior than it will be just like D2. Everyone will be wearing the exact same gear at the end of the game and they will be farming to find 'perfect' pieces of the exact same gear they are wearing. If rares and magic items are viable alternatives than this won't happen, atleast not to the extent of D2. I've only got one Legendary item but it is better than any other items of the same type that I have found.