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Death's Bargain Exploit
An exploit has been recently found out with the Death's Bargain pants, and because of it the item affix was temporarily disabled until the issue can be hotfixed in the near future. It consisted of using the item's mechanic of turning Life per Second into damage along with cheat death passives to deal ridiculous damage. We are left wondering if leaderboards were tainted by this and if something will be done about that.
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
We've recently become aware of an unintended interaction that occurs when Death's Bargain is used in combination with a specific set of items and abilities. In addition to causing server instability, this combination could also be leveraged to gain significant progression in higher level Greater Rifts (that wouldn't otherwise be possible). To help mitigate these effects, we have disabled the Legendary affix for Death's Bargain until further notice.
Note that this is a temporary measure and we are working on an additional hotfix to address the underlying issues. While we don't have an ETA for this fix to share at this time, we will provide updates as they become available.
Updated Hotfix List
The hotfix list has been updated with both a list of upcoming fixes, which should also have a fix for the previously mentioned Death's Bargain exploit among some other item and monster interactions. Read below.
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
The hotfix list has been updated:
[UPCOMING HOTFIXES]
General
Items
- Fixing an issue where the Spectral Hound pet will despawn upon character death
- Fixing an issue where the Greater Rift timer will occasionally start with less than 15 minutes remaining
Monsters
- Fixing an issue where the combination of Rogar's Huge Stone and Molten Wildebeast's Gizzard would occasionally cause the game to crash
- Fixing an issue where the 6-piece bonus from Zunimassa's Haunt is overwritten when more than one Witch Doctor applies the effect to the same enemy
[LIVE HOTFIXES]
- Reduced the number of targets that the Gelatinous Sire can split into in multiplayer games
- Gelatinous Sire spawns will now have a small moment of invulnerability when they initially split
Items
- The legendary affix for the item Death's Bargain has been temporarily disabled. (4/28)
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Posted Apr 29, 2015"We are left wondering if leaderboards were tainted by this"
That picture pretty much tells you the story there.
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Posted Apr 29, 2015Indeed... but maybe they are going to do something about it. Maybe they won't. Maybe they even can't. We can only hope.
What do you guys think would be the best way of handling this? Rolling back the leaderboards? Just remove those few clear exploits from it? Should the players even be punished for this particular exploit?
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Posted Apr 29, 2015Clear the leaderboards after one exploit has been found.
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Posted Apr 29, 2015i hope they fix the bug. THEN BUFF DEATH'S BARGAIN BECAUSE IT'S CRAP
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Posted Apr 29, 2015They'll probably just do the same thing as the Blood Thief exploit, wipe certain players from Leaderboards and Roll them back. The only exception that I can think of however, is that if the player previously had done the Blood Thief exploit, they might actually get banned this time around (which I hope does happen -- two strikes should mean your done).
What an ingenious use of mechanics though... who would have ever thought.
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Posted May 2, 2015i would understand if there was a reward for being the top leaderboard, but there isnt. why wipe it just because some ppl played the game, re rolled gear to accomodate the pants, and had success? maybe blizz is mad that ppl found a way to not be pigeon holed into thier set specific builds and thought outside the box?