It is not even worth to try to compete anymore for ranking. A friend directed me to a website where there are tons of bots: Ghom bots, Bounty bots, Rift bots, of course Turbo Hud, advanced macros, etc... Call me naive but I did not think it was so extensive.
So I went to look at a well known Twitcher (Who got his account cancelled last season) and watched him play for a good 30 minutes doing 80+ GR. What an eye opener it was!!!
1 - The team of four NEVER ended up in a dead end while doing a GR. NEVER!
2 - It seems they knew exactly where was each pylon and each elite group.
3 - During the whole time I watched him, His eyes continuously went to his left. It took me a while to figure out what it was. I think he was watching one of his team mate steaming privately with Turbo Hud on.
4 - I noticed also quite some feasts of jumping VERY FAST out of trouble. He never was caught on the ball of an arcane. He and his team mates were able to jump very fast and each time out of ice explosion or ice orbs. I watched quite a few times Quinn and he is not THAT good like those players.
Anyway. I am just sayin here...
You do know, if you play enough you learn the map lay outs right? , the only map that's actually random is the bone pit one that is a sewer map in act 5 right?!
half the maps are maps that are in story mode and half of them have one or two entrances right...
to reach the top of the leaderboard you have to fish and find the perfect rift, I for one don't care to that extent. nor do i care about snapshotting or anything where i have to go an extra mile to rank up, If bots upset you to this degree i suggest playing hardcore, hardly any bots and even if they bot, bots are dumb, they get stuck and break chances of them dying is great in hardcore.
I can lead a 4-player GR and tell you where every door/dead end /Studder is with nothing but experience. the game is beyond simplified,
I feel the only banning they will do this season is for those cheating the game and getting duplicate starter sets in hardcore. (for example to those who haven't made it to 70 yet and are probably crying in this thread) 1-70 - Mailed 2 pieces of set, Kill Z Kulle - Mailed another 2 piece of set, and solo GR 20 and get the final 2 set pieces.
This is a message on behalf of the portion of the community that engages in the competitive aspects (such as Leaderboards and Conquests) of this game you created - the players who love the game to the point where they dedicate large portions of their free time to playing it; who want to have at least something to show for this dedication; who want to have their names up there on the Leaderboards; and who want to see rewards for the countless hours of gameplay they spend on Diablo III.
You’re making this incredibly difficult for us.
We all know that beating the highest possible Greater Rift tiers requires a large number of attempts in addition to the time investment that is needed to get the appropriate gear. This involves a lot of grinding, be it for Keystones, crafting materials, Infernal Machines, or Ancient Legendaries. Such is the nature of the game and that is not the issue. The actual problem lies in the vast amount of people who try to get around doing this dirty work - the ones that use bots; the ones that can log into the game to hundreds of Greater Rift Keystones, Legendary crafting materials, or Infernal Machines every day, without having lifted a finger for any of those. It should be obvious that this provides these players with a huge advantage over those of us that choose not to bot, but put at least the same amount of effort into the game and advancement of our characters. This feeling is extremely disheartening. We all know that it is incredibly hard to beat the botters and even impossible if they were to step up their gameplay to a higher level of efficiency. They can get a huge lead on you every single night. This knowledge reduces the incentive and desire to participate in the Leaderboard competition until eventually the Diablo III competition becomes a farce altogether. Thus, those of us that love the game and have been dedicated players since the start become increasingly frustrated with it until we simply give up on the entire competition, or create our own, virtual “bot-free” competition by ignoring all known botters.
To prevent that, your very own End User License Agreement, which we all agreed to, states that players may not use bots such as these, even giving “the automated control of a character in a Game” as an example for such a prohibited program (Section 1.C.ii.2. of Battle.net® End User License Agreement, http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/company/legal/eula.html). Enforcing this agreement is your duty and yours alone. If you don’t, it will only go to show that you don’t care. It has been months since the last major action taken against botters and, consequently, Season 3 was dominated by them. Our friends lists contain more and more people who are online for more than 20 hours a day, despite them having to go to work or school. Even if detecting the actual bots running on people's machines or identifying them by their in-game behavior was impossible, their log-in times should be more than enough to warrant additional investigation. Nobody can play for 23 hours every single day.
Even if that were infeasible, at least let us report botters so that you may investigate their behavior. It has come to a point where it is quite obvious that certain high profile streamers are botting off-stream and some are even admitting so themselves in public chat rooms. These players are viewed as examples by the community, so what kind of message does that send? To us, it sends the message that not only is it apparently legal to bot, but that the game even requires it to be competitive. That is undoubtedly not how you want Diablo III to be seen, especially with how far we’ve come since the issues of the original release.
Of course, we would prefer any action against botters to happen immediately upon them being discovered. However, we are aware that this is likely infeasible. Thus, we would propose any action against botters to take place approximately two weeks before the end of a Season, coinciding with the “Season Ending” announcement, as to not give botters the time to catch up to the legitimate and fair players again. The latter would then still be able to fight for the clean Leaderboards, as they would if botters didn’t exist.
Still, with no action having been taken for so long, sending out a message to the entire community sooner rather than later would be a good idea.
Please, if you have the same love for the game that we do, do something about the botters. It cannot continue like this. We cannot continue like this.
The irony boss half if not all of those guys bot, cheat, use Turbo HUD (map hack), Share Accounts, etc etc
so they need to find a nice day and go fly a kite.
This exploit has something to do with blood thief? i hope just smashing them asap doesn't trigger anything bad? >.<
that's now how it works to even have to worry about it, honestly its not really a bug nor an exploit its how the multipliers work. GR40+ Multipliers
the guy killing it while the others are sitting in the GR gets normal bloodshard drops, the guys sitting in the GR get 3k-4k bloodshards, i mean cookiemanner screwed up, blizzard literally watched him in game and on stream before banning him. If they didn't stream it, no one would know and it would of gone on forever. streamers mostly get these bugs hotfixed, I mean honestly he didn't have to stream it for five hours straight.
and to everyone going ham, how about they ban the guys who snap shotted the strongarms bracers, (since they hot fixed the BK ring) but not strongarms.
This all falls under us still beta testing the game for them, i mean honestly they did sell us two untested verisons of the game and they expect this shit not to happen.
this game is full of issues, who honestly wants to sit there and write emails to blizzard about a free to play game. I honestly could careless. everyone complaining are people who cant even efficiently farm T6 and/or GR35+.
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half the maps are maps that are in story mode and half of them have one or two entrances right...
to reach the top of the leaderboard you have to fish and find the perfect rift, I for one don't care to that extent. nor do i care about snapshotting or anything where i have to go an extra mile to rank up, If bots upset you to this degree i suggest playing hardcore, hardly any bots and even if they bot, bots are dumb, they get stuck and break chances of them dying is great in hardcore.
I can lead a 4-player GR and tell you where every door/dead end /Studder is with nothing but experience. the game is beyond simplified,
I feel the only banning they will do this season is for those cheating the game and getting duplicate starter sets in hardcore. (for example to those who haven't made it to 70 yet and are probably crying in this thread) 1-70 - Mailed 2 pieces of set, Kill Z Kulle - Mailed another 2 piece of set, and solo GR 20 and get the final 2 set pieces.
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The irony boss half if not all of those guys bot, cheat, use Turbo HUD (map hack), Share Accounts, etc etc
so they need to find a nice day and go fly a kite.
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that's now how it works to even have to worry about it, honestly its not really a bug nor an exploit its how the multipliers work. GR40+ Multipliers
the guy killing it while the others are sitting in the GR gets normal bloodshard drops, the guys sitting in the GR get 3k-4k bloodshards, i mean cookiemanner screwed up, blizzard literally watched him in game and on stream before banning him. If they didn't stream it, no one would know and it would of gone on forever. streamers mostly get these bugs hotfixed, I mean honestly he didn't have to stream it for five hours straight.
and to everyone going ham, how about they ban the guys who snap shotted the strongarms bracers, (since they hot fixed the BK ring) but not strongarms.
This all falls under us still beta testing the game for them, i mean honestly they did sell us two untested verisons of the game and they expect this shit not to happen.
this game is full of issues, who honestly wants to sit there and write emails to blizzard about a free to play game. I honestly could careless. everyone complaining are people who cant even efficiently farm T6 and/or GR35+.