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Troll or idiot, or both?

Found a set item (Tal Rasha's helm) from a breakable in the towers in act 3 - I think it was called an infernal cocoon, or something like that. Still wearing it to this day.

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Blizzard restores your items if you get hacked. That's more than you can expect, in my opinion. It's just the items you had on you at the time when you were hacked that are BoA, it doesn't mean that you won't be able to trade anymore in the future, c'mon. If your gear is worth a couple of billions and you get hacked - I'm sorry to say this - it's your fault.

You people don't get that the reason for dupes is exactly Blizzard's customer service being so nice to people who are too stupid to protect their accounts properly. Dupes are just the result of fixing user's mess beyond what they have to offer according to their ToS. Yeah, flame on if you're offended, I don't care. Have fixed too many computers in my life (and traced back at which point the user made a mistake that caused him to get hacked) to feel sorry for people who get hacked. It's usually a lesson for life and once you feel the pain you're more careful next time.

From the perspective of somebody who doesn't visit any obvious problem sites or click on any obviously fishy links, and thus believed authenticators were for obsessive worriers, and then got hacked, and then grew up and got an authenticator...

Agreed, and +1.

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I really wonder why they don't apply their "restored items get to be BoA" rule from Asian servers to EU/US. There's no point in restricting this to one region.

i dont like this concept, it work if you try to abuse the system.

but you get penalized if you get hacked for real and wont penalize the hacker

im sure you would be happy to have every piece of your gear and banked gear being BOA and lose all their value after being hacked

Solution: don't get hacked. Let it be a lesson learned.

So when a soldier is going out into war and he is worried about his life all you'd say is:
Solution: Don't get shot. Let it be a lesson learned.

Herp derp is herp derp.

Terrible analogy. No matter what a soldier does, he still might be shot.

No matter how many illegal, sketchy websites a D3 player visits, if they have an authenticator, they won't get hacked. No confirmed cases to the contrary have ever been proven, despite the proliferation of liars on the internet.

I have no idea if the OP is lying or really is innocent, but to the people who automatically assume anybody banned and claiming innocence is lying, how about this for you:

My friend didn't log in for two weeks around Christmas. Shortly after the New Year he logged in to find his account banned and an e-mail from Blizzard telling him he had been banned for third-party exploits, or something like that. Trust me, he wasn't botting or doing anything against the rules (he's too much of a computer idiot to even know how to). He appealed over and over and kept getting generic form responses about his appeal being denied and account action being upheld, but he persisted and kept sending tickets demanding an explanation. Last week his account was reactivated with a one-sentence reply that, upon further review, the account action was being reversed. No explanation, no apology, nothing. Just a reactivation.

They screw up sometimes, and often refuse to take a second look until you literally spend weeks sending dozens of tickets.

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That being said, I like the rest of your post; nice ideas, nice way of thinking. The only problem is that "slow killing builds" are, just like kiting builds, almost extinct and frowned upon. The whole game has evolved into a race of "becoming the most efficient killing machine on the planet" or "being flamed as clueless noob". Never before in the history of Diablo were exotic builds so rare, and the blame is not entirely on Blizzard; the community is reacting strangely sometimes, too.

I can't tell you how much abuse I've taken from people over the existence of my sword+board tank barbarian. I have sacrificed dps for survivability on many pieces of gear, with the result being a crazy tank that can stand there and take an incredible beating but kills rather slowly. Why am I building such a character? Because it's fun for me. Not efficient, but fun.

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Removing ID on Rares. Easy fix. They changed the time before, just change it to zero. No excuses.

Perfect example of ignorance. OK, so they change the variable that defines the time required to ID a rare to zero. That means that you click on it, and zero seconds later it is ID'd. Guess what? That still means you have to click on every single rare to ID them, it's just that there is no progress bar to have to wait for before they are ID'd. Actually, there is still a progress bar, but it moves infinitely fast. And this all assumes that changing that variable to zero doesn't cause Inf or NaN variables elsewhere in the code that then have to be fixed.

Presumably what you actually want is for rares to no longer require identification at all. That requires changing a whole lot more code that one variable, which requires time to code, time to quality test, time to debug if not working properly, time to alpha and beta test, time to fully document and pass on to the CMs who write patch notes, etc., along with many other things I'm certainly overlooking.

And then guess what? At the end of that entire process, some fraction of the community throws a giant hissy fit because identification of items is a core part of the Diablo gameplay, and removing it is clearly ignoring and disrespectful of the history of the franchise.

Paragon 31 wizard and 22 barb. I've found:

Tal's helm, currently equipped on wizard
Very well-rolled chantodo's off-hand, currently equipped on wizard
Inna's helm with all-resist, sold for 4m
IK belt, crappy rolls, stashed
Zuni's ring, sold for 27m
Zuni's chest, gave away to friend
Zuni's off-hand, gave away to friend
Manajuma's off-hand, gave away to friend
Blackthorn's pants, crappy rolls, sold for few hundred K
Traveler's pledge amulet, equipped on follower for mf

So yes, they drop. Not often, but they do.

Out of curiosity, what does comparing to the AH tell you to price this at? I would expect that even a "reasonable" price for this amulet should be very high, given that it has both strength and vitality above 100, a very reasonable amount of all-resist for a piece of gear most people devote entirely to dps, very good crit chance and crit damage, and good magic find as a bonus. Certainly in the several tens of millions at the extreme low end.

I have no idea, but that is pretty damn nice. My barb wants it, but he is too poor!

I'm curious if anybody else has ever played around with a sword+board tank? I've been building one for awhile now as a fun diversion from low-mp archon wizard farming runs, and have gotten to the point where I can revenge-tank up to mp4-6 with almost no fear of dying with no LoH or LS. This barb is slower than a turtle and not at all optimal/efficient, it's just something I'm doing for fun. What I'm curious about is how high people have gotten their defensive stats, if anybody has tried this?

Here he is, in case anybody is curious:

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/MikeD-1336/hero/2588880

Not a lot of gold spent on him yet, many items are self-found. Just a fun side diversion.

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So fun!, now, instead of 5 places to go we just need 3!, the game is reduced to 3 spots...

Yay.

Hint: Play the game for fun instead of maximizing efficiency and you may enjoy it more. You may level slower than some others but....who cares, right?

If I could upvote this post twice, I would.

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As mentioned in other forum threads, not everyone can always watch videos, and since this is a *forum* it would be nice if you could put a summary to your videos.

There's a thread where many people posted and discussed their top 10 fixes (http://www.diablofan...make-d3-better/) and the time it takes to listen to your video you can read that thread 5 times and get input from 20 people. Don't get me wrong, many people found your previous threads to be useful, but this really feels like you're just taking an interesting thread from this forum, put it into a (WAY TOO LONG) discussion, upload an audio file on a video platform, and gain clicks by using this forum as advertising.

If anyone could summarize which ten points out of the other thread these guys found to be their top 10... thanks!

I couldn't have said it better myself. Polite and to the point.

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I am really interested in your spreadsheet numbers, because the video (i watched it) is your usual blabla talk..

The runs you did are totally inefficient and there isnt even a video proof for the 70mil XP/hour


regards =)


edit: huminator, give me your leorics instead of your follower!

Normally I would love to share my logs... Maybe if you had some decent manners. On the more positive side, you should try it out yourself if your are in disbelief, as the run only takes around 15 minutes

I have no idea if your run is really as efficient as you claim, mostly because I do not care about maximizing efficiency so am generally quite slow at paragon leveling. But I would just like to point out that using manners as an excuse for not sharing your actual data sounds like a giant turd of an excuse to me. If you really discovered what you claim might be the fastest possible leveling run in the game, you should be so excited about it and so interested in claiming full credit for it that you WANT to share all your data to prove how awesome you really are. I'm pretty damn skeptical after seeing this post...

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Tbh if they withdrew the ban after 1st appeal I would say it was ok, but he complained against the bann and they answered "we looked into it, you where correctly banned" and it wasn't changed until his 2nd appeal.

Unfortunately it's not the first time I have heard people getting that 1st response only to get it corrected after 2 or more appeals. It seems those 1st line GM's don't have all info so as far as they can see it's a correct suspension or ofc it could be that some GM's are lazy or simply not that good at their job so they reply with " We looked into it and we where correct" and hopes the problem goes away.

I'm not defending this practice at all, but it wouldn't surprise me at all if every ban appeal was denied the first time through, with no investigation unless a 2nd appeal is issued. Many insurance companies have long-established practices of denying each and every claim the first time around, and only investigating and paying out claims if the initial denial is appealed. I had it happen to me once - an insurance claim was denied for shaky reasons, with the decision reversed upon appeal. It's a proven strategy for having to deal with a reduced volume of investigations, because many people can't be bothered to appeal (or in this case, appeal again).

It's not right, but it happens a lot, and it wouldn't surprise me if something similar was happening here.