bots should burn in hell!
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Apr 7, 20161
PTXAA posted a message on Ban wave in EU and USPosted in: Diablo III General Discussion -
Apr 1, 20162
khanbg posted a message on Poll: Are you going to play season or non-seasonal?Posted in: Diablo III General DiscussionI'll play season only to get the stash tab and go non-season after.
Like I did in S5.
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Mar 31, 20162
Bagstone posted a message on what class is everyone gonna play in S6?Posted in: Diablo III General Discussion
Yep. But I think this might change, for a variety of reasons:
- Patch 2.4 had more new/changed legendaries than any other patch. There was not much stuff people already had, almost everyone had to farm new gear.
- The Conquests were much harder than in S4, keeping many casuals hooked on the Season Journey for much longer, and therefore keeping a large playerbase on seasons for a long time. Many people will get their stash tab in week 1.
- Everyone was still in the "GO seasons" mindset, even though there was nothing season-exclusive (except the stash tab). In S6 people might be more reflective about that.
- Since there's almost no new gear and only minimal gameplay changes, people might just want to continue their characters they built up in S5 on NS.
- Paragon gain in S6 might be a bit slower than in S5 and before, for the first time therefore maybe seasons not being able to "overtake" non-season paragon levels on a broader scale.
- Many streamers (who absolutely prefer season, I think there's no NS streamer with more than 10-20 viewers) quit D3.
- Seasons is preferable to botters who lost their account or start on a fresh one even if not banned (reduce probability of getting banned from botting in previous seasons). And well, Blizzard finally stood up to botters.
- Usually the top GR level increases by 15-20 levels (look at top 4 player group, excluding the super short S2: S1 -> S3 +15; S3 -> S4 +17; S4 -> S5 +18 and still going on, probably +21 in the end). As Wudijo pointed out a few weeks ago, this is unlikely to be bumped up by more than +10 next season, making the high-level gems still valuable on NS.
- S5 was the first seasons with Caldessan's - if you have augmented perfect gear on non-season you might not be too keen to spend a few hundred hours on season to get that back.
- Seasons vs. non-seasons was always a west-east divide. While non-season on NA is dead, EU was a bit more split, and Korea is always a bit more active on non-season. And since I'm playing on EU, that matters to me
- Adding to the aforementioned point, many players in EU won't have time to spend the summer grinding paragons. There's summer, BBQ, beer, and most importantly the EURO coming up! Watching football > D3!
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Mar 31, 2016
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Bagstone posted a message on what class is everyone gonna play in S6?Posted in: Diablo III General DiscussionI want to get the stash tab as soon as possible and then go back to NS. The Crusader looks like it's by far the easiest class to gear up (you don't need CHC/CHD but can focus on toughness+thorns), only caveat is that Haedrig's Gift does not give the "best set" (only the case for barbs), but getting a full set is not an issue anyways, should be fine at paragon 200-300. Plus, the Crusader has relatively easy-to-gear rift/bounty specs and probably the easiest GR60 spec (all of that is more important on the first weekend than any meta or so). My plan is to have the stash tab by Saturday afternoon and then go back to non-season for S6
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Mar 30, 20161
Kamui_1337 posted a message on Did Quin get banned?Posted in: Diablo III General DiscussionCan I get a mod to lock this thread? very pointless. especially since you can just go in game and check.
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Mar 30, 2016
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Bagstone posted a message on Ban wave in EU and USPosted in: Diablo III General DiscussionMay I once more remind everyone to stay civil, even towards people who you disagree with. If someone admits to fraudulent activity, they might lose your respect, but they do not lose their right to have an opinion. In general, treat everyone as if you were Evelyn Beatrice hall:
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
Especially for such a sensitive topic as cheating in a computer game we often get emotional. However, that should not impact our reasoning and ability to express our opinion as well as respect other people's opinions, because only when we show the very ability to reflect upon others' views we are what makes us human (and what differentiates us from most animals). Botters may have lost your respect, but by coming here and admitting their activity you should treat this as an "DFans AMA" and inquire why people resorted to those activities (after all they knowingly risk their account and everything they've achieved in their Diablo career). You also have a unique chance to sway people from the "dark side" to the "light" - but you miss that chance as soon as you get personal and attack them.
This topic is on the verge of being locked. However, the botting banwave is too important as a topic and the discussion to important within our community, so we will continue to heavily moderate this thread where needed. Hopefully you all will continue to be more reflective on what you write before you hit the "post reply" button, so we can keep this thread going for a while. Thanks.
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Mar 30, 20163
Thaya posted a message on Ban wave in EU and USPosted in: Diablo III General DiscussionTo be honest, Uglytoes does have a point.
There are two types of botters: those who do it for competitive reasons (to gain an advantage over other players, to crush the leaderboard/paragon ladder, etc), and those who do it for convenience reasons (the only purpose is to make the game more fun for themselves, they don't care about the leaderboards or paragon race or whatever; people who "lack time" or are just straight up too bored of TX rifts/bounties all fall into this category).
People who bot for competitive reasons are directly malicious to the games competitive integrity, and they will cheat and bot whenever it is not too risky (most common reason being "well, everybody else does it, so will I"). The only way to fix this type of behavior is directly punishing it. The risk of losing an account is virtually the only thing keeping this type in check, but the efficiency of this strategy only depends on how active Blizzard is with updating detection and banning. It is, however, very possible to scare away all of these (even a single big banwave at the end of each season will be enough).
People who bot for convenience are a more interesting phenomenon. For them, the game is simply not fun if they are forced to play the intended way (e.g. a statement like "if I do get banned, I don't care, because these bots/cheats made the game significantly more fun for me, I acknowledge the risks and I believe it's worth it"). The intent itself isn't malicious - the intent is just to make the game more enjoyable for themselves. These players don't really damage the competitive environment simply because they don't participate in it (generally). Now the most important thing is, these players aren't afraid of getting banned - they literally state that they aren't. If you do ban these players, especially without fixing the things that they are willing to lose their accounts for, you are more than likely losing them permanently. From a developers point of view, it's much wiser to first fix the core issues that created this group, and then proceed to warn and/or ban people. (This is exactly how they handled their recent banwaves in WoW, for example.)
Note that I'm not defending anyone and my point isn't that any one type of botting/cheating is justified. I'm not making a "this is ok"/"this is not ok" statement. I am just analyzing two things which I think are different, and I am doing it from developer standpoint. I think this might explain why their bans were quite selective, and the bias towards competitive players can be clearly tracked. Those players will still come back (most of them), just on different accounts.
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Mar 30, 20161
user-18527035 posted a message on Ban wave in EU and USPosted in: Diablo III General Discussion
Sometimes I wish bigworded ppl like yourself will suffer the consequences just for a reality check!
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Mar 29, 20161
Arokhantos posted a message on Ban wave in EU and USPosted in: Diablo III General DiscussionTo those that defended turbo hud, plz go ahead and keep using it, i dare ya
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Mar 29, 20161
Ryushinx posted a message on Ban wave in EU and USPosted in: Diablo III General Discussion
Too bad no one banned you. Knowing of botters and not reporting... Vnice kidQuote from Jelloslock»
I mean i personally have 3 friends who have botted since day 3 of season 24/7 unless dc'd randomly overnight or something happened w/e. One got hit on 1 of 4 accounts. Other 2 have all 4 accounts each still running atm.
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Yeah, killing RG is everything now. So there definitely will be lower gr runs now. Like 90s maybe with 2 or even 3 dps to kill RG faster.
I recently ran some 85+ with 2 garg wds on live and i was on supp wd with messed skill from previous thorns sader runs :DDDD (so i was kinda useless). And it was really fast. 5 minute runs not bad. And we also carried some noob DH with us as he did no damage. As WDs were buffed via the ROE ring now.. I think WD has potential to be RG killer along with some tal-rasha wizard or a raiment monk maybe. Or THORNS barb.
Raiment + Shenlongs monk did 99 with 3k paragons now on PTR. Might be an option too.
Non-season will be absolutely dead now. ABSOLUTELY. This i fear a lot, as mostly a NS player...
I mean... who will run 90s now that barely gives exp, as they previously only ran 110+??? I doubt anyone will play NS now at all. Most guys on NS have 2k+ paras and 90+ will give them nothing except headache.
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4 dedicated barbs now
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I liked this:
"no more reviews possibles"
and then
"do not hesitate to contact me"
LOL
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Hey guys. It's this time again
Season 7 is already on PTR and think within a couple of weeks it will hit live.
I usually play witch doctor as my main character, but since i'll get GOD DAMN HELLTOOTH now in s7.... I doubt a lot that i will play WD this season. I hate playing gargs. I haven't even bothered pushing with HT gargs on NS or augmenting anything.
I was happy with buffed Ring of Emptiness ring that directly buffed the Jade build. But sadly ROE ring also buffed HT gargs as well, and i highly doubt that most Witch Doctors will play Jade next season. Blizzard gives us the "easiest" set as headrig's gift. Who will play Jade after that? lol
I plan to make a video with a class overview for season 7 from my perspective.
So far i think i will make a Crusader in season 7. We have the "no set" conquest this time. And this is extremely easy with thorns crusader. In fact you can do it in yellows. And i enjoy Invoker Crusader as well, even though it's weaker than a LON version.
Akkhan Invoker would also be stronger in season 7.
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And how is blizzard supposed to fight botters? Botters were roaming for WAAAAY TOO LONG. WAAAAAAAAAAY TOO LONG. In season 5 botting went out of control completely. The anti-botting threads were endless. ENDLESS. Like, dozens of threads every day where legit players cried rivers. It was impossible to compete in such atmosphere. I gave up playing "seriously" in november-december 2015, this is when i realized i can't compete with botters anymore.
And then Gabynator got 3400 paragons on new account in season 5, waking up with 500 grift keys every day.
Maybe Blizzard overacted a lot, but this is the only way. They only way is to act strong and do,massive, repetitive banwaves.
To make botting/macroing/thudding a very dangerous idea.
Of cause innocent will suffer for sure, you know. There's always innocent. But there's always more who "pretend to be innocent", ones who "did nutin that season and got banan"
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There will never ever be such post. It's like directly giving botters a hint on how to avoid bans. Security is always a secret.
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Well, there will always be people who want everything, and now. These people mostly cheat, dupe and bot as well.
I've been farming 1,5 years before i found my first Starmetal Kukri. But the feeling of accomplishment was crazy.
And what feeling you get when you have all gear found in a couple of days? The "meh" feeling\
PS: i got my first wand of woh after 4 years.
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First of all. Where did you get info about "so many false positives".. how many? 10? How can you guess they are false and not true?
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Good gear now and good gear back then.
Good gear now: ancient item with perfect desired rolls and secondary stats, augmented with highest possible legendary gems.
Good gear then: any desired legendary\yellow item with high damage/armor stats
The difference is huge. I was steamrolling rifts like a boss when i first found Starmetal Kukri, 2 years ago. It was unbelievably rare item.
Now it's just a meh forgotten soul unless it's INSANELY SUPER good.
The definition of "good gear" narrowed to the size of a pinhead. Guys in top 100 have almost 95% identical gear with identical skill and the rest.
When we had no leaderboards and rifts it was all different and gear was still important...