5861

I’d love to be able to save custom searches. I tend to search for the same gear every time for my Barbarian and it is a little tiresome having to reselect everything whenever I leave the AH interface.

5862

The auction UI let me do everything I want to do, except have Omniscience of all items, and all prices, and all buyers intention. But that would need to raise me to god status. Being able to search for some attributes, like dexteritity or life regen, is exactly what I need, bloody fantastic. If the auction UI where a women, I would marry her, and have beautiful babies.

5863

So… It seems the strange activity was because my account was hacked.

I received an email from Blizzard informing me my account had been suspended due to “suspicious” activity. Assumed it was just related to the network funnies I just changed my password and moved on.

So after playing for about an hour yesterday I headed to the Auction house but discovered I had hardly any gold. Assuming it was in my stash in the game, I checked, but nada.

Logged a ticket with Blizzard and confirmed my account had been compromized. It seems another player logged in and brought my character to another point in the game where transferred my gold (about 100k) to someone else, or whatever.

I’m not happy. My PC is malware and trojan clean and my password is kept secret. My feeling is that it’s an early weakness/hole on the Blizzards’s side. They informed me I can only have 1 more restore after this. Which is a balls since there is no guarantee it won’t happen again. If it does, I’ll be looking for a refund.

5864

The problem with bidding is that you have to keep track of it, which is something few people are willing or even have time for to do.

Bidding wouldn’t be so bad if there was a way for me to set a max amount of gold I was willing to bid and then let it autobid every time someone outbids me.

5865

Your guarantee is the authenticator that they force you to start using as a condition of restoring your character (I was hacked too).

5866

Is there not an insane amount of hacks in this game? just based on how many here and that 3 out of the 5 people i know with D3have been hacked.

5867

It seems highly localized in Razgon friends. Coincidence? I think not. *just kidding.

Now, seriusly. How we would know? theres like 6M players in this game, how much cases are statisticall significance? 2000?

5868

Semi-related to D3 as it is battle.net. Guildmaster got hacked, got restored, changed his password, forgot that he was an idiot, changed it BACK to his original password, got hacked AGAIN, and got restored.

The morale of the story:

  1. http://Keepass.info
  2. Android + Battle.net Authenticator
5869

As with any mmo or REALLY popular online rpg it makes you a HUGE target. This means you’re much more likely to find fan sites for it compromised in an attempt to compromise players, much more likely to get social engineering emails, more likely to have someone attempt to “i forget my password” if they compromise your email account, more likely to find attempts to compromise your account on the forums (if someone claims to be a “16 year old bikini model gamer from brazil looking to share her photos and not give you a keylogger”, please don’t ever click it), etc

I’d second the battle.net authenticator, but if you buy the physical one, make sure you setup the SMS thing first. My physical authenticator didn’t work and i had to wait on the phone for an hour to get blizzard to re-sync it.

5870

Here’s a list of companies I trust more than an anonymous internet poster’s word-of-mouth defense of their friends:

Blizzard

I know, it’s a short list.

5871

Well, there went my hardcore character: level 25, act 3 – computer locked up. I haven’t had a hard lockup for years. Restarted, logged back on, and yep, there’s my monk, dead.

I’m unbelievably pissed off about this. If it was my own lack of skill, fine. If I had a bad build or whatever, fine. But a lockup… eight hours down the drain.

Damn it.

5872

Aaron you mentioned on BF something about your DPS when Frenzy is fully stacked… I wanted to clarify for you that the Damage number doesn’t reflect Frenzy stacks, since Frenzy’s attack speed affects only Frenzy attacks and not skills.

5873

I just graduated to Hell a few days ago and I’ve been having a tough time getting through just Act 1. I went with your build last night and I found my survivability increased somewhat over my previous build but I think I’m going to ditch the 2-hander for a shield as I’m just getting my ass kicked all over the place. It’s a damn shame too because I can’t picture technoviking having to resort to using a sissy shield and wimpy 1 handed sword :(

5874

Heh, I’ve long since dropped that build. It sucks compared to my new one now, which works without a shield. The idea is to equip items that have a TON of vitality on them (50+) and then put purple vitality gems on everything but your weapons. Then use abilities and passives that enhance your armor as much as possible. Here’s a breakdown of what I use:

Frenzy (Sidearm rune)

Been using this as my primary for a while and quite like it for it’s high damage output on both single and multiple enemies.

Hammer of the Ancients (Smash rune)

This one is all about high damage output to a small area, which helps a lot against elites and bosses.

Leap (Iron Impact rune)

Couldn’t see myself without this ability. Just so, so useful in jumping into a pack of enemies and obliterating them and then in getting away from nasty AOE effects from elites (lasers, hell pits, plague, etc…). I also love to use it simply when I’m fighting a tough enemy to get the huge armor boost.

Revenge (Provocation rune)

Best ability/rune combo IMO. This is GUARANTEED to go off every second or two when you’re surrounded by mobs. I’m starting to think it might be overpowered, but don’t tell Blizzard that. :D

War Cry (Hardened Wrath rune)

HUGE armor bonus and always-on. LOVE IT.

Wrath of the Berzerker (Insanity rune)

This is what you use on elites to rip through them. So good. It should be noted that using this ability makes you pretty much immune to Jailers, nightmarish, freezing, etc…

Inspiring Presence (passive)

I only use this one for the extra health regen, but will probably replace it with Boon of Bul-Kathos for a 90 second Wrath of the Berzerker. Should allow me to get two off in elite fights, which will be HUGE.

Nerves of Steel and Tough as Nails (passives)

Armor bonus. Nuff said.

So I steam-rolled Act II on Hell difficulty with this build and other than a few bad decisions on my part, I NEVER die. This is how a Barbarian should be played: by jumping into a pack of enemies and raising hell and shrugging off anything that’s thrown at you. In fact, many times I sit in the middle of lasers and fire pits and laugh. Keep in mind I have almost 50k health now. :D

Yeah, I think I’m just about ready for Inferno now.

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5875

D3 is running fine on my MBA, turned down pretty much everything I could except resolution and it’s running smooooth. The fans are screaming but oh well =)

But… I started a new character, the wizard, and think I gimped him badly. Or I have no idea what I’m oing which could be… I’ve beaten skeleton king no sweat on a few other chars including Barb with just about the bare minimum of changes to the skills, but I can’t for the life of me do it with the wizard. I keep running in circles blasting the creeps as they pop and burning skel king when I can, but it’s taking 20 minutes and I still eventually die. I think I made a huge mistake in giving the templar the Intervene Skill instead of Heal.

A. there doesn’t seem to be a way to reset that choice, is there?
B. Am I supposed to not be running away so much and is there something I am missing with this char and this fight? PMs are fine if this is too spoilery, but I didn’t want to go into the actual spoiler thread if I could avoid it this early.

5876

I think it’s possible to change your followers’ skills by right-clicking on their portrait in the party window. It should bring up a list of options, including talk, dismiss and change skills. I could be completely wrong but I recall seeing that last night.

5877

A. Right-click Templar portrait…retrain
B. Kiting is the name of the game for Wiz, at least it was on that encounter for me

5878

Will try it agin then…

5879

Without paying much attention, i updated my amd drivers to 12.4.

BIG MISTAKE.

5880

Umm… more details please? I thought I was on 12.4 myself and have had no issues. Maybe I’m not though…