[spoiler]Eirena thinks of you like a big brother. Is that wrong?
Personally, I ship Kormac and Eirena. It’s so cute to watch him being so oblivious to the fact that he’s falling for her.[/spoiler]
For the quest rewards, I really do miss how in D2, all the quest rewards were different (well, not all of them, but…). Now, they’re just all X amount of experience, Y amount of gold. If you want to skip past one quest and just do another one twice to make up for it, it’s all the same. Which seems kind of boring, to me. I understand that some of D2’s quests would be broken if repeatable, but you could at least have a quest that gave a random rare item, or something like that.
I’d like to thank this week’s patch for changing things so that I have to leave General chat every time I log in, because only logging out once ever on each character was getting tedious.
So I had my account hacked and cleaned out today. While I was playing no less, suddenly I got a message saying someone else was using my account and was booted from the game, because obviously if someone feels they need to use it from China or wherever that’s much more important, and when I logged in again everything I worked many hours to collect was gone. And I guess it’s my own damn fault too for not having bought an authenticator yet because they didn’t have any in stock at the local Game shop and I’m using a password with only nine characters of upper and lower case and numbers.
Interestingly, I also learned just now while reading Blizzard’s forums that battle.net passwords are actually not case sensitive, even if you make very sure to type them in with upper and lower case, because apparently that would just make them too difficult to hack or something. Jesus Monstertrucking Christ. Blizzard’s idea of security is a total joke, so it’s not a huge wonder accounts are being compromised all over the place.
I feel exactly the same way, but on the other hand I guess that would make it more difficult for the poor hackers, who apparently are the ones Blizzard are looking out for.
Interestingly enough, when you go to battle.net and log in to administer your account, the default setting is to keep you logged in. I’m not sure how that’s a good thing…
Case sensitivity doesn’t add much security–it makes a difference if you’re doing brute force, but not a big difference, and I can’t see how it would make a difference for any other technique.
There’s a post over on the Diablo forums (can’t find the thread ATM) where someone shows fairly convincingly that the hacking, at least in many cases, is coming from a trojan which redirects you to a fake D3 website when you try to go to the real D3 website. win32/sysproc or something like that was name of the trojan.
First thing I did was to scan the system with Avira and it came up clean, so I really don’t think that’s the problem here. Besides, I’ve logged a support ticket asking for a rollback, so if that’s a fake site they’ve done a very good job.
There was one that gave you extra stat points to spend, one that gave you a permanent boost to your life total, three that gave you skill points to spend on whatever skills you wanted, one that boosted all of your resists, a couple that gave you a discount on all the merchants in town, two that gave you random rings, one that gave you a random class-specific item for your class, one that gave you three specific runes, one that gave you a random highish rune and a bunch of gems, etc. (actually, some of them were a combination of some of these).
I’m starting to feel better about the AH. I finally hit a difficulty wall in Hell act I (yes I suck) and I know from what I’ve read that going back and farming for gear would be boring. (I was never really into farming even in D2 anyway–when it got too hard I just made a new character.) So I am tempted to use the AH finally. But it would feel crappy just to buy the best equipment… so I’m in the bind people describe.
BUT it occurs to me that I throw away a lot of stuff a lot of other people might want. So I make a rule for myself–I only purchase an AH item when I’ve sold an item in the AH. I’ve begun the selling today, and I’ll start buying tonight, and I don’t think I’ll mind it at all because I’ll feel like I’ve earned it.
Also, you could try buying only one piece at a time, rather than a whole set, then go try to get past the hurdle in your path. That way you wouldn’t necessarily be nerfing the game to the ground.
OK, new gripe: My achievement progress got reset. Like, my Demon Hunter is level 52, and the “Hunter or Hunted” achievement (kill 100,000 demons) says that I’m at 63/100,000. I don’t think it’s even possible to get to where I am with only 63 demon kills. The achievements I completed, I still have, but all of the others are completely reset.
What’s worse: I tried to submit a bug report ticket, and it’s not possible. There’s no text form I can fill out, just selecting things from menus, and when I try the closest approximation I can find (“I didn’t get an achievement or quest reward”), it just tells me "We are unable to accept requests for this type of issue.
Please visit Diablo III Restorations for more information."
I finally ended up leaving a “this article is not helpful” feedback under the “Diablo III Restorations” article, but I’m not sure if anyone will read that.