PSA: Diablo III Open Beta WeekendFollow

Are there any secrets to those Treasure Goblins? I usually hunt them down while they're trying to open portals, but the lore text suggests that the portal might lead somewhere. I'm curious if you could time it just right so that the goblin opens the portal and is then killed before using it, allowing you to see where it goes.

I believe that is just the lore behind them. The portals don't seem to be clickable and they break out of their summoning spell rather easy with attacks. Just keep the pressure on them so they don't escape and be rewarded with gold and shineys.

"Cow Level" in D3 is called Whimsyshire

Available now... Sorta.

Spoonless#1122 running a 32 DH and a 34 Barb through NM Act I. Started a HC Monk, too.

I was at a bachelor party all weekend, and didn't get to play... so I'm only now just about finished with Act I NM. The rest of my group has left me in the dust, but hopefully I can catch up with them in time for Inferno...

I just hit 10 last night. After constant DCs and errors the first two days, I said ***** it. Decided to try again last night, hit 10, then got DC'd shortly after...Blizzard needs to get their **** together.



Interesting, since I have yet to be asked for my authenticator, which I know is still active since I had to use it during beta and when I access my account.

I've always been of the opinion that a lot of lost WoW accounts were on Blizzard's end, and not a negligent account owner like they claim. There's no reason Diablo should be using different authentication systems than WoW, so I guess we'll see what happens.

Things are currently unclear, since as far as I can tell the issue's player speculation "this is how they must be doing it" rather than "I can prove this is possible" and that leads to a whole lot of misinformation among the things that are plausible. Blizzard of course is sitting on things and fixing it quietly until they can tell everyone it's been fixed, because otherwise all you do is paint a huge bulls-eye on the game. However, if you believe the speculation it's a flaw in D3 itself rather than the login servers, such that when you join a compromised public game they can get around authentication entirely to access your stuff. If true, that's why it can hit D3 players and not WoW ones.

The game has not asked for your authenticator because you're logging in from the same IP, and Battle.net only checks once a week unless the IP changes, though you can tell it to check every time. This is not a vulnerability issue unless you think a hacker can log in and take your stuff from your computer/IP, in which case you have much bigger problems than some lost gear since that would be either sibling asshattery, an open router, or a seriously infected puppet-PC.

Just hit 60 monk tonight and entered Act 4 Hell. I'm sturggling to work out a build that can deal with the problems I'm having. I don't seem to be having the same problems other monks are having, but that's probably due to my build and gear. I see some people going with damage reduction skills, but aside from boss monsters, nothing that is merely hitting me can touch me. However, anything that casts (not just elites, but even normals with elite like abilities) utterly destroy me. That's probably because I have across the board 3% resistances.

Mostly, I'm just having trouble finding detailed information on mechanics.

The nice thing about monks is that they get One With Everything, which sets thair resistances equal to their highest. So you can load up on a single resistance, which is found in greater amounts or on the same item as "+ to all" resistance. I've seen a lot of folks going for poison resist, don't know if there's a reason to shoot for that in particular.

Nope, I'm still waiting. It's getting hard though. Knowing their is yet another shiny thing out their to play around with.

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5149619846#1 second blue post in particular


So if you DO get hacked while using an authenticator, go through the proper channels instead of posting on the forum. That way they can do something about it.

Sorry. Real life friends are a powerful lure.