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Diablo 3 exploit creates invincible wizards
by Steve Watts, Jul 23, 2012 11:00am PDTIf you're a wizard in Diablo 3 with a tendency to die horribly and repeatedly, take heart. All you need is a few simple tricks and a comfort with ethical gray areas, and you can cheat your way to victory. A newly discovered game exploit turns the wizard class invulnerable.
A thread on the Blizzard forums (via Kotaku) detailed the exploit, although Blizzard has since nuked the how-to of the exploit. The thread warns that some effects like Frozen won't work, and it might take a few tries, but several other players have confirmed it by trying themselves. According to the users, the process is as follows:
- Select Teleport - Fracture. Bind it to a key
- Select Archon, tested with Improved Archon
- Hover your mouse over or near your charcter
- Press Teleport
- QUICKLY(!) Press Archon
Some forum-goers have claimed they plan to breeze their way through tough dungeons in Hardcore using the exploit, which is probably exactly what Blizzard doesn't want considering the implications for the auction house. Still, as of the time of writing Blizzard hasn't patched the exploit or addressed it on its forums, so it's still active for now.
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A new exploit found in Diablo 3 allows wizards to become invulnerable, at the cost of a few effects that are rendered useless.
A new exploit found in Diablo 3 allows wizards to become invulnerable, at the cost of a few effects that are rendered useless. : Shacknews
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The Diablo 3 "security exploits" were all along the lines of "I don't know if this works, but this is my guess as to what the hackers are doing" bullshit that blogs picked up without the part that admitted it was baseless conjecture. At first the backlash may have taken the forum of what you describe, but later the backlash was because these blogs kept running with obvious hoaxes as if they were legit.
In general, I don't think what you say applies at all. Usually there's a curiosity about it, but not much more than that.
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