Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Get a peek at the unidentified items in Diablo 3

It has been almost 3 weeks before the trick was revealed, and Blizzard has, so far, done nothing to address this issue. Not that they did not have the resources. There were two major issues (Wizard & Barbarian being invincible) that were quickly nerfed within 24 hours, but Blizzard just does not care about the standard gaming experience, at least not their top priority; at least that's how they made me feel.

The item rolling is so random that I usually like to sell the items as unidentified rather than identifying them myself, but this bug completely destroyed the whole unidentified item market.

Let me, first, explain how the trick works.

1. Go to Auction House and open the inventory window.
2. Press ENTER to bring out the dialog prompt.
3. SHIFT-left click on the unidentified item
4. Enter two multibyte characters (Chinese, Japanese or just two Unicode symbols)
5. SHIFT-left click on the unidentified item again.
6. You prompt should look like: [Item]●●[Item] (● can be any multibyte characters)
7. Now, left-click in the middle of the ●● characters.



8. Press DELETE 3 times
9. Now, the internal code of the unidentified item is revealed.




Now, the string [Ring] Item:2,1146967347:935114366:1289779934,1599105366,-1976254572,-244372676:-1:0:130760:15:3:8:390:390:0:0:6:0:873858439:|h[Ring]|h may seem meaningless to you, but in fact that's all the information you need to figure out what the item is.

You can copy the string and paste it to a Diablo 3 Item Identification Tool (http://www.mynikko.com/d3/) to find out what the affixes are.

Fix it, please, Blizzard. It's only one if-statement.

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