MageChick
12-07-2006, 22:26
All right I’m pissed.
Someone actually hacked me. Let me start by saying that I’m not in any way looking for handouts. I just need to vent for a bit. Yeah, I can probably figure this out on my own, but, advice never hurt anyone. For those of you looking for my questions, skip down a bit, I’ll get back on topic in a bit.
Yes, I’m sure I was hacked. I came home from work, loaded up the game and noticed that my sorc was green on the char selection screen, not purple like normal. Hmmm I thought, maybe I died last time and forgot to get my body. Nope. I started checking my other char’s, thinking maybe some of my gear poofed in a ruststorm or something. I’m pretty good about only trading on the forums, but lets check. No, some of the items I found myself were gone too. I can’t think of any explanation, other than someone guessed my password. I don’t visit gaming websites (other than this on and the arreat summit), I don’t use MH, I’m not stupid enough to tell someone my password… What other explanation could there be? It was even a fairly complex password (letters, numbers, didn’t spell anything, etc) What’s weird is that I lost items from my two of my char’s, and from their item section, but I didn’t loose anything from my stashes or from my merc’s. That and it’s weird that someone would steal, some of my items, but not all. Both my Tal Helm and Armor were named too. If you see anyone around with “sorc_chick’s tal armor” – just pk them for me. Here’s what I lost.
Tal armor (socketed P Topaz)
Tal helm (socketed P Topaz)
Spirit Monarch (35% FCR)
2x Ist’d Ali baba
3x Ist’d monarch (never got around to buying that 4th Ist)
2x Nagel Rings (30%’s)
Magefist (2x Up’d)
Gheeds, 40%
Sorc Torch (can’t remember stats, but it was low, like 10/12)
Anni (also very low 10/12)
Paly Torch (mid stats 15/17)
Anni (mid stats 15/16)
AP Enigma (1256 def)
Shako (socketed P Topaz)
Mara’s (28% resist)
Hoto (40%)
What really surprised me is what they left behind.
Tal armor (socketed 4/4 fire facet)
Tal orb (2/2/2, socketed 5/5 fire facte)
Tal amy
Eth Andy’s Visage
Eth Obedience
Leviathon
45 Resist Base, Elite Paly Spirit (32% FCR)
Gul rune
Um rune
Pul rune x2
Lots of lower runes
Gheeds 25%
Eth Stone AP
Reapers Toll (15%)
Vamp Gaze (8/8/18)
Realy nice FCR ring (10 FCR, 12% resist all, 11 str, life, mana)
About 25+ keys
Lots of Pgems/Junk jewels/Rals, etc
Lots of low level items
Why take most of my good items, but not all. Why steal a Tal Helm, but not the Amy? They left good runes, and items that would easily sell for multiple hrs. It makes me think this was some punk kid.
All right, that’s enough *****ing, on to my questions.
1. Any thoughts on what I can do to prevent this from happening again. I already changed my password, and reran my virus/spyware programs. Anything else?
2. What do you think I should do with what I have left? That is, what items should I get that will give the most benefit, for the least cost? This is kinda a weird place to try to build a char from.
Here’s what I’m thinking so far. Rebuild the sorc first (meteorb, lvl 90), leave the paly (hammerdin, lvl 88) for later – after I can start MFing with the sorc again.
- I already traded some pgems for another tal helm (that any my extra tal armor means I have a complete set again)
- I had some non-up’d magefists in my stash
- Try to get a cheap S torch
- Buy a cheap Nagel ring.
- Buy a 4os monarch – build a spirit
- Work on getting magefist up’d (2x)
- Keep my FCR ring until I get a 35% spirit (then drop it for another Nagel ring)
- Buy a low anni
3. What (if anything), of my remaining items, should I sell off – to rebuy needed gear for step 2?
4. How should I prioritize these lists?
5. What am I forgetting about?
Thanks for reading to the end of all this – I realize it’s a rather long post (even by my standards). Yeah, I realize that some of you will probably get a kick out of hearing how some fairly rich guy is whining about only having 2 hrs’s worth of spending power.
Once again, please – no free item offers. I’m still richer than a lot of people, who need more help than I do. I built my wealth once, I can do it again – I may even enjoy it.
Someone actually hacked me. Let me start by saying that I’m not in any way looking for handouts. I just need to vent for a bit. Yeah, I can probably figure this out on my own, but, advice never hurt anyone. For those of you looking for my questions, skip down a bit, I’ll get back on topic in a bit.
Yes, I’m sure I was hacked. I came home from work, loaded up the game and noticed that my sorc was green on the char selection screen, not purple like normal. Hmmm I thought, maybe I died last time and forgot to get my body. Nope. I started checking my other char’s, thinking maybe some of my gear poofed in a ruststorm or something. I’m pretty good about only trading on the forums, but lets check. No, some of the items I found myself were gone too. I can’t think of any explanation, other than someone guessed my password. I don’t visit gaming websites (other than this on and the arreat summit), I don’t use MH, I’m not stupid enough to tell someone my password… What other explanation could there be? It was even a fairly complex password (letters, numbers, didn’t spell anything, etc) What’s weird is that I lost items from my two of my char’s, and from their item section, but I didn’t loose anything from my stashes or from my merc’s. That and it’s weird that someone would steal, some of my items, but not all. Both my Tal Helm and Armor were named too. If you see anyone around with “sorc_chick’s tal armor” – just pk them for me. Here’s what I lost.
Tal armor (socketed P Topaz)
Tal helm (socketed P Topaz)
Spirit Monarch (35% FCR)
2x Ist’d Ali baba
3x Ist’d monarch (never got around to buying that 4th Ist)
2x Nagel Rings (30%’s)
Magefist (2x Up’d)
Gheeds, 40%
Sorc Torch (can’t remember stats, but it was low, like 10/12)
Anni (also very low 10/12)
Paly Torch (mid stats 15/17)
Anni (mid stats 15/16)
AP Enigma (1256 def)
Shako (socketed P Topaz)
Mara’s (28% resist)
Hoto (40%)
What really surprised me is what they left behind.
Tal armor (socketed 4/4 fire facet)
Tal orb (2/2/2, socketed 5/5 fire facte)
Tal amy
Eth Andy’s Visage
Eth Obedience
Leviathon
45 Resist Base, Elite Paly Spirit (32% FCR)
Gul rune
Um rune
Pul rune x2
Lots of lower runes
Gheeds 25%
Eth Stone AP
Reapers Toll (15%)
Vamp Gaze (8/8/18)
Realy nice FCR ring (10 FCR, 12% resist all, 11 str, life, mana)
About 25+ keys
Lots of Pgems/Junk jewels/Rals, etc
Lots of low level items
Why take most of my good items, but not all. Why steal a Tal Helm, but not the Amy? They left good runes, and items that would easily sell for multiple hrs. It makes me think this was some punk kid.
All right, that’s enough *****ing, on to my questions.
1. Any thoughts on what I can do to prevent this from happening again. I already changed my password, and reran my virus/spyware programs. Anything else?
2. What do you think I should do with what I have left? That is, what items should I get that will give the most benefit, for the least cost? This is kinda a weird place to try to build a char from.
Here’s what I’m thinking so far. Rebuild the sorc first (meteorb, lvl 90), leave the paly (hammerdin, lvl 88) for later – after I can start MFing with the sorc again.
- I already traded some pgems for another tal helm (that any my extra tal armor means I have a complete set again)
- I had some non-up’d magefists in my stash
- Try to get a cheap S torch
- Buy a cheap Nagel ring.
- Buy a 4os monarch – build a spirit
- Work on getting magefist up’d (2x)
- Keep my FCR ring until I get a 35% spirit (then drop it for another Nagel ring)
- Buy a low anni
3. What (if anything), of my remaining items, should I sell off – to rebuy needed gear for step 2?
4. How should I prioritize these lists?
5. What am I forgetting about?
Thanks for reading to the end of all this – I realize it’s a rather long post (even by my standards). Yeah, I realize that some of you will probably get a kick out of hearing how some fairly rich guy is whining about only having 2 hrs’s worth of spending power.
Once again, please – no free item offers. I’m still richer than a lot of people, who need more help than I do. I built my wealth once, I can do it again – I may even enjoy it.