Baal's Eye / Forgotten Sands bug

[KremBanan]

Whats is this? What have a completely missed?

[zallus]

http://forums.diabloii.net/showthread.php?t=545701

Ok just read up good luck...
The link talks about it and even has another link inside that talks about it somemore.

basically you re write a part of the code and it gives u the forgotten sands wp....

[KremBanan]

Ok, what I gather its a program(aka hack) and not a bug. Damn, whats wrong with people. Why cant they just play the game and stop hacking it?
(Its a retorical question, you dont need to answer)

[Clervis]

Dang, I just realized I have like 4 Baal Eyes (found legitly) that I was trying to trade for other organs. I guess those aren't worth squat anymore.

[zallus]

O and as of now it has only affected the price of eyes..

On east orgsets are still worth 4hrs
and the other 2 organs are still worth 1hr each.

But eyes are only worth 1pgem maybe even less than that.

[SalivaMonster]

There is a 1/3 chance that you open the portal to uber Izual and Lilith first, Duriel the last. In that case, save 1 keyset and even out the organs.

[krischan]

Which means you need an average of 8 keysets per 3 runs, to you save 1 out of 9. That doesn't sound very impressive. The real bomb won't even explode when two portals can be opened without a keyset.

Let's assume that the portal to Izual can be opened without the keys as well. There are 6 possibilities regarding the order of portals (D=Duriel, I=Izual, L=Lilith). We will stop with opening portals in the same game as soon as we have a complete organ set. There is an even chance of 1 in 3 that the portal to Lilith will open first, so two keysets are saved. If it opens second, one is saved and if it opens last, none is saved. That means we save an average of 3 out of 9 keysets, i.e. 1 out of 3.

From a logical point of view, all this should not be a great issue regarding torch values. It effectively means that an organ set loses 1/9 of its value when one portal can be opened without a keyset and 1/3 if it's two. However, the impact would be far greater which might lead to a greater loss of value a. If there is a way to open a portal to the second über, it's very likely that it will be possible with the third portal as well which would make keysets, organs and average torches (or those which aren't close to perfect) nearly worthless.

At the moment, the main point of it probably isn't getting the eye, but getting fast XP from a L110 monster. Über Duriel gives about half as much XP as regular Baal IIRC, but it's far quicker to reach and to kill him with that hack and he still gives decent XP at a character level L95+ when e.g. Baal minions don't provide decent amounts anymore.

[squiggle]

Btw it isn't a program(Least thats not what i consider a program) But another copy of the d2 patch iirc. Which is slightly edited so the wp takes you to Uber Duriel.

[Vegetall]

so its as easys as patching ur game so the portal just goes right there every game... thats lame...

[krischan]

It sounds like a hack which can be detected very easily and if Blizzard decides to care about the issue, it might lead to a lot of key bans and account closures :evil: .

In any case, this thread is about to reveal too many details about that hack. Please stop at this point.

[Vegetall]

Ok well reguarding torch values then, they were allready down anyways due to Pally torches... its may i say retarded how u can get a 20/20 of any class for a decent price but a 20/20 p torch is pricless.. i know that pallys are top of the top doing the runs in the first place but still any 20/20 should be pricless...

the trade thread now about 11 ptorches for trade the 11/11 was going for orgset while any other class would be Pgems.... it was way before the eye explot that they lost value.... actual i would like to thanks dupes... if duped rune werent around... any torch would be priceless since getting the runewords to do UBERS would be near impossibly Last wish, i would maybe see 1-2 in ur life time playing D if there were no dupes.... Grief/Fort on the other hand wouldnt be as bad since Lo inst the hardest thing to find... but its also the highest rune other then runes u can easly farm off of countes.....

but then would be the inflation of insights and spirits across the board, though there also easy runes but they would be the enigmas/CoH that are now being trade all the time, due to the "varies" and all the ppl that think 1 aura lvl is a HUGE diffrence or 10% ed is too...

but then more group and skilled ppl would be getting torches not any joe that knows the can make a killing off them for profit not to use... but there being farmed, in no way should torches be "farmed" they should be honored and reveard for having around D2 like the crazy new epixs in WoW... when u see someone with tier4 or if 5 came out yet u go WoW... litereally... but u see a 16/20 or any torch and ur like wow... not really i can just farm to get a better on.....

the only thing the eye should be killing is the value of a orgset, but in turn that effects torches like krischan mentioned... just IMO...

[sorcyone]

There is a 1/3 chance that you open the portal to uber Izual and Lilith first, Duriel the last. In that case, save 1 keyset and even out the organs.

It's better to not open the second portal. In that way you need only 5 keysets on average to even out your eye.
You might end up with extra horns or brains but they are easy to trade with each other.