Legendary gems that were leveled through exploits were reverted by Blizzard with a rollback. But now, Diablo 3 players allegedly retrieved their gems.
In recent days, exploits have been an important topic in the Diablo 3 community. By exploiting an unintended game mechanic, players reached particularly high levels in Nephalem Rifts, increased their Paragon levels, and leveled legendary gems to unusually high tiers.
Of course, Blizzard didn’t like that and ordered a rollback. This at least reset the legendary gems. But now the exploiters claim they have outsmarted the developers with their own feature.
If the rollback gets re-rolled
It sounds like a flat comedy: After Blizzard took away the exploiters’ “acquired” gems, they are now using Blizzard’s system to retrieve them.
The story begins about a week ago: Blizzard rolled out a new patch on the live servers of Diablo 3 and provided the community with new content like the Necromancer. The Necromancer is a new class in Diablo 3 that had to be thoroughly tested by many players.
During this, players noticed an exploit. An exploit in video games refers to exploiting game mechanics that were not planned “that way”. In this case, the interaction of two skills allowed players to quickly kill enemies and granted significant advantages to those who exploited it. They could suddenly complete higher objectives in Diablo 3 and were rewarded with experience points and upgrades for legendary gems.
Blizzard responded to the exploit. They apparently understood the players who were upset about the exploit users and announced a rollback. This “rollback” ensures that the gems are set back to a lower level that can be achieved through legitimate gameplay.
A solution that part of the community was satisfied with. If it weren’t for Blizzard’s own system. The exploiters say they used this to make the developers look bad.
Players claim to have exploited Blizzard’s own system
Blizzard has a support feature where players can “rollback” their accounts. And allegedly, players are now using this rollback feature to bring the gems back to their high level.
In summary, the story looks like this:
- Players used an exploit to bring their legendary gems to level 140-150
- Blizzard deploys a hotfix to the servers and fixes the exploit
- The developers activate a rollback and return the affected characters to the state before the exploit.
- Players use Blizzard’s official support rollback feature to return their characters to the state after the exploit and before the rollback. This means they have again the high tiers of the legendary gems and simply used Blizzard’s rollback function.
Blizzard contradicts the story
In the meantime, Blizzard spoke up. According to community manager Tyvalir, there are no cases where the re-rollback was utilized. Players in the chat rooms of Diablo 3 keep claiming to have exploited this system, but Blizzard has not been able to find evidence of this.
Double XP weekend in Diablo 3 as compensation for the exploit
