In the current Season 2 of Diablo 4, apparently some scammers are around. The community is now warning that you should not fall for them and give up your hard-farmed materials. If someone asks you to drop them, you should just brush them off and report them.
This is the scam:
- With Season 2, new materials came into play, including Living Steel. It is extremely rare, even though you can farm it better now.
- A user on Reddit is now warning against dropping exactly this material. If another player asks you to do so, it is most likely a scam.
- If someone asks you to drop it, the user recommends: send them to the desert and report them. Under no circumstances should you drop your materials.
What do I need the materials for? Living Steel and some other materials are needed to summon the new bosses in Season 2. This includes Uber Duriel, from which you can specifically farm Uber Uniques.
Gathering in groups is currently a popular way to get summons and kills faster. Because each player in the group only needs enough materials once to summon Duriel for everyone. So you can get up to four kills per group.
Actually, the system should lead to players interacting and trading more with each other and thereby solve one of Diablo 4’s earliest problems. But it seems that it is being exploited now.
If other players take your steel, they can use it for themselves or their own friends and exclude you in the process. Or, in the worst case, it can be stolen from you by someone fast when it is on the ground. Therefore, you should not drop the material and only trade with people you trust.
We have already received hints about the new class:
“Your bank details are also not needed for the summoning”
In the responses on Reddit, many users appear rather cynical and advise not to disclose bank details or the social security number. They are not needed for the summoning. Such scams seem to be quite well known.
Many players, however, have apparently experienced these situations earlier, as similar schemes existed in Diablo 2. The users mrgoodbytes8891 and SvenTurb01, for example, are discussing this.
Back then, it was quite common for scammers to ask inexperienced players to drop their equipment on the ground for inspection. The scammers would then scoop up the items and disappear.
In the current case, luckily, the loss is not as severe as back then, where several hundred hours of grind could lie behind the items. It is even somewhat entertaining now to see how “younger generations” figure out that they shouldn’t let themselves be scammed.
Exactly Diablo 4 seems to attract newcomers who haven’t dealt much with the “nasty” side of gaming yet. Meanwhile, precisely this ARPG actually has a rather adult and experienced community:
