Diablo2 has seen a lot of bugged items throughout the 20 years of its existence but the vast majority of them came into existence on closed
battle.net during a relatively short period of time. Specifically between 29th of June 2001 and 28th of October 2003. The former date marks the 1.08 patch and the latter the 1.10 patch. During this time period you had 08 uniques, Iths, Whites, Zod Bugged Eths, Mephisto Fused Uniques, Uploads/Imports, Hybrid Runewords, and a host of other nominally bugged D2 items. After their initial inception, all of these items were of course duped and the few that survived beyond the 1.10 patch and any subsequent purges were further duped leaving any perm ones vastly outnumbered by unperms.
In this article we will attempt to go through the whole lot of them and provide as accurate information as possible. Needless to say, all these bugged items are on non ladder mode so we will omit this information in the realm specification for each item.
These items were all theoretically possible to obtain through normal play at some point in time and, while not bugged or hacked in terms of stats, they were massively duped by many different people on many different occasions. It is even speculated that some of the original ones were imported from open
battle.net and that they managed to stay under Blizzard's radar thanks to their legitimate stats. Pretty much all in existence today are dupes but not all of them are unperm. The reason for this is that some were duped before Diablo 2 items were given unique id numbers in patch 1.10. Unfortunately, you can not tell the difference until it goes poof.
Many great "pre 07 patch" classic D2 rares were duped and transferred to expansion with presently impossible stats such as 20fhr boots, 20fcr amulets, 15 all resistances / 50 specific resistance rings, -40% lower requirements etc. Below are listed the most iconic ones of these.
These uniques originally dropped with far better stats than today. Fortunately, the nerfing applied in various patches did not affect already dropped items and thanks to duping some of them remain with us to this day
Description: This belt went under the name Nosferatu's Coil up until patch 1.10 when all in existence on CBN realms were renamed to Siggard's Stealth and a new Nosferatu's Coil with inferior stats started dropping in its place.
Description: Before the 1.10 patch small charms could have the Pestilent prefix that combined with the Anthrax suffix gave a whooping 451 posion damage over 12 seconds. To be compared with Toxic Small Charm of Anthrax that weights in at only 313 poison damage over 11 seconds.
Prior to April/May 2002 hackers were able to get players from open
battle.net into bugged games on closed
battle.net. The open character could come in to game, drop the item, and leave without detection. The exploit was sealed after Blizzard was tipped off but it was not until 6 months later in early 2003 that it came to Blizzard's attention that open items had been transferred to closed
battle.net. Subsequently most but not all of them were deleted. Most if not all of these items would have been transferred during v1.09.
Description: This is a ring with the stats of the unique orb The Oculus Swirling Crystal with the notable exception that the USWest version of the ring had faster cast rate and strength while the USEast version had faster block rate and energy. Something that conclusively proves that the ring was transferred from open bnet rather than being created through the Mephisto fusing bug as has been touted by ignorant people.
The Mephisto loot table was, and perhaps still is, bugged and in the rare event that 2 unique items dropped at the same time they would sometimes fuse so that the final item had the stats and name of one and equipment slot of the other
Have you guys checked out the leader boards lately? A rare weapon that has 3 sockets and can do millions of damage. I remember seeing this kind of stuff back in my high school days but they would always be in none seasonal. now it has been 16 and I am now seeing these hacked items in the season 26. Is blizzard aware of this?
Corruption Rift (rare Small Charm)+7 (!) to skill levels
100% better chance of finding magic itemsI didn't think there could be such a thing as a rare charm, so I am wondering
if this is a hacked item (not that I have any idea how one would go about
making such an item). Because we currently have two computers with two separate
connections, we were able to dupe this thing so as to have, oh, 3 or 4 for each
of our characters. With 3 of these ridiculous things, my 51st level Paladin
does 1050 - 1168 points of damage with Smite, Fanaticism, and Holy Shield. I
feel downright dirty.Should I? Is it actually possible to find this item in the game?Dan Craven
51st Level Paladin Extraordinaire
Dan Craven
51st Level, Extremely Soiled Paladin
- Daniel J. Minucci
aka Alistair MacGrail Hermes bani Shaea"Every normal man must be tempted at times to hoist the black flag, spit on his
hands,
and begin slitting throats." -- H.L. Mencken
: Should I? Why? If you're going to cheat, cheat like you mean it.: Is it actually possible to find this item in the game?Since you probably won't find 3 or 4 per player in a game, why would that
matter to you?Dave Hinz
DM: Diablo 4, otherwise known as Darth Microtransaction, began their sad story on September 28. "I got hacked and lost everything," they said in a video revealing they'd had their OSRS account breached. DM describes himself as an OSRS superfan; they've played the MMO for 20 years, own plenty of merch ranging from partyhats to skill capes, and consider it their favorite game despite Diablo being the face of their channels.
So they were understandably distraught to lose 4.8 billion gold worth of items, especially since some of those items had been purchased with audience donations or real money converted into subscription Bonds that can be sold on the OSRS in-game market for gold.
"I spent over $1,000, plus like $500 in Steam currency as well, on Bonds for gold to get it," DM says of their restored account. "People were chipping in. I saw people clean out their entire banks to give me like [50 million gold]. We stockpiled until we had like 4.8 billion gold, and we bought everything. I had a maxed-out account in the one game I love, finally, after years of wanting to get to that point."
Of course, we know what happened next. DM logged in to find that their account had been locked due to "suspicious activity." Their worst fears quickly came true: their riches had once again disappeared, only this time it was the work of a hacker.
"This video is going to be a lesson for you," DM says. "If you have something that you care about in the digital world, secure your account. While I had a bank pin and a password that was not shared with other things, I had email and all of that, I did not have the mobile third-party authenticator app. Somehow these people got through my password, they got through my bank pin, and they managed to take everything a week after we completed the account. I'm pretty sure it was a viewer that was able to get pieces of information to recover the account. I don't know, I'm not a security expert. My point being, because I'm not a security expert, I probably fucked up somewhere along the line and I got owned.
"The dude didn't even have the decency to leave the placeholders for my bank, so in case I wanted to rebuild my bank, it'd be really easy to reorganize everything," DM laments. "He fucked up all the organization that took me days to do in the bank, took out all the items that were there just to level my character to max, all my buyables to finish the [level 99 skills] on the account, the shit I actually care about and not just the expensive items."
Thoroughly fleeced, DM reacted as many hacked MMO players do: spiraling on social media. "Bro I can't be cleaned on OSRS for the second time," they said in a tweet posted before their somber video. "God damn it, steal my motorcycle, punch me in the face, literally anything but my RuneScape account the only game I care [about]." This went on for several days, with DM staying true to their word that they "will be moaning and bitching about this for a month." But yesterday, October 3, their prayers were answered.
"They came by the livestream and said 'hey, we see you have a lost item claim and all the info, let us know what happened.' So I did that, fully expecting literally nothing to come of it. If you've been by the livestream at all, you'll know people were asking 'what about customer support' and I've been saying there's a zero percent chance, absolutely no chance at all that I get any of my stuff back. I've played the game 20 years, long enough to know that this type of stuff that just happened for me doesn't happen. It purely does not happen.
Austin freelanced for the likes of PC Gamer, Eurogamer, IGN, Sports Illustrated, and more while finishing his journalism degree, and he's been with GamesRadar+ since 2019. They've yet to realize that his position as a senior writer is just a cover up for his career-spanning Destiny column, and he's kept the ruse going with a focus on news and the occasional feature, all while playing as many roguelikes as possible."}), " -0-10/js/authorBio.js"); } else console.error('%c FTE ','background: #9306F9; color: #ffffff','no lazy slice hydration function available'); Austin WoodSocial Links NavigationAustin freelanced for the likes of PC Gamer, Eurogamer, IGN, Sports Illustrated, and more while finishing his journalism degree, and he's been with GamesRadar+ since 2019. They've yet to realize that his position as a senior writer is just a cover up for his career-spanning Destiny column, and he's kept the ruse going with a focus on news and the occasional feature, all while playing as many roguelikes as possible.
I've been all to familiar with the hacked loot common in Diablo 2 when I played on computer, but I'm playing this game on Xbox One over Xbox LIVE with mates. Still, I went from level 66 to paragon level 919 from just completing the Belial boss fight. Am I right to be suspicious, or does this sort of loot appear in the very high ends of the game?
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