Diablo III ‘God-Mode’ Exploit Analysis

<p>A post was made on the Blizzard forums last night containing a pretty interesting bug report&period;  Essentially&comma; the player &&num;8220&semi;Doso&&num;8221&semi; had found out about an exploit that allowed anyone playing the w<em>izard<&sol;em> class to become completely invulnerable to incoming damage just by quick-casting a couple spells&period;  At the time that this article is being written&comma; the approximate age of the original post is 17 hours old&comma; while the first response from Blizzard &lpar;AKA &&num;8220&semi;Blue Post&&num;8221&semi;&rpar; is only 10 <em>minutes<&sol;em> old from Vasadan&comma; a quality assurance moderator&period;  According to Doso&comma; the exploit was surprisingly simple&comma; as it consisted of only five steps&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>Step 1&colon; Select Teleport &&num;8211&semi; Fracture&period; Bind it to a key<br &sol;>&NewLine;Step 2&colon; Select Archon&comma; tested with Improved Archon<br &sol;>&NewLine;Step 3&colon; Hover your mouse over or near your charcter<br &sol;>&NewLine;Step 4&colon; Press Teleport<br &sol;>&NewLine;Step 5&colon; QUICKLY&lpar;&excl;&rpar; Press Archon<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>The consequences of an exploit like this in Diablo 3 should be pretty obvious&period; Making your character invincible on <em>any<&sol;em> difficulty will cause issues in the economy&comma; especially where the Real Money Auction House &lpar;RMAH&rpar; is concerned&comma; because it gives every wizard the ability to farm the type of mobs that they likely never had a chance at before&period; This&comma; in turn&comma; allows them to turn around and sell all of the loot they found on the RMAH&period; Now&comma; granted&comma; they still have to be lucky enough to get items that are worth selling&comma; but farming Diablo on Inferno difficulty while this exploit is in place makes that &&num;8220&semi;Luck&&num;8221&semi; factor significantly less of a matter&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>On top of the economy&comma; this exploit allows wizards to effectively render hardcore mode worthless&comma; as being able to never die in a progression difficulty that punishes death as fiercely as hardcore mode is game breaking&period;  If this isn&&num;8217&semi;t fixed soon&comma; there will end up being a massive influx of wizards reaching level 60 in hardcore mode&comma; which is no easy feat without the use of an exploit such as this&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Update 1&colon; A video was actually posted to YouTube on June 22 showcasing this bug&comma; which implies that it has been public issue for over a month&period;  Speculation on the official forums suggests this bug is a major contributor to overpricing of gear and gold within the Auction House&period;  The video can be located <a href&equals;http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;watch&quest;v&equals;dBB093Pkw2Y>here<&sol;a>&period;  How do you feel about it&quest; Leave a comment and tell us what you think&excl; More information on this will be provided as official statements are released&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lpar;Please Note&colon; It is not recommended that anyone attempt to use this exploit&period; Blizzard has made no official statements about how they will be handling benefactors of this particular exploit&comma; only that they are working on resolving the issue&period;&rpar;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Sources&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;us&period;battle&period;net&sol;d3&sol;en&sol;forum&sol;topic&sol;6146816331&quest;page&equals;1">http&colon;&sol;&sol;us&period;battle&period;net&sol;d3&sol;en&sol;forum&sol;topic&sol;6146816331&quest;page&equals;1<&sol;a> &lpar;Diablo 3 Forum Post&rpar;<&sol;p>&NewLine;