Hotfixes have gone live tonight to fix some minor issues and the critical Blood Thief exploit. (Details about that here.)
[UPCOMING HOTFIXES]
Items
- Fixing an issue where some players are not able to access their BlizzCon 2014 transmogrification appearances
- Fixing an issue where stash tabs purchased during a Season are not rolling over to your non-Seasonal stash once the Season ends
[LIVE HOTFIXES]
Monsters
- Fixed an issue where the Gelatinous Sire would occasionally fail to split (4/16)
- Fixed a bug which caused Blood Thief goblins in multiplayer games to drop more Blood Shards than intended (4/16)
Bounties
- The “Wortham Survivors” bounty has been disabled (4/16)
- This bounty cannot always be completed and we will be addressing this issue in a later patch
The Gelatinous Sire fix is not perfect, and players are reporting occasional mega-splitting, with literally dozens of Gelatinous Spawn splitting off, each of which drop loot as normal.
This is resulting in some giant heaps of goodies, with half a dozen or more legendary items fountaining from the chaos. Presumably this hotfix will be hotfixed to limit the total Spawn to the half dozen or so intended.
Tagged As: Diablo 3 hotfix, Diablo 3 hotfixes | Categories: Diablo 3 Patches, Diablo III Bugs, Treasure Goblin
w00t?!
is u seriousnessz, …?!
blood shards are the reason they are called blood goblins, because a goblin in shards should bleed dry!
i mean, it's 95% not like as if MOAR blood shards impress kadala in any way 🙁
alas, blizzard, what are the odds?
:***(
Uhm… it seems weird that this website doesn't talk about it, but this hotfix fixed an exploit that people abused massively and Blizzard even perma-banned users for it … something nearly unheard of in D3.
It's what all the buzz was about in the forums today, end of the world the season is over kinda stuff (like every season).
You will not get less Blood Shards from Blood Thiefs than before – there is no change at all if you didn't exploit (which based of your comment you didn't, as you weren't aware of it) 🙂
some link to your source?
just google "d3 goblin shard exploit" and you'll get every links you need !
And I'll add, to measure what the exploit realy is, that you will also find links toward character sheets where people found several hundred thousands shards (x00.000) within one week after the beginning of S3.
I don’t ussually whine, but now I have to – let’s talk blood shard leg drop rate. It sucks. I spend like 3k shard without getting single leg from it. And getting 3k shards takes a long time, even with help of some blood thief.