A Diablo III exploit has caused some stress and rampant cheating within the community lately, leading to a hotfix, rollback, and bonus XP event on the part of Blizzard.
About a week ago, issues arose with Patch 2.6 that led the team to taking measures to make sure that the start of Season 11 would go smoothly. This has led to hotfixes and a wipe of the era leaderboards, as well as a rollback on legendary gem levels following a discovered exploit.
As an apology for the confusion and mess, the devs are activating a double XP weekend in the game that will run from July 14th through the morning of the 17th. This move hasn’t pleased “honest” players, who say this helps rather than punishes exploiters.
“What just happened isn’t just developer’s incompetence or character failure of players (and I am not defending either of them),” one player posted on the forums. “The problem is the structure of this game — there is no end point, except to infinitely grind stat points, including gem legendary levels. This linearity clearly guided paved the road for what happened recently.”
Diablo III’s Season 11 is scheduled to begin on July 20th and will include the Necromancer class for the first time.
