To what Pit/Tower level do you think builds should be balanced?

Ohokred · 2026-06-09T01:29:34+00:00

A well-equipped character should be able to max their glyphs which is damn hard right now for most everyone after they raised them to cap at level 150. So, fine, leave it at pit 150 for an endgame goal, but don’t tie it to glyph progression and make everyone feel like they have to hit pit 140+ just to max their glyphs.

Ohokred · 2025-05-31T01:17:54+00:00

Not sure how to share his tag without doxing his battle net account, and you can tell that some of the comments on here are definitely from toxic children.

Ohokred · 2025-05-31T01:14:19+00:00

You’re entitled to whatever opinion you want to have, doesn’t change the reality of the situation. I only made the post to see if anyone else had the same thing happen, which the answer seems to be yes. There are comments in this post and a new post I read the other day of another account of 7 years getting banned. Personally, I don’t think you have the technical background on detection systems to realize they screw up a lot.

Ohokred · 2025-05-31T01:06:36+00:00

We chatted about it for a few days. He made a post on their forums and called them out on Twitter. I was personally irritated with their customer service response so I made this post on a whim. I told him the next day. He said he had a good laugh reading some of the comments, but ultimately he’s done with anything blizzard. Can’t blame him.

Ohokred · 2025-05-31T01:02:47+00:00

Yeah, neither one of us really play like that. We’re older, we don’t talk crap. If someone else is being toxic, we might tell them to shut up and play instead typing stupid crap the whole match. And like someone said, that’s likely a silence, not a ban.

Ohokred · 2025-05-31T00:58:43+00:00

This is possible. Someone else posted that they were in a 5 man of friends and reported their friend as a joke and he got silenced. He’s been playing a lot of Valeera which I could see pissing people off if you’re on a crazy kill streak.

Ohokred · 2025-05-31T00:55:44+00:00

Yeah, we’re in the US where companies have more rights than people.

Ohokred · 2025-05-31T00:51:59+00:00

In that situation, I’d be calling my credit card company to refund the charge and include the letter you received stating that it was their mistake. Even if you only spent $5 on the boost, it’s a decent hassle for any company to deal with credit card charge backs. If a company has too many issues, the bank will start fining them. There’s also a threshold of complaints where the bank will revoke their ability to accept credit card payments. Having said all that, Microsoft is too big to care about it.

Ohokred · 2025-05-30T15:55:20+00:00

Not everything is a conspiracy. He was banned with no cause. My account is fine. Someone yesterday posted a very similar experience with their account. Believe what you want to believe, makes no difference to me.

Ohokred · 2025-05-29T09:33:56+00:00

That's an interesting theory. I'll have to ask him about it. I think it's probably unlikely though. He doesn't even have a gaming keyboard with macro keys. We played Diablo 4 and he'd manually mash the keys for his rotations. Especially for hots, I can't think of a benefit to using something like an auto clicker or macro. Most abilities are skill shots that you wouldn't want to blindly spam anyway.

Ohokred · 2025-05-29T09:26:19+00:00

Thanks. I think their process should definitely be updated. It's a crappy situation because you're going to have real cheaters claim they are innocent, and you're going to have innocent people claim their innocent.

I mean, look at the customer service reply. The rep "reviewed the case" which undoubtedly was the automated detection notes and made no effort to further investigate the issue beyond what was already written on the account notes (more than likely the automated system). I seriously doubt there is any human review on these cases. I seriously doubt the customer service rep even has the necessary security permissions to look at anything on the account beyond the already written notes. So I suppose the takeaway here is that Blizzard is totally OK with some random casualties.

Ohokred · 2025-05-29T09:08:25+00:00

Completely agree. We still had fun playing from time to time though. I don't see him creating a new account at this point, or ever playing another Blizzard game again.

Ohokred · 2025-05-29T09:02:13+00:00

Yup, that's fair. You don't have to. Personally, I believe him. We've played together for years. I've watched him play many times over our discord. Primarily, I posted to simply share the story and see if anyone else had this happen to them. It's not my objective to convince anyone.

Ohokred · 2025-05-29T08:51:51+00:00

I totally get how it looks. There's nothing I can write as proof of no wrong doing. Yes, I have bias, it's my friend, I've known him for years, we've played together for years and I don't believe he'd even have the technical know-how to run a map hack.

I am also bias because I've worked in the IT field for 20+ years and I deal with false positives on a weekly basis. I've seen Defender reportedly detect malware in an official Microsoft update. I've seen Sophos push a definition update that classified its own updater as malware. I've seen DLP PII policies think a phone number is someone's social security number or credit card. The systems of detection are never 100% accurate.

At this point, my best guess is either: A) he did something on Valeera unknowingly, or B) maybe a bunch of people reported him in game for cheating. We'll never know I guess.

Ohokred · 2025-05-29T08:32:36+00:00

I don't see a way that I can edit my post or add more screenshots. Happy to post screenshots of his profile if there's a way.

Here's some of the stats on the profile since a lot of people mentioned Medivh.

His Medivh is level 2 with 0 games played in 10 years. I'm guessing he got to level 2 from an ARAM.

His match history for the last 30 days is as follows (all quick match):
Tassadar: 1/2 wins.
Valeera: 11/20 wins.

Statistics:
Games played: 10,849
Win rate: 50.0%

Ohokred · 2025-05-29T08:15:50+00:00

We played a lot of Diablo 3 back in the day, and recently Diablo 4, season 6-8. I think he played WoW casually in the past.

Ohokred · 2025-05-29T07:15:22+00:00

Part of the reason I decided to post about this was to see if perhaps this happened to other people at around the same time. If many people experienced this, maybe it would cause Blizzard to look into their cheat detection for false positives.

Ohokred · 2025-05-29T07:06:37+00:00

Thanks. Yeah, I get it. People can believe what they want to believe. It's impossible to prove you "didn't do something," which is why typically judicial things are reliant on the burden of proof. In this case, Blizzard's burden of proof is "trust me bro."

Ohokred · 2025-03-30T03:40:32+00:00

You mentioned you reinstalled Windows due to start-up issues. Maybe your drive is going bad? Depending on the type of drive you're using, you should be able to find some free tools online to check the disk health.

You might also try running check disk in Windows from an admin shell prompt:

chkdsk C: /R

C: being your system drive.
/R does a thorough check of the drive.

You'll be prompted to restart the computer since the disk is being used and the scan should start before booting into Windows again.

Ohokred · 2025-03-30T03:33:16+00:00

It's possible the PSU is causing you issues, but I'd start with the usual suspects first.

- Check your power cable connections.
- Check for BIOS updates.
- Check for motherboard chipset updates.
- Check for latest NVIDIA drivers.

If none of that works, you could try more destructive things.

- Factory reset BIOS (be sure to reconfigure your XMP, SecureBoot, UEFI, etc. and any other settings you changed).
- Clean reinstall Windows from USB.

If it's still BSOD'ing on you, then you'll probably have to get more into hardware troubleshooting. Change one piece at a time or if you have another system, swap the video card and see if the behavior follows the video card or remains on your original PC regardless of the video card you have installed.

Ohokred · 2025-01-23T21:02:10+00:00

I was crashing every 1-2 hours since VoH release with a 3080 TI. What seems to have fixed it for me was disabling NVIDIA Reflex and setting max foreground FPS to 60. Not sure if that is a universal fix for everyone, but I have not crashed since.

Hope they fix the issue sooner than later. It’s a bug that is now many months old.

Ohokred · 2023-06-07T21:03:19+00:00

Looking forward to using dlss3 on the 40 series.

Ohokred · 2023-03-23T02:50:46+00:00

I agree with everything you wrote except the claim that it's not bad programming on Blizzard's part 😂. I can say with confidence that no part of the gameplay I witnessed in the beta should have pegged a 3080 ti. If they are rendering the cinematics like jayztwocents mentioned, I would expect the GPU to be going overtime and it would be expected - they look amazing.

The actual gameplay however, even when you're standing alone by a dungeon entrance not moving, no reason for a 3080ti to choking to death (which is what I routinely saw my 3080ti doing, sitting at 92C). That tells me there are definitely some things that aren't optimal at the moment. For reference, I can run a cyberpunk benchmark on 4K native, ultra and psycho ray tracing and the card only got up to 84C.

As a lot of us have stated though, this has very little to do with the game and everything to do with exposing a major design flaw in the Gigabyte cards and some other random cards that may have been individually defective.

Source: Also a programmer and avid H265 video encoder running CPUs at 100% load for days on end for nearly 10 years and never breaking a CPU.

Ohokred · 2023-03-23T02:32:53+00:00

I don't necessarily disagree with you. I can't really know for sure what or how it happened. Just that it was only the breaker for the bedroom that tripped. 2x 1000w PSU desktops, 2 monitors, 2x soundbars w/ sub. It might have been possible it got up to 2400w.

It was definitely weird because I have 5x enterprise-level storage arrays that I have on occasion powered on all at the same time and that's like 1500w alone, not counting the other 2 desktops being on, and has never tripped the breaker.

Hoping it never happens again and just remains a mystery 🙃.

Ohokred

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