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July 17th, 2012, 12:44 GMT · By

Diablo 3 Unidentified Item (UnID) Exploit Uncovered

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Unidentified items can be exploited in Diablo III
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Diablo 3 players have uncovered a new exploit in the popular role-playing dungeon crawler, this time relating to unidentified items (UnID), which, through a certain procedure, can practically let players see their stats without identifying them first.

Diablo 3 has been around for over 2 months and developer Blizzard has been working hard on patching all vulnerabilities in order to keep the game as fair as possible.

Sadly, players have uncovered a new exploit that relates to unidentified items and can allow someone to see a special code that reveals their stats without actually identifying the item.

For example, a player can uncover a rare or legendary item that needs to be identified before you can actually compare it with others or see its stats. In order to do so, without actually identifying the item, they need to follow a simple process that’s been explained below, via Reddit.

“Start a chat line, in party, whatever. Link your item. Follow that immediately with two special characters, for example ëë. Then link the same item again. Put the cursor in between the two ë's. Press delete three times. Instead of deleting the entire [Name of item] it will just delete the [ and it will expose the item code.”

The item code is a long line of numbers and symbols but players have already uncovered what every piece of it means, so all you need to do is pay attention in order to check out its stats without identifying it.

While this exploit doesn’t seem that important, many players are selling unidentified items in public matches for small sums of gold.

 Thanks to this exploit, players who are taking advantage of the system can check out the UnID items without buying them, see how their stats compare to their own, and then get it for a smaller price instead of buying an already-identified item. The gear can then be identified and re-sold on the Auction House for a profit.

As of yet, Blizzard hasn’t talked about this new vulnerability.


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Comment #1 by: bulrog on 17 Jul 2012, 14:01 UTC reply to this comment

You cannot actually sell unidentified items on auction house. The exploit itself is well explained but the only problem is that people sell their unidentified "bad" items. When buying you cannot know the properties of the item because you cannot link someone else's item to your chat to check the number of properties.


Comment #2 by: Palp on 17 Jul 2012, 15:47 UTC reply to this comment

Just to correct you - it's not possible to sell unidentified items on the auction house. They're marked red in the sell panel and you can't select them. People have been selling those items via in-game trade and finding buyers through in-game chats or on forums.


Comment #3 by: liljohn on 17 Jul 2012, 16:43 UTC reply to this comment

Anyone knows how to decode the item code?

Comment #3.1 by: lulu on 19 Jul 2012, 19:39 GMT

thats what i wanna know, not the mistake that he type, gosh how many times do we have tot ell the guy?


Comment #4 by: Anon on 17 Jul 2012, 19:08 UTC reply to this comment

"many players are selling unidentified items on the Auction House"

Actually this is impossible, you cant sell an unidentified item on any AH


Comment #5 by: Seee on 17 Jul 2012, 22:35 UTC reply to this comment

Just to clear something up

UnID items cannot be sold on the Auction house
Players aution them off in chat and other players buy them. Its called Gambling. PLayers buy them in hopes it is something good. So the bad guys are keeping all the good item drops they get of buy from people and turning around and selling the garbage items that are unID for way more than they are worth becuase the buyer does not know they are getting a garbage item.


Comment #6 by: Me on 17 Jul 2012, 23:24 UTC reply to this comment

You cannot sell unidentified items on the auction house... either one. So some of your information is blatantly misleading. There *are* some players that will purchase unidentified items via trade chat or in forums, and those are the players susceptible to players exploiting this.


Comment #7 by: asdad on 17 Jul 2012, 23:59 UTC reply to this comment

You Cannot put UnID-ed items on the AH


Comment #8 by: AB97 on 18 Jul 2012, 04:53 UTC reply to this comment

You cant sell UnID items in auction house.....


Comment #9 by: squish on 18 Jul 2012, 20:43 UTC reply to this comment

Nice article but,
you cant sell unidentifies at AH


Comment #10 by: soushi on 19 Jul 2012, 14:51 UTC reply to this comment

lol this author is getting bombarded with "you cannot sell unid items in AH"


Comment #11 by: sadfas on 19 Jul 2012, 22:29 UTC reply to this comment

lol u guys are all * he doesnt say u can sell them on the ah....they sell them in chat..ffs read it


Comment #12 by: Jaggy on 19 Jul 2012, 22:55 UTC reply to this comment

Hey guys, can you sell UnID items on the AH?


Comment #13 by: jonathanas on 26 Jul 2012, 06:52 UTC reply to this comment

This page has an online calculator to inspect unidentified items.
http://www.apponpc.com/d3item/d3item.php

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