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AceOfSpades

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This made me laugh a lot. You have to know the game though.

You can now predict the coming out date of Diablo 3 and get your marketing packages ready.


Believe it or not but the secret of diablo 3 is within the Dol rune. By now, you are all probably thinking wtf this guy is trolling. But before you discredit me let me show to you this jaw-dropping truth. The stats of a Dol rune:
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Weapons: Hit causes monster to flee 25%
Armor: Replenish Life +7
Helms: Replenish Life +7
Shield: Replenish Life +7



Some simple mathematics:
25x7x7x7 = 8575

Why Is this important you ask?

Well. In diablo 1, the lord of terror had PRECISLY 8,575 hit points. Are you getting scared? There's more

Note the stat on the dol rune that stands out the most, "Hit causes monster to flee 25%" Now, naturally this ONLY works on regular monsters but not bosses ... right?

That's were you are wrong. In diablo II "normal" difficulty has PRECISLY 34300 Hit points ( 8575 being exactly 25% of his health!)

What does this mean to us? Well, because of some glitch in the hardcoding of d2:lod this fact somehow allows you to surpasse the boundary of "hit causes monster to flee" not affecting bosses. In otherwords, because of this fault on behalf of the blizzard programmers aslong as you have a dol socketed into a weapon you can make diablo run away from you with each successfull hit. Ironic isn't it? The lord of terror, in TERROR. ( Some argue this was initially an intentional "easter-egg" the programmers added for a twist)

Okay... okay. After making you read all of this I won't disappoint you. There is indeed an even greater scandal revolving around the dol rune. One that will literally make you $!@% bricks after reading this. Let's move on!

Anagrams. Guess what? An anagram of "Dol" is Lod. Coincidence? Lod stands for Lord Of Destruction which is an expansion for diablo. An anagram of Lord Of Destruction is: consider fold trout.

Consider fold trout ...

For months these words echoed in my head and it wasn't untill tonight I realised what impact these words bare and I felt compelled to type out this thread and share it with you all.

I quote Merriam websters: Quote TROUT Middle English, from Old English trūht, from Late Latin trocta, tructa, a fish with sharp teeth, from Greek trōktēs, literally, gnawer, from trōgein to gnaw Please notice the word gnaw.

I knew I had seen this very word somewhere in the game before, but where? Gnaw Fold. It was a rare ring I had left in my stash since 1.07. According to recent databases, the prefix Gnaw and the suffix Fold no longer exist, however they did in 1.07. I was one of the lucky few to recieve this ring randomly from as far as my memory serves me, from the gidbin quest. Enough about the ring, let me explain to you all how this fits together... PERFECTLY.

Gnaw Fold - Unique ring stats:
Attack rating +25
Vitality +7
Life +7
Energy +7
Mana +7

Do you see the similarities yet? Well, if you don't than look back at are old friend the dol rune.

Quote The stats of a Dol rune:
Weapons: Hit causes monster to flee 25%
Armor: Replenish Life +7
Helms: Replenish Life +7
Shield: Replenish Life +7

Admit it, you are scared? This is where this little discovery takes a VERY, VERY awkward and interesting turn.

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They're three difficulties on d2 'Normal', 'Nightmare' and 'Hell' In the "Hell" mode of diablo lod, diablo has a 0.05575% chance of dropping a Dol rune. Why Is this important? Apart from the scary number-patterns this tells us that JUST as with the dol rune glitch that allowed you to make diablo flee from you, here a very simliar glitch occurs. Once again, because of the "Sloppy Hardcoding" of D2 LOD (Mind, it was a rush job after the sky-rocketing sales of classic) whenever you kill diablo in hell with this ring in your ring slot the game crashes. I bet you all are thinking now, WOW what a waste of time! He made us read ALL of this to tell us that because of the incompetence of blizzard employee's the game crashes if you wear some really rare ring and just HAPPEN to get a dol rune drop for you. This is wrong. As you will find out in just a sec there is something special about this error message. It returns the following value to your screen: 64 69 61 62 6c 6f 20 33 20 20 30 39 2f 30 39 2f 30 39.

At first glace 64 69 61 62 6c 6f 20 33 20 20 30 39 2f 30 39 2f 30 39 seems completly random, just some error code right? This is where you are wrong, deeply wrong.

64 69 61 62 6c 6f 20 33 20 20 30 39 2f 30 39 2f 30 39 is hex for : Diablo 3 09/09/09. Don't believe me? Google ANY Hex translator and try it yourself.

From this ASTONISHING information I would like to conclude that based on my findings I believe (and believe all you others should acknowledge aswell) that diablo 3's official release date is 09/09/09.
 


The fact that I remember all those item names just goes to show how much time I wasted playing that game.

Interesting theory and all, assuming its not total bullshit, but there is one problem...

knowing Blizzard, Diablo III probably won't be out for another few years.
 
The fact that I remember all those item names just goes to show how much time I wasted playing that game.

Interesting theory and all, assuming its not total bullshit, but there is one problem...

knowing Blizzard, Diablo III probably won't be out for another few years.
You might be right. I don't think they've ever released a game on-time.
But I can't doubt the legitimacy of this at all. The diablo series, especially, has always had an attention to detail like this that seems right in line with such easter eggs, especially in their pre-release announcements. Blizzard developers have a culture for that shit.

If I recall correctly, for the release of Diablo II, they ran one of those anonymous riddle websites with some rune-word puzzle, but you couldn't decode it without a hint hidden in the whois records for the domain.

I believe 100% that they did it all on purpose. The question is, why are we just finding out about it... 3 months before release date? I'm sure people still play the game, but did this guy really carry around a shitty magic ring for how-many-years? "Pre 1.07", I was still in high school, and they don't exactly give you a lot of storage space in that game.

Much more likely: Blizzard did it, hid it and just now flogged it. The game will come out on 09/09/09 because they could have left this "undiscovered" if it was running late. Three months pre-release is perfect timing to generate hype using... well, some such forum post exactly like this.
 
You might be right. I don't think they've ever released a game on-time.
But I can't doubt the legitimacy of this at all. The diablo series, especially, has always had an attention to detail like this that seems right in line with such easter eggs, especially in their pre-release announcements. Blizzard developers have a culture for that shit.

If I recall correctly, for the release of Diablo II, they ran one of those anonymous riddle websites with some rune-word puzzle, but you couldn't decode it without a hint hidden in the whois records for the domain.

I believe 100% that they did it all on purpose. The question is, why are we just finding out about it... 3 months before release date? I'm sure people still play the game, but did this guy really carry around a shitty magic ring for how-many-years? "Pre 1.07", I was still in high school, and they don't exactly give you a lot of storage space in that game.

Much more likely: Blizzard did it, hid it and just now flogged it. The game will come out on 09/09/09 because they could have left this "undiscovered" if it was running late. Three months pre-release is perfect timing to generate hype using... well, some such forum post exactly like this.

Have to agree at some point but tbh i would prefere they would take the time to actually make a game which is not flooded with hacks and glitches like WOW or D2 was/is :(
 
Hmm, no I highly doubt that this is actually a real easter egg.

There are a lot of other theories that go around the web, I've seen other ones that are as plausible as this one, with even more detailed info and maths, and they give other dates.

Back when D3 was announced, Bliizards website had an image that was unveiling a bit more every day. I stalked it for days and days and it became obvious it would be d3. Then they announced it at the Blizzcon in Paris, I was there, it was crazy.

On the image were other runes, other signs. Lots of people made up a lot of theories.

But if that one is right then props to the guy who wrote it.
 
Well that post you linked to was made in october 2008.

D3 was announced in June 2008. So I see no problem with the date issue.

Even though it's still a bullshit theory :)
 
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