Diablo IV players continue to encounter various bugs. Recently, Blizzard Entertainment turned its attention to the gem crafting system.
The developers decided to temporarily restrict crafting due to the problems that arose:
Recipes for crafting Crude, Chipped, and Normal quality gems have been temporarily disabled as they could sometimes cause the game to crash. While these recipes are blocked, you can still select them, but the gems will not actually be crafted, and materials and gold will not be spent.
Meanwhile, some members of the Diablo IV community have discovered a new exploit. Players with hieroglyphic nicknames and suspiciously good items with three transformations (the Horadric Cube is used for "transformation," and successfully getting three transformations was considered a great rarity) began appearing at the top of the leaderboard.
Blogger Rob2628 drew attention to the situation, and a user with the nickname @一天不色色 commented on his video. He introduced himself as one of the exploit creators and said that he was able to spoof the packets sent to the server, thus hacking the transformation system:
[…] I came up with a pretty clever trick — I directly called the low-level [server] transformation protocol in the game and ran all the items in my inventory through it, transforming everything in a second. I thought I could quickly get the desired property on the weapon this way. However, then I accidentally clicked "transform" a second time and found that the server backend did not reject it — the second transformation request also went through. That's when I realized the essence of the bug: you can send transformation requests indefinitely.
The video is available at the following link.