How to check the stats of any UNID item without ID'ing it.

[Syntex]

These steps are how to check the stats of an UNID item without actually ID'ing it.

THIS IS WELL KNOWN BY THE COMMUNITY so DO NOT BUY anything UNID.

1) Go to sell tab on AH
2) Press enter to open chat box
3) Type alt+175 to make a » symbol
4) link the item
4b) it should look like » [Amulet] *note the space is put there automatically, you do not make it
5) Press the left arrow key once
6) Press the DEL key 2 times (NOT BACKSPACE)
7) Your chat box will show a bunch of numbers/letters in it. This is what you want.
8) CTRL+A to select all
9) CTRL+C to copy all

10) Go to codepad.org
11) Select Python as your language.
12) Put the following code in

Spoiler: show

from ctypes import c_uint32, c_int32

unid = "(delete me)"

def hashString(s):
h = 0
for c in s:
h = c_uint32((h * 0x21) + ord(c)).value
return h

def IDLink(s):
parts = s.split(":")

# unid link has affixes in reverse order
affixes = parts[3].split(',')
affixes.reverse()
parts[3] = ','.join(affixes)

# 0x1 on this flag apparently means ID
parts[9] = str(int(parts[9]) | 0x1)
hash_input = ':'.join(parts[1:-2]) + ':'
link_hash = c_int32(hashString(hash_input)).value
parts[-2] = str(link_hash)

id = ':'.join(parts)
return id


print IDLink(unid)

13) Paste your line of code from the item in between the "" in the 2nd line of code where the (delete me) is
14) Hit submit
15) Copy the output and past in game into chat
16) Click link and ta-da! you have the stats of your UNID item!

Enjoy...

Note: You may want to set up codepad with the code beforehand.

[Darkmagi]

Fucking LOL, way to go Blizzard.

[miokomioko]

You have to cut them a tiny bit of slack... as Blizzard, you have the biggest possible army of nerds picking your game apart from every fathomable angle. I don't think the fan base of a vast majority of other franchises would have such constant attempts of deconstruction/analysis/hax0rs/etc.

Also, who the shit buys unidentified items?

[Syntex]

You have to cut them a tiny bit of slack... as Blizzard, you have the biggest possible army of nerds picking your game apart from every fathomable angle. I don't think the fan base of a vast majority of other franchises would have such constant attempts of deconstruction/analysis/hax0rs/etc.

Also, who the shit buys unidentified items?

A lot of people on JSP which a good amount of people use.

A lot of people were selling them as a reliable way of making a buck.

[arus2001]

I never really grasped the "unidentified" market, either. But I guess the compulsive gambler in others is stronger than my own.

[kisada]

basically the chance you hit it really big on a weapon is so minuscule that when you sell an unid'd weapon (like when hellion/rev bows were 2m each), you're making massive expected value on each sale.

[Dryr]

basically the chance you hit it really big on a weapon is so minuscule that when you sell an unid'd weapon (like when hellion/rev bows were 2m each), you're making massive expected value on each sale.

I have yet to hit a good dps weapon after sinking about 40 hrs into farming. I am absolutely baffled by people posting multiple drops they got worth tens of mils gold and even more IRL $$

[Rehn]

Wow. I remember shift clicking an item once and a bunch of jumbled nonsensical code at the time popped up. Was freaking out thinking I broke something. Didn't realize the thing was actually the properties of my item... this was after I identified it already and was showing it to my brother.

[gt_killa]

^ It was a bug they had back then with socketed item.

[Pikarya]

People still play this game o.O

[Guitarman]

Not many lol.

[Eanae]

Get your heads out of your asses, tons of people still play. You just like to hang around a circle jerk over a game you don't like.

[Syntex]

Get your heads out of your asses, tons of people still play. You just like to hang around a circle jerk over a game you don't like.

Says the person who quit for FFXI.

[Guitarman]

Get your heads out of your asses, tons of people still play. You just like to hang around a circle jerk over a game you don't like.

your assumption is as based in fact as mine is. Better pull yours out of the depths of your anus before you get pissy.

And I wanted to like this. Hence why i had a d3 avatar since the initial announcement. I 'hang around" because i'm hoping for a magical fix-all patch.

[Pikarya]

History repeats itself. Look at D2 Launch. SC Launch. Anything after WOTLK launch.

Blizzard doesn't "fix" any of their games for at least a minimum for 2-3 years with the exception of WoW. Its dead as a cow from being beaten and milked so many times.

In 2014 I'll come back to this thread and finally say its a "good game". Till then its about as kosher in quality as Maple Story.

[Dryr]

History repeats itself. Look at D2 Launch. SC Launch. Anything after WOTLK launch.

Blizzard doesn't "fix" any of their games for at least a minimum for 2-3 years with the exception of WoW. Its dead as a cow from being beaten and milked so many times.

In 2014 I'll come back to this thread and finally say its a "good game". Till then its about as kosher in quality as Maple Story.

Main draw for me and many right now is the RMAH. I wouldn't be playing any more if I wasn't picking up $3 or so after fees for a drop every few days and hoping to strike gold with a great drop worth big $$.