Proof of Diablo 3 Release Date

[moocowmaster3]

The following was originally posted by Evil_stalker@d2jsp

Please, don't judge this before you read it through and think about it! I finally, after several months of extensive research have found the true secret that Diablo carries. Please bare with me.

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:
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 shit 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:


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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.


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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.

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.

DISCLAIMER: I WROTE THIS IN A REAL HASTE BECAUSE I JUST FOUND OUT! I WILL POST A NEW, CLEAN WRITTEN MORE USER-UNDERSTANDABLE VERSION AS SOON AS POSSIBLE! AT THE MOMENT IT IS 23:21 O'CLOCK HERE IN SWEDEN AND I GOT TO GET TO BED AS I START WORK AT 6am TOMARROW. PLEASE, BEFORE FLAMING / DISAGREEING READ THROUGH THE WHOLE THREAD! YOU WILL SEE MY FINDINGS ARE FLAWLESS.

[Orange]

if he's right, then I guessed right and it is my birthday. But I doubt he's correct.

[FWI]

Think I've seen this a while ago...

[Zoen]

I'm going to laugh when September 9th, 2009 comes by and Diablo III hasn't even reached a public beta phase.

[white_raven]

These type of "number" games are always funny

The sept 11 one is Epic though
this was pretty good also

[Cloudfire]

I love the logic in this

[Berto]

Oh man... That's quite the information there. Interesting. Very interesting.

[Flayer]

Originally Posted by Zoen

I'm going to laugh when September 9th, 2009 comes by and Diablo III hasn't even reached a public beta phase.

Yeah..and I doubt they would release a patch then a whole new game so close together..
Are they any news on the 1.13 patch..? Or did they decide not to do that..? It's almost July..and they said early as end of April....

[moocowmaster3]

I for one highly doubt this is true, but its just an interesting find...
The date is far too soon to be real, i'd really be suprised if it's true

[Berto]

If this information has been in the game for this long, why didn't anyone bring it to our attention earlier? I mean hell, if its been around since patch 1.07, why now? Coincidentally this information is being told to us when we already know for a fact that a Diablo III is coming out.

[vlcmskater]

I personally don't believe it if you play around with numbers enough you can get the results your looking for.

And obv. he did I don't think that the programmers woulda planned this out all the way back to d1.

[Riku]

Not to mention the game hasn't even started beta testing yet, and usually that happens a few months before the games release.

I think at Blizzcon they're going to announce a beta.

[Jim]

jesus christ guys its a joke

i cant believe your all taking it seriously lol

[Shmoo]

Has anyone actually checked the stats or anything?
p.s. i just google hex translator and Diablo 3 Release Date came up as a related search. lol!

[twizted_diablo]

Makes sense. 09/09/09 = 666 upside down, mark of diablo aka devil

[Orange]

maybe it's a beta release or when they planned to release it before.

[Riku]

Originally Posted by Orange

maybe it's a beta release or when they planned to release it before.

Or maybe it's just a coincidence.

[Zoen]

Originally Posted by Orange

maybe it's a beta release or when they planned to release it before.

It could've been a previously set planned release date, but since their Diablo team left in the middle of development, that sorta put things at a standstill.

That alone would've put a hefty delay in their plans.

[JMM]

sc2 will definitely predate d3, and not even it will be out this soon.

I actually hope d3 won't be here for a while, my free time's about to die for the next few years.

[Funky]

Hmm that's a fail.

From Lord of destruction to : Trout, from trout to Gnaw, from Gnaw to Gnaw Fold (Random rare ring) That's pointless.

And IMO, the Hex code isn't legit, there's no proof that it's the real code.