I'm joining games in progress that end in a few minutes, and as soon as I leave and try to join or create another game, or change characters, the connection to Battle.net is interrupted and I receive the ban message.
Is this just happening to me or is it widespread?
Has Blizzard made a statement about this change?
Can anyone explain to me what's happening?

From my experience, so, it's a small sample size:
1 char 3 minutes and up to 20 games per hour. As for the max per day, I do not know that.
Best practice, 7 to 10 seconds when outside of game and in each screen, e.g., if in chat screen stay 7 to 10 seconds, if in character select screen stay 7 to 10 seconds... Faster than that, may lead to a soft ban.

If joining and leaving games, that is where it becomes dangerous. I suggest staying in a game for 3 minutes before switching to a mule or to another character. Some, may disagree. But, due to the Skinner Box syndrome, I prefer playing it safe so that I am not timed out for hours, days, weeks. I do not mind wasting 3 mins magicfinding than getting soft, medium, or hard banned.

This post was edited by UAPtictac on Jun 21 2025 07:26am

I'd extend that a bit or experiment to find out for sure.. I know for playtime 3-5 min is usually fine to avoid any downtime but I was always under the impression when muling wait 5 min for the game to perm or when you try to rejoin with a diff char (unless you're using multiple keys and online-in game at the same time) the game will not be there.

Someone told me count 8 seconds between muling, i always did something like that n it always went okay. Like 10- 15 seconds.

stay in each game for a min of 8 minutes is my rule. if you exit with a lot of chars add a random exit delay.

Idk I'm finding a difference between games. If you or the host is creating games frequently (only a few min between games) it gets picky and raises a flag.. but if its a single game you are xfering in, once its permed you can leave and rejoin without much wait period and no flags raised.

Maybe different counter?

2 mins

Not sure what you are talking about, but this is what I did in the day.

Solo Transferring in a private game, stay in game for 10 minutes, during that 10 minutes, go do something, kill monsters, use wp or whatever. Then exit game and try to re-enter (re-type game and pw, do not copy/paste it) to see if it is still there. If so... bingo, spend 3 mins there dropping items, go to a different waypoint, exit game, change character, enter game again (should be still active) and pick up gear. IMPORTANT NOTE: This may have changed since D2LoD 1.13 etc.

Other methods... time is a factor... 3 to 10 minutes, especially if using this during full games or a person keeping game open for you, or using multiple keys, do NOT rush in drop then exit too fast, you may want to transfer items to another character (trusted/other key) to hold gear through the trade window, this is the safest way to do it.

Otherwise take the risks and drop and time banned.

U got a temp ban for to fast retry game slower and not mire then 29 runs per hour how much ranks to create game? 3 ranks = 1 sec