Diablo IV has six Uber Uniques which can be the rarest and among the strongest gadgets within the recreation. Gamers have spent a whole bunch of hours with out ever coming throughout them—till now. A trick for simply incomes them was just lately found and Blizzard has now eliminated the gadgets from the sport solely to attempt to cease the insanity.
Beforehand solely farmable in Nightmare dungeons, Uber Uniques have been added to the sport’s Helltide occasion within the newest patch, an in-game occasion the place a specific zone on the map turns blood crimson and fills up with additional robust enemies. Gamers rapidly discovered that there was a technique to considerably improve their probabilities of getting the Harlequin Crest, higher generally known as Shako, one in all, if not the, strongest merchandise in Diablo IV. That’s as a result of characters like Barbarians don’t have many Distinctive helmets, that means Helltide chests that solely give out helmets are more likely to grant these gamers Shakos as a substitute.
“Simply do Helltide and open the helm chest again and again and over and these are dropping like sweet,” mentioned YouTuber Raxxanterax in a how-to video concerning the trick. Gamers rushed to attempt to snag their Shako earlier than Blizzard nerfed the exploit, and the Diablo IV boards and subreddits instantly started to replenish with success tales and memes. Gamers who selected the evening of July 6 to not go browsing to the sport have been kicking themselves, whereas others who bought Shako referred to as on Blizzard to not take their cheesed Uber Uniques away.
It didn’t take lengthy for Blizzard to step in and take away Uber Uniques, together with Shako, from the sport solely till a hotfix goes dwell. Naturally, there have been debates about whether or not this really constituted an exploit, versus gamers simply seizing on a seeming oversight within the recreation’s design following the newest patch. Others complained about how briskly Blizzard reacted to what’s arguably an innocuous subject when different high quality of life options are nonetheless lacking from the sport.
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On the brilliant aspect, as soon as the hotfix goes into impact, Uber Uniques just like the two-handed sword The Grandfather and the Ring of Starless Skies might be simpler to earn general since they’ll now drop in Helltide actions, as nicely. Whereas gamers nonetheless may not earn them even after dozens of hours of end-game farming, not less than they’ll have a change of surroundings from their customary Nightmare dungeon runs.
Diablo IV’s first season, in the meantime, goes dwell on July 20. Gamers must begin solely new characters but in addition have entry to an entire new raft of season-specific skills and builds. Hopefully the action-RPG’s most devoted gamers handle to earn not less than one or two of their most coveted Uber Uniques by then.
Replace 7/7/2023 7:38 p.m. ET: Blizzard has launched the hotfix and introduced Uber Uniques again on-line. It says solely 142 accounts in whole earned them whereas the Helltide chest exploit was dwell and the studio doesn’t plan to take them away from gamers. Nevertheless, if one thing like this occurs once more sooner or later it would to be able to preserve issues truthful. Listed below are the total patch notes:
Bug Fixes
- Fastened a difficulty the place Uber Distinctive gadgets had an unintended increased probability to drop from Helltide Chests.
Developer Word: With the above change, we have now re-enabled Uber Distinctive drops in Diablo IV. In whole we have now found that solely 142 accounts obtained an Uber Distinctive between the launch of 1.0.4 and after we disabled Uber Distinctive gadgets from the sport on the night of July sixth. We don’t plan on eradicating this stuff from the accounts. Sooner or later, we might have to take motion to keep up equity throughout the recreation when a bug or exploit impacts the gameplay of others.
Gameplay Adjustments
- Helltide Chests will now have the prospect to drop any Distinctive and never be restricted to particular merchandise slot limitations from any chest.
Developer Word: With the above change gamers will now be capable to discover Distinctive gadgets from ALL Helltide Chests. Uber Distinctive gadgets even have an opportunity to be discovered from all chests.