Diablo IV has six Uber Uniques which are the rarest and a number of the strongest gadgets within the sport. Gamers have spent a whole lot of hours with out ever coming throughout them—till now. A trick for simply incomes them was lately found and Blizzard has now eliminated the gadgets from the sport totally to try to cease the insanity.
Beforehand solely farmable in Nightmare dungeons, Uber Uniques had been added to the sport’s Helltide occasion within the newest patch, an in-game occasion the place a selected zone on the map turns blood pink and fills up with additional powerful enemies. Gamers rapidly came upon that there was a approach to considerably improve their probabilities of getting the Harlequin Crest, higher referred to 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 an alternative.
“Simply do Helltide and open the helm chest again and again and over and these are dropping like sweet,” stated YouTuber Raxxanterax in a how-to video in regards to the trick. Gamers rushed to try to snag their Shako earlier than Blizzard nerfed the exploit, and the Diablo IV boards and subreddits instantly started to refill with success tales and memes. Gamers who selected the night time of July 6 to not go surfing to the sport had been kicking themselves, whereas others who acquired Shako known 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 totally till a hotfix goes reside. Naturally, there have been debates about whether or not this truly constituted an exploit, versus gamers simply seizing on a seeming oversight within the sport’s design following the most recent patch. Others complained about how briskly Blizzard reacted to what’s arguably an innocuous difficulty when different high quality of life options are nonetheless lacking from the sport.
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On the intense facet, as soon as the hotfix goes into impact, Uber Uniques just like the two-handed sword The Grandfather and the Ring of Starless Skies shall be simpler to earn general since they’ll now drop in Helltide actions, as effectively. Whereas gamers nonetheless may not earn them even after dozens of hours of end-game farming, at the very least they’ll have a change of surroundings from their commonplace Nightmare dungeon runs.
Diablo IV’s first season, in the meantime, goes reside on July 20. Gamers should begin totally new characters but additionally have entry to a complete new raft of season-specific skills and builds. Hopefully the action-RPG’s most devoted gamers handle to earn at the very least 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 reside and the studio doesn’t plan to take them away from gamers. Nonetheless, if one thing like this occurs once more sooner or later it would in an effort to hold issues honest. Listed below are the total patch notes:
Bug Fixes
- Fastened a problem the place Uber Distinctive gadgets had an unintended larger probability to drop from Helltide Chests.
Developer Observe: With the above change, now we have re-enabled Uber Distinctive drops in Diablo IV. In whole now we have found that solely 142 accounts obtained an Uber Distinctive between the launch of 1.0.4 and once 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 inside the sport 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 Observe: With the above change gamers will now have the ability to discover Distinctive gadgets from ALL Helltide Chests. Uber Distinctive gadgets even have an opportunity to be discovered from all chests.
