Diablo IV has six Uber Uniques which are the rarest and among the strongest gadgets within the sport. Gamers have spent lots of 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 purple and fills up with additional robust enemies. Gamers rapidly came upon that there was a option to considerably enhance their probabilities of getting the Harlequin Crest, higher often known as Shako, considered one of, if not the, strongest merchandise in Diablo IV. That’s as a result of characters like Barbarians don’t have many Distinctive helmets, which 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 night time of July 6 to not go surfing to the sport have been kicking themselves, whereas others who received 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 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 can be simpler to earn total 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 will 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 should begin solely new characters but additionally have entry to an entire new raft of season-specific talents 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 complete earned them whereas the Helltide chest exploit was dwell 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’d with a purpose to hold issues truthful. Listed here are the complete patch notes:
Bug Fixes
- Fastened a difficulty the place Uber Distinctive gadgets had an unintended larger likelihood to drop from Helltide Chests.
Developer Observe: With the above change, we’ve re-enabled Uber Distinctive drops in Diablo IV. In complete we’ve 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 these things from the accounts. Sooner or later, we could have to take motion to take care of equity throughout the sport when a bug or exploit impacts the gameplay of others.
Gameplay Modifications
- Helltide Chests will now have the possibility 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 be capable of discover Distinctive gadgets from ALL Helltide Chests. Uber Distinctive gadgets even have an opportunity to be discovered from all chests.
