Diablo IV has six Uber Uniques which can be the rarest and a number of the strongest objects within the recreation. Gamers have spent tons of of hours with out ever coming throughout them—till now. A trick for simply incomes them was not too long ago found and Blizzard has now eliminated the objects from the sport totally 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 selected zone on the map turns blood purple and fills up with further robust enemies. Gamers rapidly came upon that there was a strategy to considerably enhance their possibilities of getting the Harlequin Crest, higher referred to as Shako, one in every 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 an alternative.
“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 in regards to 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 refill 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 obtained 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 totally 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 recreation’s design following the most recent 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 intense 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 will likely be simpler to earn general since they’ll now drop in Helltide actions, as effectively. Whereas gamers nonetheless won’t earn them even after dozens of hours of end-game farming, no 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 totally new characters but additionally have entry to a complete new raft of season-specific talents and builds. Hopefully the action-RPG’s most devoted gamers handle to earn no 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. Nonetheless, if one thing like this occurs once more sooner or later it’d with the intention to hold issues truthful. Listed below are the complete patch notes:
Bug Fixes
Fastened a problem the place Uber Distinctive objects had an unintended larger probability to drop from Helltide Chests.
Developer Observe: With the above change, we now have re-enabled Uber Distinctive drops in Diablo IV. In whole we now have found that solely 142 accounts obtained an Uber Distinctive between the launch of 1.0.4 and after we disabled Uber Distinctive objects from the sport on the night of July sixth. We don’t plan on eradicating these things from the accounts. Sooner or later, we might must take motion to keep up equity throughout the recreation 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 objects from ALL Helltide Chests. Uber Distinctive objects even have an opportunity to be discovered from all chests.