Diablo IV has six Uber Uniques which can be the rarest and a few of the strongest gadgets within the recreation. Gamers have spent lots of 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 specific zone on the map turns blood crimson and fills up with further robust enemies. Gamers shortly discovered that there was a approach to considerably enhance their probabilities of getting the Harlequin Crest, higher often 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, 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 time and again and over and these are dropping like sweet,” mentioned YouTuber Raxxanterax in a how-to video concerning 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 replenish with success tales and memes. Gamers who selected the evening of July 6 to not go browsing to the sport had been kicking themselves, whereas others who received 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 recreation’s design following the most recent patch. Others complained about how briskly Blizzard reacted to what’s arguably an innocuous problem when different high quality of life options are nonetheless lacking from the sport.
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On the brilliant 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 will likely be simpler to earn total since they’ll now drop in Helltide actions, as properly. Whereas gamers nonetheless may not earn them even after dozens of hours of end-game farming, a minimum of they’ll have a change of surroundings from their normal Nightmare dungeon runs.
Diablo IV’s first season, in the meantime, goes reside on July 20. Gamers must begin totally 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 a minimum of 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 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’d in an effort to preserve issues truthful. Listed here are the complete patch notes:
Bug Fixes
Fastened a problem the place Uber Distinctive gadgets had an unintended larger likelihood to drop from Helltide Chests.
Developer Word: With the above change, now we have re-enabled Uber Distinctive drops in Diablo IV. In complete 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 these things from the accounts. Sooner or later, we could have to take motion to take care of 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 Word: 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.
