Diablo IV has six Uber Uniques which are the rarest and a few 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 fully to try 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 crimson and fills up with additional robust enemies. Gamers rapidly came upon that there was a strategy to considerably improve 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, that means Helltide chests that solely give out helmets are more likely to grant these gamers Shakos as an alternative.
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“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 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 online 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 fully till a hotfix goes stay. 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 most recent patch. Others complained about how briskly Blizzard reacted to what’s arguably an innocuous situation 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 total since they’ll now drop in Helltide actions, as properly. Whereas gamers nonetheless won’t earn them even after dozens of hours of end-game farming, at the least they’ll have a change of surroundings from their normal Nightmare dungeon runs.
Diablo IV’s first season, in the meantime, goes stay on July 20. Gamers must begin fully new characters but additionally have entry to an entire new raft of season-specific skills and builds. Hopefully the action-RPG’s most devoted gamers handle to earn at the 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 stay 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 so as to maintain issues truthful. Listed here are the total patch notes:
Bug Fixes
- Fastened a difficulty the place Uber Distinctive objects had an unintended greater likelihood to drop from Helltide Chests.
Developer Notice: With the above change, we’ve re-enabled Uber Distinctive drops in Diablo IV. In whole we’ve found that solely 142 accounts obtained an Uber Distinctive between the launch of 1.0.4 and once 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 have to take motion to take care of equity inside 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 Notice: With the above change gamers will now have the ability to discover Distinctive objects from ALL Helltide Chests. Uber Distinctive objects even have an opportunity to be discovered from all chests.