Blizzard has forgotten an item in Diablo 4 and some players had a lot of fun with it. In the meantime, Blizzard has removed the item before it could cause even more chaos.
What went wrong in Diablo 4? Season 8 has started in Diablo 4 and with it, plenty of new content for players. However, Blizzard accidentally forgot an item in the game, with which a few lucky players had a great deal of fun for a certain period of time.
Why for a certain period of time? Well, Blizzard has since removed the item with an emergency hotfix, thus ending the fun.
You can watch the gameplay of the new Season 8 in the following trailer:
Item scales damage with abilities to infinity
What was special about the item? It was a pair of gloves that you could find in the game. In English, the item is called “Ichorous Salvation,” which in German means “Handschuhe der Ichorischen Erlösung.”
However, the special feature was an effect that could scale the damage dealt to infinity. With the right combination of abilities, players could deal billions of damage points:
Every time you throw stun grenades, they deal additional fire damage, and with the right setup, you can throw dozens of them in just a few seconds. If you also add some of the unique boss abilities of the current season that further enhance fire damage, you can deal immense damage.
A user who claims to have found their own pair of these gloves posted a screenshot of the damage numbers. This was reported by PCGamer.com. The numbers go into quintillions and are displayed with a minus in front of them: This is mainly because the game can no longer calculate higher numbers.
As the English-speaking magazine PCGamer amusingly explains, in that range, the numbers don’t really matter, as you would defeat the monsters in fractions of a second anyway. A minus or a few zeros don’t make a significant difference anymore.
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