Zir’s Abattoir, or originally: The Abattoir of Zir, is a new dungeon in Diablo 4. It provides unique rewards and becomes increasingly difficult over 25 levels. Experts said that no one should be able to complete it. However, a Barbarian has now mastered the highest difficulty – and is supposedly not even the first.
What kind of challenge is this?
- Zir’s Abattoir is essentially the same as the Greater Rifts from Diablo 3: you have a certain amount of time to kill enough enemies. As a reward, you get a unique glyph that you can level up to level 200.
- The Abattoir has 25 levels, with the expert wudijo stating: the dungeon is not meant to be completed at all.
- Initially, it did seem like that. Blizzard even intervened and significantly nerfed the Abattoir – now the first players have finished it.
This is how the Abattoir has now been defeated: As wowhead reports, a Chinese player has allegedly become the first in the world to defeat the Abattoir of Zir on level 25. He played as a “HOTA” Barbarian, which is a build with Hammer of the Ancients.
He also took advantage of the healing from Whirlwind. Overall, his strong self-healing helped him particularly in the fight against the last pack.
The player named Xingluoah took less than 9 minutes to complete the level. He has already leveled his glyph to level 140. According to wowhead, Xingluoah had been active in WoW and League of Legends for years before. Now he wanted to conquer Diablo 4.
We have already spoken with the devs about the future of Diablo 4:
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The news of the success of the Chinese player quickly found its way to Reddit. However, some users claimed that Xingluoah was not the first to defeat the Abattoir.
Many players had reported on Discord before him that they successfully completed level 25. These were mostly sorceresses, who currently have one of the strongest builds available.
However, tangible evidence is currently quite sparse, and Xingluoah has at least streamed all of his runs (via douyin).
Either way, it is an impressive achievement that one or more players have already conquered the Abattoir just a few days after its release. After all, it was actually labeled as “impossible”.
Especially for “casuals,” the new dungeon seems to be more of a torment than a pleasure. However, the recent changes have helped a lot:
Diablo 4: “Better, but not yet perfect” Blizzard changes latest challenge, it was too hard
