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[D4] Diablo IV Pulls Rarest Item After Fans Find Easy Exploit

kotaku.com Diablo IV Pulls Rarest Items After Fans Find Easy Exploit

Blizzard has temporarily turned Uber Uniques off after players made it rain Shakos

Diablo IV has six Uber Uniques that are the rarest and some of the most powerful items in the game. Players have spent hundreds of hours without ever coming across them—until now. A trick for easily earning them was recently discovered and Blizzard has now removed the items from the game entirely to try and stop the madness.

Previously only farmable in Nightmare dungeons, Uber Uniques were added to the game’s Helltide event in the latest patch, an in-game event where a particular zone on the map turns blood red and fills up with extra tough enemies. Players quickly found out that there was a way to significantly increase their chances of getting the Harlequin Crest, better known as Shako, one of, if not the, most powerful item in Diablo IV. That’s because characters like Barbarians don’t have many Unique helmets, meaning Helltide chests that only give out helmets are much more likely to grant those players Shakos instead.

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Tbh this seems like an entirely predictable consequence of not having enough good endgame equipment. Barbarians don’t really have other unique helms, you say? How weird! It was definitely like that the day before the patch, too. You know, when everyone was complaining about the lack of variety and interestingness in endgame loot.

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- Seriously, I've had rares that were more useful than the uniques I've gotten. Not only that, but they keep giving me the same damn ones. I have 3 of those silly Frostburn gloves.
  
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  Yeah, that's pretty much how I feel about most of the uniques. I don't think I have a single character actually wearing any. They're cool, yes, but I tend to look at them and go "cool" and then stick them in my stash and keep my better boots on.
  
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So they removed the items from the game temporarily because the game was working as intended? Seems a little lame to me.

I can’t help but wonder if this wasn’t an always online game if they would have cared as much or acted this fast to fix it.

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- Wait. People are having.... fun!? They're getting overpowered loot and mowing down the hordes of hell as if they were nothing!? We can't let this stand!!
  
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  Yeah, I don't understand why they have to make the endgame grind so boring and tedious. Like, hey, maybe instead of capping your loot so much, why not just...oh I dunno, add a few more challenging bosses between capstone Elias and Uber Lilith?
  
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For shako being the rarest item in the game, it's so utterly boring.

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This whole thing has been a roller coaster. I swear I was seeing posts of people getting extremely rare uniques in hell tide before the last patch. Then I heard about the patch and started doing more helltides to try to get some new rares. Now I find out that “Uber unique are a thing,” and I could have found a lot if only I was a different class.

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Imagine pulling items because the small item pool makes them too easy to get. Some gigabrain strategies at play here.

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