Diablo 4 gets emergency hotfix as its rarest item drops like candy

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An emergency Diablo 4 hotfix has arrived, preventing players from a simple trick that was handing out the rarest and most powerful gear in the game. With Diablo 4 patch 1.0.4 boosting rewards from Helltide chests, it became quickly apparent that Diablo 4 players had suddenly gained the ability to easily grab the most elusive and sought-after helmet in the RPG game. Unfortunately, if you’re reading this, you’re already too late.

The Diablo 4 Harlequin Crest is pretty much hands-down the best item in the game. Boasting a huge defensive stat buff alongside its trademark bonus giving you four additional ranks to all your skills, the Harlequin Crest – known by many as ‘Shako’ for its Diablo 2 counterpart – is almost a guaranteed best-in-slot item for all the best Diablo 4 builds. There’s just one problem; it’s almost impossible to find, with roughly five confirmed drops across all players in the game’s first month.

That all changed following the release of the newest patch. Now, the Diablo 4 Helltide chests that you open with your Aberrant Cinders can drop uniques. That’s great news for classes such as Druids, which almost rely on certain uniques to get their builds working. But over in the Twitch chat of Diablo 4’s first level 100 player, Rob ‘Rob2628,’ his viewers crafted a theory.

What would happen if a class that has no class-specific unique helmets opens Helltide chests that are set to drop helmets? Neither the Barbarian nor the Sorcerer has one, so Rob’s community got to work farming as quickly as they could. The results were almost immediate, with more players finding Harlequin Crest than had done so in the past month combined. Some also picked up the Diablo 4 Andariel’s Visage, one of the other ultra-rare uniques.

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