There’s plenty of incredibly powerful builds to be had in Season 8. However, some are a liitle bit too powerful. Like infinity damage too powerful. And when this power comes from an item that’s not supposed to drop at all, things need to be fixed!
A Placeholder Breaking the Damage Calculation
We’ve seen builds that break Diablo 4’s damage numbers before. The damage just gets too high and the game resorts to the maximum value of a 64-bit signed integer. It also makes it a negative value for some reason. But what was causing this? Well, meet Ichorous Salvation!
As reported by PC Gamer, a few players managed to get their hands on these Unique Rogue gloves. They were clearly not meant to be released or possible to drop, as they still had the [PH] AKA placeholder tag on them. A Chinese player cleared a Pit 102 with extreme ease in under two minutes with them, and there’s even a video to check out!
The Sanctuary Discord also had a player find them and poke around:
Those first two affixes sure are something. The Stun Grenade damage keeps on multiplying, and with the huge amounts of them that can be dropped fast, along with other damage over time buffs, it all adds up to a number too big for the game to process. Blizzard quickly acted and made the item unusable. Interestingly, they didn’t remove it, but blocklisted it, similar to what happened to the Crown of Lucion recently.
We’ve seen the negative integer overflow before, a few times in fact. One of the recent ones featured a 2 million+ HP Barbarian combo, so let’s see how many more times players can reach the number-breaking amounts!
