Blizzard tried to fix a Diablo 4 bug and only made things worse, to the joy of Warlock sickos now one-shotting its hardest foes

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Uh oh – it appears, in making some changes to Warlocks in Diablo 4, Blizzard's managed to break the class to a pretty drastic extent. A particular combination of equipment will make you practically unstoppable, by way of enabling you to one-shot much of what comes your way, even in a high-ranking dungeon.

There are four aspects to this intersection of pain. You have Command Fallen and Command Ae'grom, then the Paingorger's Gauntlets, Oikos-Hewer of Mutilation, and the Evisceration Fragment. As of the last patch, having these together lets you just run through many of the RPGs enemies with ease – particularly Elites, due to the Rampage skill.

See, the patch sorted a problem with the Mutilation on the Evisceration Fragment, but it's over-corrected and made the associated effects go haywire. Diablo-focused YouTuber wudijo demonstrates as much in a short video explaining the build and just showing off its power. At the core is his own custom Lunatic outline, which uses Fallen and Ae'grom, a popular way of playing as Warlock in Diablo 4.

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Put this all together, and you'll get damage scaling to the point of just mutilating anything that steps in your way. This makes Level 150 of the Pit of Artificers, the peak of the whole gauntlet, a bit of a breeze by normal standards.

What's slightly troubling is that it's not hard to figure out this setup, as wudijo points out it was his normal build, plus the Mutilation and Evisceration fragments. Minor tweaks on their face that change the whole complexion of the game.

He reckons there'll be a hotfix for this soon, and I'd agree. It skews all the demon-slaying to a pretty drastic degree. If you want to get some kicks from it, boot up Diablo 4 as soon as possible.

Blizzard was working on Diablo 4 Lord of Hatred before the base RPG even launched, and that's why some of its biggest features were "deployed early."

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Anthony McGlynnContributing Writer

Anthony is an Irish entertainment and games journalist, now based in Glasgow. He previously served as Senior Anime Writer at Dexerto and News Editor at The Digital Fix, on top of providing work for Variety, IGN, Den of Geek, PC Gamer, and many more. Besides Studio Ghibli, horror movies, and The Muppets, he enjoys action-RPGs, heavy metal, and pro-wrestling. He interviewed Animal once, not that he won’t stop going on about it or anything.

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