{"id":1110569,"date":"2026-01-29T10:59:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T10:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/?p=517026"},"modified":"2026-01-29T10:59:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T10:59:01","slug":"diablo-4-players-reach-infinite-damage-through-a-new-game-breaking-bug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/diablo-4-players-reach-infinite-damage-through-a-new-game-breaking-bug\/","title":{"rendered":"Diablo 4 players reach infinite damage through a new game-breaking bug"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/diablo-4-players-reach-infinite-damage-through-a-new-game-breaking-bug.png\" \/><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">A newly-discovered bug in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/news\/513133\/diablo-4-season-7-witchcraft-interview\">Diablo 4<\/a><\/em> is causing some players to deal so much damage that the numbers don\u2019t even matter anymore.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Although the specifics of how the bug works are still unclear, it\u2019s skyrocketing the power of classes that weren\u2019t even close to clearing the game\u2019s hardest dungeon type just a day ago. <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/JHtWz8MK0ms\">One player<\/a> has claimed the top spot on <a href=\"https:\/\/helltides.com\/pit\">the unofficial leaderboards<\/a> with a two-minute clear on the Spiritborn, a class that wasn\u2019t anywhere near the top of the meta. The Spiritborn player in second place \u2014 who did it without the bug \u2014 has a nine-minute clear of the same dungeon except it\u2019s 30 difficulty levels lower.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">The top players are trying to figure out what\u2019s going on with the bug, which seems to stem from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wowhead.com\/diablo-4\/witch-power\/decay-augmentation-2105834\">one of the witchcraft powers<\/a> you can earn in the latest season. It\u2019s supposed to add a bonus attack based on the damage of the skills you use, but the math breaks and climbs into the trillions. And for some classes, like the Spiritborn, it goes so high that their tooltips spit out negative numbers \u2014 almost like they\u2019ve meddled with something too arcane for the game to comprehend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">While you can\u2019t simply equip the power and instantly become an infinite damage god, it doesn\u2019t take much to build your character around it. Anyone who has been playing the season can make the swap pretty easily on some classes, which is why its getting so much attention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Polygon reached out to Blizzard to see if it\u2019s aware of the bug and if there are plans to fix it soon, but it didn\u2019t respond in time for publication. We\u2019ll update the post when Blizzard gets back to us.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Because the fun of <em>Diablo <\/em>is to make your character stronger and stronger, the developers\u2019 approach to fixing bugs has varied based on how devastating it would be to rip that power away from players. Game-breaking bugs that cause servers to crash or items to not work often get fixed immediately, but ridiculous damage numbers are a different story. Last season, bugs with the Spiritborn let them deal damage in the quadrillions and it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/rpg\/enjoy-what-youve-got-now-blizzard-has-its-sights-on-diablo-4s-overpowered-new-class-but-promises-not-to-pull-nerf-trigger-until-next-season\/\">wasn\u2019t fixed<\/a> until the start of this latest season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@Mekuna7\/videos\">Mekuna<\/a>, a Twitch streamer and one of the best <em>Diablo 4<\/em> players in the world, told Polygon he would like to see it fixed as soon as possible, but isn\u2019t sure that will happen: \u201cAny build that trivializes the hardest content in the game should be nerfed in my opinion, but since other classes like necromancer can already do it [without the bug], it feels unfair to nerf it now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/news\/517026\/diablo-4-infinite-damage-bug-season-7-blizzard\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A newly-discovered bug in Diablo 4 is causing some players to deal so much damage that the numbers don\u2019t even matter anymore. Although the specifics of how the bug works are still unclear, it\u2019s skyrocketing the power of classes that weren\u2019t even close to clearing the game\u2019s hardest dungeon type just a day ago. One player has claimed the top spot on the unofficial leaderboards with a two-minute clear on the Spiritborn, a class that wasn\u2019t anywhere near the top of the meta. The Spiritborn player in second place \u2014 who did it without the bug \u2014 has a nine-minute clear of the same dungeon except it\u2019s 30 difficulty levels lower. 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