Blizzard has just put their foot down on one of the Barbarian class’ most powerful Unique effects, as the studio has announced that Diablo 4 Gohr’s Devastating Grips Unique power has been disabled right this moment.
This announcement was made by the studio over on the official Diablo 4 forums: where the studio explained that it was “outperforming expectations” or in other words, it was a bit too OP (overpowered).
We have disabled the unique power on “Gohr’s Devastating Grips” as it is outperforming our expectations. We will have a balance fix for this in an upcoming client patch before we re-enable it.
Sadly, as you can see, it will be given a balance pass (read: nerf) in an upcoming client patch before it’ll be usable once more.
For those curious, the unique power of the gloves were marked as “Whirlwind explodes after it ends, dealing [50 – 70]% of the total Base damage dealt to surrounding enemies as Fire damage.” While that in itself was OK, the fact that the Whirlwind skill was a channeling ability meant that players could start and stop it at any time, thus triggering the explosion over and over (hence why it was OP).
Another thing that was disabled today is the Stolen Artifice quest, which you can read about here.
Once the client patch is out, we’ll be sure to let our readers know.
Update: The new patch is out and has re-enabled this power!
Gohr’s Devastating Grips
- Explosion damage gained from Whirlwind reduced from 50-70% to 16-26%.
- Damage against wreckable objects no longer increases explosion damage.
- Explosion damage is only increased by the first 100 hits of Whirlwind.
You can read the patch notes for June 4 right here.
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That’s good to see that the dev’s are nerfing skills that are Op and can’t be taken advantage of. I hope Diablo 4 isn’t over run with players who use modded inventory and one hit every enemy.