This equipment essentially made everyone invincible in God Mode, but Blizzard has now sealed the loophole!

Some lucky players managed to loot a pair of placeholder gloves in Diablo IV that granted them overwhelming power—enough to cruise through the game’s toughest dungeons with ease… at least until Blizzard stepped in with a hotfix. The item in question, named Ichorous Salvation, was never meant to appear in the live game. The [PH] label even marked it clearly as placeholder content. Still, the gloves had a uniquely broken mechanic: an infinitely scaling damage effect.

Every time players dropped stun grenades, the gloves triggered additional burning damage. With the right setup, you could launch dozens in mere seconds. Add in seasonal boss effects that further scale burn damage, and you had an unstoppable force of destruction. One player on the Sanctuary Diablo 4 Discord server claimed they found a pair and posted a screenshot of the damage output. The value was so massive—reportedly in the quintillions—that the game rendered it as a negative number, essentially breaking the engine’s math system.

Blizzard Disabled It—But Didn’t Remove It

Using this gear, the player reached the top tier of the Pit, which is even harder now in Season 8. Blizzard eventually issued a hotfix disabling the gloves’ effect, but they did not remove them from player inventories. The item’s tooltip now states it is “blocked,” turning it into a digital relic of Blizzard’s oversight.

This isn’t the first time placeholder items have appeared in Diablo IV. Usually, they are so incomplete or broken that they’re unusable. Longtime Blizzard fans may remember other infamous placeholder gear from games like World of Warcraft. The most notorious was Martin Fury—a shirt that killed all enemies within 30 yards. That was back in 2009, and anyone who used it was permanently banned. Thankfully, Ichorous Salvation is unlikely to lead to that kind of punishment in Diablo IV…

Source: PCGamer, WoWhead, Wowpedia