Diablo 4 patch 3.0.3 kills the ‘infinite goblin’ War Plans exploit

Blizzard is shutting down a range of War Plans tricks, including one that spawns thousands of loot goblins at once and lets players grind the Amalgam of Rage on loop. The patch lands Tuesday May 26.

The new Diablo 4 patch is pure bug fixing – no balance changes – but it kills off several exploits players have been messing with since War Plans hit the endgame. The most talked-about is the Gauntlet node, which “captures” the enemies you blast through under a shrine, then respawns the whole batch the second the effect runs out. Pair that with the Gelatinous Syrus, a loot goblin that splits into smaller copies of itself, and you can pile up thousands in no time.

It works so well it ends up sabotaging itself. Streamer FP, who showed off the trick in its most extreme form, points out that most of the loot just vanishes in the chaos of items stacking up, and reckons around 400 goblins is the ceiling the game can handle before it taps out.

Also getting cut: a War Plans method to summon the Amalgam of Rage endlessly, the ability to transfigure the same aspect onto an item twice, and equipping multiple unique charms at the same time.

The rest is cleanup

Obol drops from bags on higher Torment tiers are being corrected – they’re too low right now – but the cap isn’t moving, so you’ll still have to keep spending them. Swapping the Blood Maiden for Duriel in Helltide now hands out the Grim Favors it should, and Choron modifiers in War Plans no longer stop the Artificer’s Obelisk from spawning after Pit runs.

A handful of quest blockers are fixed too, including a missing bridge in the Lord of Hatred mission “Death” and a soft-lock in “The Initiate.” The funniest one is the Nahantu side quest “Scales of History” from Vessel of Hatred, which needed an Elixir to finish – an item that got removed in the expansion’s own progression rework. You can now hand it in without one.

Ball Lightning gets its Core tag back, but that’s just a tooltip fix; the build-breaking version of the problem was already sorted in an earlier hotfix.

With zero balance changes here, Blizzard looks fairly content with where the classes sit in Lord of Hatred. The next check-in isn’t far off either: a Sanctuary Sitdown Q&A with the devs is set for Thursday May 28 at 1pm PT / 4pm ET / 9pm BST in the Diablo Discord.