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Since Diablo 4 launched last week, the team has issued two hotfixes (that we know about) that are designed to address an unusual number of Elite enemies spawning in certain dungeons. Why? Well, Elite enemies have a significantly higher chance of dropping rarer and more powerful items. If you happen to find a dungeon that lets you fight five or six Elite enemies at once, your odds of getting the best gear go up tremendously.

Despite the Diablo 4 team’s best efforts, though, they haven’t entirely fixed the problem. Actually, as of the time of this writing, the Iron Hold dungeon is still spawning a clearly unintended number of Elite enemies. In one recent run, I faced about 10-12 Elite enemies in five-to-seven minutes it took to beat the dungeon. That’s conservatively about 5x the number of those enemies you should expect to see during that time. I also snagged four Legendary Sacred items during that run, which seemed particularly lucky but somewhat proportional to the number of Elite enemies I faced.

It’s clear that the Diablo 4 team wants to “fix” these dungeons as soon as they appear. It’s equally clear that players think these dungeons should be left alone. Neither viewpoint is particularly surprising. Developers want to prevent you from cheesing the game, and players want to make things a little easier on themselves. It’s a dynamic that isn’t exactly unique to these kinds of games. Tears of the Kingdom was recently the subject of a similar debate.

While I tend to side with the fans on this one, I think the best solution is probably found in the middle ground. See, for as lucrative as these loot cave dungeons are, they’re also quite tough. Facing that many Elite enemies in such cramped quarters at once can easily spell your doom if you’re underleveleld, undergeared, or simply unprepared. Some will easily be able to overcome these unique challenges, but their unintentional nature certainly extends to their difficulty. You’re not supposed to face multiple minibosses that are grouped so close together and often hitting you with multiple negative status effects. Your rewards for clearing those rooms sometimes feel proportional to the effort.

So maybe the solution is to embrace these glitches and incorporate them into the game. Maybe make a particular dungeon a daily challenge that offers a high concentration of enemies but follows modified “Hardcore” rules that only allow you to complete it so long as you don’t die. Alternatively, you could incorporate this glitch into a modified version of the “Butcher” concept and occasionally force players to deal with a controlled version of it without warning.

More likely than not, though, the loot cave dance will go on. Diablo 4‘s developers will try to remove the loot caves, and Diablo 4‘s fans will keep trying to find them. So if you’re trying to farm the best gear in the game, keep an eye out for dungeons that seem “broken.” You’ll want to run them as much as possible before they are fixed.

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