Barbarian Finds Unique Gloves – “It’s like having my own slot machine”

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Blizzard’s new game, Diablo 4, is out now and early players are finding special items. A barbarian has discovered the Fists of Fate, a unique item that tempts fate in Diablo 4? The player compares it to a gambling machine.

What is this item?

  • In the Diablo series, there have always been “unique items” that had a special name and brought effects that actually break the rules of the game: the Stone of Jordan is a well-known example.
  • While normal items bring different bonuses depending on “Prefix” or “Affix”, the unique items are fixed in their values. Special builds are often built around them, enhancing the specifics of the items.
  • Diablo 4 now offers these “special items” again: According to the first lists on the Internet (via windowscentral), there should be 14 general items that several classes can equip, and 8 to 9 additional items that are specially made for a class. We have explained to you here on MeinMMO how you get the unique items.

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    Gloves make every shot a gamble

    A barbarian has now found these gloves: A barbarian found the “Fists of Fate” and is proudly showing them off on reddit.

    He says:

    Has anyone else found these bad boys? It’s like playing my own slot machine with Frenzy active on every shot. With every shot I ask myself: am I hitting for 1 or for 30,000? Go and find out.

    Because the punches of the player wearing the gloves do between 1 and 280% of their normal damage. So the barbarian can either hit extremely hard or like a fly, it all depends on fate.

    The inscription on the gloves, the Flavor text, confirms this: “Will you let fear fool you, or will you risk everything to find insight? Ultimately, fate is just a coin that we pay for life with – Zurke.”

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    Gloves celebrate happiness in Diablo 4

    The gloves can: The gauntlets have another mechanic that comes into play on “Lucky Hit”. The barbarian has a 50% chance of such a lucky hit. If a lucky hit happens, it triggers a certain effect on the gloves, which then also occurs again with a certain probability.

    So it’s kind of like a double coin toss:

  • The first throw decides whether a lucky shot occurs at all
  • If the first throw is successful, the second throw decides which special effect happens – This can paralyze or stun opponents. The barbarian can heal himself or restore the primary resource

    • How is this discussed? In the comments, Diablo fans mostly talk about luck and the law of the series. So players say that despite having a 50% chance of making opponents more vulnerable, they would have hit 9 in a row without the effect occurring.

    Experienced Diablo players are already seeing opportunities to combine the gloves with other items to increase hit speed or improve odds.

    Diablo was invented more than 20 years ago as “ultima meets slot machine”.

    This is behind it: In any case, the item seems to fit well with Diablo. The developers of Diablo 1 had already considered Diablo as a kind of “gambling machine” where you pull the lever and then loot comes out or not.

    The inventor of Diablo, David Brevik, said:

  • back then, RPGs like Ultima or Might and Magic were all about story and characters
  • Diablo should be about loot. Brevik said, “Let’s skip all that stuff and go straight to killing and looting”

    • Killing a monster in Diablo should be like pulling the lever on a slot machine and getting either nothing or a win. Every time a powerful item dropped, it felt like hitting a jackpot.

    In previous Diablo games, players set themselves the task of finding “all uniques” in the game. This is called “the holy grail”:

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