The mind-boggling amount of loot available in Diablo 4 Season 5’s Infernal Hordes has players calling for a loot filter in the game once more. Despite some frustrating bugs trying to dampen things, Diablo 4 Season 5 has been a hit with players. The newly introduced Infernal Hordes have become the preferred endgame grind and it’s not hard to see why.
Farm enough Burning Aether during your run and you can acquire absurd amounts of Gold which has done a lot to fix one of players’ biggest issues with Season 4 . Of course, with numerous Spoils of Hell to spend that Burning Aether on, you can pick up an equally insane amount of gear. In a loot-driven game like Diablo 4, you’d think that wouldn’t be an issue, but the introduction of Greater Affixes in Season 4 makes a lot of gear fundamentally useless for endgame players.
When you can force more than 100 drops from a single chest in an Infernal Horde, the need for a loot filter becomes very apparent. Reddit user meepinz showed an example of the ridiculous levels of loot you can get by spending a large amount of Burning Aether on gear chests in a T8 Infernal Horde. While Diablo 4 has visual cues and tooltips for Greater Affix drops, the issue comes when a large amount of gear drops and the game can’t keep up.
“If I’d left all of these items in the area where the box is, you would only see a quarter of the tooltips as they just stop loading/displaying,” meepins explained. “This is a huge pain point when you’re on.