Diablo 4 Update Makes Earning Greater Affix Items Easier Again

Diablo 4 Season 5 is in full swing, but one of its best changes, guaranteed ways to earn greater affix items, wasn't working properly--until the game's most recent hotfix, that is.

The current season, dubbed Season of the Infernal Hordes, introduced a new endgame activity of the same name that sees players battling against waves of enemies, all the while selecting boons and banes in between waves that modify gameplay. One of the most-lucrative rewards for this activity is the ability to choose a Greater Equipment Chest as a reward: one that houses an item guaranteed to have at least one greater affix.

We have released a new hotfix this morning to address runeshards not dropping in NMDs and the Greater Affix items not being guaranteed in Infernal Horde 60 Aether chests.
We will more than likely have at least one more hotfix in the coming days.https://t.co/f7xw33x09G

Greater affixes were added as part of Diablo 4's Loot Reborn update, and are items with one or more stats that are even higher than normal, making them highly sought after by players looking to optimize their characters to the max. Prior to Season 5, finding these rare items was entirely based on luck, making a guaranteed way to obtain them a godsend for min-maxing players. The only issue is those "guaranteed" sources of the items in Season 5 weren't actually always granting players a greater affix item.

Diablo 4 Update Makes Earning Greater Affix Items Easier Again

Diablo 4 Update Makes Earning Greater Affix Items Easier Again

Diablo 4 Update Makes Earning Greater Affix Items Easier Again

Diablo 4 Update Makes Earning Greater Affix Items Easier Again

Diablo 4 Update Makes Earning Greater Affix Items Easier Again