Summary
- Blizzard increased Treasure Goblin spawns in Diablo 4’s Slay Ride to Hell event, addressing player complaints.
- Players can unlock rewards by collectively slaying goblins, with tiers unlocking at 5, 10, 15, 25, and 40 million kills.
- A hotfix resolves issues with goblin kills not contributing to challenges, aiming to improve event participation and overall experience.
Blizzard has made some adjustments to Diablo 4‘s Slay Ride to Hell holiday event, which should solve some issues that players have been running into concerning Treasure Goblins. The latest hotfix should both increase the number of Treasure Goblins spawning throughout Diablo 4‘s realms and ensure that their deaths are contributing to the Treasure Goblin Nemesis Challenge.
Diablo 4 first announced the Slay Ride to Hell community event about a week ago, offering a challenge that offers big potential rewards to the entire player base, provided they can slay enough Treasure Goblins within a set amount of time. The event kicked off on December 17 and runs through January 2, 2025. Five tiers of rewards will be available during the event, unlocking as the entire player community effectively slays an increasing cumulative number of Treasure Goblins.
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For the Slay Ride to Hell event, Blizzard has increased the number and frequency of Treasure Goblin spawns in Diablo 4, ensuring that there are plenty for players to hunt down as they seek to unlock additional reward tiers for the community. Just two days after the event began, Blizzard has already increased that spawn rate again through a hotfix announced on December 19 by a community manager on the official Diablo 4 forums. According to those notes, the hotfix will continue to increase the spawn rate of Treasure Goblins throughout Sanctuary and Nahanthu, as well as fixing an issue that had been causing some Treasure Goblin kills to not contribute to the community challenge total.
The hotfix may come as a reaction to fan backlash over the start of the seasonal event. After the Slay Ride to Hell event’s launch, several players reported having a hard time finding areas full of Treasure Goblins in Diablo 4. Players had been complaining that they hadn’t noticed an increase in Treasure Goblin spawns at all, with a few even speculating that Blizzard wasn’t accurately tracking the number of global kills. Others had pointed out that Tresure Goblins were much easier to find when roaming the game’s overworld, with their numbers seeming higher in Nahantu than in Sanctuary.
Despite the complaints from some members of the community, players already unlocked the first tier of Treasure Goblin rewards on December 18. Meeting the mark of 5 million Treasure Goblins slain, this benchmark nets all participating players a Legendary Weapons cache, as well as bonus runes and an Undercity Tribute for every player who has purchased Diablo 4‘s Vessel of Hatred DLC. Additional reward tiers will unlock when the global kill count for Treasure Goblins reaches the 10 million, 15 million, 25 million, and 40 million marks.
Diablo 4 December 2024 2.0.5 Hotfix Notes
Greetings, Wanderers
We have released a hotfix to address several points with the Slay Ride to Hell event:
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where killing some Treasure Goblins was not contributing towards Treasure Goblin Nemesis Challenge.
- Increased the amount of goblins spawns during the Slay Ride to Hell event.
- Various server performance and stability improvements.
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