Fans always on the hunt for high-level Diablo 4 gear have taken to following rodents around in the hope of finding rare drops. The method first showed up on the Diablo 4 subreddit after user zerger45 published a post called “FOLLOW THE RATS,” with a preamble about how unhinged the method sounds before reassuring everyone that following rats is a guaranteed way to find Legendary-grade loot (thanks, PC Gamer).
“Okay this is going to sound really bizarre, but you need to follow the rats for good loot,” zerger45 said. “Don’t follow the predetermined path in any dungeon, instead, just follow the rats. The rats smell the cheese! I’m telling you it’s real and I feel like I’m crazy but I found multiple legendaries doing this within a span of maybe 10 minutes.”
FOLLOW THE RATS
by u/zerger45 in diablo4
A few other Redditers said they tried the method and found it actually worked, and several said they wouldn’t be surprised if Blizzard quietly hid some special feature in the humble rodent. Diablo has a history of stashing secrets in unlikely places, hence the fact that, despite Blizzard saying there’s no cow level in Diablo 4, players are still following Sanctuary’s cows around in the hopes of finding it anyway.
One commenter pointed out it’s likely just a coincidence. The rats seem to lead players to enemy mobs in dungeons, and if you defeat every enemy mob every time, you’re bound to walk away with at least some Legendary gear.
Finding Legendaries becomes a fair bit easier if you’re challenging Nightmare Dungeons on World Tier 3 or higher as well, unlike finding Unique items, which can take hours of play to find, if not days. Zerger didn’t say whether their Unique drop rate improved.
The first Diablo 4 season is coming up later in July 2023, so you might want to hold off investing too much time in your gear hunt anyway. You’ll just have to find more later.
Written by Josh Broadwell on behalf of GLHF
