One Diablo 4 Patch Came with a Side Effect of Immortality

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Published May 18, 2026, 9:29 AM EDT

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Diablo 4 receives regular patches, but not all of them come with bugs that make them as interesting as Blizzard's most recent update to the game. Usually, you see classes, monsters, effects, or any number of in-game features being nerfed, and that makes the rare case of a patch unintentionally buffing classes to the point that you become effectively immortal in the game so much fun. It's also rather hilarious.

Thanks to a strange bug that popped into the game when Blizzard was trying to adjust the Glynn's Anvil legendary power to make it useful in any way, Glynn's Anvil has become the most broken ability. The most interesting part is that the bug that allows for immortality isn't directly related to Glynn's Anvil.

How to Be Immortal

First, this is basically limited to classes that are already quite tanky, such as Paladins. Usually, you have a cap on the number of Resolve stacks you can get. However, you can upgrade the max stacks for Resolve by up to three through upgrading your gear on these tanky classes.

This is where the new bug comes in, as the upgraded pieces of gear bump up your max Resolve to 12 instead of three. Because you can upgrade three pieces of gear with the increased Resolve cap and start with eight stacks, you can bring your max Resolve stacks to 44.

This is important for the bug for two reasons. First, Resolve's purpose is to reduce the damage you take by a percentage. Being able to reach 44 stacks of Resolve alone makes you quite durable. However, it's the changes to Glynn's Anvil that bring immortality into the equation.

This is where the new bug comes in, as the upgraded pieces of gear bump up your max Resolve to 12 instead of three.

Glynn's Anvil now gives you four percent damage reduction for every stack of Resolve you have. Normally, this would be capped at eight stacks for a respectable 32% damage reduction. If you were only able to get the nine extra stacks through upgrading your gear, then you'd have a decent 68% damage reduction.

However, the bug that lets you get a total of 44 Resolve stacks means that you end up with 176% damage reduction with Glynn's Anvil, which is the source of immortality in Diablo 4 right now.

Immortality Won't Last

Considering you're only supposed to get three extra stacks of Resolve instead of 12, it's obvious that Blizzard is going to be fixing that particular bug soon. While it's going to be an unfortunate day, I think it's safe to say that immortality is rather game-breaking, so there's no way that this unintentional bug is allowed to remain as part of Diablo 4.

It'll be sad to say goodbye to this insane defensive boost, but the bug itself came as part of a patch that was meant to help players out with their durability. Overall, there's so much happening when you fight elites and bosses that the current defensive options for most classes don't feel like enough.

While that's one way to make the difficulty high and force you to time your use of defensive abilities, along with forcing you to keep an eye on how you're positioned in fights, I think that this bug with Glynn's Anvil has really just shown us what we're missing out on with limited defensive options in Diablo 4.