Diablo 4 players may have lost their minds, they’re starting to follow rats

Well, it had to happen sooner or later. The Diablo 4 community, always eager for more and better loot, may have identified a link between loot caches… and rats. We’re talking about the rats you see running around in-game dungeons and other places.

Diablo 4 has a lot of rodents, insects, bugs, and other smaller animals that the game uses for setting. You can kill them if you want, but they don’t drop loot or give any XP. But what if there was another reason for its existence?

There probably isn’t, but some players are convinced that they lead you to loot. This all started when Reddit user zerger45 posted about their experience in what has become one of the most popular threads on the Diablo subreddit.

“Okay, this is going to sound really weird,” they began, before laying out their theory. “Don’t follow the default path in any dungeon, instead just follow the rats. The rats smell the cheese!”

Supposedly, zerger45 had been doing this for a while, successfully enough to tell everyone that the rats had taken them to “multiple Legendaries” in just ten minutes.

“The rats will tell you which pack of enemies to kill, and then they’ll wander off to where you need to go! It’s real. I’m not crazy!” they exclaimed.

Since the post went live, several players have also weighed in to claim that they, too, have had a similar experience. Some even posted screenshots of their rare loot, which they were allegedly led to by a pack of vermin.

The other weird thing is that some of the players who tried to do this after the post went live were actually directed to The Butcher, the roaming boss who always seems to show up at the worst possible time to ruin a player’s day.

So are the rats really leading you to loot, or are they chuckling as they lead you to your death at the hands of The Butcher? Confirmation bias would suggest that both are true in this case. Regardless of what you believe, this is an unusually fun theory.

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