Diablo 4 has its new seasonal content rolling in at some point this month. But while players may not get to have their experienced and overpowered characters carry into that content, it is still an exciting opportunity to see what the shelf life of Blizzard’s latest ARPG will look like. Until then, players are still meddling in endgame content and searching for Diablo 4’s elusive super rare unique items. Besides, like any live-service title, Diablo 4 surely still has kinks to iron out and quality-of-life improvements it could make based on persistent fan feedback.
These improvements are paramount because they will inform players that their concerns are being heard and addressed, which can only make players’ time with the game more enjoyable for hours on end. There is a lot of niche meta content to look into for superior Diablo 4 builds if players wish to go down that route, for example, but some fans might simply want a minor tweak here or there in order to have something be more accessible. In the case of Diablo 4’s Butcher and the Cleaver mount cosmetic he drops, there has been a bit of controversy around how it can be found and how underwhelming the actual trophy is when worn as an ornament on the player’s horse.
Slaying Diablo 4’s Butcher May Award Players with a Commemorative Cosmetic
If players don’t already know, there is a chance that killing Diablo 4’s Butcher will reward them with a mount cosmetic. This cosmetic is the Butcher’s Cleaver, which should have been a phenomenal adornment for the player’s horse after having eventually felled Diablo 4’s scariest foe, but unfortunately it is incredibly divisive.
The controversy that has swelled around this cosmetic relates to how small the cleaver appears while it is fashioned to the horse, making it seem like an insignificant prize that is hardly visible atop many mount cosmetic layerings. This has already been known about and discussed thoroughly, but some players seem to only now be discovering the item already in their inventory following a previous tussle with the Butcher.
Indeed, the Butcher doesn’t appear often and if players are casually exploring in the early game it can be horribly daunting when he does arrive. This can result in players attempting to flee the Butcher or simply being pigeonholed and their character slain, which poses a unique threat in Diablo 4’s permadeath Hardcore mode.
Players can eventually turn the tide and best the Butcher themselves, though that may take quite a while and the relief that washes over them might be too overwhelming for them to acknowledge the cosmetic drop. Therefore, players have admitted to not having noticed that the mount cosmetic was already in their inventory—let alone accidentally toss it out as junk or sell it since the portrait icon and text color for cosmetic drops arguably look unremarkable and unsuspecting.
Thankfully, any missed items also appear in the player’s stash, but if players don’t routinely stash anything it is unsurprising that they would neglect to check for tab notifications in the stash menu’s UI. Now that players are more conscious about this occurring it could mean that drops and other potentially missed legendaries might be more on their radar. Rather, it is still possible for the Butcher to be killed and not have the mount cosmetic drop since it is not 100 percent reliable.
Such rarity could also contribute to why players might not have thought to look for it in their inventories since they may have killed the Butcher multiple times and not had a cosmetic drop, and thus they didn’t think to look for one elsewhere. This raises all kinds of user experience issues that could be rectified for the player’s quality of life in Diablo 4, but in the meantime it wouldn’t hurt for players to check inventories and stashes to see if the cleaver has already been bestowed unto them.
Diablo 4 is available for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
