Diablo 4’s Season 12 bug board has already been busy with progression issues, key problems, and item weirdness. Now there is a fresh report that hits something even more immediate: a player says The Butcher can lock them into a permanent stun during Infernal Hordes, leaving them able to evade, drink potions, and trigger Unstable Currents, but unable to do much else until they die or get knocked free.
That is not just another awkward edge-case complaint. If an enemy can trap a character in a half-playable state during a live fight, the problem stops being balance or annoyance and starts becoming basic combat reliability.
What is happening
The report was posted on Blizzard’s Diablo IV PC Bug Report board on March 28 under the title “Butcher Permanently stuns me.” The player describes the issue happening on a Sorcerer during Infernal Hordes and says it has happened multiple times in the days since the latest patch. According to the post, the effect persists until the character either dies or gets close enough to a mass to be hit by knockback, which clears the state.
Right now, there is no visible Blizzard reply attached to that thread in the indexed forum view. But the report is clearly live on the active bug board, and it is showing up among the newest Diablo IV PC bug topics for March 28.
Why it matters
This matters because it hits core combat flow, not just seasonal bookkeeping. Infernal Hordes are supposed to be frantic, reactive fights. If a player can still move a little, drink potions, and trigger certain effects while the rest of their kit is effectively dead, that creates the worst kind of bug feeling: the game is still technically running, but your character is no longer really functioning.
It also lands in a season where Diablo IV’s bug board is already stacked with fresh reports. On the same March 28 board view, Blizzard’s forums are also showing black-screen threads, Rank VI tracking complaints, rune-loss reports, and Bloodied key conversion bugs. That broader context makes this Butcher report feel less like a weird one-off and more like another crack in a messy seasonal patch window.
Current status / what Blizzard said
Blizzard’s latest official Diablo IV patch notes are for version 2.6.1, published March 24, and they focus on Bloodsoaked Sigil tuning plus several Season of Slaughter fixes. Those notes do not mention a Butcher stun bug in Infernal Hordes.
So for now, the clearest picture is coming from the player report itself and the live bug board: the complaint is new, public, and not matched by a listed official fix yet.
When the fight stops working
Diablo 4 can survive angry tuning debates. What it handles worse is a fight where the monster is not just deadly, but apparently capable of turning your character half-off. If that Butcher bug starts spreading, players will remember it fast.
