What the report actually says
The details are specific enough to be worth taking seriously. The player says they were trying to finish the last part of the Season Journey, fighting Duriel in a group of two, with both players using the same Hydra Sorcerer build and the same gear. Yet only one of them kept getting instantly deleted “to nothing,” including after being resurrected. The same report also says the player has noticed hitbox issues elsewhere this season, but believes this Duriel problem is worse because they were clearly not standing in anything visible when the deaths happened.
Duriel has had visibility problems before
That does not prove this is a long-running Duriel bug with the exact same cause, but it does add context. Back in June 2023, players were already filing official forum complaints about the Duriel fight saying the camera could get blocked by arena geometry and that bad hitboxes around ground hazards made the encounter harder to read than it should have been. So while today’s report is not the same bug, it fits an old Diablo 4 pattern: when players cannot clearly see what killed them, the fight stops feeling deadly and starts feeling dirty.
This is exactly the kind of death that makes players stop trusting the game
That is the real issue here. Diablo players will tolerate hard bosses. They will even tolerate getting flattened when they know why it happened. What they do not tolerate for long is a death that looks like the game forgot to show its work. We have seen that frustration before in broader Diablo 4 complaints, including a January 2025 “Unknown Killer” thread where Hardcore players reported sudden one-shots with no clear source. That does not mean Duriel is caused by the same thing, but it does show how quickly invisible or unreadable deaths poison confidence in the game.
For now, this one stays in bug-watch territory
At the time of writing, the April 22 Duriel thread is live in Blizzard’s PC Bug Report section and does not show a visible Blizzard reply yet. So no, this is not proof that Duriel is broadly broken for everyone. But it is a very usable warning sign, especially in a season where Diabloz has already covered issues like quest steps soft-locking progression and world boss rewards going missing. Sanctuary is at its best when it feels cruel on purpose. “You died to absolutely nothing” is a different flavor, and it is a lot less charming.
