Technically, the latest season of Diablo 4 doesn't have unique powers like the vampire abilities of Season 2 or the robot Spider Pets of Season 3. Instead, there are several seasonal elixirs that speed up the leveling process so that you can get a new craft system, but players pushing to the highest levels of The Pit, a new, very challenging dungeon type, can expect that one of these seasonal elixirs will be able to get a new craft system.1 We discovered that the game could be the strongest seasonal "power" it has ever had.

The Holy Bolt elixir sends out light spears from the corpses of recently killed enemies, and those spears do billions of damage due to what looks like bugs, although the math under the hood is still unknown, its damage appears to scale much higher than it should. Minions, for example, reflect the stats of the necromancers who control them, but if you kill an enemy, the bolt will be 2 times the expected damage.

In the pit, the Holy Bolt Elixir pushed into more than 15 layers where the monster would take too long to kill otherwise hit the timer for 100 minutes The best Diablo 4 player has been orienting the build around the use of it and so far has been able to complete Tier 141. We have managed to make it easier for you to get the most out of your life. The only thing that stops them from getting higher is that they can kill you with 1 hit and always call other monsters to trigger the Elixir

As you can imagine, Diablo4 players have been discussing for the last few weeks whether Elixir is fair or not. Some players don't see it as anything different from other seasonal forces, whether intentional or not, but others think it trifles the seasonal focus on upgrading loot with craft. 

"The season is the season of loot. Then they give us an elixir that distorts everything and makes it almost impossible to judge the build," wrote Reddit user Spee_3.

The popular guide site Maxroll has chosen to ban Elixir for anyone who submits pit runs to its leaderboard competition.

Blizzard doesn't say much about Holy Bolt's Elixir, and whether it's okay to do most of the work in the pit. Adam Fletcher, Director of Global Community Development, wrote in X last week: "We've been talking a few things about Elixir."

Patches for the game came out this week that included a number of bug fixes, but none of them addressed Elixir. The mid-season patch is probably in the middle and could cause fixes or some kind of nerf.

Given that Blizzard promises to fix only the bugs that are actually breaking the game in some important way, don't be surprised if you leave it as it is, everyone can use Elixir; it's just that some classes will benefit far more from it . The fact that it does not carry people to Tier 200, which is the highest level of the pit, means that it is still a challenge for the relatively few people playing at that level I say let everyone choose not to have their fun or just use it.