You can usually count on the Diablo community to come up with massive quality-of-life-improving tips. Today is different, however, as one tip on the Diablo 4 Reddit turned out to be counterproductive.
A Lot of Goblins to Kill
The holiday event is predicated on players killing a whole lot of goblins as a community to unlock additional rewards. The goblin frequency hasn’t been great outside of Nahantu Helltides, and some would argue even there. Subo’s Mercenary ability was said to help with finding the goblins, but as it turns out, it actually hurts instead.
Subo’s main ability highlights everything around you, from resource nodes to enemies. Now, as you can see it also spots the goblins, so it’s easy to see why someone would have confused that with an improvement over the usual state.
However, this is absolutely the same as not having him around. In fact, if you’re only interested in the goblins, it’s a downgrade. The visual clutter of everything being highlighted makes them harder to spot. Here’s a clean version, without the merc:
The distance you spot the goblins at is very much the same and doesn’t seem to be extended by Subo’s ability. But if you don’t mind the clutter, there’s no reason not to bring him along anyway!
Also, there really do seem to be plenty of goblins in Nahantu Helltides if you ride around trying to find them. We ran into many double-teams around the map even in the short time testing the above.