In what feels like an inevitable move to combat an avalanche of criticism over the new Diablo 4 season, Blizzard has dropped an emergency patch that alleviates all the frustrations at the cost of undoing the entire point of it.
The Season of Death Awakening has the usual stuff you’d expect from a Diablo 4 season, including a new boss and new mini activities that reward buckets of loot. But it also introduced a controversial change to the most powerful items in the game: Mythic Uniques.
Instead of having a handful of these Mythic Uniques available to drop from the toughest bosses, Blizzard decided to expand the definition to include any upgraded normal Unique. On paper, it seemed like a way to broaden Mythic Uniques into a category of items rather than a select few that might not even work for your character build.
The problem was that you’d almost never see Mythic Uniques because the drop rates were abysmally low, and even when you did it wouldn’t always be an upgrade. Fishing for one or two specific items in a pool of a hundred is a lot to ask in a game that has historically required much less time to gather perfect items compared to other action RPGs.