Diablo 4’s top-end item grind has developed a nasty habit lately: the more expensive the reward loop gets, the less trustworthy it feels. The latest example is an active Blizzard forum thread titled Crafted Mythic Unique is Non Ancestral, where players say Mythic items created through crafting are showing up as regular Mythic Unique items at item level 800 with one Greater Affix, instead of counting as Ancestral Mythic Unique items the way they expected. The original report says this is also blocking progress on the Season Journey objective “Fabled Power.”
That is a pretty ugly bug to have attached to one of the game’s most expensive reward paths. In the original thread, the first player says they crafted two Shroud of False Deaths and both came out wrong, while later replies say the same thing happened with Heir of Perdition and additional Shroud crafts. So this is not just one player screaming into the void after a bad roll. It is a small but very real pile of people all describing the same kind of top-end crafting failure.
It is not brand new, but it is very much still alive
This is where the story gets interesting. The actual thread started on March 22, 2026, so this is not some surprise bug that appeared out of nowhere this morning. But Blizzard’s current Diablo IV PC Bug Report index and broader latest topics page both still show Crafted Mythic Unique is Non Ancestral among the active current bug discussions on April 14, which tells you players are still hitting it or at least still pushing it back into view. That makes it less of a one-day complaint and more of an unresolved irritation that keeps refusing to stay buried.
This also fits Diablo 4’s current reward-trust problem a little too well
That is probably why the story lands so easily. Diabloz has already covered how a Mythic Unique Cache could disappear after crafting, and how 19 Greater Bloodied Caches allegedly vanished before a crash. Different bug, different failure point, same basic rotten feeling: players are putting serious resources into reward systems and getting back something unreliable, incomplete, or just gone. That is not great in any loot game. In Diablo, it is basically sacrilege.
The real problem is not just the item level
Because this is not only about whether a crafted Mythic should have a different label. The original post explicitly says the bug is also preventing Season Journey credit for Fabled Power, which means the problem bleeds into progression tracking too. Once a bug starts messing with both item quality and seasonal progress, it stops feeling like a weird display issue and starts feeling like the game’s reward logic is drunk.
Expensive crafting should not feel like a gamble on whether the game understands its own rules
Blizzard has not posted a visible public fix on the thread from the sources checked here. So the careful framing is still this: it is an active player-reported issue, not a Blizzard-confirmed widespread incident. But it is absolutely article-worthy, because once top-end crafting starts producing rewards that do not count the way players think they should, the whole prestige loop gets a little harder to take seriously.
