A brutal story, even if it is only one report so far
According to the thread, this happened on the player’s 12th Andariel run. They say the Grandfather dropped, the game disconnected, and when they got back in, the item was gone from the ground and not sitting in stash either. The player also says the rollback did not refund the keys used for the run. At the time of writing, the thread is live in Blizzard’s PC Bug Report section and does not show a visible Blizzard reply yet, so this is still best treated as a single-report bug watch rather than proof of a widespread issue. But for a Mythic drop, one report is enough to make people nervous fast.
Why this one stings harder than a normal disconnect
Because this is not some random trash loot from a forgettable dungeon clear. This is The Grandfather, one of Diablo 4’s Mythic Uniques, dropping from one of the game’s marquee boss-farming targets. If you are running Andariel, you are already deep in the grind loop and burning resources for a shot at exactly this kind of payoff. Diabloz has covered how the Ritual of Anguish works for Andariel farming, and that context matters here: these runs are not free, and Mythic jackpots are the whole reason players put up with the ritual in the first place.
This is exactly the sort of rollback horror story players hate
Loot games can survive bad RNG. They can survive long dry spells. What they do not survive gracefully is a moment where the rare item actually appears, then the server yanks the floorboards out and pretends it never happened. That is a very different kind of frustration because it does not feel unlucky. It feels invalidating. And right now, with players already arguing over Mythic rules and requirements, Diablo 4 really did not need a fresh story about the loot disappearing after it finally showed up.
For now, this stays in rollback-watch territory
There is no visible Blizzard acknowledgment on the thread yet, and no pile of matching reports behind it at the moment. So no, this is not enough to claim Andariel is broadly eating Mythics. But it is exactly the kind of report worth watching, because when a rare drop vanishes on disconnect and the keys vanish with it, players do not just lose an item. They lose trust in the whole boss-farm loop. In Diablo, that is a much nastier loss.
