Something odd hit Diablo 4 on April 1, and for once the joke doesn’t seem intentional. Players began reporting that Mother’s Blessing no longer looked active, with one forum thread saying the bonus appeared to be gone on Xbox and another claiming the extra Tree of Whispers cache had stopped dropping entirely. Both threads popped up on Blizzard’s Diablo IV forums the same day and quickly landed among the game’s latest active discussions.
The immediate complaint is simple: turn in Grim Favors, get normal rewards, and then… nothing extra. That matters because this kind of event is supposed to be a small but useful accelerator, not another thing players have to troubleshoot between nightmare dungeons and stash cleanup. One player report frames it as Mother’s Blessing ending early, while the bug-report version focuses more narrowly on the missing bonus cache from the Tree of Whispers.
Here’s where it gets messy. In Blizzard’s earlier official Mother’s Blessing runs, the event has included boosted XP and gold alongside bonus caches tied to Tree turn-ins. But current community coverage around the March 2026 event says Gift of the Tree was only scheduled through March 31, while Mother’s Blessing itself was expected to continue through April 7. In plain English: players may have been stacking two overlapping events, and one of them may have quietly fallen off the calendar first.
If that’s the case, then the missing extra cache on April 1 may not mean Mother’s Blessing fully ended early. It may mean the shorter Tree event expired on schedule while the longer XP-and-gold bonus kept running. That theory would fit at least part of the confusion. It also lines up with one player in the general discussion thread saying the buff still appeared to be working on PC, while others on console said it looked gone. So this may be part event overlap, part platform weirdness, or just Diablo 4 once again turning a simple bonus week into a detective quest.
A bonus event shouldn’t need patch notes-level decoding
Whether this is a real bug or just muddy event timing, the result is the same: players don’t know if they’re losing rewards because something broke or because Blizzard explained two overlapping events badly. And in a live-service game, that distinction matters. Bonus weeks are supposed to bring people back. They’re not supposed to make everyone stare at their buff bar like it owes them money.
