{"id":86165,"date":"2026-07-17T13:55:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T17:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=86165"},"modified":"2026-07-17T14:36:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T18:36:38","slug":"diablo-4-season-14s-worst-mythic-change-is-no-more-not-every-idea-lands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=86165","title":{"rendered":"Diablo 4 Season 14\u2019s Worst Mythic Change Is No More: \u201cNot Every Idea Lands\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/games\/diablo-iv\/\">Diablo 4<\/a> Season 14&#8217;s most controversial change, only being able to equip one crafted-Mythic item at a time, is now a thing of the past.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a surprise <a href=\"https:\/\/us.forums.blizzard.com\/en\/d4\/t\/311a-patch-july-16-2026\/263234\">patch<\/a> on July 16 for PC (and coming sometime on July 17 for console players), Blizzard opted to remove the one equipped crafted-Mythic restriction introduced as part of Season of Death Awakening, as well as increase Mythic and Iconic Mythic drop rates from the new seasonal Lair Boss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Blizzard announced the season&#8217;s other most controversial addition, the Mythic Upgrade function of the Horadric Cube, will see changes too, but not until next season. As it currently works, Mythic Upgrade isn&#8217;t really an upgrade at all, and instead takes a Unique item and then transforms it into an entirely different Mythic Unique item, much to the confusion of players. For reasons that aren&#8217;t elaborated on in the patch notes, that change won&#8217;t come until Season 15 several months from now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both changes have been the subject of frustration in the Diablo community, with both prominent content creators and the wider community largely <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/diablo-4s-massive-mythic-item-changes-arent-finding-many-fans\/\">lambasting the changes to Mythics<\/a>, the crafted-Mythic equip limit, and the Mythic Unique upgrade system.<\/p>\n<p>  https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Nuu7aOAw0is  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dan Tanguay, design<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diablo 4 Season 14&#8217;s most controversial change, only being able to equip one crafted-Mythic item at a time, is now a thing of the past. In a surprise patch on July 16 for PC (and coming sometime on July 17 for console players), Blizzard opted to remove the one equipped crafted-Mythic restriction introduced as part&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":86167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86165"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86168,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86165\/revisions\/86168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/86167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}