This might not be a bug. If it is, it happened since last week. CR in Asia used to reset on the same day (not same ‘date’. around the same time, give or take couple of hours). But somehow since last week Asia CR was moved to Fri-Sat. Don’t know if it was intended or not.
Either way. If Season 21 in Asia indeed starts at Fri, 5:00 P.M., Korea time without trouble, looks like Asia will have two CR caches back to back. Speed racers won’t care, as CR will reset approx. 9 hrs after season start, but as a guy who plays in all region, main in US, this can come in handy.
I was able to invite an alternate account I have into the Wizard CR and both were Wizard. So no getting the barb with the Wizard maps or vice versa. It’s either you get the barb and you want to exit. Honestly, I don’t think changing characters or game mode matters. Just go back to the menu and enter until you find the Wizard challenge rift. It took several weeks for challenge rifts to get fixed on console. Although PC probably has better developer support than console, I expect this to not be fixed by Friday, so I’ve been looking for workarounds. The most reproducible one seems to go back to the menu and start a new challenge rift game until you get the Wizard one.
5 PM Korean time would be 4 AM my time. So, I would have between 4 AM and 1 PM Friday to run CR157 and after 1 PM I could then run CR158. (Provided you’re correct about the 9-hour window).
We are going to all inndividually make solo games to get the wiz #158 game, then invite the other 3 players.
This is a work around not a fix.
A very inconvenient season start.
didnt work for me. I am in NA region, I followed your tutorial, but still getting the barb (I see the wiz in the main menu but when I enter the CR I get the barb)
It is not a “tutorial”. It is a bug report. I documented my personal experience with this issue. Others’ experiences may be different. I never intended anyone to use information I provided here as a “workaround”.
This is not a discussion forum and it is not a help forum. The information provided in the OP is meant for Blizzard’s QA Team. Nothing more.
Just want to add, Asia CR has been updated to wiz. And reset time was changed back to Tues (or, the same reset time as US, EU). So no double CR caches for this week, just one.