Infernal hordes issues

Over the past 2 weeks I’ve started to notice some issues with infernal hordes.

First - and seemingly an actual bug - sometimes aether events just don’t start. I hear the sound that indicates an event spawned, go to the location in the room and nothing happens. I’ve seen this enough now that I’m positive it’s not just a case of me killing something too quick to notice it spawn as I’ve taken note of my aether before / after and did not receive any aether. Just playing hordes now and it happened 3 times which inspired me to write this post. It’s relatively common for me, maybe 1 in 5 runs I’ll have 1 - 3 events not start.

Second - soul spires seem to be way more common now. This event has obviously been very unpopular and for good reason. Every hordes run I do it’s 90% soul spires for the first 2 - 4 waves. I haven’t seen any news about soul spire spawn rates being increased - granted I didn’t search very long - so I’m just confused what’s going on. Is this intentional?

Third - enemy spawns seem much slower / lower numbers and there is often lag between groups of enemies spawning. I rarely experience any connectivity issues / network lag so I’m certain it’s not an issue on my end.

All of this adds up to less aether, and lower rewards for the activity and not a very great experience overall. I know I can do dungeons for obducite / pit for GA gear but if that’s the case why even have hordes in the first place? /salt

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They are also bugged. I have been teleported with the spiritborn’s Hunter to some weird area of the game where I’m unable to get out, probably some poorly designed mesh collider, all in the very last wave of a 10th run! Farming obducite is so hard this season, I literally 100k in eternal, IFs used to be fun. TP to town didn’t work. The only way I was able to correct this was by selecting the horde in the map from town, so if it happens to you, don’t lose the run! Try this. Anyhow, getting my gear to MW12 crit3 this season seems like hindrance really, the nmds take forever and are super casual, you have to kill everything. And no one wants to group for hordes anymore because of soulspires.

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In addition, I have noticed a decline in Infernal Compass drops.