PlayStation 5 Echoing Elites Achievement Bugged / Elite Kills Not Counting

Console Bug Report
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Hello Blizzard Support,

I would like to report what appears to be a bug related to the new “Echoing Elites” trophy/achievement from the latest Diablo IV expansion on PlayStation 5.

The issue seems to affect PlayStation players specifically and may be related to incorrect elite/boss kill tracking.

Problem 1 – Trophy progress does not update on PlayStation
The PlayStation trophy tracker shows no progress at all (0%) even after actively participating in Echoing Hatred runs and killing many elites/bosses. The trophy progress remains completely static inside the PlayStation trophy menu.

Problem 2 – Elite/Boss kills are not counted correctly on PS5
I played in a group together with PC and Xbox players. They successfully unlocked the achievement, while I did not receive it on PlayStation, even after more than 10 additional runs afterward.

Because of this, I believe the PlayStation version may be counting enemies incorrectly.

My suspicion:
On PlayStation, only enemies with the yellow/golden elite border around their nameplate and health bar appear to count as “elites,” while other elite-type enemies (such as purple affix enemies) may not be counted properly.

I have evidence supporting this theory:

  • In another PlayStation trophy requiring 1000 elite kills on Torment 12, the trophy unlocked exactly when I killed a yellow/golden elite enemy.

  • I also have a PlayStation video recording showing the trophy unlocking at the precise moment that specific elite enemy dies.

  • In previous Diablo IV DLC/content, similar elite-related achievements correctly counted purple affix elites as well, so this behavior seems inconsistent with older versions of the game.

Because of this, I believe the PlayStation version may currently have incorrect elite detection/tracking for this achievement, making it significantly harder or unfair for PlayStation players compared to PC and Xbox players.

Platform:
PlayStation 5

Achievement/Trophy:
“Echoing Elites”
(Kill 1000 Bosses/Elites in the Echoing Hatred)

Thank you for your time and investigation

Update 17.5.2026

Today I completed the trophy, and I can now confirm that only killed bosses count toward the progress. The trophy also progresses while playing in a group, and it doesn’t matter how many bosses a player personally kills or whether they even participate by dealing damage to the boss.

I played as a Warlock, while my friends played Sorcerer and Barbarian. Since they were faster, by the time I reached the boss they had often already killed it, and I didn’t even get a single hit in.

Depending on how many bosses you kill per run — around 20–24 is the standard — it depends when you unlock the trophy. But overall it takes somewhere between 44–50 runs, since 44 × 23 = 1,012. Most of the time we were getting 21–23 bosses per run.

I hope Blizzard fixes this bug in the future so that elite kills count as well, which would probably reduce it to around 15–20 runs.

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Yeah i can confirm this 100%

I got the 1000 Torment 12 Elite kills after blasting through Torment 12 for days and got it way after the trophy should have popped…

Trying to get the Echoing elites is the same… 15 Echoing runs later and still no trophy… reaching round 115-120 everytime

It is no fun anymore and needs to be fixed as soon as possible

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I agree. I’ve been in a group farming the Trace of Echoes item for more than a week and whenever we use it to play that new game mode, it doesn’t seem to have any progress on the Echoing Elites Trophy at all.

Something is definitely wrong here, it makes me feel like I’m doing this for nothing, no progress.

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Thank you for your post. It’s important to share this with as many players as possible who have had the same experience so that Blizzard notices the issue.

I don’t know how difficult something like this is to fix since I’m not a programmer. But either Trace of Echoes should become normally accessible with a much higher drop frequency, allowing players to grind the trophy through yellow/golden elites and bosses, or the achievement itself simply needs to be fixed.

Right now, when a PlayStation player spends hours searching for Trace of Echoes while knowing it currently does nothing for the trophy progress, it becomes a very frustrating experience and stops being fun.

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+1

i have several accounts on PC, Xbox, And ps5.

pc/xbox unlocks fine in about 15 or so runs.

ps5, i think i ran close to 30 now. still not unlocked. the 30 were run all on ps5, no cross platform. all echoing hatred runs on ps5, about 30 so far and NOTHING.

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Can confirm only boss kills count, nothing else. Unlocked trophy today, took around 35-40 runs. First 20 were on WW barb reaching tier 135ish with 20 boss kills a run by looking at the activity end results. Then another 15ish on Shadowhax rogue hitting tier 250-300 killing 40-60 bosses each run. Every run apart from 1 was done using other players keys through refreshing the party finder joining parties created seconds ago. Console - ps5

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I’ve been experiencing the exact same issue with the Echoing Elites trophy on PS5 being completely hard-locked/stuck. I wanted to submit a thorough bug report on these forums, but because of the posting restrictions here, it wouldn’t allow me to include the video evidence I recorded.

I have put together a breakdown of the bug, including proof of a Tier 1,009 Echoing Elites clear and a 0% Progress Tracker, over on the Diablo 4 Reddit community. If you would like to see the full report and video reference, you can find my post here:

Bug Report: “Echoing Elites” Trophy Hard-Locked at 0/100 Progress on PS5 (Video & Image Proof - Tier 1,009 Clear)

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Can also confirm this. Drop rate is abysmal. It was possible to get the trophy on PS5 through joining other players parties. Only bosses count, took me 42 runs.

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Yeah, I refuse to do this. I am not getting trolled by this trophy any further.. I’ve done roughly 20 runs across 2 characters, including some very deep pushes in high tiers (267, 499, 1009). I have done what is needed for this trophy.

Unfortunately, it also ‘seems’ to track this by character and not account-wide.

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Hey Blizzard can u at least have decency to reply to post just to acknowledge u see the problem?

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Does it count kills at the moment ur dead and rest of party is still going?

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still not patched, even if the original post contains every information necessary.

Vessel of Hatred was bugged (para 300), skovos map trophy is bugged and this one as well.

Every expansion the same issues, blizzard games at its best.

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This is still not fixed. With the super low key drop rate and the counting bug, this trophy becomes impossible even if we form groups to play every day. Please fix it.

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This is still not patched. The creator of this topic already included everything you need to know. The combination of the low key drop rate and the counting error makes this trophy an absolute nightmare.

Playstation players need around 50 runs, compared to about 15 runs on other platforms. Very frustrating.

It has been 4 months since the release of the DLC. Since it works fine on other platforms and you already have all the informations you need, this counting error should be a quick fix. Please patch this already.