Yesterday the earthen achievement got fixed, but no mention for the “I Pitied the Fool”. The War Within Hotfixes - February 11 - #386 by Kaivax
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I am hearing this was done so the love fool couldn’t be dropped in M+ to prevent exploiting there so they are 100% aware of what change they made that caused this issue. My concern is the lack of any regard from Blizz for the large community of achievement hunters. As mentioned previously the easiest fix is to just change the requirements for the achievement!!!
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This seems to me to be the only real way forward. You’re right: Blizzard made toys that can generate threat unusable in instances to prevent, at least, “clever use of game mechanics” in situations that would be cheesed by having a temporary tank. (That, and the ability to troll group content by pulling with toys.)
There seems to me no way to preserve the achievement as is while also preserving that decision.
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Having the same issue. Please send help! lol
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As contingency, I would recommend everyone stuck with the Naxx portion of the achievement ensure that they have completed every other criteria on it.
On the chance they take too long to implement a fix and it is after the event ends, if they take the approach of only removing Naxx from I Pitied The Fool, players will only get it completed for them if they have every other piece of criteria met. Alternatively, they may also remove the achievement from Fool For Love’s requirements entirely, in which case it won’t matter as much.
Hopefully neither of those scenarios have to be cared about because they get a fix in before the event ends.
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Of course the year I decide to finally do the holiday achievements its bugged, with no hope in sight. Amazing
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and here I thought it was my fault for doing the same
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Dont let the thread get pushed to the next page.
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Gotta wait another year for this drake …
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yeah, shame that programmers can’t get this simple code fix right in a week’s time, along with SO MANY OTHER THINGS they don’t go back and fix… Because “NextExpansion”-ism takes over…
Good lord, Blizz, just remove the line that says “UseOutside=1” and make it 0… done in 30 seconds… But no, you need a meeting about meetings and a Teams/WebEx TPS report cover sheet about it…
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This game keeps breaking more and more and they never fix anything. This one is time sensitive and all we get is a “we are aware, FINGERS CROSSED that this will be fixed”
Fingers crossed? It’s your job
I get that fixing simple things is way more complex than it looks but this wouldn’t happen that often if they fixed stuff before it gets to this point, we’re not talking about an indie company.
Also, just mark the dungeon as outside or the item usable inside while you find the problem.
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Literally same. Frustrated, but comically so. I can’t wait to see how this ends.
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As others have suggested - why can’t they just remove this achievement from the meta achievement at this point? Instead of leaving paying customers in the dark and saying that they’re working on it, just pick the path of least resistance.
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Inside/Outside is only one part.
The other is that you can’t use the items in a Raid Instance because they don’t want you to cheese aggro or generate extra class resources and such.
They need to fix both sides of the issue. It was clearly working at some point (potentially Monday and/or Tuesday at the beginning of the event), so it’s definitely nothing they can’t do (probably an exception to the rule for Naxx or all legacy content or something).
They just need to actually do it.
If a newer patch / hotfix is messing with it, then, yeah, remove it from the achievement for now. They’re running out of time. Honestly even if they remove it from the achievement, if they do it too late, there are going to be people who didn’t bother finishing the REST of the achievement because they got stalled at Naxx. Which, yeah, on them, but it will 100% happen if that’s where we end up. There needs to be a solution before the Holiday ends even if the solution is striking Naxx.
They could also just make it work outside of the instance, next to the Meeting Stone, that way they don’t have to mess with making the toy usable indoors or anything.
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For sure.
It used to work that way (and also inside the instance).
It’s more intuitive if we can assume it wants us inside the instance, but working at the summoning stone is better than nothing and it never hurt anything so I’m not sure why they went out of their way to make it so you have to be inside.
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Tried on a vulpera (my main level 80) and my undead (level 78 but been around a long time) and could not place the box or the toy inside nax.