Dawn of the Infinite Hardmode - Catastrophic Artifact Despawn Bug

Just a quick mention about what seems to be a known and super egregious/disqualifying bug. Some guildies and I just made an attempt at Dawn of the Infinites hardmode, managed to grab all four artifacts, and proceeded through all initial bosses without dying, but our artifacts ended up inexplicably despawning as we made our way through the final portal heading toward Deios. We retained our defenders of the true timeline buffs, got the 447 item with the final boss, but, because of the bug, didn’t get the achievement because we couldn’t correctly use the artifacts in the final boss arena.

This is a major bug that saps the achievement potential of one of the few-remaining bits of challenging patch content. Please, please review this.

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there also seems to be another bug that if the group is cross-faction, the achievement is not granted even if it is done properly (no deaths, all 4 hourglasses tossed into the portals)

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Yipes! Good to know. Our experience with the first bug was bittersweet, insofar that we did technically achieve the run for the most part, but it was still a bummer to miss out. If we have a cross-faction group, we’ll keep your bug in mind.

As a bit of an update – I did manage to ticket for the despawn bug. However, big surprise, I was met with the standard we-can’t-do-anything-because-support-is-separate customer support rep boilerplate. It’s on their radar, so the best they can do is continue looking into it.

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Ironic that this actually creates a functional use for the faction-only checkbox when creating a group.

It’d be nice if they took a look at this given how long it’s been broken already.

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Just a quick bump to say that two weeks later this is still a known bug and is still very much a disqualifying, catastrophic time-waster. Heads up, please fix, I wouldn’t even bother trying for the achievement until this is fixed, etc. etc.

EDIT 8/23

Extra little bump to reinforce this post on the day Blizzard announced the Heroic and Mythic versions of the megadungeon for 10.1.7.

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Just had this happen to us tonight. Crazy this hasnt been patched yet even though this content has been out for months now.

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Woof, that’s such a bummer. Sorry you and your pals ran into it as well! I hate that I’m not surprised…

I’m probably going to have a hard time trusting these kinds of hardmode achievements from here. I don’t necessarily fault the devs if they’re up against things, timewise, but I do fault them for implementing something they didn’t have a full range of support to hotfix. It’s just egregious and weird – and wildly disrespectful of players’ time?

Dunno. Hope they fix it, but I’m a little checked out to even trust things if they “do”

Just happened to my group after killing Iridikron. Healer checked his VOD, no death or cheat death.

They did at least fix the cross-faction issue with this achievement, but yeah…shocked this other issue is still occurring.