Man, let me tell you about the crazy headache Season 8 turned into with these Reliquaries. Started smooth, right? Jumped into the new season hype, grinding those new quests and dungeons like everyone else. Collected a few shiny new Reliquaries – you know, those powerful things meant to change up your game. Slotted one onto my character, feeling pretty good.
Then, boom. Something felt off mid-dungeon. My damage just… tanked. Like, hitting stuff felt like slapping wet noodles. Checked my gear, nothing was broken. Looked closer at the Reliquary in my socket. Gone. Poof. Vanished. Thought maybe I accidentally salvaged it, but nope, inventory was normal. Just the Reliquary slot was empty. Confused as heck.
Digging into the Mess
Jumped onto the forums and the game subreddit. Turns out, I wasn’t alone. Tons of players screaming about the same thing: Reliquaries just disappearing mid-play. Tried to figure out a pattern. Here’s what my testing (and everyone else’s reports) boiled down to:
- Sudden Death: Poofing while running dungeons or overworld stuff. No warning. Happened when swapping zones, loading into new areas, even just walking around.
- Stash Woes: Thought maybe stashing them was safe? Wrong. Pulling them out of your stash sometimes triggered an immediate disappear. Or they’d vanish just sitting in there!
- The Infamous 30-Minute Glitch: The big one. Playing for roughly 30 minutes seemed like a major trigger point. Like clockwork for some folks. Play past half an hour? Good chance one of your slotted Reliquaries just packs its bags and leaves.
- Unequipping = Death Sentence: Even if you managed to unequip one deliberately? Half the time, it vanished from your inventory after hitting that unequip button. Gone. Not salvage materials, just gone.
The whole thing turned into a hot mess. Lost a few really nice rolls myself because of this nonsense.
Why the Heck is This Happening?
Blizzard gave some blue posts eventually. The gist? It’s basically garbage code interaction – the nice way of saying something went horribly wrong under the hood when they built Season 8.
Core problem: The game tries to constantly save your state and update things server-side. Something about the way the new Reliquaries were tracked or communicated with the servers got screwy. They flagged the items wrong internally. So, during these background saves or state updates, the game kinda “forgot” the Reliquary existed or thought it wasn’t supposed to be there anymore. Poof. Game deletes its own items by mistake. That 30-minute trigger? Probably lines up with some specific auto-save interval or background cleanup process going haywire.
No secret setting, no hidden mechanic – just plain old bugs. Season 8 shipped faster than it was ready, and these Reliquaries were unstable as hell. Literally.
What Can You Do? (Not Much!)
Honestly? Don’t use them until fixed. Seriously. Testing showed it’s just too risky. But if you absolutely must test or use one:
- Emergency Salvage Only: Slot it ONLY when you absolutely need its power for a specific tough encounter (like a boss). Use it, then IMMEDIATELY unequip it and run to the blacksmith. Salvage it ASAP before the game can decide to eat it for lunch. Treat it like a temporary, disposable boost.
- Avoid the Stash Trap: Don’t stash them at all. It’s playing with fire.
- Shutdown Regularly: Exit the game completely every hour or so? Might help dodge that 30-minute glitch repeating multiple times.
It’s a band-aid at best. Real solution? Gotta wait for Blizzard to untangle their internal item flags and fix the backend save chaos.
Next Patch Status
Good news is Blizzard confirmed they know and it’s broken (no “working as intended” nonsense here). Last I saw before writing this, a fix is supposedly coming in the next major patch. Check the patch notes like a hawk when it drops. Don’t trust it until it’s live and verified by the community playing for more than 30 minutes without stuff vaporizing!
Season 8? Great ideas, but the Reliquaries execution turned into a real dumpster fire. Just gotta be patient or accept you’re playing relic roulette.