Castle Thorn and the Mystery of the Disappearing Circle

DUTCH_REAPER · October 2023

It’s just a massive bummer when going for trifectas and then this bug which has been known for years strikes members of your team.

celner4_ESO · January 28

@ZOS_Kevin @ZOS_GinaBruno any update to this not being fixed yet?

baconaura · February 6

@ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_Kevin Still experiencing this on xbox NA and PC NA. is there an ETA on this?
This makes getting the HM almost impossible, especially during this event where the mask style page is dropping....

This is easily reproducible, and hoping to atleast get an acknowledgement about this bug from you guys...

smallwitchy · February 12

me when the: ran hm countless times with desync because i've learnt to just follow my buddies closely. gg zos

Dalsinthus · February 12

This has been a thing on Xbox NA for a very long time. When my dungeon group ran the perfecta, we got around the problem with the circles using the following approach. We'd clear the dungeon and get to the final boss, activating hard mode. Then one player would stay in the dungeon, while the others logged out, quit the game, and closed the game from the Xbox home menu. Then you go into your settings -> storage -> delete local save games. The Xbox will reset and then the players log back in. Once the players are back in the game, the person that is waiting in the dungeon does the same process: log out, quit game, delete local saved games, and re-log. Once everyone is back in the dungeon, commence with the fight.

This worked 100% of the time as we worked on completing the perfecta. It's an annoying pain but totally worth it to avoid the desynced circles issue.

Happy achievement hunting

Rkindaleft · May 28

3 years of this bug

Fix is needed.

boltyr · September 1

Good thing castle thorn is today's pledge. Fix it ZOS

saschmi3 · September 9

This is STILL happening, and the new patch added a fragment for one of the skill styles to Castle Thorn. It would be one thing if this dungeon was just abandoned, but to add new content to a dungeon that has been broken for years? That is insulting.

This is paid content. These dungeons are not free. People have to purchase this broken dungeon. And clearly you expect players to go back to it and replay it to access the new skill styles. How is that at all reasonable when *the* key mechanic of the fight is broken? @ZOS_Kevin @ZOS_GinaBruno

Anifaas · September 15

Just experienced this. Really frustrating. This should have been fixed quite a while ago.

SilverBride · September 15

This also happens if we get Lady Thorn as a boss in the Infinite Archive. It happened to me very recently and ended my run.