Guild Wars 2

Cliffside fractal is broken. Final kill of archy, hammer dont drop
EVERY. TIME.

It drops, but if 2+ people try to pick it up at the same time it will bug and vanish. ANet is aware, though that doesn’t mean it’s a simple fix or that they’ll be able to get to it soon. The workaround is to only ever have 1 person pick up the hammer.

Can you still carry the hammer with you from the double seal? That was a previous fix as well.

SlyDevil.3952:

Can you still carry the hammer with you from the double seal? That was a previous fix as well.

This works for the first seal hit on the final Archdiviner, but when you strike the seal all hammers vanish now. This means it doesn’t really help on second hit and beyond.

I assume resetting the fight works?

Wethospu.6437:

I assume resetting the fight works?

Yep, at that point you wipe and retry hoping it doesn’t bug again. Designate someone to go HAM-mer on boss?

Yes, resetting the fight works. In my guild runs I have never encountered the bug since assigning myself as the only person to ever touch the hammer.

my simple solution to this is usually as follows:
During the last phase (where you have to hit the seal twice.) tell your team to not pick the hammer up until they’ve seen it on the floor for 1 or 2 seconds.

I haven’t had it glitch even once doing this and you don’t lost too much of your time.

Basically as our beloved McHammer once stated:
“Stop! . wait . wait . Hammer time!”