Guild Wars 2

During the seal hitting phases a player who falls off the side of the cliff is automatically put in a downed state near the seal so the party can rez. However if the player who fell was holding the hammer the hammer will disappear. This happens once and awhile as some seals mechanics knock you back if you are too close to the seal while hitting. The hammer used to spawn with this downed person if I remember correctly.

However since the patch you lose the hammer. This used to not be a problem because the hammer could be reset by having the entire party wipe and retry from checkpoint.

Unfortunately since the patch this no longer works. Upon full party wipe and reset you see the small platform the hammer is supposed to spawn on with about 2 seconds of gold glitter animation. But no hammer ever spawns. Normally the hammer spawned on the platform upon full reset and was surrounded by gold glitter animation until you pick it up.

I tried full party wipe multiple times and we checked the other platforms where the hammer spawns at previous checkpoints. This has happened to me TWICE now. The result is always a party disband as you have to start over but everyone is frustrated.