[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":343},["ShallowReactive",2],{"site-settings":3,"article:\u002Fresources\u002Fbriefings\u002Fmidnight-labyrinth-launch-bugs-achievement-extended":16,"article-surround:\u002Fresources\u002Fbriefings\u002Fmidnight-labyrinth-launch-bugs-achievement-extended":332},{"id":4,"description":5,"email":6,"extension":7,"footerNote":8,"legalNotice":9,"locale":10,"meta":11,"name":12,"stem":13,"url":14,"__hash__":15},"settings\u002Fsettings.yml","Compare World of Warcraft realms by expansion, region, population and play style.","listings@realmlist.org","yml","An independent realm directory.","Not affiliated with Blizzard Entertainment.","en",{},"RealmList","settings","https:\u002F\u002Frealmlist.org","QXaYspLUSxnrVumL6oFir6PInhNsRw-yJchxEYSe1AU",{"id":17,"title":18,"author":19,"body":20,"category":279,"description":280,"draft":281,"extension":282,"featured":281,"meta":283,"navigation":284,"path":285,"publishedAt":286,"seo":287,"sitemap":288,"sources":294,"stem":324,"tags":325,"updatedAt":291,"__hash__":331},"articles\u002Fresources\u002Fbriefings\u002Fmidnight-labyrinth-launch-bugs-achievement-extended.md","Midnight's First Labyrinth Had a Rough First Week — and Blizzard Just Extended the Fabled Kindo'jan Solo Achievement","RealmList Editorial",{"type":21,"value":22,"toc":270},"minimark",[23,34,40,49,52,57,60,91,94,119,122,126,132,139,151,155,158,185,196,200,207,228,244,250,254,261,264],[24,25,26],"p",{},[27,28],"img",{"alt":29,"height":30,"loading":31,"src":32,"width":33},"A lone adventurer faces the mist-shrouded entrance of an ancient troll labyrinth carved with serpent statues",1024,"lazy","https:\u002F\u002Frealmlist.org\u002Fimages\u002Farticles\u002Fbriefings\u002Fmidnight-labyrinth-launch-bugs-achievement-extended.webp",1536,[24,35,36],{},[37,38,39],"em",{},"Original editorial illustration by RealmList, generated for this article. This is artwork, not game footage or official promotional material.",[24,41,42,43,48],{},"The Labyrinth of Kindo'jan was the headline feature of ",[44,45,47],"a",{"href":46},"\u002Fresources\u002Fbriefings\u002Fmidnight-1215-live-keystone-myth-labyrinth","12.1.5"," — Blizzard's first mega-delve, nine chambers deep, pitched as solo endgame content that could be tackled piece by piece. Its first week did not go smoothly. The hotfix notes Blizzard published on October 14 and October 16 read like a laundry list of everything that could break in an instance: progression that failed to register, encounters that could not finish, terrain that swallowed players, and a companion who died more easily than designed.",[24,50,51],{},"Blizzard has now acknowledged the problems directly. On October 19, community manager Linxy confirmed that bugs in the first week \"impacted the ability to complete Labyrinth runs, including those pursuing the Fabled Let Me Solo Him: Kindo'jan achievement\" — and the deadline for that limited-time achievement has been extended by one week.",[53,54,56],"h2",{"id":55},"what-actually-broke-per-blizzards-own-hotfix-notes","What actually broke, per Blizzard's own hotfix notes",[24,58,59],{},"The October 14 hotfixes addressed the most progression-threatening bugs:",[61,62,63,71,77,80],"ul",{},[64,65,66,70],"li",{},[67,68,69],"strong",{},"Boss kill credit could fail to register"," when a boss had to be defeated a second time within the same Labyrinth run.",[64,72,73,76],{},[67,74,75],{},"The Kindo'jan encounter could fail to complete when the boss reached 1 health"," — the final fight literally could not finish.",[64,78,79],{},"The \"Returning the Bounty\" scenario in Jan'alai's Refuge could block the initial bag interaction or stop Hording Looters from spawning, and occasionally prevented the Pit Boss from appearing at all.",[64,81,82,83,86,87,90],{},"Enemies in Halazzi's Lair could ",[67,84,85],{},"spawn inside the walls",", and characters could ",[67,88,89],{},"fall through the terrain when respawning"," in Nalorakk's Rest.",[24,92,93],{},"The October 16 batch fixed more of the same plus quality-of-life damage:",[61,95,96,103,109,116],{},[64,97,98,99,102],{},"A rare issue could cause players to ",[67,100,101],{},"fall through the map in The Speaker's Chamber",".",[64,104,105,108],{},[67,106,107],{},"Valeera's Stagger did not function when a healer was present",", and the Scar of Kathra'natir damage-over-time effect hit Valeera harder than intended — together making the companion notably flakier than the encounter design assumed.",[64,110,111,112,115],{},"Some creatures and bosses ",[67,113,114],{},"scaled their health and damage higher than intended in groups",", quietly punishing anyone who brought friends.",[64,117,118],{},"Blizzard added a make-good for missed rewards: the Loa-Blessed Wayfarer mount and Loa-Blessed Victory toy can now be claimed from Kinduru after completing the Labyrinth if you left without looting the Ancestral Bounty chest.",[24,120,121],{},"There were also deliberate tuning changes in the same window — the Ancient Hash'ey Battle Art enchantment cap rose to item level 344 (was 334), and broader dungeon and raid health\u002Fdamage reductions went out across the October 12–19 hotfix wave. The takeaway is that 12.1.5's instances shipped both broken and undertuned in places, and both problems were addressed by hotfix rather than a client patch.",[53,123,125],{"id":124},"the-fabled-achievement-gets-an-extra-week","The Fabled achievement gets an extra week",[24,127,128,131],{},[67,129,130],{},"Fabled Let Me Solo Him: Kindo'jan"," was the Labyrinth's prestige challenge: defeat the Nemesis boss alone, on its highest delve tier, inside the first week. With encounters failing to complete at 1 health and runs resetting mid-progress, a meaningful number of players were competing against the bug list as much as the boss.",[24,133,134,135,138],{},"Linxy's October 19 post is blunt about the cause and the remedy: \"We have now addressed the vast majority of these bugs, and to accommodate players who may have had their experience impacted in the first week, we are extending the deadline to complete the achievement by an additional week.\" The new cutoff is ",[67,136,137],{},"scheduled weekly maintenance in the week of October 27"," — October 27 for North American realms and October 28 for Europe, per Icy Veins.",[24,140,141,142,145,146,150],{},"Worth noting for anyone still chasing it: the extension applies to the ",[37,143,144],{},"deadline",", not the difficulty. The achievement window now closes at the same reset that also brings ",[44,147,149],{"href":148},"\u002Fresources\u002Fguides\u002Fmidnight-1215-ascendant-venomstones-guide","Ascendant Venomstones and uncapped crests",", so late claimants will be more geared than the original week-one field — the \"Fabled\" title will simply include a second cohort of players who fought a more patched version of the Labyrinth.",[53,152,154],{"id":153},"october-2021-a-third-hotfix-wave-and-season-2-pvp-goes-uncapped","October 20–21: a third hotfix wave — and Season 2 PvP goes uncapped",[24,156,157],{},"Blizzard's official hotfix list of October 21 (published on the site October 22) confirmed the achievement extension in writing — the Fabled deadline is now \"weekly maintenance during the week of October 27\" — and shipped a third wave of Labyrinth fixes:",[61,159,160,166,173,179,182],{},[64,161,162,165],{},[67,163,164],{},"Leaving mid-scenario no longer traps you",": players on the Kindo'jan scenario can now speak to Kinduru in the De Empire's Rest antechamber to exit the Labyrinth.",[64,167,168,169,172],{},"The \"A Golden Opportunity\" scenario lever now works for characters ",[67,170,171],{},"level 80 and up"," (previously gated higher).",[64,174,175,178],{},[67,176,177],{},"Carrying a Jan'alai Tear can now stack to 4"," (was 1). The hotfix note does not describe what the buff does, but a fourfold stack cap on a scenario buff is a substantial change for anyone running the Kindo'jan fight.",[64,180,181],{},"The \"Returning the Bounty\" Pit Boss no longer despawns on leaving combat, which had been blocking scenario completion — the same failure mode patched for the Jan'alai's Refuge version on October 16.",[64,183,184],{},"L00T RAID-R Minis now work in groups inside the Labyrinth, and a Holy Priest bug where Sanctified Ground applying to allies interrupted channeled spells like Divine Hymn is fixed.",[24,186,187,188,191,192,195],{},"The same batch did something bigger than bugfixing: ",[67,189,190],{},"Season 2 PvP rewards are now uncapped",". Conquest and Bloody Tokens no longer have a weekly ceiling, Mistcrests are uncapped for PvE, and the new ",[67,193,194],{},"Spoils of War"," buff is live — Conquest gains +50% and Honor gains +40% in Battlegrounds and Arenas. The Venomous Equipment Chest is also purchasable from the conquest quartermaster Irissa Bloodstar. In practice that means anyone returning for the extended Fabled window can gear both halves of the game without waiting on weekly resets — a deliberate catch-up signal two weeks into the season.",[53,197,199],{"id":198},"october-26-a-fourth-wave-and-the-fabled-window-closes-with-this-weeks-reset","October 26: a fourth wave, and the Fabled window closes with this week's reset",[24,201,202,203,206],{},"Blizzard's official hotfix list was updated to ",[67,204,205],{},"October 26, 2026"," — the first entry since the October 21 batch — and it is almost entirely Labyrinth again:",[61,208,209,215,221],{},[64,210,211,214],{},[67,212,213],{},"\"The Wandering\"",": the Remnant no longer stops moving for a moment when additional players walk in and out of the spirits' tether proximity.",[64,216,217,220],{},[67,218,219],{},"\"Containment Breach\"",": re-igniting a single Flame of Jan'alai brazier no longer counts twice toward the \"Flames Relit\" objective — a double-count that would have let runs finish the scenario early.",[64,222,223,224,227],{},"The ",[67,225,226],{},"\"Come to Your Senses\" bonus objective"," no longer sometimes completes multiple times outside the \"Encroaching Darkness\" scenario.",[24,229,230,231,234,235,239,240,243],{},"Three unrelated fixes shipped in the same batch: Enhancement Shaman's ",[67,232,233],{},"Voltaic Blaze"," now hits secondary targets when Ula'tek is the main target (relevant to the ",[44,236,238],{"href":237},"\u002Fresources\u002Fbriefings\u002Fvenomous-abyss-ulatek-nerf-trajectory","Ula'tek encounter trajectory"," we have been tracking), Affliction Warlock's ",[67,241,242],{},"Summon Darkglare"," now displays correctly in the Cooldown Manager, and capturing Shade of Seabreaker Skoloth in a Hallow's End Neighborhood now spawns only one chest. A PvP fix also stops Holy Paladin's Spreading the Word from putting Cleanse on cooldown when Blessing of Protection is cast.",[24,245,246,247,249],{},"The timing matters for anyone still chasing the achievement. Blizzard's own wording is that ",[67,248,130],{}," can be earned \"until weekly maintenance during the week of October 27\" — which is the reset all realms took on October 27, a shortened one-hour window (7–8 a.m. Pacific) rather than the eight-hour maintenances of the previous two weeks. Blizzard Watch reports nothing new was scheduled to go live when the realms came back, so this reset is the cutoff the extension was pointing at, with EU realms following their own maintenance day.",[53,251,253],{"id":252},"why-this-week-matters-beyond-the-achievement","Why this week matters beyond the achievement",[24,255,256,257,260],{},"The Labyrinth is the first test of whether Delves can stretch to raid-tier rewards for solo players — our ",[44,258,259],{"href":46},"12.1.5 launch coverage"," flagged exactly this risk: if the reward track held, it would be the most generous solo progression the game has shipped; if it did not, hotfix tuning would follow. Week one delivered a third outcome neither optimists nor pessimists predicted: the content shipped in a state where finishing it at all was sometimes the challenge, then was fixed in place within days.",[24,262,263],{},"The open question is durability, not launch state. The hotfix notes resolve the acute failures, but they do not tell you whether a two-hour run will reliably preserve your progress across sessions — the thing the \"piece by piece\" pitch depends on. That is worth testing before the deadline rather than assuming.",[265,266,267],"note",{},[24,268,269],{},"Updated October 28, 2026; originally verified October 23, 2026. The October 26 hotfix batch, the \"weekly maintenance during the week of October 27\" Fabled wording and the October 26 date on the official list were read directly from Blizzard's official hotfixes article on October 28, 2026; the one-hour October 27 maintenance window (7–8 a.m. Pacific, with nothing new scheduled to go live afterwards) comes from Blizzard Watch's October 27 server-status post. Earlier sections were verified against Blizzard's own posts and direct coverage of them: Linxy's October 19 extension post on the official forums (cross-checked via the EU Blue Tracker mirror), Icy Veins' reporting on the October 14 and October 16 hotfix notes, and Blizzard's official \"Hotfixes: October 21, 2026\" list (published October 22, cross-checked against Blue Tracker and PatchBot mirrors), which is the source for the October 20–21 changes including the week-of-October-27 extension wording and the Spoils of War values. The October 27 (NA) \u002F October 28 (EU) deadline dates come from Icy Veins' read of the extension post; realm maintenance days can shift. Bug fixes, stack caps and reward values described here are as published and may be adjusted by further hotfixes; RealmList has not played 12.1.5 and cannot confirm how reliably the Labyrinth preserves progress after the fixes.",{"title":271,"searchDepth":272,"depth":272,"links":273},"",2,[274,275,276,277,278],{"id":55,"depth":272,"text":56},{"id":124,"depth":272,"text":125},{"id":153,"depth":272,"text":154},{"id":198,"depth":272,"text":199},{"id":252,"depth":272,"text":253},"briefings","The Labyrinth of Kindo'jan launched with 12.1.5 as the flagship solo endgame feature, and its first week was bumpy: boss kills that did not register, an encounter stuck at 1 health, players falling through the map, and Valeera dying faster than intended. 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