Yeah, the whole instance is a linked chain of events so it resets on fail. It's also one of our most challenging content too. Good luck figuring it out.
There will be a planned network infrastructure upgrade in the datacenter where THF is hosted, on July 29th between 1:00–5:00 AM GMT (9:00 PM–1:00 AM on July 28th EST). Brief disconnections may occur during this time.
I had a chat with GM Ydiss and by direct upgrades he meant 'stronger for stats', they're upgrades but not necessarily replacements. Skill mods are supposed to be covered by other augs in T9 already. Slot 17 was also intentional, a reason to hunt for those too. As for Noble's Trinket, again, differen...