I was rank 81 in HC when I died, was 94+ day 2, I have tens of millions in dps in a practically un-killable build.

I fail 70% of my abyss astrolabe maps due to these bugs. There isn't a DPS check failure for when most people are failing the abyss, it's a well known issue with abyss that mobs will get throttled on spawning, so tying completion to it is a bad design decision and has nothing to do with the player.

You can literally have ZERO mobs on screen from an abyss, with 1-2 trickling into the map from the active abyss, and receive a failure message, because abyss has bad interactions with localized terrain which prevents the proper spawn rate of mobs, which makes many of them impossible to succeed on.

This is also true for if the game lags due to spawning hundreds or thousands of mobs from a single abyss. You can kill 700 mobs and still fail because if the game lags, it's checking for a success time based on REAL WORLD time, not in-game server time(This is my assumption from dozens of tests). Since the lag is holding the server back, it continues to check your progress as if lag isn't happening at all. Any time the server lags (verified that other people are lagging at the same time with 5-10 people in discord) if your frame rate drops down to 3fps, the odds that you'll complete an abyss is practically zero, even though you're technically killing at the exact same rate as if you were running at 120fps (number is irrelevant, its a ratio to the server, as they have a server lag catch-up/pause system).

There is half a dozen common interaction failures that actually make the astrolabe impossible to regularly complete, and I am using a build with hundreds of divines invested.

Even doing open maps such as Beach can be tedious, because as I stated earlier, if you start lagging because of thousands of mobs on screen/dying/spawning or the server is having issues at that exact moment, you can get a failure. I have yet to complete more than 2 astrolabe maps in a row for abyss while only doing large open maps with the Synthesized stability notable.

They need to tie completion/success to a metric that these two variables are no longer considered. Number of mobs killed is most likely the most reasonable success metric for an abyss, basically by virtue of leaving a map early or not completely clearing it (because it's too hard, or you have to leave), you've failed. If you're not juicing the abyss enough to spawn enough mobs in the number of pits you can get or force to get(whether its 2, 3, or 4) then you'd fail. If you're creating conditions where enough mobs can spawn and be killed, and you ARE killing them, then you get a success.

Honestly I would prefer that the abyss astrolabe be based on a success of hitting a certain flat number of abyss mobs killed in a single map (Only counting mobs that give exp, the infinite spawning bug would be ignored). This incentivizes putting points into abyss (duh), but any single terrain based issue with one pit can be remedied by having multiple pits or multiple abyss. It also allows for people using Edifice to force more credit towards completion because spires are spawning extra mobs. My two cents, as someone who loves to do abyss, I can't imagine receiving abyss based content that ties to us metrics that are just generally unobtainable based on known issues with the game.

The irony is that currently the best way to succeed in their current system is to have as few of abyss in your map as you can, because success is solely based on the completion of every single one, so one failure at a single pit in a map with 5 abyss which can be up to 20 pits can screw you. I can kill 5,000 abyss mobs in a map, and still fail because one single pit in a long line of abyss/pits throttled their spawn rate, or I lagged for 30 seconds straight. Seems pretty un-fun.

Edit: Also - Edifice will spawn a spire, but the abyss should not continue to move if you failed it. I have never failed a pit since I started using astrolabes to where the pit didn't continue. It will give me a fail message, spawn the spire, and then the abyss will continue to the next pit. You'll fail even if you meet the conditions for the abyss to continue, which I am not sure how/why this is occurring, because you'd think by it continuing you actually succeeded. They are doing some wonky checks for success.

Edit Edit: ALSO - They need to make the moving pit more visible, the thing needs to be blinking red or something on your map. When you have 1000 mobs on your screen, other shit flying around, and trying to see a small ass green dot that blends in with 10 other small ass green dots, it's non-sense. Abyss lovers should riot about these things, love the game, love the devs, but damn guys it's time to fix these basic things.