Lost item, Trials of Sekhema reseting instance

Hi,

My client froze while I was switching gear in the Trials of Sekhemas lobby. Earlier, I was crafting a bow and still had it “on hold” (dragged by the cursor) when I tried to place it into a gear slot.

Because the game did not unfreeze, I force-closed the client using Task Manager. Unfortunately, after logging back in, the item was nowhere to be found. I checked the secondary weapon slot, the stash, the crafting window, the Desecrate window, and all vendors, but the bow was missing.

I believe that during the freeze the client was still accepting inputs, and the bow may have been dropped on the ground. After relogging, the Trials of Sekhemas instance had disappeared along with the item.

I tried to reproduce this behavior. If an item is being held by the cursor when the client is closed, it is still held when the game is reopened. However, if I drop any item on the ground and then close and reopen the game, the Trials of Sekhemas instance resets and the previous instance no longer exists. This is likely what happened to my item.

It would be amazing to recover the item, as my motivation to continue playing has dropped to zero. However, this situation feels like either an extremely poor design choice or an unintended game behavior that allows certain instances to be destroyed immediately after a character logs out.