Blight unable to be opened

Given certain configurations, the player will receive the message "Activation failed. Unable to open portals to area" when attempting to open a blight map with certain sextant mods. This error message is pretty bad since it doesn't tell you it has to do with a sextant mod. In the example below, the offending sextant mod is the one that spawns a shrine.

The error message should be made more clear so the player knows that they can fix it.



Example Blight Map:
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Item Class: Maps
Rarity: Magic
Hexproof Blight-ravaged Silo Map of Temporal Chains
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Map Tier: 15
Atlas Region: Glennach Cairns
Item Quantity: +49% (augmented)
Item Rarity: +17% (augmented)
Monster Pack Size: +56% (augmented)
Quality: +20% (augmented)
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Item Level: 81
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20% reduced Monster Movement Speed (enchant)
Towers deal 60% more Damage (enchant)
Lanes of Blight Encounters in Areas have 20% chance for an additional Reward Chest (enchant)
60% reduced Cost of Building and Upgrading Towers (enchant)
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{ Implicit Modifier }
Monster Level: 85 — Unscalable Value (implicit)
200% more Monster Life (implicit)
20% increased Monster Movement Speed (implicit)
Area is infested with Fungal Growths (implicit)
Map's Item Quantity Modifiers also affect Blight Chest count at 20% value (implicit)
Can be Anointed up to 9 times — Unscalable Value (implicit)
Natural inhabitants of this area have been removed — Unscalable Value (implicit)
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{ Prefix Modifier "Hexproof" (Tier: 1) — Caster, Curse }
Monsters are Hexproof — Unscalable Value
{ Suffix Modifier "of Temporal Chains" (Tier: 1) — Caster, Curse }
Players are Cursed with Temporal Chains
(Temporal Chains is a Hex which reduces Action Speed by 20%, or 10% on Rare or Unique targets, and makes other effects on the target expire 40% slower. It has 50% less effect on Players and lasts 5 seconds)
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Travel to this Map by using it in a personal Map Device. Maps can only be used once.


Sextants:
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Item Class: Atlas Region Upgrade Items
Rarity: Normal
Crimson Watchstone
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Item Level: 70
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Players and Monsters take 12% increased Cold Damage (enchant)
Areas contain 8 additional packs of Monsters that deal Cold Damage (enchant)
2 uses remaining (enchant)
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The memories and emotions of countless victims of the Elder,
locked in stone for eternity.
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Socket this into a Citadel on your Atlas to increase the Tier of Maps and reveal hidden Maps in that Citadel's Region. You can only socket one Crimson, Viridian, Cobalt or Golden Watchstone into each Citadel.

Spoiler
Item Class: Atlas Region Upgrade Items
Rarity: Normal
Crimson Watchstone
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Item Level: 70
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Players and Monsters take 12% increased Cold Damage (enchant)
Areas contain 8 additional packs of Monsters that deal Cold Damage (enchant)
2 uses remaining (enchant)
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The memories and emotions of countless victims of the Elder,
locked in stone for eternity.
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Socket this into a Citadel on your Atlas to increase the Tier of Maps and reveal hidden Maps in that Citadel's Region. You can only socket one Crimson, Viridian, Cobalt or Golden Watchstone into each Citadel.

Spoiler
Item Class: Atlas Region Upgrade Items
Rarity: Normal
Crimson Watchstone
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Item Level: 70
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Players and Monsters take 12% increased Cold Damage (enchant)
Areas contain 8 additional packs of Monsters that deal Cold Damage (enchant)
2 uses remaining (enchant)
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The memories and emotions of countless victims of the Elder,
locked in stone for eternity.
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Socket this into a Citadel on your Atlas to increase the Tier of Maps and reveal hidden Maps in that Citadel's Region. You can only socket one Crimson, Viridian, Cobalt or Golden Watchstone into each Citadel.

Spoiler
Item Class: Atlas Region Upgrade Items
Rarity: Normal
Crimson Watchstone
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Item Level: 70
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Players and Monsters take 12% increased Cold Damage (enchant)
Areas contain 8 additional packs of Monsters that deal Cold Damage (enchant)
2 uses remaining (enchant)
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The memories and emotions of countless victims of the Elder,
locked in stone for eternity.
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Socket this into a Citadel on your Atlas to increase the Tier of Maps and reveal hidden Maps in that Citadel's Region. You can only socket one Crimson, Viridian, Cobalt or Golden Watchstone into each Citadel.

Last bumped on Nov 5, 2021, 12:52:07 PM
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Also having this issue a lot lately.
Some maps work, some do not.

Does not matter if fragments are present in map device.
I DC'd in a blighted map and after reconnecting an hour later I was unable to open a portal to a blighted map or to a map with a blight encounter scarab.

Sextants have nothing to do with it in my case.

As of now I've been unable to play blight for an hour.
Same problem here, blight map cannot be opened we try in different hide outs still not able to open this one specific blight map
There may be multiple issues being discussed here.

The report of a sextant having an impact on map generation is one I haven't seen before.

But at least one other map type (Blighted Terrace) is bugged with or without a sextant.

There was one report I saw recently of Blighted Defiled Cathedral being bugged as well.

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