Lost ascendancy points after completing trial of sekhemas

I had an issue where after completing trial of sekhemas (3rd trial), I interacted with the statue to get the points, selected which ascendancy nodes I wanted, then tried to use the teleport and got an error "Failed to load instance" several times. Then after about a 45-60 seconds the game disconnected and when I reconnected the ascendancy points were no longer there, as if I never finished the dungeon. I had no ability to return to the final area of the trial like you can after a regular dc mid dungeon. So it seems the game registered the fact I finished the trial, but did not save the progress.

Yep, game isn't anywhere near stable enough for such punishing mechanics.

It was so painful to get to the last Trials boss and get DCed when he had a few pixels of HP left, only to hear myself dying on the black screen before I got back in the game.

It's also nowhere near stable enough for the XP penalties, the need to farm access to certain enemies etc.. The game can randomly DC you at any point and you'll lose whatever you're doing.

Combined with the mandatory online-only gameplay, it's really not a good piece of game design. It's incredibly latency-sensitive netcode, too. I can't see that going down too well if it's still like that for final release.