Me and my guildie have been duoing Hive, High Keep and Nexus Core since May and - after AOM was released - we noticed that the pillars do not spawn after the last named is killed. My guildie is on the sig quest and could see the pillars before. So the questions is have the pillars been taken out or we just need to petition a bug?
Last I knew, you had to do the signature line to be able to see that pillar. In Hive, they moved it to the ground level under the platform where the queen fight is. I've seen the pillar spawn as recently as yesterday, so they didn't take it out.