Good news guys, this appears to be fixed as of today (May 6th):
Battle-forged status effect now ends when combat ends. This should prevent it from stacking because of save/load.
Fix for Elusive Quarry so its status effects now end when combat ends. This should prevent it from stacking because of save/load.
Thanks Obsidian!
I can confirm that this is still bugged as of 1.05, or at least the fix isn't retroactive if there is one.
I tried save/loading and resting to pass time but my Fire Godlike MC and Pallegina both still have their racial abilities permanently active.
Health-based racial passives are still permanent in 1.05 as seen here:
http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/77239-104-fire-godlike-battle-forged-buff-still-bugged/
Not sure if no fix was applied or if there is a fix and it's not retroactive.
The Fire Godlike buff Battle-Forged still becomes permanent and stacks with itself if you save and load with it active. I would really like to see this fixed as I've had to put my game on hold so I don't trivialize the content.
The same thing also happens with Pallegina's Elusive Quarry godlike ability as well.
Original topics here:
https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/75194-103-battle-forged-dr-still-stackable/
and here:
http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/76831-battle-forged-stack-bug-even-after-103/