Guild Wars 2

This is what we need someone to step up and do this, so thank you

Not technically a Dev post, though there is one on there but…. I’ll post it anyway.

Guild chat preview lives steam notes

by dulfy.net

Watch live at http://www.twitch.tv/guildwars2
Next Update on Tuesday
Adjustment to fractal rewards
Stronghold mode coming back
Wintersday
Wintersday (General)
Only in Divinity’s Reach Crown Pavilion area this year. F2P players can only access it if they are level 10+. Everything looks pretty much identical to last year’s event.
There are trees around Crown Pavillion you can collect Wintersday Gifts daily and Snowman you can build for daily achievements. Ho-ho-ho is back as well and still accept donations.
This year you can buy those old weapon skins (princess wand etc) and wrap them up via the vendor to give them to orphans in exchange for karma. Wrappings cost around 500 karma and give 1500 karma back when you give the wrapped gifts to orphan
http://i.imgur.com/b4URNTI.jpg
Tixx’s Infinirarium (5 man instance) is back along with Bell Choir, Snowball Mayhem, Winter Wonderland jumping puzzle etc. In Snowball Mayhem Revenants have their own unique skill like other classes. It is Vengeful Snowballs.
http://i.imgur.com/R4UTWx3.jpg
Orphan’s letter that will give you the Star of Gratitude and Christmas tree node will be coming back as well. So you can get it if you missed it last year.
New Items/Updates

• Three new skritt minis, new recipes, new candies and booze can be found in the Wintersday Gifts. Old Gifts will convert to the new gifts with all the new stuff
  http://imgur.com/a/2wTBp
  Winter’s Wreath Backpack will be updated to have lights that blink now with the Wintersday update.
  You can buy a blueprint for Wintersday Presence ingame for a 3 gold and a bunch of karma. It is a bit like Nightfury and give you a snowing effect on your character as a shoulders item. You will need to beat the Wintersday activities (like every third time you beat the activity you will get a piece for the collection) and put certain sigils and other things in the mystic forge. The effect like Nightfury, does not work with outfits.
  http://i.imgur.com/RyNuUSH.jpg
  New scribe Wintersday decoration recipes added, starts at L75. There are snowmaker, snowpiles, snowlamps, ice sculptures.
  http://imgur.com/a/TLkIs

Thank you so much. I don’t use Reddit, so it is very nice of you to share the information here.
(I don’t have a problem with them posting to Reddit, really. But it couldn’t be too hard for them to post the information here, too…)

Thread should be sticky so GW2 forum member can easy share what Anet post on reddit.

If anyone wishes to read up on bugs in Raid or list any bugs you’ve encountered, a Dev and Reddit posters are discussing them in this thread. Raid: the big, mean bugs thread

Dec 1st (10 days ago) WvW overhaul, discussion by a reddit poster claiming he has leaked information concerning the quote below.

ArenaColin Source
As an engineer main, this remains one of those things I’d love to see addressed…But the reality is we need the bulk of our own internal engineers (coders!) to continue to focus on stuff like our major WvW overhaul right now we’ve been working on for over a year that’s much higher priority for the game over-all.

Guys. Please don’t be derailing the thread by arguing over WvW or what someone said. The thread is about information on posts on other sites, not what some forum poster said on some other thread or other non topic discussions.

If someone else makes a derailing remark, please just report it and do not respond.

Thanks OP… now I can enjoy the drama without looking for it actively! a dream come true

I think Just a Fleshwound should become our reddit → Forum specialist!

Well the Guild Chat summary is up on Dulfy if you think reddit is a wretched hive of scum and villainy and don’t go there.

http://dulfy.net/2015/12/11/gw2-guild-chat-wintersday-preview-livestream-notes/

Posts in Raid: the big, mean bugs thread saying that:

Wethospu
I guess I will be a good boy and say that potions work inside raids
(ANet)CrystalRAID
We have a fix incoming for this soon. I’m not going to worry too much if you use them right now since you’re only hurting yourself and will be 5% weaker when the fix does ship.
(Snip)———
(ANet)CrystalRAID
I’ll add that we’re also looking at the cost of raiding right now. We’re aware that it’s overly expensive during the learning phases

Went back a few days to look for tidbits and information new to me.

Karmic converter is on a 100 day cycle. ~ Dec 8th.
anet_mattp
haha. I have to have my fun too. But really, good research u/thalandor46, I was hoping someone would figure out it was a cycle. I’m resisting every troll urge i have to go swap a couple around.

Suggestion: Adrenal Mushroom at start of raid ~Dec 9th.
(ANet) CrystalRAID
Being addressed in release 2, and retroactively added to Spirit Vale.
(Snip)——————-
idzidz
Is release 2 the dec 15th patch?
(ANet)CrystalRAID
No. There will be a blog post announcing the date later.
(Snip)———————
(ANet)CrystalRAID
We don’t want to change how the Adrenal Mushrooms work in raids since it’ll be inconsistent with the open world. For now you’ll be able to interact with them on your run back to a boss, but they should never be right at the edge of the boss arena if possible.

Older than this were a lot of posts on problems already corrected and the thread on Legendary Crafting, which already has a cross post on this forum so I won’t pull up posts from over there.

Thead on squad commands
(Since I don’t have a Commander tag, I don’t know if this is common knowledge or not. Posting it for those who don’t know it)

ArenaJonJon Olson.8439
There actually are slash commands in the squad broadcast:
/squad,/d switch to entire squad broadcast
/subgroup,/sg switch to subgroup broadcast
/# where # is a subgroup number, switch to broadcasting to that subgroup

Pro League Week Four-Live Update

(Go to that site for links)

(ANet)Joshua_Davis(Grouch)

Event Information
The ESL Guild Wars 2 Pro League features the best PvP teams in Guild Wars 2 going head-to-head on a weekly basis, all focused on securing a seat at the season finals in February 2016. Today’s games mark the final Pro League matches of 2015, and season play will return in the new year on January 11th with week five.
You can catch a recap of last week’s matches here.
Start time
Europe – 10am Pacific, 18:00 GMT (Click for countdown timer)
North America – 5pm Pacific, 0100 GMT (Click for countdown timer)
Where to watch?
English Stream – Casters: Daniel “Jebro” Littleton & Joe “Munchables” Fenny
German Stream – Casters: Sputti and Moa
French Stream – Casters: Waffle and Audio
Spanish Stream – Casters: Reihn and Fari
Chinese Stream – Casters: Crispeke and Ishanah

Europe (5PM Pacific, 0100 GMT)
Featured Match: More Guns Than Roses vs Vermillion
Their win over the under-performing Orange Logo in week 3 has given More Guns Than Roses some much needed confidence, and they’re certainly going to need it this week in their match against Vermillion. Vermillion has shown themselves to be incredibly competent in the current meta, but they have been largely untested as they have yet to face off against Rank 55 or TCG – the other highest ranked teams in the European League. A win against Orange Logo is admirable, but it remains to be seen if this means that GnR can compete at Vermillion’s level.
Match-Up Result
More Guns Than Roses (2-1) vs Vermillion (3-0) Winner:
Rank Fifty Five Dragons (3-0) vs Chaotic Contingency (0-3) Winner:
Orange Logo (1-2) vs Purple Noise (0-3) Winner:
Car Crashed (1-2) vs The Civilized Gentlemen (2-1) Winner:

North America (5PM Pacific, 0100 GMT)
Featured Match: Never Lucky vs Team PZ
The North American League is at an interesting cross roads. It might seem a little strange to highlight a match-up where both teams are 1-2, but this week’s featured match could very well change the landscape of the entire season. North America has, for over a year now, been known as the battleground for second place. The Abjured have reigned supreme, and teams are now clawing to snag the second place slot and gain entrance to the season finals. Never Lucky were written off by most after going 0-2 in the beginning of the season due to roster issues on multiple fronts, but this all changed after they swept fan favorites Apex Prime in week 3. If they’re able to defeat PZ in week 4, who by many are regarded as clear contenders for second place, it’s going to raise a lot of questions as to who where teams such as PZ, Final Form, NL, Apex, and Spoookie will net out at the end of the season.
Match-Up Result
Never Lucky (1-2) vs Team PZ (1-2) Winner:
Apex Prime (2-1) vs vs Spoookie (2-1) Winner:
Zero Counterplay (0-3) vs Final Form (1-2) Winner:
Ez Pz Lemon Squeezy (2-1) vs The Abjured (3-0) Winner:

RESOURCES
LINK: ESL Guild Wars 2 Portal
LINK: Guildwars2.com Pro League Portal
EU Rankings
NA Rankings

Forum post discussing ANet’s policy on character names and how it’s changed over time.

ProHeals(Michael Henninger; Game Support Lead) Source

Sooo… yeah. Someone did pick up the name even though it’s on the filter (I just tried making a character named Dios; got the ‘blocked by filter’ error). I’ll look into how someone got a name we dinged you for. That’s just not cool on our part.

Now, since we’re all here, this is a great time to talk about our naming policy and the recent changes in how support enforces it.

In the past; our team was very strict about what we’d allow. As an example we’d censored Girthquake Clamhammer. I love that name; personally. Funny as hell.
Poopy Cat Butt? Censored – too filthy. I Eat Farts? Eww, no.

Now? We’ll allow those. Did I mention funny as hell?

As my boss put it once -
“If dude wants to be known as cat poop that’s his problem; not mine”.

And that’s our philosophy now. This change has been evolving over the past few months as we get feedback on what the community does/doesn’t want to see in game. Essentially; if your name doesn’t express hate and doesn’t violate our game-rating we’re probably gonna let it live on. This includes deity names. Going forward you’re probably going to see Jesus Christ, God, and Allah running around Tyria.

Also; any bets on how fast someone claims the name “Cat Poop”?

You’re really on top of this, Flesh! I actually saw that thread an hour or so ago and it didn’t have the red response yet. Note for anyone who, like me, had a pet peeve toggled by the text: Henninger did edit it to change the so-wrong “diety” to the correct “deity.”

Donari.5237:

You’re really on top of this, Flesh! I actually saw that thread an hour or so ago and it didn’t have the red response yet. Note for anyone who, like me, had a pet peeve toggled by the text: Henninger did edit it to change the so-wrong “diety” to the correct “deity.”

Thanks.

I saw deity was wrong and thought about correcting it at the time, however if I’m quoting an ANet staffer, I don’t change anything. It’s as is. (If they correct it later and I find out then I’ll go back and change it, so thanks for the heads up).

Character name censor to be updated to release some previously blacklisted names.
Source

Rylor
What about names that were blacklisted previously under the “stricter” policy? Are those permanently blocked?

ProHeals(Michael Henninger; Game Support Lead)
Sometimes. There’s a mix of a filter and GM Actions that control whether a name can be used in the future.
The censor filter will get updated in the future. I have to manually update the list (on my schedule for this week) but it has to then travel through the dev cycle. I’m honestly not sure on the timeline for that part of the journey.

The Trading Post is having some problems at the moment, but ANet is aware of it.

(ANet)Dornsinger
Hi guys, our Techies are looking into this, is this ongoing? On EU Servers only, I assume?
If you could check once more, please?

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Character name censor to be updated to release some previously blacklisted names.
Source

Rylor
What about names that were blacklisted previously under the “stricter” policy? Are those permanently blocked?

ProHeals(Michael Henninger; Game Support Lead)
Sometimes. There’s a mix of a filter and GM Actions that control whether a name can be used in the future.
The censor filter will get updated in the future. I have to manually update the list (on my schedule for this week) but it has to then travel through the dev cycle. I’m honestly not sure on the timeline for that part of the journey.

I wonder if this means my guildie will finally be able to grab his GW1 main character’s name. If he ever comes back to GW2 that is… sigh

New hairstyles in today’s patch.

Twitter

https://www.flickr.com/photos/arenanet/sets/72157642556351735

If you have the Queen Bee it’s now the Snowflake, but not for long.

source

anet_mattp
This is a bug (no pun intended). We’re working on getting it fixed up as soon as we can

Gorseval fight is bugged. Adds not moving.

Reddit post

GMGus
Not intended. There’s a bug in on it. It is being worked on. =)
Update: Talked with the Raids Team, looks like we know what was causing it and should have a fix some time tomorrow! =)

Magnetite Shards
Bug fix that decreases drop amount
Bug that causes no shards to drop

Anet_AndrewM

I fixed a bug with the magnetite shards with this patch where the way that we award the shards when wiping didn’t fail correctly. This would sometimes give extra shards when wiping, and is also why parties would sometimes get shards the first time they wiped in the woods events or on the first attempt of the boss- they were getting failure rewards from their previous boss kill even though they killed the boss.
The intended design for Magnetite shards on failure is to get 1-3 based on how far you get in the encounter. Killing bosses awards significantly more, and Gorseval and Sabetha give higher rewards than Vale Guardian to reward actually going deeper into the raid instead of speed-running Vale Guardian for shards.
It seems like this bug may have been happening more often than I realized, and I’ll look at the rate of shard gain before and after the patch. We weren’t unhappy with the rate of shard rewards previously, so I’ll investigate adjusting the failure rates to be more generous if they’ve been significantly reduced.

And

AnetAndrewM:

yayuuu:

I’ve been trying Sabetha today, we got under 25% two times and I got like 0 shards after all these tries. Something is definitely wrong

We are investigating this- I believe what may be happening that if the first person to load into the map has reached the weekly cap for shards, that is causing everyone else in the instance to also not get shards. I’ve sent this on to have a programmer look into it- it’s not something that I can fix myself, unfortunately.

Bugs in guild missions

darapotocska:

Hey friends,
We are investigating the issues with the guild missions, but I cannot give an eta on any fixes for them them currently.
For now, please hold tight my friends and thank you for continuing to look out for guilds and the guild halls content! <3 And as the holidays approach, I wish you all a very Merry Wintersday !
May you all be Faren well this holiday season. =p

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Bugs in guild missions

darapotocska:

Hey friends,
We are investigating the issues with the guild missions, but I cannot give an eta on any fixes for them them currently.
For now, please hold tight my friends and thank you for continuing to look out for guilds and the guild halls content! <3 And as the holidays approach, I wish you all a very Merry Wintersday !
May you all be Faren well this holiday season. =p

You can find this post over in the Bugs sub-forum here, as well. I’m not sure which one was first.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Bugs in guild missions

darapotocska:

Hey friends,
We are investigating the issues with the guild missions, but I cannot give an eta on any fixes for them them currently.
For now, please hold tight my friends and thank you for continuing to look out for guilds and the guild halls content! <3 And as the holidays approach, I wish you all a very Merry Wintersday !
May you all be Faren well this holiday season. =p

You can find this post over in the Bugs sub-forum here, as well. I’m not sure which one was first.

Ok. I did say though in my original post that I’ll post what is new to me even if it is available from another source.

Post in a thread about the Astralaria IV collection item

anetmattp:

Bertieboy7:

Although I appreciate you lookin into this. What about the numerous other instances in the game which have the same problem? Such as breaking the (almost never appearing) crystal prisons of the Shatterer.

Well, certain things take very little time to figure out and fix (like this issue) and I can squeeze it in between other things I’m working on. The Lyssa temple stuff is an example of a thing that will take me a considerable amount more time to fix, so I can’t just fit it in. The shatterer stuff is a further wrinkle, because anything I do could conflict or interfere with something that someone else is working on, but the crystal thing is getting fixed. I just can’t say for certain when the fix will be out.

HOPE tier 4 charged spell trap

Anetmattp

havok78120

Hi guys, here’s the story : I just unlocked the last magic I needed (the Karka queen’s one) and the Charged Dwarven Trap won’t unlock.

I mentioned this in another thread, but in the next release if you have all the magics, but not the charged trap, you’ll be able to double-click the spell trap to get the charged version.

Legendary Bugs: Some things I’ve done

Anetmattp

Hello all!
I’ve been working out a few bugs for the legendary collections, and just wanted to let you all know how things stand.

Assuming everything goes as scheduled, when Wintersday turns off (1/12) the following things will be in:
Dwarven Spell Trap: if you have collected all of the magics, but it hasn’t “charged” you can double-click it to charge it
Temple of Dwayna: there are 2 collectibles for capturing the temple of Dwayna, Malchor’s Notes (Bolt I) and Malchor’s Demise (Twilight I). Defending the temple will also grant these items.
Magnificent Lens: Defending the “Gates of Arah” will also grant this collectible
Any collectible where you need to charge something at a place of power will now give priority to that over charging quartz. This wasn’t really a blocker, but it was pretty annoying.

Here are some things that I’m working on, but didn’t feel comfortable with my changes until I can get someone else to look at them. It has been a few years since I worked on events, so in the spirit of not messing up other people’s work, I’d like to get another set of eyes. There is a chance that can happen on Monday, and if so we could see these as soon as 1/12, otherwise it will take a little longer:
Branded Siege Devourer: it will take me much longer to untangle this event chain and figure out why it is stalling, but what I’d like to do in the mean time is add the drop to the Giant Branded Devourer in Fields of Ruin. Unfortunately, as I was getting that worked out I noticed that event only starts on another event failing. I’m reworking the chain slightly, but I need someone else to double-check and make sure I’m not breaking something else.
Hope IV: Risen Crystalline Phial: what I’m trying to do is make the wraith spawn more reliably, and without having to stall the event for a long time. Again, I just need a second set of eyes to make sure I’m not introducing new bugs.

As always, please let me know if you have other issues you’ve found that are blocking your progress. Happy New Year!

Thank you for separating and cleaning up the two threads, Gaile.

For future reference, the link to the Discussion thread is Comments about Communication.

Concerning fixes for two Legendary Collection bugs: Branded Siege Devourer and Lyssa temple.

Legendary bugs: some things I’ve done

ANet mattp

UPDATE
I got the branded siege devourer and Lyssa temple stuff in. Assuming it clears QA checks these two collectibles will be unblocked.

Dev response to a regular reddit’s post in Raid:The Big Mean Bugs Thread

CrystalRAID

harold flood

VG:
HARD BUG → Sometimes VG spawn a GreenCircle in a random section as soon you enter the arena (often impossible to reach).
Trying to explain better: Everybody gets inside the VG arena, he casts a green circle before even starting moving in the tank direction for the first time.
Gorseval and Sabetha: Suggestion → Being kicked to flameWall/out of the arena is annoying and RNG? maybe it should be worked out.
HARD BUG → Sometimes Sabetha flamewall disappears and appear again but ahead, please fix A.S.A.P
BTW Thanks for the Raids, i love them, they are awesome.

HARD BUG → Sometimes VG spawn a GreenCircle in a random section as soon you enter the arena (often impossible to reach).
Are there any videos floating around with this behaviour? Doesn’t seem to be very consistent.

Gorseval and Sabetha: Suggestion → Being kicked to flameWall/out of the arena is annoying and RNG? maybe it should be worked out.
Bring stability, or kill the adds faster.

HARD BUG → Sometimes Sabetha flamewall disappears and appear again but ahead, please fix A.S.A.P
I don’t have an ETA on a fix for this any sooner than the next raid release since it’s a very time consuming issue to fix and needs to be tested.

(Same thread: quote from 25 days ago)

CrystalRAID

Really awesome to see this thread. I do check the live bug forums every day and haven’t seen any of these issues appear so this is the first time I’m hearing about some of them.

Players getting stuck outside of the arena When the Vale Guardian fight starts, someone can step out of the arena and be unable to get back inside.
I don’t consider this to be a bug persay. If you’re not paying attention or engaging the boss, yes you could accidentally step outside the boss ring. We could do some improvements to its aggro behaviour so that you can get in closer before pulling and then have the wall snap up immediately when the event starts instead of having a delay. This would probably fix that issue somewhat (also paying attention fixes the issue as well). We have code coming with the second release that should fix the fact that in order for an event to reset it requires every party member to die. It’ll make it so that when the party members inside the arena all die, it’ll reset the encounter so that the person trapped outside doesn’t also need to die.

Magic Storm(?) (blue AoEs) size seems varying, larger than appears or simply unclear
Do you have video or screenshots of that? That’s not something I’ve seen before.
During the Spirit Woods, sometimes the torch simply won’t allow people to spawn the chest at the end of the run.
I’ll pass this on to the team to get a fix, but can’t offer an ETA on when it’ll ship at this time.

Gorseval Issues
The issue with Prisons trapping players while gliding was just fixed internally yesterday, so you should see a live fix in the next major update. Tracking down the other visual issues is trickier but noted.

Music issues On Sabetha
Sounds like an audio bug.
Updraft not lifting people up properly/high enough, glider issues?* Glider issues might be personal, though multiple people have trouble deploying their gliders during the fight/around the arena.
Are people trying to hover in the updrafts at all? They aren’t needed to return to the platform and they were added as a precaution in case your glider didn’t deploy immediately when leaving to give you a tiny boost back. It’s possible they aren’t giving you enough velocity which is a simple fix.

Quickest way to get rid of Auric Sharpening Stones

ANet mattp

it’s not going to be right away, but I’m going to get rid of the name-to-delete
edit for more info: this won’t be in the next build, as it is a pretty minor issue, but… soon (as in I’ve already made the change, it will just take time to get up to the live game through our build process)

Reddit thread: Why are Resonating Slivers suddenly so cheap?

twitter-quote source

Shazbawt

The Sliver exploit has already been dealt with and appropriate action was levied against those that openly exploited it.

Siege Golems do 0 damage to gates with buff

GM Awesomeness

This should be fixed in the next major patch.

GM_Awesomeness

Yes, I am referring to the patch planned for January 12. I’m not familiar with all of the other issues you mentioned (I’m not actually a Dev, I work for the CS team), but I’ll forward your list to the WvW team. Here’s what I do know:

There’s a fix in the same patch that should address at least some of the invulnerable wall issues. Not sure if there are other root causes for this symptom.
There’s a fix for the open WPs in contested keeps, but I’m not sure which patch it’s going into.
As for balance issues, those are definitely still being worked on (and some were fixed in the last major patch and subsequent hotfixes).

I know it’s frustrating to see so many bugs. It’s frustrating to me, too, both as an employee and as a player. I’m in a WvW guild and we’ve definitely missed having maps overflowing with people to kill. Please do keep letting us know when you find broken stuff, and we’ll keep trying to fix things.

Confirmation that they are working on more Legendary weapons (since I’ve seen posts asking about this today).

State of the game

ArenaColin

megaoschi

Not a single word about new legendary weapons….

We’ve said it before – but i’ll reinforce we’re working on more legendary weapons. YES.

Response to a discussion about how and when permanent bank contracts sold today.

Source

ANet ChrisCleary

There isn’t a single account that from Jan 1 until 2 minutes after we patched that has a net (meaning that they didn’t resell) of more than 4 permanent contracts during that time frame.
2 minutes (and 27 seconds) after the patch notes were released all of the contracts were purchased.
We take this kind of stuff very serious, manipulating the live game economy comes with a serious consequence.

Acknowledgement that the Preserved Queen Bee is still bugged with Winter’s Presence

ANet mattp

just want to confirm that we are working on this. We haven’t been able to pinpoint what exactly is causing the lingering icy effect, but once we do solve it the queen bee will go back to its original art.

January 14th

ANet mattp

Okay, I think I have this issue sorted out. I want to confirm with my programming partner that I’m not missing anything (and it never hurts to get a second pair of eyes on things). Unfortunately I don’t think we can get this into the build until the next release, which is currently scheduled for Jan 26th.

FWIW the falling effect was only ever part of the broken “jewel” version of Winter’s Presence, and it was never on the shoulder piece.

post about the Chosen collection

ANet mattp

Calach

(Snip)
In the update the other day you guys fixed the Astralaria collection where you needed to fail Defend the Gates of Arah. The Chosen Collection requires the same event (seizure of the promenade of the gods), and was not patched the same way that Astralaria was, however it also requires the defend arah event to fail.
(Snip)

this one slipped under the radar. I’ll get it on the list though and hopefully we can get it resolved soon.

For those interested, Matt has posted a bit more information about the Queen Bee/Winter’s Presence issue over in the Bugs sub-forum here.

Comment concerning the bugged NPCs and the The Minstrel III collections.

ANET Blonk

PeroZ

Did anyone manage to complete the legendary collection The Minstrel III: The Bard?
I am stuck on three items I’m supposed to collect, but the NPCs I’m supposed to collect them from offer no additional dialoge (The NPCs are: Peneloopee in Lions Arch, Burrisson in Wayfarers Foothils and Roj the rowdy butcher).

Hello! We’re aware of the issues with Roj and with Burrisson and are actively looking into it. Sorry for the inconvenience!

Orphan Laine’s Wintersday quest is bugged, both with progressing it and in getting the tree afterwards

ANet mattp

Tak3A8reak

So, i started the quest on the last day of wintersday, gave the first food to the guy, then waited for the next day, gave him the second food and then waited. The 3rd day, he still wanted the food u get from the frying pan, and the day after that (today), still the same thing. Ive been to seymor oxbone all these day too, and he only sells me this one. Am i missing something, or is it bugged? I heard you can do the quest all year long, just have to start it before wintersday is over, which i did. All the npcs are there, so i dont see why i wouldnt work.

It is supposed to be that you just need to start it and then you’ll be able to complete it whenever. It is a bug that we are actively tracking and working on.

ANET Blonk

wintersicyembrace

Gift of Magnanimity currently does not unlock a Wintersday Tree of Generosity in your home instance.Been in touch with support and a GM verified it.You can still do the collection and get the star of Gratitude just the node is bugged.

Hi everyone! We’re aware of the issue with the Gift of Magnanimity and are looking into it currently. We’re also aware of the issue your friend experienced ironfrogman, which is also being looked into. Sorry for the inconvenience!

ANet will remove gold from your account if someone else uses RMT gold (RMT is real money transaction: gold bought from a gold seller) to buy item(s) from you on the trading post.

TIL: Using the Trading Post is buying gold RMT?

ChrisCleary

Khezekiah

I had some arcane slivers listed on the trading post for several months now. Last night when I logged in I was greeted by a pleasant surprise of they had sold and I had 450g to pick up at the trading post http://imgur.com/g5fUkZq because someone or a group of someones bought up all the supply of them as you can see here: https://www.gw2tp.com/item/20802-arcane-sliver. I had invested in arcane powders and slivers after long ago making profit off pvp reward chests on the trading post.
I was happy and went about playing for a while and did some pvp dailies and then lfg’d for a while to raid then logged off. Few hours later I receive and email from support claiming I had received items or gold from RMT and that they had confiscated any available gold and/or items acquired from them. Sure enough I log in and am missing 300g http://i.imgur.com/tfHwySa.jpg.
I explain to support how I had never bought gold and that an item I had listed MONTHS ago happened to have sold but they are adamant I bought gold and wouldn’t even bother to explain how having an item on the trading post sell = buying gold from RMT
tl;dr: at anytime if you sell something on the trading post support can take away your earnings and just claim you obtained it from RMT.

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We monitor all incoming and outgoing sources of wealth. The gold that was used to purchase your arcane slivers (4 of them) for a total of 499.99 Gold originated from a RMT source and while your item listings may have been setup 8 months ago, that doesn’t change where the wealth originated (which was banned).

While the transactions completed, and do not appear to be any fault of yours, we still needed to reclaim the gains from it to remove the wealth from the economy that you should not have gained in the first place. Since we only removed 300g, it looks like you are netting about a positive 166 gold from this. We’ll let you keep that, and I’ll take the strike off your account for buying gold.

Edit: Here’s a thread that you can read on this topic. It has clarifying posts by ANet staff on this issue. Seller beware? Avoid the TP

Karka lore

ANet barefootmatthew

Karka don’t really have a king or queen, per se – in large part because they’re hermaphroditic. There’s the ancient karka which is the head of the colony – a karka colony is run from the top down in chronological order – without an ancient karka to lead a colony, it breaks up and the remaining karka are sort of lost until another ancient rises or comes in to take over the colony. There is a subset of karka that were dubbed “egg-layers”, who are the more fertile of the karka within a specific colony, though all karka are at least capable of egg production. At the mid-level of karka colonies, there are distinct roles that karka fulfill like egg-laying, colony guards, food gathering, etc.

The designation of a karka “queen” is something of a misnomer in that this is usually just the most senior of the karka egg-layers – a “queen” in this case isn’t particularly special, nor is that karka “in charge” of the colony, unless it lives long enough to grow into an ancient. Fortunately for Tyrians, ancient karka are exceptionally rare. :-)