Guild Wars 2

I have a question for Anet devs.

I have just returned to GW2 after a two year hiatus and I had 3 toons, a Mesmer (Miz Terio) , Elementalist (Cathbadb) and a Necromancer (Qute Morte). Only the Necro is an 80, the other two were level 40-ish.
Now according to the new feature pack all pre-existing characters had their traits unlocked already, meaning one did not have to buy the trait manuals for each character. Unlocking traits is only required for characters created after the feature pack. I went to the trainer and it showed all trait manuals unlocked except for Grand Master which I find odd since I didn’t purchase them, BUT at level 54 the Mesmer has only 5 trait points, 4 of which can be used and the fifth is locked. The tab says I am required to purchase a manual which costs 3g and 20 skill points which seems to be a Grand Master trait (rare) yet I didn’t purchase the previous ones and my characters have been around before the feature pack was released. The issue is that the number of points I have to spend don’t even add up to Grand Master in either of the trees, so one would think they would be unlocked (as the trainer shows they already are) but they aren’t.

Some help is much appreciated.

If you had leveled enough to unlock a tier of traits AT THAT TIME, then ALL of those traits will be unlocked. However, you are still restricted to the current locking system PER TIER, so for example you won’t get t3 traits till level 80, but once you do, they will all be unlocked.

The exception is the new t3 traits added later. Those will probably still be locked cause they didn’t exist the last time you played.

Edit:
I should have said trait manuals up to Grand Master are unlocked already (I didn’t buy them) but I don’t have enough trait points to even get to Grand Master in any trait tree, yet the ones already unlocked up to Master(according to the trainer ARE actually unlocked) but I can’t add any more traits in the Domination or Dueling traits trees.

You may find this informative: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Traits

Welcome return, and good luck!