Guild Wars 2

I have noticed for the past week or less the following happening regarding a player’s option to login as invisible:

A. If player logs out of game to the character select screen while “online” then changes the status to “invisible” then completely logs out, player will be “invisible” the next time player logs back in, regardless of time elapsed.

B. If player selects “invisible” for themselves then logs out of the game, the next time that player logs back in the player will be “online” and not “invisible”, as was last selected. (Note that a period of time must elapse in order for this to occur. It will not occur if you log out then immediately back in).

I have tested this many times, many different ways and this is the summary of my observation. I do not know if this is a bug or an intentional, unannounced change.

New observation: was afk in my guild hall, got busy doing something else. 3+ hours passed before I checked my char again. Ofc, I had been logged off onto the char select screen. Now, when I was in the guild hall I had marked my char “away”, but when I later came back and check my char’s status after it was logged off to the char select screen by the program, my char was showing as “invisible”, not “away”. What is going on? It appears that after x amt of time, the program is reassigning the status.

Another random status change by the program: Today I placed my char on “away” again, while in the guild hall. 2 hrs later I came back to the computer, “woke” the desktop up and checked my char’s status and it was marked as “online”. I did not change it to “online” from “away”, there was no indication in the chat log showing that (I live alone and my dog has yet to learn to use a mouse or keyboard effectively). Again, what is going on with the random status changes by the program?