Guild Wars 2

I believe we have no longer Glory, so Glory booster as drop is a bit.. weird?

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Was doing map completion, i got it after last vista.

And it happened again..
Now I got 5 Queen’s Gauntlet Entrance Tickets after LS (Arcana Obscura) completion..

That glory booster was put in your inventory before you got the experience for getting the vista and before you got the map completion rewards. So, you didn’t get that booster from map completion.

As for the gauntlet tickets, no other items are listed as dropping. You’d get a number of other items in your drop history if you got a reward for doing that LS step. That, combined with the extreme unlikelihood that queen’s gauntlet tickets would drop from a LS this long after that content, makes it seem unlikely that you got those as a drop, either.

Well, I just got it with another character again, now you can see the other rewards in the chat

The Glory Booster is weird ‘cos that time we didn’t have glory already.. And I just got it before Map Completion Reward, tied to it (got another random rewards on other maps, didn’t made screens about that).

RoseofGilead.8907:

That glory booster was put in your inventory before you got the experience for getting the vista and before you got the map completion rewards. So, you didn’t get that booster from map completion.

As for the gauntlet tickets, no other items are listed as dropping. You’d get a number of other items in your drop history if you got a reward for doing that LS step. That, combined with the extreme unlikelihood that queen’s gauntlet tickets would drop from a LS this long after that content, makes it seem unlikely that you got those as a drop, either.

Lol. I got a ‘Gift from Scarlet’ when I stated this Episode’s Story today. Was rather odd….

I’m pretty sure both the 5 Gauntlet Tickets and the Gift from Scarlet were in your mail/inbox. You either accidentally accepted the item or the game automatically did that when sending you new mails because of the living story.

No, my ‘Gift from Scarlet’ wasn’t in my mailbox, nor in a letter. It merely appeared at the side of the screen just as all loot does, and showed up as an entry in my chat.

Just some weird anomaly.

If you take items out of the mail, they appear at the right side and are listed in the chat. Even if you switch armor or rings/accessories/amulets by having another one in your inventory and double clicking it, the item you “switch off” and thus into your inventory gets listed on the right and in chat.

As I said, the item was probably in a mail for a long time and was automatically accepted now, because the game sent you new mails.

Again, I am aware of how Mail works, and does not work. This was not an item from any kind of Mail. I have one item stored in a letter that has been there for more than a year. My Mail is not full, or near full. Items just don’t ‘pop’ out of unopened Mail, with no letter attached.

But, if you get any ‘odd loot’, it may be because you have overflowing mail.

Good luck.

As you can see on my second screenshot , I have 1 new mail which btw is for the next step, and the mailbox is not red, so it’s not full.
If you don’t believe it, I can’t really do more.

I looked through my side characters and found a mail with a non accepted Gift From Scarlet. I opened the story journal in the hero window and generated several mails by clicking “Play This Episode” on several chapters. After a few mails, the Gift of Scarlet was automatically put into my inventory and the corresponding mail is gone.

There are account wide mails and there are character specific mails. The Gifts From Scarlet as well as the Queen’s Jubilee invitation mail (with 5 free gauntlet tickets, see here for example) were character specific and the mails from the living story are as well. I guess there is a certain limit how many mails of this kind are stored and the oldest ones get deleted if the limit is exceeded.

Note that the displayed limit of 10 mails does not count all types of mail, most or even all generic/invariant game mails do not count, even if there is a mail-specific item attached (like the ones mentioned above or the recently sent Orphan letter, which is account wide though). These mails have a green star icon.

Mails that do count towards the limit of 10 (with an envelope icon) are, off the top of my head:

• Mail sent by other players
• Black Lion Trading Post item delivery, even though it uses a template, probably because the attached item is variable.

It’s up to you and Anet Devs whether to call that mail handling a bug, but there is your explanation.

And yet, this particular character already had a Gift from Scarlet. It is odd that this only happened at this time, and no other, with multiple kinds of items.

Regardless, it matters little, as it isn’t game-breaking enough to ever make it to the top of any bug list.

Thanks for your input. =)

Well.. from the wiki:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mail#Notes:

You can only have 15 non-player messages that do not count against the 10-message limit. Unlike the player messages, these will not be queued to wait for you to read. Instead, the oldest message is automatically deleted, even if you did not read it.

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From what I read, even though it seems odd, it doesn’t seem to be a bug and the explanation about it being items in old mails does make sense though.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

And yet, this particular character already had a Gift from Scarlet. It is odd that this only happened at this time, and no other, with multiple kinds of items.

The Gift From Scarlet was sent twice, so thats nothing unusual.

The living story featured a lot of mails, in particular with the last episode sending out two. Also, wintersday sent a few, like the orphan letter which was sent twice. I guess because of that the limit was reached for more players than usual, which results in this bug report. I doubt it is the first time it happened for a bunch of people, but like you said, since it is not game breaking, it was either not reported or it got reported already in the past, but was not changed.