Guild Wars 2

A quick search didn’t show anything, but then the forum search never really worked for me anyway, so apologies if this was posted recently elsewhere.

Title says it, where is the trait retrainer NPC from the Royal Terrace? With a recent patch it just disappeared. But I forgot about it until now where I wanted to buy some skill books for my mesmer again.
Or is this a rather common thing that it just bugs out on certain IPs?

At any rate, we already lack the Activity NPC that the Airship has (the only advantage it has, because it’s ugly as the sin), so why did this one have to go too?

Still missing. Any updates? Or is this intended?

If I recall correctly, the Royal Terrace launched without the trainers. At some point, these NPCs were added to the complement. Then they disappear during some (but not all) special events, such as Canthan New Year.

It’s especially unfortunate because this has happened before and (see below) I expect it to happen again.

(Speculation follows.) What seems to happen (in this, as well as in GW1) is that the devs seem to have a ‘just before’ and ‘during’ copy of certain zones (such as Divinity’s Reach). They are supposed to restore the ‘before’ copy after the event. But for some reason, they restore a ‘previous before’ version instead of ‘just before’. (Perhaps, because someone is using such a copy during testing or design phases and doesn’t realize it isn’t the latest/greatest.)

Yeah, makes sense. But as of now, the NPC is still missing. Can’t we just get it back? Considering it’s a hefty investment for convenience.

(Still waiting for the activity NPC that’s existing on the airship, too!)