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Wintersday:

Changed the “Toypocalypse Cancelled” achievement so that only one gift dolyak needs to survive the activity instead of all five.
Fixed an issue that prevented Pop Guns from playing the correct audio and visual effects.
Toymaker Tixx’s Chests have been removed. Instead, all players will receive an in-game mail containing the Wintersday finale one-time rewards upon logging in during the Wintersday event. Please note: only one reward will be given per account.
Fixed a bug in Winter Wonderland that would occasionally cause players to be teleported to Lion’s Arch on success.

WvW:
Fixed an exploit that allowed players to bypass walls in the East Keep in the borderlands to get into the keep lord room.

Hey all, we have let the team responsible know of this issue and they are currently investigating it. Somebody will update here when we have something more substantial, but I just wanted you all to know that we are aware and looking into it.

Objective
The goal of Toypocalypse is to protect gift dolyaks and survive malfunctioning toys for 10 rounds.

• Each round has five waves of hostile malfunctioning toys. The UI tracks which round you’re on.
• Toys increase in quantity every two rounds. The amount of toys is tracked in the UI.
• From lowest to highest, the toy quantity levels are:
  • Skirmish
  • Assault
  • Siege
  • Onslaught
  • Toypocalypse

You fail the activity if any of the following things happen:

• All five gift dolyaks die.
• All five players are dead at the same time.

Weapons

Players can find and use 3 weapons in this activity.

• Toysmasher
  • Damages multiple enemies at once.
  • Skills allow for some crowd control.
  • Your go-to choice for resource gathering.
• Toy Cap Rifle
  • Single-target, high-power ranged weapon.
  • More damage, but less mobility.
• Toy Repair Gun
  • A finesse weapon—not always needed. Proper use is extremely effective.
  • Has a steep learning curve. It’s hard to master, but don’t give up.
  • Has many uses, so experiment to find what works and what doesn’t.

Defenses
Players can build turrets and walls to defend themselves and the gift dolyaks. Smash buildings and trees to create resource bundles for building defenses. There are 2 resource bundles: wood and snow.

• Wood Bundle
  • Builds ballista and catapult turrets.
  • Upgrades ballista and catapult turrets.
  • Repairs fully upgraded ballista and catapult turrets.
• Snow Bundle
  • Builds walls and snowman turrets.
  • Upgrades walls and snowman turrets.
  • Repairs fully upgraded walls and snowman turrets.

Turrets
Each defensive structure plays a different role. Each defensive structure can be upgraded twice.

• Ballista Turret
  • Single target.
  • Low damage.
  • Rapid-fire.
• Catapult Turret
  • High damage.
  • AOE.
  • Delayed fire.
• Snowman Turret
  • Single target.
  • Moderate damage.
  • Applies chill to targets.
• Walls
  • High health.
  • Slows advance of enemies.

Misc
Extra tips to help you survive.

• While participating in this activity, you’ll be unable to heal or regenerate health through your own skills. To recover health, you must travel to the map’s center and enter the healing field.
• After each level (every two rounds) a mysterious gift box drops near the center of the map. It contains presents for players.
• After each level (every two rounds) hay appears near the center of the map. It partially heals gift dolyaks.
• Explore the map. You may find other things that will help you survive Toypocalypse.
• After each round, you have a short time to build your defenses. The amount of time decreases as the activity progresses.

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Structured Player Versus Player

• Fixed an issue where Mesmer clones and illusions would spawn in with no equipment during tournaments.
  
  Wintersday
• Fixed an issue where content from previous days could appear in the Infininarium Instance.
  
  Black Lion Chest
• Fixed an issue with the Black Lion Chest that occasionally caused people to only receive two items instead of three. A compensation plan for those affected by this bug is in the works.

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Objective

Tixx’s Infinirarium is home to Tixx’s toy-creation machine. Help him get his toys and machine in working order while watching for stowaway skritt and malfunctioning toys that slow down production.

• Each day of the festival, a new toy enters the Infinirarium, bringing with it new challenges and rewards.
• Defeat malfunctioning toys or pesky skritt to get the toy machine working at peak efficiency and claim each day’s rewards.
• The reward for successfully completing each day’s airship event is a toy mini blueprint for that day’s toy.
• Beware the fickle whims of Toxx, Tixx’s assistant golem, who seems to have a mind of her own.

Tips and Tricks

• Tixx is always up-to-date with the inner workings of his lab, so speak with him to find out what’s happening around the airship.
• Malfunctioning toys are dangerous—don’t be afraid to destroy them.
• Toxx sometimes requires a special skill to take down. If you’re having trouble, search your surroundings for something helpful.
• Skritt will get in your way at every turn, so keep an eye on them.
• If you’re having difficulty finding the enemy, use the teleporter inside the airship to reach the platforms surrounding the toy-creation machine. Sometimes things go wrong up there.
• Once Tixx arrives in Lion’s Arch, you can pick events from any of the previous airship tour days to experience anything you’ve missed or to replay your favorite events.

Objective
Winter Wonderland is a challenging jumping puzzle that will either end in cheer or a you-size smear. Jump across a precarious path of melting snowflakes, hop over exploding presents, and flee past massive rolling snowballs. Deliver your present to the children gathered at the end of the puzzle to receive your reward.
Highlights

• Players have a set amount of time to traverse the puzzle’s dangerous jumps and hazards.
• The Frostbite debuff will slowly whittle away at your health until you die.
• There are three distinct portions of the puzzle: snowflakes, presents, and snowball dodging.
• Fall, or fail to reach the end in time, and you’ll be sent to the observation area to wait for another turn.

Tips and Tricks

• Watch for warning signs before snowflakes melt and presents explode.
• Use the peppermints to avoid rolling snowballs.
• Keep your eyes open for mortar shots from pesky skritt.
• Socialize with other players from the observation area and plan your next run.

Objective
Bell Choir Ensemble is a noncombat activity that lets you play Wintersday and Guild Wars – themed songs on handbells in a challenging rhythm minigame. Play the correct notes at the right time to score points and earn presents!
Highlights

• While on stage, play notes by using skills assigned to 1 – 4 and 6 – 9 on your skill bar.
• During each song, colored spheres travel across the stage toward you. When the notes enter the inner circle and stop moving, it’s time to play!
• Each skill is color-coded to match the sphere and section of the stage it travels down.
• Miss a note, or play a note at the incorrect time, and you’ll take damage.
• Play a note at the correct time and your health is restored.
• Hit every note in a song to gain 100 points at the end. Every note you miss will subtract points based on how many total notes are in the song.
• If you lose all your health, you miss out on points for that song and must wait until the next song to play again.
• There are a total of six songs, ranging from easy to hard as the playlist progresses.
• Presents are awarded based on the songs completed while remaining on stage. Survive all six songs and get the highest score you can!
• Stick around after the sixth song for one minute of Free Play. Play whatever you want, collaborate with people on your stage, and get creative!

Tips and Tricks

• It helps to position your camera so that it faces directly down onto the stage, zoomed as far out as possible. This makes it easier to see the notes before you play them.
• If you’re having a hard time with the difficult songs, stick around until the playlist repeats. You’ll still be rewarded for completing the easier songs.
• Try playing the number keys like a real keyboard, with one finger on each key. This helps with large leaps between notes.
• If no one else is playing on stage with you, the other parts will play automatically.

Objective
The objective of Snowball Mayhem is to be the first team to 500 points. Points are scored by retrieving Wintersday gifts and returning them to your base. Bonus points are scored by defeating other players with unique snowball fight skills.
Highlights

• Custom combat professions
• Custom profession-based utility skills
• Custom downed skills
• Power-ups

Your weapon skills are determined by your choice of combat profession. You also have an additional utility skill that is based on your character’s open-world profession.

Supporter:
Supporters control areas of the battlefield and assist their allies.

• Throw Snowball: A quick, basic attack. Tracks your target.
• Healing Breeze: Heal yourself and allies in a cone in front of you. Allies gain regeneration.
• Icy Ground: Create a patch of slippery ice. Causes enemies to fall down.
• Ice Wall: Create a wall of ice that blocks enemies and projectiles. Allies can interact with the wall to pass through it.
• Snowroll: Roll around as a giant snowball and knock back enemies.

Heavy Gunner:
Heavy Gunners take and deal a lot of damage. They can only attack once they’ve drawn their weapon, which has the double effect of slowing them down and granting them passive health regeneration.

• Draw Rifle/Fire Snowball: Draw your gun and fire a basic snowball attack.
• Powder Spray: Fire a cone of snow that chills and damages enemies. It can also repair a supporter’s Ice Wall.
• Jump Shot: Use your snow rifle to blast yourself toward a targeted location.
• Overcharged Shot: Fire a giant, exploding snowball that launches enemies backward.
• Defensive Bubble: Create a bubble that knocks back enemies and deflects snowballs. You can still use Fire Snowball while using this skill.

Scout:
Scouts are infiltrators and assassins. They are the fastest class and can use stealth. Additionally, the scout gets a damage bonus when hitting enemies from behind.

• Quick Shot: Fire a fast, basic snowball shot.
• Evasive Shot: Leap away from your target, evading damage, and launch a crippling snowball.
• Rapid Fire: Fire a barrage of snowballs at your foe. Snowballs have a better chance of hitting your target in close range.
• Sniper Shot: Charge up a long-range shot. The longer you charge, the farther and faster the snowball flies and the more damage it deals.
• Snowblind: Vanish in a puff of snow, blinding enemies and granting you stealth.

Utilities

Elementalist
Summon Ice Elemental: Summon an ice elemental who follows you and fights with you.
Necromancer
Frostmark: Create a mark on the ground that causes a chain reaction of frost novas when triggered.
Mesmer
Clone: Summon a clone that wields the same weapon as you, even a Wintersday gift bundle.
Engineer
Snowman Turret: Build a snowman turret that fights with you. Detonate the snowman for additional area damage.

Ranger
Snowball Trap: Place a trap that launches a volley of snowballs toward its center when triggered.

Thief
Icewurm Venom Trap: Place a trap that freezes enemies in place when triggered.

Warrior
Rush: Rush at your target and knock it down with a powerful kick. You will reflect snowballs while rushing.

Guardian
Slingshot of Understanding: Summon a slingshot spirit weapon to fight with you. You can command the slingshot to fire a volley of snowballs at your target.

Downed:

• Throw Snowball: Basic snowball attack.
• Icy Ground: Create a patch of icy ground around yourself, causing enemies to slip and fall.
• Freeze Beam: Channel a beam of cold energy at your target, freezing them in place.

There are also power-ups scattered around the map that can quickly turn the tide of a skirmish.

• Damage Boost: All of your attacks deal extra damage.
• Speed Boost: Your movement speed is increased.
• Piercing Shots: Your snowballs travel through targets, allowing you to hit multiple foes.
• Skill Recharge: Your weapon skills recharge faster.
• Health Regeneration: Your health is restored over time.

Season’s greetings!

If you’re looking for information on the Wintersday event, you’ve come to the right place. This post should serve as a guide to help you experience everything this winter festival has to offer.

Lion’s Arch

The iconic central city of Tyria will once again serve as a hub for the festivities. After you take in the decorations, check the map for new icons related to the holiday.

The Toymaker Tixx Instance

Tixx will be asking players to climb aboard his airborne workshop to help him build toys. Gather a group of your friends, because this unique five-player instance is a perilous adventure that changes with each toy made! Every major city is getting a toy of its own, so look for the instance entrance beneath the airship as it makes its way across Tyria. Tixx has been kind enough to publish the following itinerary for his journey:

10am PST, 12/15—The Grove
10am PST, 12/16—Divinity’s Reach
10am PST, 12/17—The Black Citadel
10am PST, 12/18—Hoelbrak
10am PST, 12/19—Rata Sum
10am PST, 12/20—Lion’s Arch

Don’t worry if you miss one of the stops. Once Tixx arrives in Lion’s Arch, you can play any day’s version of the airship instance you’d like!

A Special Toymaker Tixx Gift

After Tixx arrives in Lion’s Arch on the 20^th^, you’ll want to visit the toymaker in the Grand Piazza. Tixx has promised to deliver a special one-time gift to every player that visits him in person. Just remember to visit him before the holiday ends on January 3^rd^.

Limited Edition Tixx Toy Minis

Toymaker Tixx is making five special toys this year. Building the toys yourself is no easy process, but if you successfully complete an airship instance, you’ll be rewarded with secret ingredients needed to make a toy mini. Each toy requires a unique frame and several toy components. Complete each city’s airship instance, and you’ll have more than enough ingredients to make any toy you’d like.

Activities

We have several instanced minigames for you to enjoy, all accessible through activity NPCs in Lion’s Arch. Play them all, or stick with your favorite—there’s sure to be something for everyone.

Wintersday Jumping Puzzle

Test your jumping skills in a winter wonderland while carrying presents to toyless children. But beware: between the skritt, the snowballs, and the melting snowflakes, you’re in for a challenge! Get to the end before frostbite takes its toll, and whatever you do, don’t fall.

Present Hunting

Rumor has it that Tixx’s airship is splitting at the seams with a dragon-size cargo of gifts, and large presents are falling off the ship across Tyria. You can explore the world in search of these gifts, but be careful when you open them; you never know what’s inside!

Gift Boxes

Embrace the most celebrated tradition of Wintersday: loot! During the holiday, you can earn gift boxes for all sorts of content. Inside, you’ll find treasures like tonics, weapon skins, crafting materials, and more. Of course, not every gift contains exactly what you want. Tixx has been known to donate some rather undesirable materials. But you can trade in unwanted gifts for a chance at something better! To give it a go, speak to one of the Lionguard gift-exchange representatives in Lion’s Arch.

Achievements and Wintersday Title

There are sixteen new holiday achievements for this special event. Complete any twelve to be granted the title “Apprentice Toymaker” and join the ever-growing ranks of Tixx’s cheer-spreading krewe.

Wintersday
Seasons are changing, hearths are warming, and spirits are high. Wintersday is almost here! Tyrians are busily preparing for the longest night of the year, and Lion’s Arch wants to celebrate with an event to remember. The Captain’s Council has invited renowned entertainment engineer, Tixx the Toymaker, to bring his unique creations to the citizens of Tyria.
The toymaker will spend a day in each of the five cities, and finish his tour with a two-week stay in Lion’s Arch. The airship events will begin at 10 a.m. PST on December 15th and end January 3^rd^.

• 10 a.m. PST, Saturday, December 15th: Airship lands in The Grove for a 24-hour stay.
• 10 a.m. PST, Sunday, December 16th: Airship lands in Divinity’s Reach for a 24-hour stay.
• 10 a.m. PST, Monday, December 17th: Airship lands in The Black Citadel for a 24-hour stay.
• 10 a.m. PST, Tuesday, December 18th: Airship lands in Hoelbrak for a 24-hour stay.
• 10 a.m. PST, Wednesday, December 19th: Airship lands in Rata Sum for a 24-hour stay.
• 10 a.m. PST, Thursday, December 20th: Airship lands in Lion’s Arch, where it will remain until January 3rd.

But that’s just the beginning of this Wintersday fête. Along with Tixx and his wondrous workshop, there will also be new holiday content:

• Lion’s Arch, the Heart of the Mists, and the Home Map (Central Citadel) in WvW are decorated for the holiday.
• Snowman building locations and present drops are available worldwide.
• New crafting recipes are available.
• PvP finishing moves and WvW siege weapon effects have been added.
• Bell choir and snowball fight activities are available in Lion’s Arch, and can be accessed through an NPC near the snow globe.
• A jumping puzzle is available in Lion’s Arch, and can be accessed through an NPC near the snow globe.
• Events inside Tixx’s airship will reflect the toy released each day.
• All toy events will be repeatable during Tixx’s stay in Lion’s Arch.
• A toy-based activity will be available once Tixx reaches Lion’s Arch.
• Tixx will be giving out a one-time gift while he’s in Lion’s Arch.

The year of the dragon saw the release of Guild Wars 2 and the rise of its diverse and enthusiastic inhabitants. We thank you for your support this year, and we’re excited to continue our adventures with you in 2013 and beyond!
Happy merrymaking!
Dungeons
Fractals

• Cliffside: Fixed a bug that would cause the final boss to spawn too many cultists at higher scales.
• Cliffside: The first wave of cultists will now heal the arm seals if no players are within aggro range.
• Cliffside: Fixed a bug where players could send their pets in to kill the first boss before the event was active.
• Cliffside: Fixed a blocking bug where the cultists would not reset correctly on party wipe at scale 10 or higher in the final boss fight.
• Cliffside: Fixed a bug where the Legendary Archdiviner’s health would not reset properly on party wipe.
• Fixed mob and boss chest loot drops so that they will now scale up appropriately with player scale.
• Added a much wider variety of weapon skins to the general mobs’ loot drop.
• Ascended Rings and Fractal Weapon Skin drop rates now increase appropriately with player scale.
• Non-infused Ascended Rings will no longer drop after scale 24.
• A Pristine Fractal Relic has been added to the daily rewards for scale 10 and higher. 10 Pristine Fractal Relics can be turned in to Golem Merchant BUY-4373 for an Ascended Ring.
• The chest received when Shaman Lornarr Dragonseeker is defeated now contains rare crystal materials instead of dust.
• The chest received when the Raving Asura are defeated now contains rare corrupted materials instead of dust.
• Vials of Condensed Mists Essence no longer drop after scale 10.
• Globs of Coagulated Mists Essence no longer drop after scale 20.
  Twilight Arbor
• Fixed a bug that prevented the Unstable Nightmare Husk in Twilight Arbor from returning to its correct state after being morphed by the mesmer Moa Morph skill.

Sorrow’s Embrace

• Fergg’s path: Fixed a bug that caused Fergg to stand around instead of attacking.
  The Ascalonian Catacombs
• Fixed a bug that allowed mesmers to steal skills from Kasha using Arcane Thievery.

Citadel of Flame

• Rhiannon’s Chain: Fixed a blocking bug that prevented players from completing the bonus ooze royalty event. A bonus chest was added for successfully completing the event.

Dragon Explore Dungeon

• Jotun Path: Fixed a potential blocking bug where the NPC could die during the stargazer event and prevent chain completion.

Items

• Superior Rune of Lyssa: This item now applies 5 seconds of Protection and Retaliation while on a competitive PvP map. The item’s internal cooldown has been fixed to allow rune effects to occur every 10 seconds.
• Major Sigil of Water: This item now has the correct proc chance.
• Rare crafting materials and holiday materials can now be deposited into the collections tab in the bank.
• Added Mystic Forge recipes to convert ascended rings to their infused versions.
• “Bag of Gold” has been renamed “Bag of Coins” for clarity.
• “Bag of Gems” has been renamed to “Bag of Jewels” for clarity.
• Equipment sorting bags will now properly sort back items and trinkets.
• The Durmand Priory heavy armor set now has proper icons.
• Dessa’s experiment journal now plays an effect on consumption.
• Weapons purchased with karma from vendors in Fireheart Rise, Iron Marches, and Fields of Ruin now have their intended skins instead of tier 3 cultural skins.
• Extended potion recipes can no longer be discovered, and must be unlocked using an item sold by dungeon vendors.
• Extended potions now last for two hours instead of one hour.
• The Mystic Forge recipes for offensive and defensive infusions now take five skill points instead of 50, and omni infusions now take ten skill points instead of 100.
• Increased the drop rate of Passion Flowers from Passion Vines.
• The quantity of vials of Powerful Blood, Vicious Fangs, and Elaborate Totems that drop from loot containers is now 1-2 instead of just 1.
• Several items now have updated icons.
• Rank-based finishing moves now last for 60 minutes per consumable instead of 30 minutes.
• The pirate weapons Trident, Speargun, and Harpoon have been updated to their intended model.
• Black Lion harvesting tools icons have been updated.
• The simple infusion for defensive slots has been removed from the vendors, and the cost of the versatile simple infusion has been lowered to 75 tokens.

Black Lion Chest Overhaul:

• Permanent Bank Access, Permanent Trader Express, and Permanent Merchant Express items now drop twice as often from Black Lion chests. Though still extremely rare, they can now be traded until their first use.
• The Black Lion Chest drop chance for mystery tonics has been reduced from 100% to 25%. Tonics now have the same drop chance as “Heavy Bag of Coins,” “Unidentified Dye,” or one of three new Guild Influence items worth 50, 100, or 300 influence.
• “Heavy Bags of Coins” have been added to Black Lion Chests in the tonic and buff drop sections. Bags hold between 80c and 1g50s.
• “Glory Booster” has been added to the list of possible buff drops.
• Buff drops now occasionally drop the “booster multipack” triple buff.
• Rarity and proportion of all other Black Lion Chest drops have been rebalanced to reduce overabundance of some items.

Structured Player Versus Player

• New UI option available for *Team Colors: *This changes the way team colors are applied to armor. Affects both sPvP and WvW.
  • Everyone: Every players’ (enemy, allied, self) armor is dyed with their team color.
  • Enemy Only (Default): Enemy players’ armor is dyed with their team color, while allies and player armor uses the player-selected dyes.
  • None: All (enemy, allied, self) players’ armor uses their chosen dyes and ignores team colors.
• Emote /rank is usable anywhere outside sPvP matches, activities, and WvW maps.
• Team UI in sPvP matches have team-colored backgrounds.
• Temple of the Silent Storm: Successfully communing with a meditation now awards personal score.
• Temple of the Silent Storm: Fixed a bug where both teams could earn the same meditation buff, by communing at the same time.
• Temple of the Silent Storm: Fixed a bug that allowed communing with a meditation while still under the effect of it.
• Temple of the Silent Storm: Fixed a bug where the meditation on ferocity buff would persist after switching teams.
• Temple of the Silent Storm: Added tooltip text for meditation on stillness score UI icon.
• Battle of Khylo: Red/Blue trebuchets can no longer be used or destroyed prior to match start.
• Heart of the Mists: Stealing from a profession-based sparring NPC now correctly steals a profession-based item.
• Heart of the Mists: Fixed a bug that prevented the practice cannons from being fired once loaded.
• Items: Improved the drop tables for PvP rank chests by removing bags, and added bags as purchasable glory items.
• Items: Fixed a bug that would cause PvP worn scale heavy armor items to sometimes award the wrong tier of tokens when salvaged.
• Items: Fixed a bug that would cause many PvP hammers to sometimes award the wrong tier of tokens when salvaged.
• Items: Fixed a bug that would that would prevent players from ever earning shoulder tokens when salvaging any PvP shoulder armor.
• Items: Fixed a bug that would allow PvP summit sword, staff, and shield weapons to drop from chest tiers prior to rank 50.
• Increased downed health in PvP to 85% of PvE downed health, from 75%.
• Free and Paid tournaments now have a new build-locking feature. When the countdown timer completes, players will no longer be able to change weapons, armor, skills, or traits until the match is over. This will prevent players from abusing build-swapping between fights.

World Versus World

• When a team owns few or no defensive structures for a set period of time, a breakout event will now trigger at the portal.
• Repairable walls and gates have been updated to rebuild at 10% health instead of rebuilding immediately.
• Characters that disconnect during combat grant rewards to their opponent, and suffer penalties as though they have been killed.

General

• The weapons obtained by bandit cutpurses using their “steal” skill should now be consumed when they use the skill the weapon grants.
• Fear is now properly affected by Defiant.
• New rifle icons have been added.
• Updated icons for the conjurer armor set.
• Map names on the world map now display completion status.
• Costume Brawl Champion crown has been adjusted to be more visible on many characters.
• Weapon sigils now continue to function while holding a bundle (such as engineer kits).
• Commendation vendor Lionguard Lyns is restocking her goods and is not accepting commendations at this time. She will begin accepting commendations again soon.

Events

• The story step “destroy the champion Risen lich” in Sparkfly Fen now works correctly.
• Fixed an event timing bug at Lyssa’s Cathedral in Malchor’s Leap.

Personal Story

• The story step, “Through the Looking Glass” has been fixed to allow players who completed the sylvari “mirror” storyline to progress.
• In the story step, “Mightier than the Sword,” Sieran will now assist in the fight against Steag Frostbeard.

Black Lion Trading Company Gem Store
The Black Lion Trading Company is also celebrating the Wintersday season with new deals and special items.
New Wintersday-themed items are available in the style category.

• A festive fur cap is available for 150 gems for a limited time.
• A full winter outfit, including a hat, coat, gloves, boots, leggings, and a snow globe scepter with five winter themed costume skills is now available for 700 gems.
• PvE decorative wood weapon skins for staff, sword, greatsword, dagger, shield, axe, hammer, pistol, longbow and short bow are available in the style category for 500 gems each for a limited time.
• Wintersday earmuffs are available in the style category for 25 gems each.
• A free wizard’s hat is available in the style category for every player to enjoy.

Rare mystery Wintersday boxes will have a chance to drop throughout the world. They will also be available in the consumable category of the Gem Store. They will contain gifts available in-game, plus a random item only available in the store.
Boxes will contain one to five gifts, plus one of the following:

• Common: a Wintersday dye pack, a gingerbread snowball mortar, or one of three unique Wintersday transformation tonics.
• Uncommon: One of three new festive miniatures; a snowman, a festive golem, or the toymaker’s Infinirarium.
• Rare: The festive fur cap, and a claim ticket for your choice of winter wooden weapons.
• Very Rare: Infinite self-style hair kit or unique Wintersday baby quaggan miniature.

The Wintersday baby quaggan miniature can also be crafted in the Mystic Forge by using any combination of miniature snowmen, infinirarium, or festive golems, and 50 enchanted stuffing (available in-game). The “mystery Wintersday box” is available in consumables for 100 gems each, or 10 for 800 gems.
The Black Lion Chest has also been updated. Check the items section of this update for more information. More items and sales will become available over the course of the Wintersday festivities, so be sure to keep an eye on the Gem Store.
~Evon Gnashblade
Profession Skills
Elementalist

• Fixed a bug where elementalists would not be attuned to any element, resulting in an empty skillbar.
• Shocking Aura: This aura is no longer incorrectly considered a boon. The aura will no longer be affected by boon duration, but also cannot be ripped by boon removal skills.
• Tidal Wave: This skill is now a leap finisher.
• Ice Wall—Detonate: This skill is now a blast finisher.
• Magma Orb: Damage is now split equally between the projectile and the explosion, instead of 2/3 explosion and 1/3 projectile. The total damage remains unchanged.
• Boil: This skill is now a fire field.
• Murky Water: This skill is now a smoke field.
• Rock Blade: This skill is now a small projectile finisher. Bleeding duration has been increased from one to three seconds. Aftercast has been increased by 200 milliseconds.
• Signet of Air: Increased the passive movement from 10% to 25%.
• Soothing Wave: This trait has incorporated the benefits of the now-defunct Icy Mist.
• Icy Mist: Replaced with Arcane Abatement. Take 50% less damage from falling. Create a spell when you take falling damage based on your attunement. Fire—Ring of Fire, water—Healing Wave, air—Static Field, and earth—Earthquake.
• Arcane Resurrection: Applies auras for five seconds instead of 10. Now also increases revive speed by 10%.
• Stone Splinters: Increased range from 300 to 600 units.
• Bolt to the Heart: Increased health percent from 25 to 33.
• Pyromancer’s Puissance: Increased might duration to 10 seconds.
• Cantrip Mastery: This skill now works with Mist Form in PvE.
• Trident: Rock Blade: This skill is no longer able to attack targets behind the player.
• Mist Form: This skill now allows players to swap attunements while it is active, allowing glyphs to work in Mist Form.
• Magnetic Grasp: This skill is now working as a leap finisher.
• The Fireball tooltip has been updated to display the correct radius.

Engineer

• Engineer kits now inherit the bonuses from currently equipped weapon sigils.
• “Grenade” skill now does 30% less damage to balance against using sigils.
• Grenade kit damage is now equal in PvP and PvE.
• Flash grenades and poison grenades now do damage when they explode.
• Elixir Gun—Super Elixir: Reverted the pulse healing effect to its previous intended state. Updated skill facts for this skill’s underwater version.
• Timed Charge: This skill no longer does bleeding, but applies a three second burn.
• Retreating Grapple: This skill now causes three stacks of bleed for six seconds.
• Homing Torpedo: This skill is now a small projectile finisher with the rifled barrels trait equipped.
• Grappling Line: This skill is now a small projectile finisher with the rifled barrels trait equipped.
• Timed Charge: This skill is now a small projectile finisher with the rifled barrels trait equipped.
• Net Wall: This skill is now a small projectile finisher with the rifled barrels trait equipped.
• Power Shoes: Increased move speed to 25%.
• Always Prepared: Now also increases downed damage by 25%.
• HGH: Drinking an elixir now grants two stacks of might instead of one.
• Sitting Duck: Instead of 5% damage, now applies five stacks of vulnerability for eight seconds.
• Shrapnel: Increased bleed chance from 6% to 15%.

Guardian

• Refraction: This skill is now a light field.
• Purifying Blast: This skill is now a blast finisher.
• Light of Judgment: Damage increased by 25%.
• Spear Wall: This skill is now a light field.
• Wrathful Grasp: This skill is now a projectile finisher.
• Spear of Light: Velocity has been increased by 50%.
• Empower: Skill fact has been updated to display the proper amount and duration of might.
• Spear of Light: This skill is now a small projectile finisher.
• Brilliance: This skill is now a whirl finisher.
• Purifying Blast: Added a radius skill fact.
• Unscathed Contender: Increased damage from 10% to 20%.
• Resolute Healer: This shield of absorption now causes knockback, but can only trigger once every 60 seconds.
• Vigorous Precision: Increased vigor duration to five seconds. This effect can now only trigger once every five seconds.
• Strength in Numbers: Now activates more quickly when entering combat, and scales from 0-70 defense instead of being capped at 30.
• Blind Exposure: Increased to three stacks of vulnerability.
• Shimmering Defense: Increased burn duration from three seconds to seven seconds.
• Binding Jeopardy: Increased vulnerability from three stacks at five seconds to five stacks at eight seconds.
• Updated Empower’s skill fact to display the proper amount and duration of might.
• Added a radius skill fact to Purifying Blast.

Mesmer

• Phantasmal Mariner: This phantasm now attacks more often, but does damage in line with its attack rate.
• Illusionary Whaler: This phantasm now attacks more often, and now does a reasonable amount of damage.
• Phantasms now initiate combat after .25 seconds instead of one second.
• Feigned Surge: This skill is now a leap finisher.
• Vortex: This skill now does pulsing damage after it is created, and is also an ethereal field.
• Jab: Increased damage by 12.5%.
• Evasive Strike: Increased damage by 25%.
• Spinning Revenge: Recharge reduced from 15 to 12 seconds, and is also a whirl finisher.
• Signet of Inspiration: Increased swiftness duration from five to ten seconds. This passive effect now works outside of combat.
• Deception: Clones that use Winds of Chaos will now fire their projectile in a straight line, just as the mesmer’s Winds of Chaos does.
• Decreased all Mantra cast times by one second.
• Shattered Strength: Increased to three stacks of might and ten second duration.
• Prismatic Understanding: No longer affects the Prestige. Now grants a random defensive boon every three seconds while in stealth. (Protection, Aegis, or Regeneration)
• Critical Infusion: Vigor duration increased to five seconds. This can only trigger once every five seconds.
• Blade Training: This trait is now applied to off-hand sword skills.
• Dazzling: Now inflicts five stacks of vulnerability for eight seconds.
• Phantasmal Warlock: Damage now matches the tooltip.
• Phantasmal Duelist: Damage now matches the tooltip. Increased damage to match the lost damage from a previous bug fix.
• Phantasmal Berserker: Damage now matches the tooltip.
• Phantasmal Mage: Damage now matches the tooltip.
• Temporal Curtain: Increased swiftness duration to 12 seconds.

Necromancer

• Vampiric: This trait no longer triggers when projectiles hit allies.
• Feast: This trait’s recharge has been reduced from 12 seconds to 10. Damage has increased by 15%.
• Frozen Abyss: This skill is now a blast finisher.
• Foul Current: This skill is now a leap finisher, a poison field, and has its recharge reduced from 15 seconds to 12.
• Dark Spear: This skill is now a projectile finisher.
• Deadly Feast: Skill recharge has been decreased from 18 to 15.
• Wicked Spiral: This skill is now a whirl finisher. Recharge has been decreased from ten seconds to eight.
• Signet of the Locust: Passive movement speed has increased from 10% to 25%.
• Quickening Thirst: Movement speed increased from 10%/5% to 15%/10%.
• Reanimator: Decreased the degeneration rate of Jagged Horrors.
• Terror: Damage is increased by 50% if the target has any conditions on them.
• Spiteful Removal: This trait now removes three conditions when an enemy is killed, but can only trigger once every 10 seconds.
• Crimson Tide: This skill is no longer able to fire at enemies behind the player.
• Plague Blast: Updated projectile to fire from a more logical area of the necromancer.
• Gluttony: Life Force gain has been increased from 5% extra to 10% extra.
• Updated Corrosive Poison Cloud’s skill fact to display the proper duration of the applied conditions.

Ranger

• Counterattack Kick: This skill now has the same melee arc as other melee attacks.
• Dart: This skill is now a leap finisher.
• Swirling Strike: This skill is now a whirl finisher.
• Shouts will now apply a buff to the ranger’s pet, to make the skills more visible.
• Sick ’Em: Decreased the duration to 10 seconds. Increased the damage and move speed from 25% to 40%.
• Search & Rescue: Increased the revive rate for this ability.
• Search & Rescue: Increased pet movement speed to 25% while under the effects of this shout.
• Lick Wounds: Revive rate has been increased.
• Signet of the Hunt: Increased the passive movement from 10% to 25%.
• Splinter Shot: This skill is no longer able to fire at enemies behind the player.
• Compassion Training: Increased the heal amount from 300 to now scale as high as 350 at max level.
• Nature’s Protection: Now triggers at 10% damage instead of 20%.
• Expertise Training" Increased the amount of condition damage from 100 to now scale as high as 350 at max level.
• Moment of Clarity: Now also increases daze and stun duration by 50%.
• Beastmaster’s Bond: Now triggers at 50% instead of 25%.
• Increased the velocity of arrows fired from Short Bow and Longbow skills by 30%.
• Icy Screech: The White Moa activated ability now applies three seconds of chill, which the tooltip now correctly reflects.
• Opening Strikes: These now work at any range.
• Updated Sun Spirit’s skill fact to include the burning proc duration.
• Updated Stone Spirit’s skill fact to include the protection proc duration.
• Updated Storm Spirit’s skill fact to include the swiftness proc duration.
• Ranger melee pets now have improved melee attacks so they can hit moving targets more easily.

Thief

• Whirling Axe: This skill can now be cancelled by other skills.
• Fear (Stolen item— Skull): This skill now works like the warrior skill “Fear Me.” It will now actually hit its range, but also have a falloff on fear duration based on distance.
• Ink Shot: This skill is now a projectile combo finisher.
• Tow Line: This skill is now a projectile finisher.
• Escape (Harpoon Gun): This skill now creates a poison field with art changes to reflect this.
• Ink Shot: Projectile speed for this skill has been increased by 22%
• Instinctual Response: Now triggers at 10% damage instead of 20%.
• Ricochet: Increased bounce chance from 5% to 20%.
• Fleet Shadow: Increased move speed from 33% to 50%.
• Slowed Pulse: This can now trigger every 20 seconds instead of every 30.
• Pistol Mastery: Increased damage from 5% to 10%.
• Improvisation: Now also increased damage with environment weapons by 10%.
• Piercing Shot: This skill is no longer able to fire at enemies behind the player.

Warrior

• Whirling Strike: This skill is now a whirl finisher.
• Tsunami Slash: This skill is now a whirl finisher.
• Harpoon Pull: This skill is now a projectile finisher.
• Fear Me: Updated the tooltip to correctly state the range of the skill.
• Hammer Shock: This skill can now be used while moving.
• Fast Hands: Fixed an issue where the trait did not affect the first weapon swap.
• Desperate Power: Now deals 20% extra damage instead of 10%.
• Last Stand: This now properly breaks stun when it triggers.
• Furious Reaction: Now triggers at 10% damage instead of 20 and also gives 10 seconds of vigor along with the 10 seconds of fury.
• Berserker’s Might: Decreased might stacks required from six to five.
• Increased the velocity of arrows fired from Longbow skills by 30%.
• Triple Chop: Changed the timing so that players can no longer cancel their own skill combo accidentally.
• Healing Surge: Healing surge now heals based on current adrenaline level, and then grants a full bar of adrenaline.

Racial Abilities
Charr

• Updated the Shrapnel Mine skill description to fix an error.

Sylvari

• Take Root: Updated the skill fact to include the duration.
• Seed Turret: Updated the skill fact to include the duration.
• Healing Seed: Updated the skill fact to include the duration.

• Fixed page redirect bug
  • Thread links will no longer redirect to a blank page.
• Category view now enabled.
• Fixed the ordinances in dates (2rd, 3th, etc.) to be proper (2nd, 3rd, etc.).

Update:

• We’ve updated the game to fix several exploits and bugs.

Thanks for catching that. It’s fixed now.

Thanks for the reports everybody. An update to the swear filter has been implemented, which should address these issues. Also, sorry Rising Dusk, but I used your post to test the fix to a recently implemented bug. No content was changed, even though the post says it was edited. I only forced it to pass through the filter again.

Again, thanks for reporting, and please continue to report any bugs with filtering you encounter.

Meinke misunderstood your request. This is a bug with the swear filtering. There is a thread which has been used to report these, but it has fallen to page 2, so it is understandable that it went unnoticed. Please report bugs and false positives in the swear filtering in that thread. Thanks

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/forum/Bug-with-Swear-Word-filter

I’ve seen this thread pop up a few times. Allow me to set this to rest. We have no plans to change or disable the swear filter. The only changes that are made are fixes to false positives and other bugs, which is ongoing. As this thread does not contribute to Guild Wars 2 discussion, it will now be locked.

Thanks for reporting this, guys. I’ve escalated this up to the web team.

Hey everybody, sorry about the delay in getting this info to you. But here is the situation as it currently stands.

Yes, we had an issue with the Karka chest distribution. The issue is currently being researched. The situation will be addressed in the future. We do not currently have a time-frame for how soon we will be able to fix this for everybody.

At this time, you do not need to send a ticket to support to get a chest. We will post updates as more information becomes available.

Again, sorry for the delay on this message, and thank you for your patience.

We currently have no plans to change the operation of the swear filtering system.

Hey everybody, as these are coming through your game mail, make sure your mailbox isn’t full. It’s actually good practice anyway to empty your mailbox if you don’t have unclaimed loot in there.

han.9042:

Is the mail only appear to the character we used for the event? I rather play my alt while waiting.

Between my GF and I, we did the event 8 times. During half way into the Ancient Karka fights, the game either crashed, stuck on the loading screen when reviving at the waypoint, or because of the new build, removing the event so we weren’t able to finish it. We spent the whole day on that event.

The mail is sent to your account, so no matter what character you are playing on when it comes it, you will get the mail. Additionally, the chest in the mail is account bound, so you are free to put the chest in your bank and move it over to whichever character you wish to open the chest with.

As we mentioned last week, for those players who were not able to get the rewards for the final Lost Shores event because they were suffering connection issues, we will provide rewards for their participation in the event. Thanks for your patience while we worked to resolve this.

We will hand out the rewards via In-game mail today – Quick FYI… it might take several hours to run the script, so do not panic if you do not immediately receive it.

Update:

• Cliffside: Fixed an issue where the Cultists would not reset correctly on party wipe at scale 10+ in the final boss fight.
• Changed certain player transformations to not remove Trait related stat boosts when active.
• The weapons obtained by Bandit Cutpurses by their “Steal” skill should now appropriately be used up when they use the skill the weapon grants.

Okay everybody, this argument is getting a bit circular now. What’s important is the following.

• The forum population is not a majority, but does provide valuable feedback which we do take into account, along with feedback from other sources.
• The silent majority is not all in-favor or against. Their opinions vary as much as any group of people’s opinions tend to.
• They are players just like you. They voice their opinions by either playing or not playing.
• Others not on the forums show their opinions on their personal blogs, fansites, twitter and facebook.
• Everybody’s opinions are important and valuable.

I hope this clears some things up. I’m going to close this thread now. Please continue to provide us with feedback to help us to continue improving Guild Wars 2.

This has not been forgotten. The solution is coming down the pipeline and should be live this week.

Thanks for being patient.

We are looking into this presently. Thanks for reporting.

Hey all. There was a typo in that note. It has been fixed, here’s how the fix was actually applied:

• Area of effect heals and boons now prioritize players over minions and NPCs.

Release Notes:
General

• Fixed a bug that would cause a crash when repairing armor while transformed.
• Area of effect heals and boons now prioritize players over minions and NPCs.
• Guild leaders are able to demote other players of the same rank.
• Weapon skills will now properly display their PvP and PvE split variants in the Weapon Skills tab of the Hero Panel instead of displaying both.

Events

• Fixed a bug that caused NPCs not to resurrect other NPCs in various Orr events.
• Fixed a bug that caused Warmaster Jofast and her caravan to not advance properly through Cursed Shore.
• Fixed a rare bug that could prevent the event “Protect the trained skelk gathering kindling for Raintimber Mill” in Diessa Plateau from progressing.
• Fixed a bug that could potentially prevent progress with the event “Protect Orl’s research krewe” in Metrica Province.
• Fixed a bug that could prevent progress with the event “Stop the Inquest operatives from kidnapping adventurers” in Sparkfly Fen.
• Fixed a bug that could prevent progress with the event “Raid the Separatist camp with the Warhound Village veterans” in Iron Marches.
• Fixed a bug that could prevent displaced spirits from rejoining their bodies in Iron Marches.
• Fixed a bug that could prevent progress with the event “Protect the armory from the Flame Legion” in Plains of Ashford.
• Fixed a bug that would prevent “Ireta the Smasher” from team switching correctly during the event “Prevent the brawl between the three legions.”
• Fixed a bug that prevented Suwash from confronting Captain Jetsam in Lornar’s Pass in the event “Defeat Captain Jetsam.”
• Fixed a bug that preventing events from running properly near Eldvin Monastery in Queensdale.
• Fixed a bug causing skritt thieves to stop stealing harpy eggs in Harathi Hinterlands.
• Fixed a bug that caused Crusader Soma to give up searching for the lost caravan in Timberline Falls.

Dungeon
Crucible of Eternity

• Front door path: Fixed a bug that affected the aggro range of the Destroyer Specimen Boss.
• Submarine path: Fixed a bug with Bjarl’s armor not going off when he charges and hits a tower.

Ascalonian Catacombs

• Detha’s Path: Fixed a problem with Detha’s script where she would sometimes not start the event to fix the cannons.
• Hodgin’s Path: Fixed a problem in Hodgin’s script at the “Collect scepter fragments” event that prevented the event from starting.
• Detha’s path: Fixed a bug that caused the Ghostly Oozes not to use their basic attack properly, and spend a large amount of time loitering around players instead of attacking them.

Sorrow’s Embrace

• Fixed multiple problematic doors that would not open and close when intended.

Twilight Arbor

• Fixed a bug where Morrigu could die after defeating the final boss before the cinematic could start, which would break the dungeon and prevent players from receiving the final reward.

The Ruined City of Arah

• Seer Path: Fixed an exploit where rangers using longbows could trivialize a fight by attacking at max range, and the Melandru boss would not fight back.

Fractals of the Mists

• Cliffside: Fixed an issue where players could damage the final seal with their normal attacks.
• Cliffside: Fixed an issue where players were able to attack and kill the first boss before triggering the cinematic.

Personal Story

• Minor personal story bugs in multiple personal story steps were fixed.
• The story step “Forewarned is Forearmed” has been fixed to avoid an error that prevented completion.
• The story step “Time for a Promotion” has been fixed to avoid a problem that caused it to stall.
• The story step “Silent Warfare” has had the difficulty adjusted.
• The story step “The Artist’s Workshop” has been fixed to allow players to rally when they defeat hypnotized performers.
• Players who completed the sylvari “mirror” storyline are now recognized by the NPCs in the story step “Through the Looking Glass.”

World vs. World

• Invisible & invulnerable players can no longer contest capture points in WvW. WvW capture points now follow the same rules as PvP capture points.
• All players will now correctly receive WvW bonuses. Players who transfer worlds will still be locked out of bonuses for the current and subsequent match.

Structured PvP

• Heart of the Mists: Added light, medium, and heavy PvP Underwater Mask items to the PvP Armorsmith.
• Battle of Kyhlo: The hit box on the trebuchets has been decreased so that they are less vulnerable to certain AoE skills.
• Legacy of the Foefire: The red guild lord and his guards have been repositioned to more closely match the blue side.
• Forest of Niflhel: Fixed incorrect names on the archer NPCs that guard each base.
• Removed slots in the PvP locker for the Rawhide armor pieces, as they are not obtainable as PvP rewards.
• PvP locker now can store consumable finishers up to rank 6, glory boosters, PvP salvage kits, and tournament tickets.
• Updated the NPC names of archers in Forest of Niflhel.

Items

• Updated the names of the level 80 rare armorsmithing boxes to match the names of the items they contain.
• Runes of Balthazar and Orrian now properly apply quickness when the player is struck and below 20% health.
• Updated Knight’s Jewel so that it appropriately grants Power rather than Toughness.
• Updated the ingredients required to craft satchels and boxes of armor to match the ingredients required to craft the individual pieces contained within.

Commerce

• Fixed an issue with the Boxing Glove skills remaining when players swap to armor from town clothes.
• Mini pets are now usable in the Heart of the Mists.
• Fixed Krait Tonic second skill description.
• Fixed missing nightmare medium icons and pants using gloves icons.
• Total Makeover Kit and Self-Style Hair Kit added to the Black Lion Chest as rare rewards.
• Increased chance to get Mini boosters and Dye Pack boosters from the Black Lion Chest.

Profession
Elementalist

• Updated elementalist conjured weapons to appropriately apply attributes to all players that pick them up.
• Dragon’s Tooth: This skill’s blast finisher now triggers at spell location, instead of character’s location.
• Electrocute: This skill now has a maximum range and line of sight requirement.
• Impale: Fixed an exploit with this skill’s interaction with Signet of Restoration.
• Arcane Resurrection: This trait now applies five seconds of aura to allies affected by it.
• Evasive Arcana: This trait now has a blast finisher while attuned to earth.
• Elementalists will no longer get into a state where they aren’t attuned to any element. This commonly results in the player’s skillbar being empty.

Engineer

• Toss Elixir C: This skill’s underwater cooldown is reduced from 60 seconds to 30 seconds to match the land recharge.
• Elixir S: Fixed a bug that would cause this skill to go on normal recharge when Fast-Acting Elixirs is equipped.
• Smoke Bomb: Cleaned up skill facts.

Guardian

• Ring of Warding: This skill will no longer affect non-attackable NPCs.

Mesmer

• Updated the description for Blurred Frenzy to indicate that it gives evasion through “Blur,” instead of “Distortion”.
• Phantasms will now properly have all boons applied to them via player traits.
• Phantasmal Disenchanter can now be cast at the correct distance.

Ranger

• Fixed a bug that allowed a ranger to have two traps of the same type active simultaneously.

Thief

• Using a stolen bundle item should no longer destroy a bundle being wielded in their hands.

Warrior

• Whirling Axe: This skill can now be cancelled by other skills.

Chuo.4238:

Mark Katzbach.9084:

In the strictest of terms, the number of people who post on the forums is a minority of the game population as a whole. The forums do provide a modest, self-selected sampling of the player population, but so do fansite forums, twitter and facebook.

Thanks for the response. Out of curiosity, for what purpose, in ArenaNet’s view, are these forums? Since you can get similar samplings from the aforementioned fansites, twitter, etc., I’m thinking perhaps ArenaNet has something else in mind?

First off, we definitely value feedback from the forums. Just because the forums don’t make up the majority, or the only sampling, does not mean we do not value your feedback.

The forums, however, are multipurpose. The forums are meant to be a place for Guild Wars 2 players to gather, share wisdom, help each other out and more. If you haven’t been over to the Players Helping Players subforum, I recommend you check it out. The purpose of that subforum is for questions to be asked and answered by other players and it serves that purpose. The account issues forum’s aim is for players to get account help from ArenaNet staff. The Black Lion Trading Company forum is full of people speculating on the trading post market. Fan-generated content is full of threads sharing fan art, fanfiction and machinima. There are some really cool things shared over there.

A game’s community is not limited to one forum though. Some people prefer facebook, twitter or fansites for sharing and discussion. Others, like yourselves, prefer official forums. We understand that not everybody is participating on our forums and it behooves us to pay attention to feedback from all avenues.

In the strictest of terms, the number of people who post on the forums is a minority of the game population as a whole. The forums do provide a modest, self-selected sampling of the player population, but so do fansite forums, twitter and facebook.

It’s not a matter of putting the blurb together, but for the team to investigate what can be done and how it will be done. That said, I came back to my desk to find an email with information on what is being done about the situation.

We have confirmed that we can provide everyone who did not have the opportunity to loot the chest with a reward for their participation. All affected players will receive a reward regardless of whether or not they have contacted Support. We’re working very hard on this, and you should have a reward in your in-game mail early next week.

I hope this alleviates your concerns.

Please do not take the unstickying of this thread as an indication that your feedback is being ignored. We are paying attention and we are taking your feedback here, and in the recent survey into account.

However, the teams here are unable to respond individually to every concern presented here, as they have their normal responsibilities to take care of, as well as parsing through said feedback.

As I’ve stated before, your feedback is important to us, and this thread will remain open, for the time being, to future feedback on this subject.

This feature already exists. See the up and down arrows next to my name? When there is another staff post in a thread, the arrow will not be grayed out and will be clickable. You can use the arrows to navigate to the next and previous staff posts within a thread.

Thanks for catching this, this has been forwarded on to our web team for correction.

45 characters is the maximum length for a topic title on the forums. It is this way to prevent titles from being cut off when viewing a thread. This is not a bug, this is by design.