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This is pretty strange... a few more questions for you (thanks for helping me figure this out BTW):

• Can you please provide a screenshot of the completed achievement in the hero panel?
• Do you use either of these characters for SPvP? If so, do you participate in no-progress custom arenas at all?
• Which home instance did you enter when the issue occurred?
• To the best of your memory, what did you do on your account leading up to going into the home instance? Was it as cut and dry as logging into the mesmer and heading in to do your daily gathering stuff?

From the forums (If there's any other conversation on this, I'll copy it here)

Moving Confusion to have condition damage contribution ticks made it a damage-over-time condition in addition to its 'hex' style punishment of using skills. We needed to make a choice as to whether or not the condition was going to be used as spammable DOT, or rarer/shorter, with more potency. We've decided to push Confusion to be burstier and once again focus on punishing skill activation. The reason for keeping any dot component is to message that you're under the effects of the condition, so you can be informed of it without looking at your buff bar. With that said, we'll be moving weapons like Mirage's Axe toward Torment, rather than Confusion, as soon(tm) as the process allows.

'ey all, this behavior was unintended and we're looking into it!

The "This condition remains split between PvE and PvP/WvW" part has unfortunately caused unintended confusion.

To Clarify: Condition damage contribution of the damage-over-time component of confusion has been removed from ALL formats. 'Remains split' was meant to indicate that the base damage ticks are higher in PvE still, even without condition damage contribution.

There was a bug fix that went out related to pitch up behavior, but there was also a bug with that change that should be addressed in our next hotfix (also the note for the fix was delayed and will be in the late notes). For context, there has always been an 800 ms delay after doing a diving wing flap that enforces a minimum starting altitude if you want to go super fast. The core issue is that this delay could be interrupted by using the pitch up key, which was 100% not intended and would eliminate most of the risk, gaining the initial speed boost of the diving wing flap without paying a corresponding altitude cost. Additionally, though less important, animation was not set up to blend very well between the diving wing flap and pitch up animations. To correct these issues, it is no longer possible to pitch up during the delay period.

The bug, or more like poor behavior, with this bug fix is that pressing pitch up too early currently does nothing at all. This will be c...

The campaign is Friend/Ships because it refers to both platonic relationships and romantic relationships. The /Ships is a reference to “shipping” in the fandom sense, which is supporting two characters in a romantic relationship.

500 players is around 20% of WvW world sizes currently (this is only using active WvW players). Since world sizes are predicted to be similar in size to how they are currently, you will still be able to play.

Moment to moment gameplay should be similar to how it is now for you and your friends, except now that matches are more balanced, the objectives you take, and points you earn for your world will have a bigger impact on the match. When the worlds are balanced anything anyone does matters a lot more, because it is not going to be made irrelevant by the much bigger world.

If you want to guarantee playing with other roamers that you are friends with, then you can make a guild. If you do not want to do that, then there should still be plenty of roamers on the new worlds.

I’ve seen some roamers worried about this system, and I’d be interested in hearing what in this system could change to make it better for roamers in their opinions. If you could mark your a...

Could you be more specific? Is it currently not working the way you'd expect in the live environment?

Alacrity changes will be reflected in the Special Forces Training Area alongside the patch that introduces them.

This is something we hadn’t fully considered and we’ll start looking into possible solutions.

The number of worlds can change every season depending on play hours. It will always need to be divisible by 3, but one season could have 12 worlds and the next season it could be 15.

Hey guys just posted this link on the forums so here you guys go too. Here are all the worlds in NA and EU ordered by size names have been omitted to protect the innocent: https://i.imgur.com/1uFZPf9.png

We will still be using 1 up 1 down with this system not glicko.

If the alliance is capped, they wont be able to join it.

A world can be made up of "casuals" and "hardcore" WvW players. The system uses stats like play hours in WvW, commander time and squad size, time of day, and participation levels to create worlds that are balanced. Some of the new worlds might have more hardcore players and some might have less but overall the new worlds should have similar play hours.

It works like dzernumbrd explained, except with play hours. So, Alliance A usually has around 700 play hours a week and Alliance B has around 800 play hours a week. A group of players that make up about 300 play hours a week will be placed on Alliance A and a group of players that make up 200 play hours a week will be placed with Alliance B so that both worlds are at about 1000 play hours a week.

It is important to keep in mind that the players that make up those 200 play hours could be a small group of active WvW players, or a large group of more casual WvW players. The system just makes sure that the play hours of each world is relatively the same.

Love that expression! Sandsharks are the best roller coaster ride in Tyria.

^ This is correct!

We started with 500 since 500 is the max size of a guild, but those numbers could change in the future. We are aware that servers will try and form alliances filled with really skilled players, and that there needs to be a limit so that they can't create a "Blackgate 2.0" which is why there is going to be a cap. This is one of the numbers we will be constantly testing and tweaking to make sure the system meets our goals of balanced team.

An international option is a great idea! I will bring that up with the rest of the team.