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Hello again, Freelancers,

Have you beaten your racing records? Have you just edged your way into gold? You better not be letting all the ice damage your armour. You-know-who would never let you hear the end of it.

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Hopefully, you’ve also been taking out some outlaws along the way. It’s a bit selfish of them to seize the quieter festive season as a time to increase their attacks, but at least they keep things lively while the creatures of Bastion hibernate. Though they can be a rowdy bunch, it only takes a bit of “tough love” to temper their spirits.

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Speaking of tough love, the latest lore story is available for all of you to read...

Thanks for flagging this one, obviously that's a little unexpected and we're looking into this. I also want to clarify that this isn't the 20k Minor Crystals we're granting, and that is still being done. You should still expect to receive those once the team has finished making all of those grants. We will post an update on the original thread here when all of those have gone through. Thanks for your patience.

UPDATE: Just to keep you all updated, we’re still in the process of granting the crystals. This kind of process can take some time, so we currently don’t have an ETA as to when this will be fully completed.

vapoorer

What about "left out in the the cold" wreath challenge? Iam still 9/10 in eastern reach and it wont complete?

I know the work around but i'd rather not do it, if you plain on fixing this before icetide is over.

This is something we've been tracking and a fix should be coming very soon. I don't have an ETA on that just yet that I can share, but it's on the way.

Adding this as an additional comment as well:

Apologies for the time before this followup but we wanted to make sure we had something concrete to share when we could. You should be able to now see the Tip of the Iceberg challenges again and correctly gain progress. If you don't see it please exit the game and log back in and you should then see it.

Tokimori

Hey /u/CM_Ythisens is there any word on the Gold Time Trials for specific Javelin challenges? Currently for me both Rust Bowl Run and Fortress Run are not counting my Gold times for the Interceptor, Storm or Colossus challenges.

Yes we're aware of this issue as well. We've been working on a fix but no updates on that just yet.

A work around some folks have pointed out is that they were able to obtain the Gold credit on Easy, but I haven't seen this personally. So you might give that a shot in the mean time while we try and get that fixed up! :)

Koriva

Thanks so much for responding quickly to the community on this matter!

I was just in the middle of a run and tried looking for my “Tip of the Iceberg II” challenge to track how I’ve been doing, was surprised I couldn’t see it but noticed the new ??? challenges as you’ve previously mentioned above.

Thought I’d check Reddit to see if anyone was speaking about it and a Community Manager is quickly dealing with the subject which is great to see - I can definitely see the point in choosing to reset and try to fix it now rather than wait for a fix that wouldn’t come into cert until much later in the event.

Please keep us posted on any information BioWare has on how they’ll reimburse players for lost progress! Perhaps these Tip of the Iceberg challenges could pull data from challenges like Fall Harvest which tracks Outlaws Defeated or something of the Trial - Bronze / Silver / Gold Flyer challenges to roughly count towards completing 40 races etc?

... that wouldn’t come into cert until much later in the event.

You know the struggle. This is the way.

The_Deadly_Monarch

So it was already fixed and then glitched again?

For clarification it was broken, we tried a fix, and it remained broken but also changed the progress some players had.

Since Icetide has been live the challenge has not actually been able to be completed but players were able to make some progress towards it. This reset is to fix the tracking so that all players can now correctly make progress and complete it.

chaosking243

They should have took some more time to fix it properly then. This is just going to generate more negative reception.

Just for your awareness we shut down for the holidays, so a bigger more complicated fix wouldn't have been able to be done before we all come back in January. It's also impossible to get update approvals for consoles during the holidays because most studios/offices outside of BioWare also shut down for holidays.

We weighed this into the decision and opted to simply reset the challenges while there is still a large amount of time left in the event. The alternative would've been everyone being stuck in a state where they earn no progress at all for several weeks and then you'd only be able to retain what you had before it was broken, as the data wouldn't be able to track what was done in the mean time since it was broken.

In this case we're making what we feel is the best decision for players, even though it does feel bad to lose what progress you have obtained.

Hello everyone! Just wanted to drop an update on some changes that we made today for Icetide.

Earlier today we pushed a change that was intended to fix an issue with the tracking for the "Bonus Objectives" and "Targets Destroyed" objectives in the Icetide challenges. Essentially there was an issue with the data that affected the tracking and today's change was intended to correct that to show your correct progress. However this change had some unintended side effects on the live servers that changed objective progress for some of you.

To fix this we will be disabling the challenge and resetting it to put players back in a state where they can earn progress again, you’ll see the challenge temporarily change to be listed as “???”. This should be happening soon. We know it doesn't feel good that your progress wasn't counted and we want to reward you for the progress you should've had, as well as give you the actual chance to still earn the Icetide challenges. We apologize if this confu...

Just a heads up that we are aware of this issue and currently working on a fix. You're not crazy as it is in fact not tracking the credit correctly!

Also hello fancy new flair!

Thanks for the report! Just for some awareness we are tracking an issue currently with some crashes coming from Freeplay mode specifically. We believe we've narrowed in on the cause and are currently working on a fix for it.

This has actually been a tracked bug since beta FYI.

It’s extremely hard/unable to be consistently reproduced from what I was told. While I was CM I bumped it and mentioned it tons of times but it’s one of those tricky ones that doesn’t appear when you’re trying to get it to show up.

Not an excuse but just trying to shed some light on what I knew about this particular issue. I’ve had it happen to me as well. It’s pretty damn frustrating.

Wait... I said this like a month ago? Reddit you’re weird.

Yeah Ion is among you, reading your posts, probably even reading this thread. Hey Ion! Hope all is well! I miss annoying you guys with emails and questions 😂

ToeyGowd

Conspiracy theory:

Blizzard staged a fake firing of Ysithens so that he could feed the community inside information without having official blizzard ties.

Cue twilight zone music!!!

I wish. I’d really like my job back.

Being laid off still sucks.

Thank you guys for all your hard work moderating the subreddit <3. Some days you guys had the impossible task of managing this subreddit but r/WoW has always managed to navigate itself with a lot of poise when it comes to moderation. You folks should be proud that you were a piece of that.

That's a lot of meese

Ex_iledd

The winners are in!

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• /u/KnockKnockPizzasHere for so, they said we can shitpost this week eh?

The Winners - 1 month of reddit platinum!

• /u/teelolws for his comment in A Letter to Blizzard Entertainment
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I'll be gilding each of these people within the next 10 minutes, but I'll ping them below as well so they can bask in our adoration!

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LadyMirax

The giveaway is over and the winner has been messaged! Congratulations to /u/Tehrible, and thanks to Big Dumb Guild for arranging the giveaway and everyone for participating.

Hello /r/wow! Uldir is coming to a close with Battle of Dazar'alor only a few weeks out. To celebrate, we're teaming with with Big Dumb Guild (H) of Illidan to bring you a giveaway for the Cutting Edge G'huun Achievement and Famed Slayer title.

There are some other details that you need to know to qualify which are listed below.

Rules

Leave a top level comment¹ in this thread before January 7, 8pm EST. The run will take place on January 9th.

• Your account must be at least 90 days old

• Your account must have positive karma in /r/wow and overall on reddit

• You must have some activity within the last 6 months in /r/wow

• You will need an active subscription on the North American servers.

• You will need a level 120 Horde character that is not saved to a mythic lockout.

• If you win you will need to share your battle.net tag with us, which will be given to Big Dumb Guild.

1 - "top level comment" means a comment as a direct reply to this post, not a reply to other users. The votes will not be considered at all in the draw, so downvoting people will have no effect on their ability to win.

Prize

• Mythic G'huun kill for Cutting Edge Achievement

• Famed Slayer Title - Famed slayer is being given out as a bonus perk for the winner if they so choose. To obtain this title you will need to transfer the character you killed G'huun on to Illidan (H) and join Big Dumb Guild. You will have the title as long as you remain in the guild.

Big Dumb Guild is also doing a 2nd giveaway through their twitter, so check that out too if you want to double your chances to win!

pls CherryVodka and Nodis bless someone in this thread

Smaptastic

No. I don’t know why they banned him. But it very much appears that they lied in their explanation.

It isn't your business why any player is banned. It's not your account so you aren't privy to know why or if we've action-ed anyone. We typically only pop out to correct people when they try to spread misinformation and are actively misrepresenting what happened.

If we make posts like these outing a player that is misrepresenting what happened, you can rest assured those posts are ironclad and approved before we say anything publicly.

I get the desire to seek a conspiracy, but almost every time its as simple as "OP broke the rules, OP lied".