“You may have noticed a new feature came out today. You can now swap upgrades in legendary weapons for free! If you were wondering why it wasn’t accompanied by the usual fanfare for such a highly-requested update, that’s because it slipped out early. It wasn’t intended to go out until the next release, but since it’s out there now, enjoy!”

If, like our staff, you looked at yesterday’s Guild Wars 2 patch notes and thought it was a “ filler patch ” with just a handful of bug and balance tweaks and some new Halloween bits in the cash shop, well, that’s because the biggest and best change wasn’t in the patch notes at all. That’d be the legendary weapon upgrade-swapping feature, and it wasn’t supposed to go live, but it did! As explained in a separate post by ArenaNet’s Gaile Gray

So that’s the good news. The bad news in the community right now is the mess ArenaNet’s making of RMT bans. MMO vets surely remember the old Warframe griefing trick whereby innocent players were being caught up in goldseller trades unknowingly; we covered it back in June. In Guild Wars 2, the sellers aren’t laundering gold through the legit market; they’re just being used as a direct griefing weapon.