I noticed this early this morning when I started grinding my hybrid character. I have an older left over vagabond in my disciple list. A buddy of mine owns the character and he was building it for the vagabond event a few months ago. He never left me as a master because I guess he's not interested to make that character a master. I'm guessing he's using that character as a stand character now. His current location was Hefei.

What was new is that the Master's kills now count towards to the contribution points. They didn't used to. He did go offline for a few minutes, probably disconnected, and suddenly my kills didn't count toward contribution points. So, if you've got disciples who are online and grinding, get out there and grind too. You are only helping yourself to get some of those really cool permanent items from the Master & Disciple sellers in Hefei.

Edit: A couple of people have told me that they aren't getting this effect, and I haven't been able to test it again with that vagabond disciple. I'll update this again when I figure out what is going on.

In other news, there is a collection quest event next week starting at the usual ridiculously late time of midnight GMT on Sunday night, or about 2 in the morning my time. The list will probably be announced in the usual public GoogleDoc, but there has been no announcement as to what will be given for the drops. I'm hoping for Blood Essences again.

- SpearDriver