Even if this isn’t a “bug”, Did Devs mentioned the change? Otherwise, It was working for both factions and then it got faction lock which could be a bug…
Also, there’s something called “Feedback” and if you don’t care about cosmetics because you use the excuse there’s X amount of those, that’s your personal point of view, some players care about specific things.
Yeah, if there’s not any Dev note, it could be a bug…just like in another years when they trigger some holiday events instead of requesting Max Level - 10 (60), they started to request Max level by mistake and Devs have to deploy an hotfix. This game has some bugs and typos.
Maybe someone from the council could help with this…They found a bug regarding Emeral Dream patch, Also, Did you do a thread on the bug forum? Because GD should gain a lot of replies and even with that its difficult to get a CM / Dev reply.