Today on my server (Yojamba), the wintergrasp is not appearing despite the fact I (and others) have won every wintergrasp.
We also can’t access the vendors.
So, what’s happening here all depends on when those games were won. To put it simply, only the games that end after the queue window expires count towards which faction gets the buff.
If you won a game after the queue window expired (as in, nobody is allowed to queue in that period anymore) and the buff didn’t go out, then yes, this is bugged.
If all these games were won BEFORE the queue window expired, then no, this is working as intended. For whatever reason, blizzard decided that the essence buff should be wiped from the server whenever a new Wintergrasp battle begins in that queue window. Insanely dumb, yes, but sadly deliberate according to their own post.
More details on the unintuitive workings of wintergrasp are in this post:
Not working as intended though right? Didn’t Blizzard say that if any member of a faction wins a WG that faction would get the buff?
This exact same “bug” has been around before and they didnt fix it, so yes… it probably is working as intended.
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They did, but they also say in that post that the buff will only last until a new game begins. A reasonable person would assume they mean the next wintergrasp session (So as to not render most players efforts in wintergrasp obsolete). Unfortunately, based on the way it works in game and the fact that they haven’t fixed it yet, it seems like they do mean exactly what they wrote in their post: The buff lasts until a new game starts.