RE: Pharos-Ra in Event Chests: They stated that Pharos-Ra was in chests at reset, but his drop rate was mistakenly set to 0. They fixed this 4 hours later. You can contact support if you spent event keys to get Pharos Ra in that 4 hour time frame.
RE: Inactive/Dead Guilds in GW: The guilds in GW are active enough that they registered. Sometimes they just register to get the GW troop. Sometimes they play on the weekend and don’t make scores until then. Sirrian theorizes that part of the problem may be that people in really low brackets feel no incentive to actually play the matches. So, they may add an incentive for guilds to actually win their bracket. Sirrian said that they must be careful because for every guild they move up, someone has to be moved down. It’s tricky to get right. They are investigating a solution. They have no ETA, but it won’t be in the 3.4 update.
RE: Bracket Movement: After 3.4, Sirrian stated that he does want to have a look at how guilds can advance more quickly if they have completely owned their bracket. If they have completely been smashed in their bracket, they could drop faster.
RE: 3.4 Update: It should release by the end of the month. It will include the new pets. Also, doomskulls are coming. A doomskull gives +5 damage and explodes when matched. They drop about 10% of the time. They will be intrinsic to spells in the next kingdom as well.There will also be a doomstorm.
RE: Live PVP: The game isn’t structured for live PVP at the moment. They won’t rule it out, but it wouldn’t come this year. Sirrian added that if they were going to do live PVP, he would almost rather do it in GoW 2 or another game that is built up from the ground to support it.
RE: Bounty Troops in Chests: They should be in chests Friday. However, it needs to be confirmed.
RE: Making GW Every Other Week: They will consider that. However, raids and invasions have been more popular in player participation in the data. So, at the moment, there are no plans to run GW every other week. But, they will keep evaluating.