The wandering Gibbai ARE infected. Just watch all their strange wounds, they are like zombies. We had a goo-event at the end of the beta, and the infected Gibbai then looked excatly the same as these do now.
Is this event different on Leanon and Arispotle?
On Leanon, we have this goo-mound near the Antikami-Camp too, and also one in haven of purity (quite in the middle, near the letters "purity" on the map). I myself could see Gibbai (in groups of five, one 1-star-violet and four 2-stars-red) spawning from there on saturday and sunday a lot, when homins tried to free those poor Gibbais from their suffering by killing them (no other cure known and no healing-spell possible) - but after lots of fights the spawning ceased. Friends of mine swear that the goo-lump had darkened in between all the fighting.
After the first spawn-ceasing, some new, stronger Gibbai (2-stars-violet) spawned somewhere (unknown) and marched into Zora, where they were killed. None of those Gibbai was left alive.
On saturday there had still been a third goo-mound west of Jen Lai in knot of dementia, on Sunday this one was gone - perhaps connected to all the killing in Zora? On the other hand, there IS a goo-mound northwest of loneshot view (or so it is called) at stainmoor. And another one in the void, north of the gibads-camp.
But today we saw Gibbai (same old groups of five) spawning right to the north of Min Cho without a goo-cone to be seen!
We always thought that we could attack, heal or harvest the goo-lumps away (something like that worked at the Beta-event and was always mentioned in old dev-chats), but nothing worked. By killing lots and lots of Gibbai we hoped to "deplete" the goo-lumps and stop the spawning. But after a while new Gibbai ARE still spawning, even today...
There was a hint pointing to the Antikamis - weren't they using goo in the first Kami-vs-Karavan-event last year? The tribe is still the same, but last time some Antikamis had been plotting things down in the roots and had to be stopped, only after that the event ended. But: ARE there any groups of Antikamis somewhere else than in their own camp and patroling around in grove of umbra?
And: is there a "boss" behind all this; placing those goo-mounds relatively close to the Zorai-cities and using the poor Gibbai to swarm all over Witherings to confuse us? Some Gibbai are wandering into the goo, but will eventually turn around and head back - are they fetching new goo to bring it somewhere?
I would be REALLY grateful if we could exchange hints