Guild Wars 2

So doing some of the new Ley Line disturbance events in Central Tyria and earning their subsequent achievements yields an item that grants experience towards Central Tyrian masteries. But these items are activated instantaneously. What if I want to save them until more Central Tyrian Masteries are added because all of mine are currently maxed out? Has it been confirmed there will never be additional Central Tyrian masteries and I just don’t know or is this an oversight?

Apparently, ANet is offering these as a way to help folks who aren’t maxed out yet. I doubt it’s an oversight.

Further, I can’t imagine that ANet would want us to save up XP until the next set of masteries (if any are to be added). People started complaining within a month after Hot launch that they had maxed masteries and had nothing left to do. In other words, they’d rather err on the side of making things too difficult than too easy, as it’s easier to adjust the first than the second.

Ideally I could have just held off on doing these events to earn their achievements until such a time when more Central Tyrian masteries became available, assuming these events are permanent; however i didn’t know the rewards ahead of time, so that was impossible, I suppose. I was one of those people who earned their masteries quickly, so I would agree I don’t want them to be even easier to earn, a fair point, Na.

Tom.8029:

however i didn’t know the rewards ahead of time, so that was impossible, I suppose.

You could look them up ahead of time in the achievement panel. I did that, so I was a bit better prepared.

Still, despite the fact that I can see the logic behind the reward, I was disappointed that two of the four rewards (besides AP) were things I couldn’t use. Fortunately, the events (and finding them) were fun for me, so the rewards were secondary. I hope we see “current events” with every major patch, even if there’s no reward and not much to them — it’s also fun to speculate about what might happen next.

I felt the same at first but, actually, if they do add more masteries it will be part of the journey to earn the XP for them. Imagine if you logged in and already had enough “stuff” stashed away to max everything instantly. It would probably leave you feeling a bit flat.

That said, I would like to see surplus XP have a use. Just wrapping around the end and giving us a spirit shard or a token reward would do it for me.