Guild Wars 2

I have 18k AP, I’m playing 90% of the time on my Guardian and yet I have only 214 hero points after spending all of them not including elite specialization. Someone from my guild had 350 of them.

You get 214 from map 100% before HoT. The rest is from hero points from the new maps. There’s no other source.

If a character had a ton of skill points from before specialisations, they would get an equal amount of hero points after that patch.

Waaay back in the day, skill points were also used for mystic forge recipes. Maybe you crafted a lot and lost some of your skill points in the skill point to shards collection. I wasn’t around when the change happened but I’m pretty sure I lost some too.
Also another reason might be WvW Hero points, back in the day they counted for map completion, after a while they didn’t and now they are removed completely, that might also be a reason

There are only 213 hero(skill) points in the game and one when you made it in your home instance. So it is not possible that someone has 350 skill points to spare.

exp.3168:

There are only 213 hero(skill) points in the game and one when you made it in your home instance. So it is not possible that someone has 350 skill points to spare.

There are 400 extra hero points in the new maps. There are 40 challenges and each challenge is worth 10 points.