I’m with the opinion, that if they add alot more Mastery Points, they should also add enough new Masteries to make usage of the new points that have been added.
This way people should have to make a decision of players use the new points rather for some oolder masteries to get them done easier, of if they use the new points for the new masteries and postpone with this decision the point when they have to do finally also the other content of the game to get the last missing mastery points to max everythign and master the game, unless Anet added again new point before this happens and brings you again to the point, that you can decide to use the new easy points for maxing either older masteries and postponing for you the harder to achieve points to max out everything, or use them directly for the newst masteries…
Theres still so much potential for new masteries especialyl for the overall game for central tyria and in general and what do they make? They keep on addign masteries that are map bounded and only useful for the newest map, instesad of making overall useful masteries, that are useful for the player, regardless on which map you are playing!!
Bring on finally the masteries, that should have been added from begin on when you introduced the mastery system with the expansion!!!
Add finally Masteries like:
Gathering Masteries Lines for Mining, Woodcutting and Herbs and add more gathering methods like Fishing and Digging to give for these gathering methods also masteries.
Add a Mastery Line for Crafting
Add a Mastery Line for Salvaging
Add a Mastery Line for Haggling with NPCs so that buying and selling items with them becomes more lucrative for us and lets us reduce also costs for specific currencies in maps so better we can haggle…
Now with Flying Combat being in the game, add a Gliding Combat Mastery that improves our maneuvery in air by lettign us become able to prform Rolls , Loopings and such stuff in air to deflect attacks and to dodge attacks and to unlock maneuver skills that resemble the Glint Skills to glide for hsort moments alot faster, to jump higher to get a better highr position to start gliding from the ground up.
Add a mastery for Riding Mounts and add mounted combat as new feature to unlock that way also the ability to ride various kinds of “War Mounts” like devourers, junundu wurms and what not all (grand moas, gryphons ect pp) and to get mounts in general as travel utility to travel faster around than running on ground areas where its allowed and possible to use them
Add Faction Masteries that give you unique new utility skilsl based on the faction your character belongs to (Vigil, Whispers, Durmand) which work also like some kind of reputation system to unlock other faction based features for you in the game to let the three factions become again a bit more meaningful for the player
Add profession based masteries to increase this way also a bit more the Character Development to improve the abilities of what classes should be able to do in PvE without linking these abilities to traits, skils ect. like for an example a Thief Class receiving Masteries like
- Shadow Form, which improves for PvE especially the Thieves Stealth and Shadow Steppings to learn this way new improved versions of Stealth and Shadow Steps (Camouflage & Shadow Runs) which could enable the Thief to do alot of new things with these skill types that they previously couldn’t do for example, like becoming a shadow under camouflage to attack unseen for some time enemies, without that you get instantly revealed but first after the duration of stealth runs out or becomign with camouflage a shadow to move alot faster in that time than normal and seeign things now also, that you couldn’t see before that were hidden in darkness/behind magical illusions. With Shadow Runs for example you could then shadow step through things unharmed, where you woudl get damaged and die with a normal shadow step because of being too “slow” to reach this way through shadow runs locations, which you wouldn’t reach with simple shadow steps as a thief.
Think just of the many other possible class related masteries with that ANet could add more character development for everybody to make especialyl this way PvE for us alot more interesting and eventually also the other game modes, (especially WvW im thinking about, which needs finally moreclass related character development!!! to make it more interesting and to give classes in WvW more defined roles, advantages and disadvantages, thigns in which each class in wvw is especially good for and thing,s where other classes are better suited for due to their class retated wvw character development that gives them better suiting features for specific roles in WvW like for exmaple Elementalists getting that way character development improvements, that let them become superior in destroying walls and gates with their mighty elemental spells, where thieves gain the ability to remove enemy traps from the field or can remove the effects of sabotaging tricks like that annoying thign that disables siege weapons for a long time so that if you have a thief with you that has mastered the mastery for fixing sabotages could then remove those effets when using the siege weapon, or could work with a little telegraphing on them, to let the duration of the sabotaging effect run down faster…to make the siege weapon quicker ready to use again, if instant removal would be too much ,then at least a speed up process for removing the disabling effect that way if you have a thief with you that mastered the ability to do that.
Then there are possible masteries like a Waypoint Mastery that could enable you to reduce the costs of usage, or enable you to use a new type of Way Point or to use som kind of new type of Asura Portal Technology that lets you basically travel anywhere where you want and not only to specific waypoints on the map /thus giving you the ability to set up for yourself personal waypoints)
Then theres the possibility foran Inventory Management Mastery to add finally useful features like Auto Selling, Auto Salvaging, Auto Chest Deposits, when we have already auto Looting, these auto mechanics are essentially an overdue MUST to imrove significantly the inventory management of this game to drasticalyl reduce the clicking wars in this game to a minimum. Mastery for this feature, because not everybody wants to have these automatics, so unless you dont want to have them acttive, dont learn the mastery same as like it is with auto looting.
So much yet unused potential and thats the kind of masteries, which i personaly want to see gettign added ASAP and not such regional map locked masteries, that are only useful for these specific maps and nowhere else in the whole game.
The mastery system should be there to add more character development and to be a way to add more needed QoL features to the game that can be connected to character development.. not to add unneccessary map locked mechanics only that makes no usage of the real potential that this mastery system can provide for the game to improve the game also.
Personally I like the idea behind sub classes ~ quoted from Chris Whiteside
