I think its clear the devs’ original intent was that each expansion would add enough hero points to unlock its elite spec and get you slightly less than halfway to the next Espec in the next expansion, if you got every single hero point available.
Of course, that was the original plan back when Especs cost 400 points (which they did at HoT’s launch). Since that got so many complaints from people that they lowered the cost to 250, that prospect has been pretty much thrown out the window. Hard to say what they’ll do now. Raising the cost of the next Espec back to 400 would likely bring on the same complaints about it taking too long, but leaving the cost at 250 means many can just unlock the entire Espec right out of the gate, which they probably don’t want.
I suppose they could increase the amount dramatically (something like 800, say) but then make the hero challenges in the new map give you like 25 hero points a piece, like how the HoT points give 10 vs only 1 in the core maps. It’d drastically inflate the numbers, which would be kind of silly, but it would allow them to set a certain “pace” for getting a new Espec and not just let you bypass it all with existing points.
That may be the “best” way they could do it at this point.
I can almost guarantee that they will NOT lock the 2nd Espec behind the first, though. That would be fine for current HoT players who have already unlocked their elite spec, but for those who only get HoT from being bundled with the expansion, it’d mean they can’t get their new elite spec without doing all the grinding for the old one. Which would bring up even more complaints than the original 400-point cost.
