Guild Wars 2

Getting really frustrated by the lack of movement on that innocuous little “progress” bar…

Done all the experience points required to fill every line (except raid as not interested)…

But I do not have enough mastery point to “activate” them…. And not liable to for a very long time….

My level is 128…. and most remaining mysteries are hidden in some very expensive collections, more luck than judgement jumping puzzles and the personnel story that makes me want to cut my wrists if I have to watch another… can’t even say it… (please please please…. skip to end button for the sake of my sanity….)

So when I play (and I average many hours a day) the bar just sits there… full… no movement..

So…. Am I wasting any new experience points… is it pointless uses experience boosters… Don’t know because I can not see… So, to me, yes..

I know you do not get much for each “level 80” now… but a spirit shard was better than nothing….

My frustration is really all about a total lack of movement on that stupid little bar…. Might not have noticed it to much… clocking over for the 100th time… but I do miss the lack of it’s movement…

Sort of like… “someone” is not interested if the fact that the little numbers that pop up, when you kill or complete something, actually mean anything…

Is it just me or do you feel this way to…

Maybe an option to toggle the progress bar…. experience/mastery’s ???

Your XP is still going into the bar you just can’t see it as it is not unlocked. When you unlock it, it will be there.

i totally agree with this. Good example, I used to get a little XP reward for rezzing strangers and npc’s out in the world – now the reward has been taken away, I still do it, but why take away the reward? bad design in this area for sure.

I can see how people would think this way but I think its great. My 80s are now free to wander Tyria and do whatever they want with me not watching the bar fill up. I feel a type of freedom.

Of course, if they did something to make it reward-style rewarding again if a player was stuck on maxed mastery bars I wouldn’t cry about it.

The lack of movement is my point…. may be years before i unlock all mastery’s… and that little bar, moving from left to right, just make me feel like the points are going somewhere…
As to points carrying over…
I sent screenshots of a mastery level that that did not overflow into the next line… only to be told “Oh”

I vaguely remember hearing a dev say they would address this. Possibly even in Aprils patch. That’s not a definite, but worth checking through the patch notes on Tues for any changes.

The mastery system did give me incentive to get more mastery points because of the XP block, and thus the XP being potentially wasted between mastery unlocks drove me to play more of the content. I have mixed feelings about this being changed, as it actually pushed me to work at something.

We’ve never earned Spirit Shards by filling the XP bar. We did, previously, earn Hero Points after L80, which you could spend (including on crafting materials from Miyani), but never Spirit Shards.