Guild Wars 2

First, wasn’t the purpose of that forum to discuss (as the description said), the ‘upcoming HoT expansion’? Now that it’s here, it seems confusing to have two General forums, no?

Second, I do have a couple general questions mostly pertaining to HoT.

Q1: I’m going kinda slow, only M2 (I guess?) and was wondering if there was any way to use any Tomes or Writs or anything to help with that? Or do you just have to grind out the events? I didn’t start right away, but I am seeing people (2 weeks in) in their 20s, 50s and even 100s! Is there a trick to that?

Q2: Seeing as I’m going so slow, is there a ‘best path’ to follow in picking masteries as you are trying to find your way through VB the first time? I’m at about 36% complete is all. Did the story intro and then helped the frogs defend their home, waiting at ‘In Their Footsteps’, and not in a particular hurry to rush the story, but also don’t want the story to be the thing that’s slowing me down. I got ‘Glider Basics’ and ‘Bouncing Mushrooms’ with my first two and was working on ‘Updraft Use’, but then wondered if I shouldn’t be doing ‘Itzel Language’?

You will need the first line of Exalted and Nuhoch (poss Itzl too, I forget) to progress the story.

Personally I got gliding 1 & 2 and mushrooms finished first before I did those. Updraft is more useful outside of story stuff imo.

There is no trick, although there are “farming spots” (HP trains, dungeons for Tyria Masteries). It took me a week to get to 16 with a casual mindset – ie doing early story on multiple toons and events as and when they came up, It only becomes a grind if you focus on levelling the mastery. If you just play all aspects of the game, you will quickly level multiple masteries early on.

Randulf.7614:

You will need the first line of Exalted and Nuhoch (poss Itzl too, I forget) to progress the story.

Personally I got gliding 1 & 2 and mushrooms finished first before I did those. Updraft is more useful outside of story stuff imo.

There is no trick, although there are “farming spots” (HP trains, dungeons for Tyria Masteries). It took me a week to get to 16 with a casual mindset – ie doing early story on multiple toons and events as and when they came up, It only becomes a grind if you focus on levelling the mastery. If you just play all aspects of the game, you will quickly level multiple masteries early on.

That was my original plan, and I guess I’ll just stick to that, thanks.