Guild Wars 2

I know this might sound off, but since gliding was put into Main Tyria, is there any chance we could be able to gain exp towards some of the HoT Mastery Lines, without needing to do HoT maps and Content, like say, have a HoT Reward Track for WvW/sPvP that gave Tomes of HoT mastery Exp.

I personally would like to be able to just pick any mastery line and work on that no matter what I am doing. It’s not like this would hurt sales, as I still would need HoT to be able to select the HoT mastery Lines.

Just an idea I would like, maybe make the game easier and more fun to everyone.

I would agree with you. Unless you’re doing a meta on an HoT map, experience rate is vanishingly slow.

if i could +1 this more than once....

Hesacon.8735:

I would agree with you. Unless you’re doing a meta on an HoT map, experience rate is vanishingly slow.

It often feels that way, but also, sometimes, I just don’t want to grind HoT maps, and since my mainland Tyria Mastery line is maxed, it feels like I am wasting exp doing anything.

The grind is real, and its going to be tougher and tougher for people with the less people who play on HoT maps. If this idea were to go through, it would be great (personal feeling), but would only add to the reason why I don’t have to go to HoT at all.

I think Anet needs to build more incentives for people to enjoy there new zones, while being less grindy? Maybe 100% bonus XP weekends or such to get more people into the maps.

Personally I go into HoT usually one day on the weekend for a few hours, and that’s about it per week. It’s just not that interesting. I already feel like I am behind the curve when I see guys with 100+ mastery at every event I go to. Then when I go to a HoT map theres maybe 5 people doing events before you get that – not enough players volunteer reward. Last weekend I was on Auric Basin when the major defense event was going on, almost 5 minutes after, volunteered to go to a new map, only to do one event, volunteer to go to new map, followed by another event and volunteer note. I gave up at that point, logged out.

So I do +1 the idea, but feel like it will be detrimental to activity on HoT maps. Which is fine if I can gain HoT xp on non-HoT maps.

Park alts at adventures and do them daily. They take maybe 2 minutes each and are worth 100k exp.

Hexinx.1872:

The grind is real, and its going to be tougher and tougher for people with the less people who play on HoT maps. If this idea were to go through, it would be great (personal feeling), but would only add to the reason why I don’t have to go to HoT at all.

I think Anet needs to build more incentives for people to enjoy there new zones, while being less grindy? Maybe 100% bonus XP weekends or such to get more people into the maps.

Personally I go into HoT usually one day on the weekend for a few hours, and that’s about it per week. It’s just not that interesting. I already feel like I am behind the curve when I see guys with 100+ mastery at every event I go to. Then when I go to a HoT map theres maybe 5 people doing events before you get that – not enough players volunteer reward. Last weekend I was on Auric Basin when the major defense event was going on, almost 5 minutes after, volunteered to go to a new map, only to do one event, volunteer to go to new map, followed by another event and volunteer note. I gave up at that point, logged out.

So I do +1 the idea, but feel like it will be detrimental to activity on HoT maps. Which is fine if I can gain HoT xp on non-HoT maps.

I agree with you on this. All solid points.

I wonder however, if it could make consolidating the maps better, with less people coming and going?

Didn’t they just increase exp from stuff in HoT by 50% in the April patch?
The patch also added a bunch of easily soloable events to VB/AB/TD with fairly low cooldowns. This will also get you piles of crowbars/exalted keys?/aurillium/ley line crystals.

Hexinx.1872:

The grind is real, and its going to be tougher and tougher for people with the less people who play on HoT maps. If this idea were to go through, it would be great (personal feeling), but would only add to the reason why I don’t have to go to HoT at all.

I think Anet needs to build more incentives for people to enjoy there new zones, while being less grindy? Maybe 100% bonus XP weekends or such to get more people into the maps.

Personally I go into HoT usually one day on the weekend for a few hours, and that’s about it per week. It’s just not that interesting. I already feel like I am behind the curve when I see guys with 100+ mastery at every event I go to. Then when I go to a HoT map theres maybe 5 people doing events before you get that – not enough players volunteer reward. Last weekend I was on Auric Basin when the major defense event was going on, almost 5 minutes after, volunteered to go to a new map, only to do one event, volunteer to go to new map, followed by another event and volunteer note. I gave up at that point, logged out.

So I do +1 the idea, but feel like it will be detrimental to activity on HoT maps. Which is fine if I can gain HoT xp on non-HoT maps.

I’ve only recently start playing HoT maps. I’ve maxed exalted, taken itzel from mushrooms to leadership, nochue to proving from what ever it was that you needed to do the story, and I’m currently over half way through the second to last in gliding. All of which have been done in the last month, and I don’t play all that much. All its taken is a 2 celebration boosters(I popped my second last night,) and food and utility’s, I used the primers as I had 3 of each from BLC’s and achievements(if you can do math you’ll have worked out I’m only last 12 hours) So in a little over 24 hours, I have gathered a boat load of XP. And have to grab mastery points along the way. I found map completion to be a good way to gain some XP too. You only really need the masteries you get from playing the story to do map completion on the maps out side of TD and DS.

You’ll need exalted assistance to do all of TD, and itzle poison law for DS.

Personally, OP, I just think your proposition is too soon. It could become interesting when next expansion hits. Anyway I think you provide a bad example: you can glide in core tyria but, correct if I am wrong, you still to gain experience from doing events in hot to be able to glide in core tyria

I don’t feel strongly one way or the other about earning HoT experience in Central Tyria. I kinda like doing the Auric Basin / Dragon Stand metas.

That being said, what I would LOVE to see is the ability to select either HoT or Tyrian exp rewards from the new Current Events APs. For many of us who’ve maxed Central Tyria, the exp items we get are just a waste.

Silas Eorth.7348:

That being said, what I would LOVE to see is the ability to select either HoT or Tyrian exp rewards from the new Current Events APs. For many of us who’ve maxed Central Tyria, the exp items we get are just a waste.

There is where I am at as well, I have maxed Core, but I still like doing Core Events and Such, and feel like I am wasting EXP as I play.

I know they will put out other Mastery Lines as they put our expansions, and I don’t think it should be an even exchange, like maybe you only get 50% of the exp because you are using a cross expansion mastery line.

Just need to do few dragon stand runs and you will get all maxed out fast just be sure to have all XP boosts on