Guild Wars 2

It makes little sense that the map buff only provides experience as the zone was designed to be end-game content. I propose giving an increased chance to proc bloodstone rubies from the nodes (because the drop rate is currently putrid) with increasing stacks of bloodstone empowerment in addition to the exp buff it already provides…thoughts?

If you have completed the HoT masteries, XP rewards spirit shards. It would also make it faster to earn XP for the new masteries in this living story.

That said, I can’t see the point of it myself, but I’d guess those were the intended reasons – and perhaps as a helper for new players to fill out mastery bars to catch up?

SlippyCheeze.5483:

If you have completed the HoT masteries, XP rewards spirit shards. It would also make it faster to earn XP for the new masteries in this living story.

That said, I can’t see the point of it myself, but I’d guess those were the intended reasons – and perhaps as a helper for new players to fill out mastery bars to catch up?

Especially since it was added at around the same time people were complaining about having a difficult time gaining exp for masteries despite already being fairly easy.

I simply ignored the buff since I saw it as being useless and still do.