Guild Wars 2

During the Beta’s it was possible to get progress on the mastery tracks simply by visiting the cities and get the world completion chest. After getting world completion chest you could go to the Heart of the Maguuma and open the chest to get progression on the new mastery tracks, like gliding for example.

I wonder if we are able to do that as well when the expansion goes live? Also does it work retroactively?

No, because the beta chars had everything unlocked. They just didn’t have map rewards yet so going to a city gave them the map reward.

And no, no progress gained by any bets char was retained for your account. So no retroactive gains.

As too opening a chest in a spot different than the spot earned, maybe,

Those chests include a small amount of XP along with whatever rewards. It has nothing to do with map completion directly.

If you want to complete a map and then open the chest in HoT for masteries, you’re welcome to, I guess.

It absolutely will not work retroactively because you’ve already earned that xp.

Map completion chests gave out XP at 10% of your current level so you got a little over 25K per chest without boosters.

I personally don’t see this being a major issue like in the betas as we cannot re-roll instant level 80 characters with map completion done for city maps.

Be aware, you could only hold up to 4 or so of those chests before they will automatically open when changing maps/logging out. So, it’s not like you could do much World Map Completion on a new/low-level character and save them to open in the Heart of Maguuma.

Good luck.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Be aware, you could only hold up to 4 or so of those chests before they will automatically open when changing maps/logging out. So, it’s not like you could do much World Map Completion on a new/low-level character and save them to open in the Heart of Maguuma.

Good luck.

I’m not sure hey even open automatically. i think they’re just lost.
That’s how the silverwastes chests work anyway.

Narrrz.7532:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Be aware, you could only hold up to 4 or so of those chests before they will automatically open when changing maps/logging out. So, it’s not like you could do much World Map Completion on a new/low-level character and save them to open in the Heart of Maguuma.

Good luck.

I’m not sure hey even open automatically. i think they’re just lost.
That’s how the silverwastes chests work anyway.

I doubt they’re lost otherwise people would never be able to get world completion as a map doesn’t count as completed until they open the chest. A few people have had the issue before where they had 100% world completion but forgot to open a completion chest for one of the maps.

Narrrz.7532:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Be aware, you could only hold up to 4 or so of those chests before they will automatically open when changing maps/logging out. So, it’s not like you could do much World Map Completion on a new/low-level character and save them to open in the Heart of Maguuma.

Good luck.

I’m not sure hey even open automatically. i think they’re just lost.
That’s how the silverwastes chests work anyway.

Once you go over 4 and change maps, they aren’t lost. The extras over 4 are just auto opened.

Enko.6123:

Narrrz.7532:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Be aware, you could only hold up to 4 or so of those chests before they will automatically open when changing maps/logging out. So, it’s not like you could do much World Map Completion on a new/low-level character and save them to open in the Heart of Maguuma.

Good luck.

I’m not sure hey even open automatically. i think they’re just lost.
That’s how the silverwastes chests work anyway.

Once you go over 4 and change maps, they aren’t lost. The extras over 4 are just auto opened.

I have very certainly lost seed pods/greater keys from forgetting to open before i log out. Bags of gear/shovels are harder to gauge, because maybe those chests didn’t contain them, and bandit crests i haven’t been able to remember how many i had at logout to be able to tell if i was awarded them or not.

Ayrilana.1396:

Map completion chests gave out XP at 10% of your current level so you got a little over 25K per chest without boosters.

I personally don’t see this being a major issue like in the betas as we cannot re-roll instant level 80 characters with map completion done for city maps.

It’s not a major issue. Nonetheless, it’s a nice boost you can do right now to get a head start on mastery progression. Some might complain about it.

Regarding the chests, you can just keep the maps at 99% completion and leave the easiest Point of Interest open. So when the expansion launches you can quickly waypoint between the cities and get 4 chests at the time before going to the Heart of Maguuma.