Guild Wars 2

I’m a noob to HoT and have 12 points although I’ve been playing GW2 for 3 years – since shortly after release. I have 14 toons in all classes.

I have 12 points. Played some of the new content and can fly.

I’m working in “Greater Tyria” and have trained Pact Commander through “Noblesse Oblige” and the bar on the bottom is now stuck.

I will never play fractals – Been there and Done that waste of time.
I don’t believe in grinding and gambling on Ledgendary Weapons so I don’t care about those.

So what now. Does this bar continue to move or do I waste all effort until I train Masteries that I don’t care about? And then grind them until the only thing left is the one that I do want?

With all the changes in the past few years to allow you to change talents skills and specializations all the time, and now this? Do I have to waste points on Masteries that I don’t care about and grind them on and on to waste points rather than using them on things I care about? Or is the UI for masteries just very confusing?

Is there a wiki page that makes sense of this. I’ve seen the pages and they did not clarify this point.

Thanks for the clarifications
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https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mastery

yeah yeah read that.. No help.
But I get it now after a conversation in game.
When the XP bar is maxed out, I have to go to Achievements and look for ones with Red markers to get MPs for Central Tyria. So I have to find 8 easy Achievements to get more points. More XP does not help. The UI is not clear on this point.
But I don’t have to spend points on the wrong thing – made a mistake and trained fractals for 1 point, but never mind.

I think I get it now. I’ll go grind some Cheeves and concentrate on places where Flame Legion lives to get that last chunk of Mist armor I need.

This UI thing could be a lot clearer.

And I miss not being able to see my down-leveled level too. But never mind.

If you max out the XP for Pact Commander, you can switch to Fractals and/or Legendary crafting and continue filling those bars with XP… even if you don’t intend to spend MPs on them, it’ll at least be ready if you change your mind later. Once you’ve found enough MPs, you can just switch back to Pact Commander… your XP bar will still be filled and you can spend your MPs.

In terms of earning new MPs, I’m going to be lazy and copy/paste one of my old posts… so not every point is relevant to you. If you look in your achievement panel, any category with a red star contains a MP achievement that you haven’t earned yet.

Easy points:
8 personal story
8 completing LS 2 story (not the achievements)
2 Tequalt
1 Karka Queen
1 LA exterminator
1 Dry Top skritt queen
1 for first character reaching lvl 80

That’s 22 points without doing fractals, dungeons, JPs, LS achievements, difficult bosses or rare spawns. And that’s easily enough to max out Pact Commander (19 needed).

As for Fractal Attunement, it pays for itself in terms on MP’s…11 needed, 14 available. Most of the time I get these by accident, asking the group if we could work towards it, or creating a LFG stating it was a MP run. But if you don’t do fractals, this line is useless to you and you can ignore it.

Legendary crafting is a funny one… to craft a precursor, you will need to do lots of different content (Fractals, JPs, specific champs/events, specific achievements, mini dungeons, max level crafting) If you think getting the MPs required to max this mastery out is too much, precursor crafting is more of the same but arguably much harder and definitely more expensive. As someone who has crafted Dusk, I can guarantee the MP requirement is only a mild obstacle in the grand scheme of precursor crafting. If this crafting process doesn’t appeal to you, you can ignore this mastery line too.

TLDR:
Core Tyria masteries ARE tuned to your gameplay preferences:
Pact Commander for everyone: enough easy MPs
Fractal Attunement for the fractal runners: enough MPs in fractals
Legendary Crafting: crafting process requires you to do lots of different and sometimes annoying/difficult content, thus reflected in the remaining MPs coming from all sorts of content (some of which are annoying/difficult)