Guild Wars 2

So quite a while ago I heard about the specializations and stuff so I took the time to make some preparations. I leveled my Necro to level 80 and farmed some skill points. After that I took a break for a couple months.

Now in the meantime they changed the skill points system and I’m now left with useless spirit shards that I don’t want/need. Is there any way to convert the spirit shards to hero points?

I spent a lot of time to prepare and if I can’t get my hero points I basically did it for nothing ._.

Edit: I kept the skill points I farmed in my inventory in case I wanted to use them on another character.
I basically feel like I got kicked in the balls because all those skill points are now some crafting material that I don’t need T_T

There should be 200+ core map hp to earn in the world. If you do not want to earn them, the jungle now has 40 hp also, but jungle points give you 10hp per one.
The change your talking about mean, at level 80 you have enough HP to max your core skills.

Any skill challenges that you did out in the world (now Hero Challenges), those points where converted into the new HP (not shards).

Essentially the only existing skill points that got converted into spirit shards were those “in excess” of the calculation for the HPs given to you for your current level + challenges completed. So, any you got from “leveling” after 80, or from popping skill point scrolls were what got converted.

TJgalon.5012:

There should be 200+ core map hp to earn in the world. If you do not want to earn them, the jungle now has 40 hp also, but jungle points give you 10hp per one.
The change your talking about mean, at level 80 you have enough HP to max your core skills.

Yeah I did some research before posting this :P
I know about the HP that you can find in the jungle, but that’s not my point. I saved up all those skill points to unlock as much as I could from the beginning but now I’m stuck with those spirit shards and I’m not looking forward to grinding all those HP again

Jarvice.4590:

TJgalon.5012:

There should be 200+ core map hp to earn in the world. If you do not want to earn them, the jungle now has 40 hp also, but jungle points give you 10hp per one.
The change your talking about mean, at level 80 you have enough HP to max your core skills.

Yeah I did some research before posting this :P
I know about the HP that you can find in the jungle, but that’s not my point. I saved up all those skill points to unlock as much as I could from the beginning but now I’m stuck with those spirit shards and I’m not looking forward to grinding all those HP again

You missed nothing cause they transform the skill point not earned by heroe point ( old name skill point challenges) into spirit shards at EVERY players account..

even if you logged in on the day it was changed or short time before its the same result now

—> all have to deal with it; you havent missed the skill point revamp

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Any skill challenges that you did out in the world (now Hero Challenges), those points where converted into the new HP (not shards).

Essentially the only existing skill points that got converted into spirit shards were those “in excess” of the calculation for the HPs given to you for your current level + challenges completed. So, any you got from “leveling” after 80, or from popping skill point scrolls were what got converted.

I see… Well I mostly farmed skill points in PvP and stuff. I had about 200 in my inventory (I kept them in my inventory in case I changed my mind about my favorite elite spec) and I guess those are now spirit shards…

Jarvice.4590:

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Any skill challenges that you did out in the world (now Hero Challenges), those points where converted into the new HP (not shards).

Essentially the only existing skill points that got converted into spirit shards were those “in excess” of the calculation for the HPs given to you for your current level + challenges completed. So, any you got from “leveling” after 80, or from popping skill point scrolls were what got converted.

I see… Well I mostly farmed skill points in PvP and stuff. I had about 200 in my inventory (I kept them in my inventory in case I changed my mind about my favorite elite spec) and I guess those are now spirit shards…

yes cause as i wrote this are spirit shards now at every players account

Jarvice.4590:

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Any skill challenges that you did out in the world (now Hero Challenges), those points where converted into the new HP (not shards).

Essentially the only existing skill points that got converted into spirit shards were those “in excess” of the calculation for the HPs given to you for your current level + challenges completed. So, any you got from “leveling” after 80, or from popping skill point scrolls were what got converted.

I see… Well I mostly farmed skill points in PvP and stuff. I had about 200 in my inventory (I kept them in my inventory in case I changed my mind about my favorite elite spec) and I guess those are now spirit shards…

Yeah, even if you used them before you quit they would’ve turned into spirit shards, only skill points from leveling and open world were turned into hero points, so you didn’t get screwed up, you have / are able to get exactly the same amount of hero points as everyone else, since there’s a static amount of hero points from leveling and open world.

Alukah.2063:

Jarvice.4590:

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Any skill challenges that you did out in the world (now Hero Challenges), those points where converted into the new HP (not shards).

Essentially the only existing skill points that got converted into spirit shards were those “in excess” of the calculation for the HPs given to you for your current level + challenges completed. So, any you got from “leveling” after 80, or from popping skill point scrolls were what got converted.

I see… Well I mostly farmed skill points in PvP and stuff. I had about 200 in my inventory (I kept them in my inventory in case I changed my mind about my favorite elite spec) and I guess those are now spirit shards…

Yeah, even if you used them before you quit they would’ve turned into spirit shards, only skill points from leveling and open world were turned into hero points, so you didn’t get screwed up, you have / are able to get exactly the same amount of hero points as everyone else, since there’s a static amount of hero points from leveling and open world.

Clarification, only the ones you got for leveling to 80. The ones you got for “leveling up” after you hit 80 got turned into spirit shards.

Jarvice.4590:

Edit: I kept the skill points I farmed in my inventory in case I wanted to use them on another character.
I basically feel like I got kicked in the balls because all those skill points are now some crafting material that I don’t need T_T

Even if you used those scrolls to get Skill Points, those Skill Points would have still been converted into Spirit Shards.

So, you were NOT kicked in the nether regions.