Guild Wars 2

Hello,

I am a returning player and would really appreciate if someone can help me with these two answers since I cannot reliably find answers to them (and some answers I think might be outdated).

I was wondering what is the best way to get Exp to train mastery? I know there are two types and as far as HoT mastery is concerned it has to be slow boring grind throughout the Maguuma jungle. But I thought dungeons would help me quickly get exp for Central Tyria, doesn’t looks like that is the case anymore though.

Also, what is the best way to get Hero Points? Before HoT I had 200+ Skill Points on most of my characters, I didn’t get any Hero Points for them (which is very annoying) and have to grind 10 at a time now from Hero Point Communes now. Is this the only way to get these points now?

I don’t particularly enjoy map exploration, so can someone suggest/tell me if there are still some exp trains (like there used to be one in silverwastes back when I used to play) in Maguuma and Central Tyria to quickly level?

Thank you very much.

HoT exp can be extremely quick – you just need to do events and especially big meta events. Hero point and event trains do exist in Maguuma, esp Auric Basin. Dragon Stand meta is prob the best xp, but you need to taxi into an active map when it starts and you need to get there (it’s the final map)

Hero points have 3 ways to acquire:
- Maguuma (10 per point and there are hero point trains constantly running usually)
- Core Tyria (1 per point)
- WvW – You can use the new extra currency to buy a hero point from maguuma or core tyria for their appropriate value

In core tyria, there are also event trains, usually they are the old champ trains. Look at the current weekly map rewards and you can guess where people will be. For example, last week Frostgorge was packed due to Powerful Blood, CHarged Stones and Giants Eyes for event rewards. CUrsed Shore is usually always going regardless of rewards