Guild Wars 2

It would be really nice to have reward tracks or something equivalent for PvE. It’s so depressing watching all the XP numbers pop up and knowing that they mean nothing.

You get a spirit shard now everytime you level past mastery cap. So they’ve basically returned that function due to popular demand.

And just to prove my point, they give me a large cache of experience for finishing the first bit of LS3… Which is worthless because my mastery track is maxed out, but I don’t have the points to buy the last item in the legendary crafting tree.

Well you technically haven’t completed masteries so there being a reward track afterwards would not really help you anyways.

Boogiepop Void.6473:

And just to prove my point, they give me a large cache of experience for finishing the first bit of LS3… Which is worthless because my mastery track is maxed out, but I don’t have the points to buy the last item in the legendary crafting tree.

At least you got the experience from that reward (sorta). I got the item and finished the instance but got no experience from it whatsoever, and I have unfinished mastery tracks that I am working on.

Ayrilana.1396:

Well you technically haven’t completed masteries so there being a reward track afterwards would not really help you anyways.

I have finished everything to do with XP. Locking the XP system to another one that requires completing arbitrary achievements, which are not trivial to complete, is bad design. You are constantly flashing XP in front of people, then essentially taking it away from them because they haven’t gone and done something else they may not want to do. What about people who don’t WANT to do the legendary crafting mastery line? Well too bad, if you don’t want your XP to be worthless, go do it anyway.