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Posted by: Gaile Gray

Gaile Gray

ArenaNet Communications Manager

As mentioned on today’s Ready Up, Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns will introduce the brand new Mastery system. In preparation for the release of the expansion pack, and beginning with the June 23 game update, Level 80 characters no longer will gain spirit shards (formerly skill points) through the leveling process. Instead, these characters will be able to acquire extra spirit shards through drops in the open world. For more information, please see our June 10th blog post about the changes coming to the Guild Wars 2 Wallet.

Gaile Gray
Communications Manager
Guild & Fansite Relations; In-Game Events
ArenaNet

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Posted by: dietzero.3514

dietzero.3514

From the open world? So how do WvWers get them?

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Posted by: DomAltares.8651

DomAltares.8651

From the open world? So how do WvWers get them?

The same way they do: Champ bags. Get on that mindless k-train, it’s what Anet wants in WvW.

This is an intended nerf to the availability of forge currency, and is also 100% intended to affect the WvW crowd by driving up the cost of superior siege.

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Posted by: azizul.8469

azizul.8469

wvw is open world . kill guards, you may get the shards….

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Posted by: Weylin.6478

Weylin.6478

Honestly I don’t see the point? If they want to nerf the forge then just increase the forge prices… If they want them available on other characters then give the characters a scroll of knowledge every level?

I’m really confused what the purpose of this is.

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Posted by: fishball.7204

fishball.7204

So what replaces the 70% of a level we used to get in dungeons?

FOR THE GREEEEEEEEEEEEN

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Posted by: Kelnis.1829

Kelnis.1829

@Gaile
I assume the other changes are coming along as well? Hero points, change to the stat system (rebalance due to traits) are coming with it as well?

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Posted by: Wanze.8410

Wanze.8410

So what replaces the 70% of a level we used to get in dungeons?

You will still get 70% of a level.

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Posted by: Becka Williams.4978

Becka Williams.4978

So, what do we get from leveling? Nothing?

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Posted by: Caedmon.6798

Caedmon.6798

So, what do we get from leveling? Nothing?

You get a nice aura around you and you hear a WOOSH sound. ;p

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Posted by: Takoyakii.2146

Takoyakii.2146

So, what do we get from leveling? Nothing?

Until we get mastery I guess…. nothing ?

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Posted by: Qror.7562

Qror.7562

What’s happening with the racial skills?

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Posted by: Rose Solane.1027

Rose Solane.1027

A lot of good questions, no answers so far. Hopefully we will get some before the patch, maybe with the patch. It could also take ArenaNet weeks to answer these obvious questions but I still have hope

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Posted by: Ragnarox.9601

Ragnarox.9601

hail to the God of RNG hahaha xD

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Posted by: Vayne.8563

Vayne.8563

So, what do we get from leveling? Nothing?

You’ll be leveling masteries after 80. Instead of getting a skill point which is basically used for gold or crafting (and you’ll get that currency in other ways now), you’ll be progression your character through masteries.

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Posted by: Randulf.7614

Randulf.7614

Thanks for the info Gaile (and to Josh for the other mammoth thread).

I think it might be worth a forum specialist rounding up some of the FAQ’s around these 2 threads to make it easier for the devs to answer in a single thread. Lots of good follow up questions (like boon and condition duration) being bandied about, but they are a bit all over the place.

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Posted by: Valento.9852

Valento.9852

The current experience points will be used to level masteries, but that’s a pretty good question: between june, 23rd and the xpac, what will happen with the experience we earn.

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Shaman
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Posted by: eyestrain.3056

eyestrain.3056

What i want to know about this change is how level 80 characters will get skill points to unlock utility skills. If it’s only through skill challenges in open world that’s a huge pain in the kitten to wvwers.

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Posted by: Xillllix.3485

Xillllix.3485

This is going mess up the market on all skill point crafting. Sounds like a bad idea to change such a core system.

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Posted by: Becka Williams.4978

Becka Williams.4978

So, what do we get from leveling? Nothing?

You’ll be leveling masteries after 80. Instead of getting a skill point which is basically used for gold or crafting (and you’ll get that currency in other ways now), you’ll be progression your character through masteries.

No, read what Gaile said, and what I said. She said HoT will introduce masteries. After Tuesday, you won’t get skill points from leveling. What do we get for leveling between Tuesday, and the release of HoT?

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Posted by: khani.4786

khani.4786

So, what do we get from leveling? Nothing?

You’ll be leveling masteries after 80. Instead of getting a skill point which is basically used for gold or crafting (and you’ll get that currency in other ways now), you’ll be progression your character through masteries.

No, read what Gaile said, and what I said. She said HoT will introduce masteries. After Tuesday, you won’t get skill points from leveling. What do we get for leveling between Tuesday, and the release of HoT?

nothing

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Posted by: Rising Dusk.2408

Rising Dusk.2408

Here are some questions I have:

  • Will all utility/healing/elite skills and traits be refunded and then need to be repurchased with the new hero points? Or will those that characters have now be grandfathered into the new system?
  • What is happening with the racial skills?
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Posted by: MikeE.5947

MikeE.5947

So instead of one guaranteed from each time you’d gain a level, it’s now RNG? LOL

It took me 2 weeks! to get a single portal. I guess it’s time for pastures new. I’m going to wait and see before buying HoT. I don’t like all the nerfs making crap professions worse, and now even more RNG & Grind.

I love this game but it’s getting a bit much.

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Posted by: Wanze.8410

Wanze.8410

This is going mess up the market on all skill point crafting. Sounds like a bad idea to change such a core system.

How?

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Posted by: Donari.5237

Donari.5237

What exactly do you need a steady supply of spirit shards (previously, skill points) for? Serious question. Do they actually get used up that fast that it is crucial to get one every time you ding a level? I don’t use the Forge much at all. I have hundreds of the suckers on my alts, and hundreds more stacked in my bank in the form of scrolls I’ve gained from various sources just by playing the game — and that playing is maybe an hour or two a day in terms of really going at it in PvE (I don’t PvP), mostly by doing one round of SW.

I am very curious as to why people feel the level-ding-point is so incredibly vital to their well-being.

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Posted by: Jana.6831

Jana.6831

What exactly do you need a steady supply of spirit shards (previously, skill points) for? Serious question. Do they actually get used up that fast that it is crucial to get one every time you ding a level?

Superior siege blueprints. The price of ACs has risen 5 silver the past few weeks. And I haven’t looked up rams.

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Posted by: Royale.5863

Royale.5863

This is worrying. We have a reliable method to get spirit shards (skill points) via leveling which is now being taken away to be replaced with RNG…

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Posted by: Inculpatus cedo.9234

Inculpatus cedo.9234

This is worrying. We have a reliable method to get spirit shards (skill points) via leveling which is now being taken away to be replaced with RNG…

Sounds like there will be many avenues to acquire Spirit Shards:

You will be able to earn Spirit Shards through Daily Achievements, Champion Loot Bags, PvP Reward Tracks, Birthday gifts, and once you hit level 80, from Tomes of Knowledge and regular drops from creatures.

If, of course, the unofficially-released upcoming Patch Notes are valid.

Good luck.