Guild Wars 2

I know the idea of a repeatable mastery may not sound desirable or logical, but hear me out.

I think after everyone is done grinding away at the Central Tyrian and Maguuma Masteries, there should be something in place that you can just set as your focus that will be infinitely repeatable and grant you something when you finish, and Masteries that work anywhere you are. It could also be used to grant a way to farm some potentially rare items that currently have no fantastic way of being farmed

Some ideas could be:
—Tome of Knowledge, needing 1,024,000 XP.
You may have a character you really enjoy playing but would love to have alts at 80 to play. Note that this XP amount is about 4x more than what should be needed for any given level, and therefore it should be reasonably more time consuming to get than it would be to get any level just through world completion or any other means. If there is any reason why this could be gotten faster than a normal level, other than XP boosts, which is completely supportable, then I think that method of gaining XP should be nerfed.

—Spirit Shard, needing 512,000 or 1,024,000 XP
Aside from dailies, there hasn’t really be any solid way of getting these since the skill point change. I don’t know how well balanced 1million XP is for these, especially since it is farmable, but I think it sounds reasonable, especially because you do need a lot of them, at least for Legendaries.

—Transmutation Charge, needing 512,000 XP
I imagine ANet wants to keep these limited enough that some people will buy them, but it would be nice to have a steady source of these outside of PvP, even if it is a big draw of PvP.

I do recognize that some of the items I listed as potential rewards are intruding upon certain gamemodes that the game sets up for them to be rewards, but I think based on the amount of effort needed for them, it is reasonable.

This is a solid idea. While I don’t expect most players to finish masteries for a long time, people will finish them, and unless Anet pushes out more masteries soon-ish to them reaching it, we’ll go back to XP on level 80 characters being worthless.

It was worthless between the switch to spirit shards and the release of HoT, and it’s nice that I’m not wasting that XP anymore. Even a small, repeatable reward seems like a good planning for the next drought.

I like this idea, have suggested it before launch and maybe a Dev saw it maybe not. I like what they did with the map completion rewards where you can choose what you want to earn. Would be nice to do the same with exp (to and extent).

These would have to not cost a mastery point or there would have to be some way to get ‘unlimited’ mastery points.

I dunno, saw a mastery 64 today and a friend said he saw an 80 he reported for botting. perhaps it’s just the CoF farm but I’m really surprised how quick people are raising this level of XP.

Pink Ninja Man.4375:

I like this idea, have suggested it before launch and maybe a Dev saw it maybe not. I like what they did with the map completion rewards where you can choose what you want to earn. Would be nice to do the same with exp (to and extent).

These would have to not cost a mastery point or there would have to be some way to get ‘unlimited’ mastery points.

I would imagine there would be no Mastery point associated with them, but if they wanted to, they could gate unlocking the line behind 1 point (Central Tyrian probably, but they may need more then). May be a good idea to gate this behind the expansion, but they could also have it unlocked for free/core game accounts if they wanted, just so post-80 meant something. They could make it more XP if you don’t have HoT, idk. But yeah, I would definitely not want 1 point per use. 1 or a few to unlock it would be good I think.

Odyssey.6523:

I dunno, saw a mastery 64 today and a friend said he saw an 80 he reported for botting. perhaps it’s just the CoF farm but I’m really surprised how quick people are raising this level of XP.

I definitely think that that needs to be looked at. Any way to farm XP far faster than any other method should be removed or toned down, unless it’s completely intentional, like with Adventures. So my suggestion assumes that this kind of exploiting, which I do consider it to be, would be fixed, and until it is fixed/changed, these shouldn’t be added (but even if they would be, not all of them are an issue).