Guild Wars 2

I just recently came back to GW2 after taking a long break and a lot of things are different. I have a question about the trait lines and slot skills. I just logged in to one of my level 80 characters and I’m missing two of the trait lines. They are greyed out and I have to purchase all of the traits even though I’ve already unlocked them around launch. Do I have to buy all of the slot skills again even though I had them all unlocked previously? I know a lot of things have changed and maybe I am just missing something, but I don’t think that I should have to unlock a bunch of skills that I have already unlocked.

The system changed pretty drastically.

Now, you purchase slot skills and traits with Hero Points. You get hero points at every odd level after level 10 (so at 11, 13, 15, ..) with increasing hero points at each interval as you go. Skill challenges were changed to hero challenges, and give one hero point on completion. Even without completing any skill challenges, you will have enough hero points to buy everything on a level 80 character. Your existing characters were retroactively granted the amount of hero points they should have, so yes you have to buy anything that happens to be missing. But since you’re level 80 it doesn’t matter, because you’ll have more than enough points to buy everything.

All the skill points you had before the patch were converted into a new currency called Spirit Shards. You use those to buy the same items skill points were used to buy before (stuff from Miyani). Spirit Shards drop from various sources and can drop randomly for level 80 characters.

The trait system is completely different. You now pick three trait lines, and then you pick a major trait at each tier within each line.