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About Skill Points changes
i also would like to know: are writs of experience usable to raise the mastery bar or just for leveling?
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i also would like to know: are writs of experience usable to raise the mastery bar or just for leveling?
Writs, tomes, exp boosters, exp banners, food that gives exp, etc… as they are now will not advance the mastery bar.
http://www.zam.com/story.html?story=35818&storypage=2
“The masteries seen in the demo are just the tip of what masteries will be available at launch, and the team will have more surprises for players. We wanted to know if all those consumables, like Tomes of Knowledge and Writs of Experience, would help players unlock all of these masteries faster. The short answer is that they won’t. The experience bar is going away and is being replaced by the mastery training bar. This training bar is in no way tied to experience, but fills up by going out and doing stuff in the world. So any item that gives you experience won’t help you train masteries.”
Be careful what you ask for
ANet may give it to you.
ANet may give it to you.
Old skill points in excess of those earned by leveling and skill challenges will be converted into crafting materials for the Mystic Forge. Items and activities that were previously repeatable sources of skill points will now also provide that same crafting material.
There will be three categories of profession reward tracks, covering core specializations, core skills, and elite specializations.Will we have more clarifications on this materials we will get instead of our skill points? And about the quantity conversion? What about the materials that can be acquired from mystic vendors?
Also this is messy couse it doesn’t match what you said before about skill points in HoT.
It is just a one to one conversion. Nothing is changing they are just renaming skill point to something else and using “hero points” for actual skills and traits.
If you have 500 skill points you will now have 500 “mystic forge item” points. If an item costs 50 skill points it will now cost 50 “mystic forge item” points.
Essentially they just wanted a new system to buy actual skills with, but didn’t want to overhaul their entire mystic forge system so they are just renaming skill points and creating hero points to unlock skills with.
It is just a one to one conversion. Nothing is changing they are just renaming skill point to something else and using “hero points” for actual skills and traits.
If you have 500 skill points you will now have 500 “mystic forge item” points. If an item costs 50 skill points it will now cost 50 “mystic forge item” points.
Essentially they just wanted a new system to buy actual skills with, but didn’t want to overhaul their entire mystic forge system so they are just renaming skill points and creating hero points to unlock skills with.
Do you have any confirmation on this? Becouse it’s not what I’ve red. If so would you please link me that page?
Pretty sure the video in which they go over every class’s traits explains this.
can please anyone that knows where to find this video link it?
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i also would like to know: are writs of experience usable to raise the mastery bar or just for leveling?
Writs, tomes, exp boosters, exp banners, food that gives exp, etc… as they are now will not advance the mastery bar.
http://www.zam.com/story.html?story=35818&storypage=2
“The masteries seen in the demo are just the tip of what masteries will be available at launch, and the team will have more surprises for players. We wanted to know if all those consumables, like Tomes of Knowledge and Writs of Experience, would help players unlock all of these masteries faster. The short answer is that they won’t. The experience bar is going away and is being replaced by the mastery training bar. This training bar is in no way tied to experience, but fills up by going out and doing stuff in the world. So any item that gives you experience won’t help you train masteries.”
Which is rather silly. In the beta, getting kills and doing events, both gave you exp. The mastery bar said you needed # amount of exp to level it, so they haven’t implemented a “mastery training bar” yet, or changed that at lvl 80 things don’t give you exp anymore, but instead mastery exp. The fact that writs and tomes won’t be useable to fill the bar just makes them useless outside of key farmers (I assume most people have all the lvl 80s they want already, and if not now, what about getting 10? tomes every month from the monthly log ins, the 5-10 writs you get from doing your dailies, and all the stacks of tomes you get from pvp).
They haven’t even technically, specified that tomes will even give a lvl 80 the new mystic forge currency. If it doesn’t they’ll be just as useless as writs.
search for gw2 specilisations or something like that on youtube and you should find it, or go look at ANet’s twitch page
can please anyone that knows where to find this video link it?
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/ready-up-core-specializations-summary/
At the bottom. It’s 4 hours long, have fun.
Old skill points in excess of those earned by leveling and skill challenges will be converted into crafting materials for the Mystic Forge. Items and activities that were previously repeatable sources of skill points will now also provide that same crafting material.
There will be three categories of profession reward tracks, covering core specializations, core skills, and elite specializations.Will we have more clarifications on this materials we will get instead of our skill points? And about the quantity conversion? What about the materials that can be acquired from mystic vendors?
Also this is messy couse it doesn’t match what you said before about skill points in HoT.
It is just a one to one conversion. Nothing is changing they are just renaming skill point to something else and using “hero points” for actual skills and traits.
If you have 500 skill points you will now have 500 “mystic forge item” points. If an item costs 50 skill points it will now cost 50 “mystic forge item” points.
Essentially they just wanted a new system to buy actual skills with, but didn’t want to overhaul their entire mystic forge system so they are just renaming skill points and creating hero points to unlock skills with.
Technically they never said that they were leaving the costs the same. So an eldric scroll may cost more than 50 skill points worth of the new currency. Though I vaguely remember them saying that they were going to add additional ways to get skill points (besides champ bags) because we won’t be able to gain them from exp anymore.
i also would like to know: are writs of experience usable to raise the mastery bar or just for leveling?
Writs, tomes, exp boosters, exp banners, food that gives exp, etc… as they are now will not advance the mastery bar.
http://www.zam.com/story.html?story=35818&storypage=2
“The masteries seen in the demo are just the tip of what masteries will be available at launch, and the team will have more surprises for players. We wanted to know if all those consumables, like Tomes of Knowledge and Writs of Experience, would help players unlock all of these masteries faster. The short answer is that they won’t. The experience bar is going away and is being replaced by the mastery training bar. This training bar is in no way tied to experience, but fills up by going out and doing stuff in the world. So any item that gives you experience won’t help you train masteries.”Which is rather silly. In the beta, getting kills and doing events, both gave you exp. The mastery bar said you needed # amount of exp to level it, so they haven’t implemented a “mastery training bar” yet, or changed that at lvl 80 things don’t give you exp anymore, but instead mastery exp. The fact that writs and tomes won’t be useable to fill the bar just makes them useless outside of key farmers (I assume most people have all the lvl 80s they want already, and if not now, what about getting 10? tomes every month from the monthly log ins, the 5-10 writs you get from doing your dailies, and all the stacks of tomes you get from pvp).
They haven’t even technically, specified that tomes will even give a lvl 80 the new mystic forge currency. If it doesn’t they’ll be just as useless as writs.
I’m going to make the assumption that the tomes will be changed so they give a level to those chars below level 80 and to all levels they will give the new MF currency. That way they will be of the same use as currently.
Be careful what you ask for
ANet may give it to you.
ANet may give it to you.
i also would like to know: are writs of experience usable to raise the mastery bar or just for leveling?
Writs, tomes, exp boosters, exp banners, food that gives exp, etc… as they are now will not advance the mastery bar.
http://www.zam.com/story.html?story=35818&storypage=2
“The masteries seen in the demo are just the tip of what masteries will be available at launch, and the team will have more surprises for players. We wanted to know if all those consumables, like Tomes of Knowledge and Writs of Experience, would help players unlock all of these masteries faster. The short answer is that they won’t. The experience bar is going away and is being replaced by the mastery training bar. This training bar is in no way tied to experience, but fills up by going out and doing stuff in the world. So any item that gives you experience won’t help you train masteries.”Which is rather silly. In the beta, getting kills and doing events, both gave you exp. The mastery bar said you needed # amount of exp to level it, so they haven’t implemented a “mastery training bar” yet, or changed that at lvl 80 things don’t give you exp anymore, but instead mastery exp. The fact that writs and tomes won’t be useable to fill the bar just makes them useless outside of key farmers (I assume most people have all the lvl 80s they want already, and if not now, what about getting 10? tomes every month from the monthly log ins, the 5-10 writs you get from doing your dailies, and all the stacks of tomes you get from pvp).
They haven’t even technically, specified that tomes will even give a lvl 80 the new mystic forge currency. If it doesn’t they’ll be just as useless as writs.
I’m going to make the assumption that the tomes will be changed so they give a level to those chars below level 80 and to all levels they will give the new MF currency. That way they will be of the same use as currently.
Then you are making an assumption that goes directly against the official video that cocowoushi.7150 linked a few posts above your own
i also would like to know: are writs of experience usable to raise the mastery bar or just for leveling?
Writs, tomes, exp boosters, exp banners, food that gives exp, etc… as they are now will not advance the mastery bar.
http://www.zam.com/story.html?story=35818&storypage=2
“The masteries seen in the demo are just the tip of what masteries will be available at launch, and the team will have more surprises for players. We wanted to know if all those consumables, like Tomes of Knowledge and Writs of Experience, would help players unlock all of these masteries faster. The short answer is that they won’t. The experience bar is going away and is being replaced by the mastery training bar. This training bar is in no way tied to experience, but fills up by going out and doing stuff in the world. So any item that gives you experience won’t help you train masteries.”Which is rather silly. In the beta, getting kills and doing events, both gave you exp. The mastery bar said you needed # amount of exp to level it, so they haven’t implemented a “mastery training bar” yet, or changed that at lvl 80 things don’t give you exp anymore, but instead mastery exp. The fact that writs and tomes won’t be useable to fill the bar just makes them useless outside of key farmers (I assume most people have all the lvl 80s they want already, and if not now, what about getting 10? tomes every month from the monthly log ins, the 5-10 writs you get from doing your dailies, and all the stacks of tomes you get from pvp).
They haven’t even technically, specified that tomes will even give a lvl 80 the new mystic forge currency. If it doesn’t they’ll be just as useless as writs.
I’m going to make the assumption that the tomes will be changed so they give a level to those chars below level 80 and to all levels they will give the new MF currency. That way they will be of the same use as currently.
Then you are making an assumption that goes directly against the official video that cocowoushi.7150 linked a few posts above your own
Well, I’m not going to watch a 4 hour video. Since you saw it and know, you can tell us what they will do with tomes.
Be careful what you ask for
ANet may give it to you.
ANet may give it to you.
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thank you guys for the answers, so we still miss some infos on that. Hope devs are gonna make clarifications on this before HoT comes out.
thank you guys for the answers, so we still miss some infos on that. Hope devs are gonna make clarifications on this before HoT comes out.
I just hope they change their minds on the matter. At least both Tomes and (enough) writs can give you skill points. If tomes will give the new currency they’ll have some use, but writs will be completely pointless on any level 80, and we can get 4-6 (or however many) per day.