Guild Wars 2

To start, I’ll say that I’m in love with this new system. It truly is a much more engaging and fun way of progression than a higher level cap and I’m hoping this system will catch on and Arenanet will put new mastery lines along the road.

That being said, I believe the initial release bunch is a bit small. I know Arenanet keeps saying that they’ll keep on adding more mastery lines, just like they are going to add more legendary weapons and elite specs and so on, but honestly it’s been 8 months since the announcement of the expansion with a full trailer and still no release date, I’m growing a bit distrustful to their promises for the future.

Other than that, I think the amount of time it takes to train a mastery line can be improved. It took me around two hours maybe to train gliding and at first it felt appropriate. But then I realized that these are account-wide. I’ll only train gliding once and that’ll be it. I won’t do it ever again for another char. Thus I believe they could be a bit harder to train. Around 3-4 hours for the first one and a slow increase for each would suffice in my opinion.

About the lines themselves and what they bring to the game: amazing. Gliding is literally the best thing I’ve ever experienced in Beta, except for player character talking. If fun new mechanics like these are at the end of the line, I don’t see why people would argue against a bit of time consuming training.

The new Mastery system could use some tweaks. It just seems redundant to have to fill an XP bar to unlock mere access to a skill, AND earn mastery points to spend to fully activate the skill. It’s an unnecessary level of complexity. One or the other should be all that is needed.