Guild Wars 2

Has anyone else noticed how much better getting the central Tyria mastery feel?
I mean I really dislike the forced mastery grind in HoT area but the main map mastery feels good and I think the reason is that it simply adds to the game play and isn’t gating much that you can’t reasonably get fast or by the time you reach what it does gate you should have it from just the exp from getting to said point. Aka fractals gating with max mastery doesn’t feel as bad as the poison cloud gating in the story because it only applies to the hardest of the fractals which means you have to go through all the previous tiers which give exp to reach it which makes the fractal mastery feel like natural progression.

When it came to the HoT’s area the basic restricting “You aren’t worth” stuff is really unappealing while in contrast using pact commander as an example: exp from crafting increase/city speed buff feels freaking great to get and makes me actively want to go for it unlike the “Becoming worthy” gimmick in the HoT’s mastery.

Does anyone else feel the same way?

Quite the opposite really, core feels kinda grindy for little payoff
Gotta max Pact Commander to get autoloot
Gotta get all 3 completely worthless tiers of core legendary to get to HoT legendary.

With HoT Masteries though you unlock new areas and abilities as you go.
Sure they could have been arranged a little better so its more like Unlock Gliding to get to this vendor to get a language instruction manual to talk to the Itzel.
Now buy an updraft training manual from the Itzel and train that to get to another vendor that sells the next unlock (and they wouldn’t even have to be expensive, as you’ve already done the legwork, like doing Temple X in LoZ to get the item you need for Temple Y) for poison, etc.
And say after gliding you can get to multiple vendors so its not totally linear either.
That was always one of the best parts of those games, oooh I got a new ability what areas can I now get to and what can I get there??

Wait who said make it doable in a day?

your grinding millions of xp for features other mmo s give included in the price of the expansion. this is a sick joke at players expense we paid for the expansion then need grind out 11.4 million xp for auto loot and pay again for xp boosters to lessen the grind.