Guild Wars 2

I’m not sure if this has been asked again, but do we know if experience boosters will work in hot and if the extra experience you’ll be getting will get used by the mastery fill up bar?

Linken.6345:

Yes it works
40:55-42:00
at 41:34 he specficly say that boosters will work

You may have been looking on the twitch channel but go to 36:20 and you’ll see him mention boosters being worthwhile at the 36:23 mark.

It will work. I threw down a guild heroes banner during beta and the XP I got from kills increased.

Ayrilana.1396:

It will work. I threw down a guild heroes banner during beta and the XP I got from kills increased.

Hey thanks for the answer, the question came to me on another thread and I thought it might be worth to know…

I don’t think this is the true HoT version though. The reason why is, your level 80 chars are not converted over to the mastery system in the vanilla maps and they still level by exp. My guess is the mastery system in the new maps is just an imitation version that is using exp to progress instead of how it will actually work. This is a system in transition and exp for level 80s hasn’t been removed yet.

I’ve posted this before but:

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.

What you’re referring to was strictly for consumables that award instant experience. Even then, I guess we’d have to wait and see if what would have been experience is added directly to the mastery progression bar or something completely different. My initial assumption when they added the new boosters was so that people would buy them to progress their masteries faster.

Ayrilana.1396:

What you’re referring to was strictly for consumables that award instant experience. Even then, I guess we’d have to wait and see if what would have been experience is added directly to the mastery progression bar or something completely different. My initial assumption when they added the new boosters was so that people would buy them to progress their masteries faster.

Yah, but what I noticed while doing the betas is that +X exp was gained when I did stuff. With the note from that quote above, about the mastery system not being tied to exp, that makes me think no items will progress Masteries after the expansion and that what we are testing is a hybrid system where exp is being used to progress Masteries.

I wouldn’t be surprised if banners and other items will be reworked to affect level 80s but I don’t think as they are now, they will be able to progress Masteries later.

Didn’t Colin talk about XP Boosters and such and how we would be wanting to even gather Mithril, again, once HoT released in the last PoI (not today’s)?

Maybe he didn’t mention that, but he did talk about XP, I’m sure.

Yes it works
http://www.twitch.tv/guildwars2/v/10054145
40:55-42:00
at 41:34 he specficly say that boosters will work

Odd that it vanished