Guild Wars 2

I have a lvl 80 character, I’ve completed the map and now I have the expansion. I noticed there are 2 mastery areas, 1 in the HoT the 2nd in Central Tyria. I need clarification on the best way to gain experience to level up my mastery in Central Tyria. Is there specific places I need to go or things I need to do? Any ideas?

look in your hero panel press h to open all achievements will have a central tyria point marker by them! i need to work on a few myself yet need about 17 more i wish current events would give them into your hero panel to use them

AngreePanda.4635:

I have a lvl 80 character, I’ve completed the map and now I have the expansion. I noticed there are 2 mastery areas, 1 in the HoT the 2nd in Central Tyria. I need clarification on the best way to gain experience to level up my mastery in Central Tyria. Is there specific places I need to go or things I need to do? Any ideas?

Until 11/8, get XP boosters, join a zerg in the Mad King’s Labyrinth, and watch the XP pile up, especially on the door events with swarms of monsters. You’ll run out of Mastery Points well before you run out of XP. I finished my last CT masteries that way.

Masteries require fairly active monitoring because it requires interaction once the bar is filled.

You need to:

1. Select a track, and set it to active to begin training it
2. Once full, you have to go into the menu and SPEND mastery points to purchase the benefit, which unlocks the next tier, which must again be affirmatively selected to resume training.
3. If you lack the mastery points to spend on the track once filled, you have to switch tracks manually, or lose exp in the mean time.

Mastery tracks exp requirements are multipliers of the old lvl 80 roll over. Since events give a % of a level’s worth of exp (based on the event level), roll over was pretty frequent (~15 events in Tyria to repeat lvl80). Opening mastery tracks tend to be double that, and the amount scaling upward as you progress into them.

So if you need to hammer out mastery tracks, THE best way to fill them is multi-event meta chains, maps with frequent events (like mad lab), or Multilane metas that give you time to participate in multiple lanes (Octovine, Living Story events, and a few Orr assault metas). Dungeon speed runs are also a good way to get exp, as the daily bonus nets you 177,800xp (base lvl 80) toward mastery tracks.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Experience

For Tyrians, this is extremely useful. https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Map_bonus_reward/profit

The map rewards generate tend to generate a lot of activity on certain maps, and its very common for Commanders to lead event chains/champ farms on maps with Bloods on it reward tables (which typically the most profitable map anyway). Since events generate map bonus rewards, all that activity easily contributes toward your exp gain due to the speed the train runs at.

Starlinvf gave very good suggestions if you like that style of play and/or need your masteries asap.

If you don’t like that kind of farming but tend to do other things in Central Tyria that reward a good chunk of exp, you could just continue your daily habits and it’ll fill up eventually. In my case, I have been doing fractal dailies on a regular basis (about 4 times a week) and completed both fractal and pact commander mastery tracks in about a month.

starlinvf.1358:

3. If you lack the mastery points to spend on the track once filled, you have to switch tracks manually, or lose exp in the mean time.

Wrong. If you have filled the mastery bar but not unlocked the tier yet, experience automatically gets redirected into the next open mastery track of the corresponding region that isn’t maxed yet.

Example: You’ve filled the bar for pact commander 3 but not unlocked the tier, the experience you gain will be redirected to either your currently open legendary or fractal mastery track, provided you don’t have both of these maxed in experience for the current tier. This will happen even if pact commander is still your choosen active mastery track.

It is a good idea to check for maxed mastery bars frequently (I personally find it pretty hard to see if the bar at the bottom of your screen is actually maxed, but you can simply mouse over it and check the numbers in the tooltip) and activate/unlock to match however you wish to progress, but (over-)filling the mastery bar is nothing to stress about since you won’t loose experience easily.

To the OPs question, if you are looking for ways to earn central Tyria mastery experience, just do whatever you’ve done to level (provided you don’t level exclusively with tomes of knowledge ). World exploration, events and event chains, dungeons, personal story (on lvl 80 characters), even a simple gathering run will give you experience that goes towards your masteries.

If it’s the mastery points you are after rather than the experience, check the achievement log for red mastery points, as somebody above suggested. There’s a variety of points to be gotten from different sources, with enough extra points to give you choices of which content to actually do to gather them.

Right there with you OP. Last year, I upgraded an alt account that had 1 level 80 character on it without map completion. The account is 3 years old bought during a $10 sale.

In the last few months, I’ve completed world exploration, done 3/4 SW legendaries, decapitated and killed 3 TT wurms, completed 1 original personal story, completed LS2 and done a few fractal achieves.

All that and this account is still lacking T4 on Fractal masteries and T4 Legendary crafting. But, both are still open for experience gain till I can gather more mastery points.

Pace yourself! I wanted auto loot first, so I worked on that, then I wanted to work on Bifrost and realized I didn’t need T4 Legendary Crafting for first generation weapons, so I applied points to T3 Fractals so I could gain experice on another line whIle working on gathering the mastery points for those last two lines.

It takes time to get the experience and the mastery points, it’s not quick when you’re first starting out, but it’s doable. GL.