Guild Wars 2

To train a specific Mastery track, you must first unlock it by spending Mastery points. Mastery points are awarded for completing various pieces of game content….

Once you’ve unlocked a Mastery track tier with Mastery points, you can begin training that Mastery. Mastery tracks are trained by gaining experience while the Mastery track is slotted on the Mastery training bar. Higher tiers in Mastery tracks require progressively more Mastery points and more experience to fully train.

I need a clarification on this. What this seems to be saying is that, once you unlock a tier of a specific track using a (generic?) mastery point, you gain progress through that track by simply gaining experience.

So, if I take this at face value, I could have some mastery points gained through, say, map completion and unlock, say, hanggliding. Then I can go to silverwastes (if thats going to be considered a part of the meguuma region, if not its fine for the sake of argument), tag events and gain experience points that now get put into my mastery track (hanggliding). when the tier is done, I use more mastery points (more map completion or jumping puzzles) to gain more hanggliding mastery.

My concern is….I havent used a hang glider yet. Are mastery points/progression going to be more compartmentalized or are we going to theoretically be able to max out one of the masteries without ever having engaged in the content you are “mastering”?