Guild Wars 2

I’m in the beta and realize most of the mastery abilities are locked however I’m finding the mastery panel to not be at all intuitive. Anyone else confused by it too?

TIA

I remember ( i think in a points of interest) that the UI for it is going to get cleaned up quite a bit before release, thankfully. It is indeed not very clear how it works. Possibly because it also has some of the functionality stripped out ( unlock via exp progress, after using mastery points).

I found it somewhat confusing as well. it took me a while to even find the panel. I know I exited the boxes real quick after the story because i didnt know if i was in a safe spot or not. then after finding the panel it took me a bit to figure out how to even add the points. i know i was checking the hero panel for it. maybe adding an info icon or something? otherwise i cant wait to start tryin out some other stuff

Agreed!

Also, the current interface is very large. It covers about 1/3 of my screen and it barely has any information in it. I think it would be more intuitive to locate it somewhere on the Hero pannel and use a structure similar to that of the trait line.

Once I got the hang of it glide worked well. Seems odd that the entire screen gets taken up by the choice screen though but it seems to work. I tried the bounce mushroom found a mushroom but I could get me or it to bounce… something to look forward to when it comes out. Was till a lot of fun.

I was able to put a point in Bouncing Mushroom but unable to jump. The prompt that came up was to put a point in Mushroom Lore which I did and it was selected but the game did not detect it, therefore was unable to test.

Also, I felt that theres issues with the gliding:

One, you had to be accurate on when you should pop the gliding wings as there was a spot to get the Mastery orb where I actually had to press space before the prompt appears, in order to get up at the ledge.

Two, during the Wyvern fight where you could use the updraft, there is extreme lag/disconnect/not running smoothly and you get “teleported” to below the platform after while of gliding, Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqQqpdk8YOc&feature=youtu.be

Once you glide, your weapon skills is still available though unusable and sometimes it disappears as you can see from the video.

The lag/disconnect kind of throws off the experience and enjoyment of gliding.

I agree the mastery panel wasn’t very intuitive, at least not to me. I confess it took me a while to see you could scroll down and find Gliding and that Mushroom thingy. I had gained a lot of exp on a empty track by then (giving just basic mastery Points?).

Anyway, I had 3 mastery Points, (2 from story and 1 from tendril adventure) that I put into gliding. I liked the gliding a lot even though there wasn’t much I could explore in this small demo.

Then I decided to try the mushrooms. I got some exp and then managed to fly to a mastery Point. That mastery Point I wasn’t able to add anywhere. I thought it would be possible to add it but I couldn’t use the + signs as I had earlier on the glider. I am not sure if it was intentional or maybe because I had started to earn experience in both the glider and mushroom tracks? I found no other open track to try on so I can’t tell.

Anyway, Masteries could probably be better explained or get a clearer interface.

Otherwise I had a lot of fun. I didn’t find any problems that I would expect during a stress test.

I look forward to explore HoT!

JuneBug.5972:

I was able to put a point in Bouncing Mushroom but unable to jump. The prompt that came up was to put a point in Mushroom Lore which I did and it was selected but the game did not detect it, therefore was unable to test.

Also, I felt that theres issues with the gliding:

One, you had to be accurate on when you should pop the gliding wings as there was a spot to get the Mastery orb where I actually had to press space before the prompt appears, in order to get up at the ledge.

Two, during the Wyvern fight where you could use the updraft, there is extreme lag/disconnect/not running smoothly and you get “teleported” to below the platform after while of gliding, Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqQqpdk8YOc&feature=youtu.be

Once you glide, your weapon skills is still available though unusable and sometimes it disappears as you can see from the video.

The lag/disconnect kind of throws off the experience and enjoyment of gliding.

You need to equip a mastery you put a point into. Then it gets XP from your XP bar. Its not actually active till you get the mastery you buy to 100%.