Guild Wars 2

The mastery tracks look like they could be a nice place to add some new skins for Ranger pets (same mechanics, different looks – we’ve had them before). Since too many people would lose their minds to nerd range if the new skins were part of normal tracks (“what do you mean I have to spend points on a stupid ranger pet along the way to something I really want!!?!”) They could be added as small ‘spur’ tracks off the main progression or even as a larger “master of beasts” track with several pet skins.

Maybe they could add a Evolved form of the current pets, new combat new look

Or they could just add them as new pets using the system that’s already in place? I see no reason for them to be mastery track specific things and not just tamed like normal pets.

Especially since mastery tracks are, by everything we know so far, completely profession independent. Making Rangers waste mastery points they could be using on legendaries or gliding or whatever just for skins would be rather out of place with the rest of the system.

But do you really want Mastary Lines to be class tied?

I mean, what would you give Guardians, Warriors, or Mesmers?

Don;t get me wrong, I like the idea of unlocking new skins for skills and abilites, but If your going to do it for one, you got to do it for the others too!

Been over this before – IF those other classes had a “collect your class abilities on the landscape” mechanic, I’d totally support tracks for them too.

But they don’t. Their F1-5 buttons come (relatively) complete.

So lets extrapolate: a track that unlocks new appearances for Banners (Warrior), Turrets (Engineer) minions (Necromancer), Thieves (Thief), Phantasms (Mesmer), Elementals (Elementalist), or Sprit Weapons (Guardian).

I would sink serious effort into gaining Asura-looking turrets for my Asuran Engineer.
Or corrupt elementals for my Elementalist
Do want gold spirit weapons instead of blue ones for my Guardian.

Ok, fine. We can all have tracks to customize our class-based buddies.