Mastery Training
They’ll be region specific. You will also have many maps to train your masteries in.
I’m curious if the way that mastery training works in the betas will carry over to the final release. While I know the game is still being iterated and refined for release, I really hope that masteries will be able to be trained anywhere in the game.
In BWE1 I honestly got bored playing in the small area of verdant brink after about 2 hours and my guild and I decided to go run some dungeons to try out the new specializations using core game content. We were really disappointed to find that none of the exp we got doing that carried over to mastery training. Now I see this line in the BWE2 blog post “Train your Masteries in the jungle region as you play through the story and event content available in Verdant Brink.” So I can only assume that the same will happen in BWE2.
I’m hoping that you are just doing this for the betas and won’t carry it over once the expansion is released. Otherwise this really goes against your own manifesto of playing the game how you want, by forcing us into this small area to train millions upon millions of exp to level up all the masteries.
Keep up the great work ANET, I love the game it’s just this one issue that bugs me and hope that it won’t stay this way and is only a beta issue.
You have diffrent masterys for heart of thorns and vanilla tyria.
You can only train heart of thorn masterys like Exalted Lore in the expansion regional zones take note of the s there since there will be more then the 25% of verdant brink you get to play in the beta.
And you will only train mastery lines like pact commander line in original game maps.
All of the exp you gain in betas will be wiped your testing the game not getting a head start.
I understand there are HOT masteries and core masteries but why limit us to where we get exp for them. They are all GW2 masteries and therefore why not allow us to play how we want to level them up? I mean Exp is exp regardless of where we play in the game.
I know that the beta is only a tiny little section of what will be the full expansion, but still if someone wants to run a dungeon they are still in the game so why not count that exp towards whatever mastery they are training in at the time.
IMO pigeon holing us into region specific content that requires potentially millions if not billions of exp to level them all up is ridiculous.
I understand there are HOT masteries and core masteries but why limit us to where we get exp for them. They are all GW2 masteries and therefore why not allow us to play how we want to level them up? I mean Exp is exp regardless of where we play in the game.
I know that the beta is only a tiny little section of what will be the full expansion, but still if someone wants to run a dungeon they are still in the game so why not count that exp towards whatever mastery they are training in at the time.
IMO pigeon holing us into region specific content that requires potentially millions if not billions of exp to level them all up is ridiculous.
Not really since there are no dungeons in heart of thorns as far as we know you will be able to exp core masterys at a faster rate then expansion ones.
It won’t be billions of XP. Based off BWE1, it’s 16,621,000 XP to max a single HoT mastery. It’s also 5,334,000 to max the fractal one and 12,700,000 to max the legendary one.