Guild Wars 2

This seems to apply mainly to Central Tyria masteries, but I’m not sure I understand why overflow XP doesn’t simply get assigned into the next mastery item on the same line/tree. By “overflow XP” I mean experience that is earned after gaining enough to assign mastery points but before actually doing so. If you’re in the middle of an event chain or something else that requires your active attention, sometimes you don’t have the time to stop everything and assign mastery points, then manually pick the next one you want to train.

I’ve been working on Pact Commander, and it seems that as soon as I hit enough XP to spend the mastery points, any overflow XP gets automatically assigned to Fractal Attunement I instead of simply moving down to the next item in the Pact Commander list. Due to this auto-selection, I’m about halfway done with Fractal Attunement I, which I have never actively chosen to train and am simply not focused on yet.

I was wondering why it was taking so long to finish anything, but now I know that the instant I can train a mastery I had better drop everything and assign points, then manually select the next mastery to train in order for those points to go where I want them (which is idiotic). Why doesn’t overflow XP simply get assigned to the same tree you’re currently focused on, and only auto-change mastery trees when you have fully completed the selected one?

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Teknomancer.4895:

This seems to apply mainly to Central Tyria masteries, but I’m not sure I understand why overflow XP doesn’t simply get assigned into the next mastery item on the same line/tree. By “overflow XP” I mean experience that is earned after gaining enough to assign mastery points but before actually doing so. If you’re in the middle of an event chain or something else that requires your active attention, sometimes you don’t have the time to stop everything and assign mastery points, then manually pick the next one you want to train.

I’ve been working on Pact Commander, and it seems that as soon as I hit enough XP to spend the mastery points, any overflow XP gets automatically assigned to Fractal Attunement I instead of simply moving down to the next item in the Pact Commander list. Due to this auto-selection, I’m about halfway done with Fractal Attunement I, which I have never actively chosen to train and am simply not focused on yet.

I was wondering why it was taking so long to finish anything, but now I know that the instant I can train a mastery I had better drop everything and assign points, then manually select the next mastery to train in order for those points to go where I want them (which is idiotic). Why doesn’t overflow XP simply get assigned to the same tree you’re currently focused on, and only auto-change mastery trees when you have fully completed the selected one?

Instead of complaining about it, why don’t you just go exploit CoF like 90% of the population seems to be doing?

That completely misses the point. The method or speed of getting XP isn’t the issue, the mastery item which gets auto-selected after completion of the currently selected item is the issue. What you suggest has nothing do with the game’s automatic mastery selection behavior described above.

(Edited to add: maybe this should be moved to the “bugs” forum?)

i think it’s probably a very simple technical reason – you can’t earn mastery on a higher tier track until you have fully trained the lower one.

So even though you’ve filled up the exp bar, you still can’t begin earning exp towards the higher tier mastery until you’ve sunk the points into the lower tier track. That overflow exp has to go somewhere though.

Well if that’s the case, then we should be given the choice of where that overflow XP should go. Maybe have a “Primary” and “Secondary” mastery track if it’s that kind of mechanic. If it’s not going to go into the current track for the reason you describe, I’d much rather see it go toward Legendary crafting than into Fractals.

I agree this is pretty stupid…. I lost a big chunk of EXP several times by finishing mastery while doing personal story.