Guild Wars 2

Original title due to 45 character limit:
[SUGGESTION] Split Raid/Fractal Masteries from HoT/Central Tyria

I’m not a raider, let me get that out to start. I have never liked the overtly competitive mindset that comes with “modern” (post-EverQuest “pre-Luclin”) raids. I’m perfectly content with core PvE, dungeons, and fractals.

That said, I take issue with the fact that my disinterest in raiding is preventing a form of core account progression in PvE open world expansion content. I have every HoT mastery unlocked, except the raid-based ones. Because they are not unlocked, I receive no credit toward spirit shards while in HoT content – all experience is wasted. If the raids were considered more accessible to a broader userbase I could understand their inclusion as is, but right now I feel the implementation to be a breach of the “play your way” mantra that has been touted for so long, as players are forced to raid if they want to continue to have unrestricted on the rest of the HoT content.

Would it at all be possible to see Forsaken Thicket masteries split in to their own category and consume their own mastery points (or still consume HoT to allow segue progression from one content into another)?

In a similar argument, even though this would not affect me as fractals are “my kind” of content, could Fractal masteries also be split into their own category and be provided with their own pool of mastery points (or, again, use Central Tyria mastery points for progression as mentioned above)?

Again, please do not take this as a slight towards raiding; I do not blame or look down upon anyone for enjoying the content that they choose to enjoy. I just don’t think any player should be forced into a content type that they do not enjoy just to retain progress potential in the content that they do enjoy.

First off, you don’t even have to enter the fractal lobby to unlock the fractal masteries, so I don’t see a need for those to be split.

For the forsaken thicket masteries, just do the escort mission. Its supposed to be easy.