Guild Wars 2

It’s likely been suggested and requested before (but the search functionality on the forums isn’t very helpful), but can we get a simple popup when the mastery bar hits full. Additional exp is wasted if it’s not applied to a new mastery rank? (Alternatively, the additional exp could be in reserve and applied.)

One positive way to look at it is that there’s so much for players to be engaged with and to be deeply engrossed in, that it’s reasonable that players aren’t closely paying attention to that mastery exp bar at the bottom all the time. Also, a minor point, at the end of the bar, there could be some additional coloring variation to better distinguish between full and almost full.

Thank you.

Exp is not lost if you don’t chose a mastery line when it’s full. When my pact commander mastery line filled up, the game chose the fractal line and put the next exp I got on it.

Aside from that, a pop up would be good so you can chose the mastery line rather than the game choosing for you and exp going where you don’t want it to.

[I really hope that’s true – that xp is not lost, that the game choses another line. But from what I’ve read, there are conditions on it, and it may or may not choose another line successfully. I don’t really care which line it goes to, as I intend to do them all, as long as the xp is not lost. ]

That aside, I also would like some clearer indication when a mastery track is full – but I’ve had a lot of experiences of UIs popping up in the middle of battles and stealing the mouse from the action camera, causing me to spin in place and sometimes lose the battle. As much as I agree with this, I dread that it would be just another pop-up in the same vein. Then again, it could be implemented like one of the chests in boss events that appear to the right of the screen as an icon, and only when you click does it obscure the screen. That could work.

With a pop up, I was more thinking of a small pop up on the side where the jiggle chests are. Maybe a small tab that lifts up from the end on the line at the right and jiggles a bit to catch your eye. Enough to see and know the mastery line needs to be reassigned and not one of those “fill the whole [expletive deleted] screen” which interfere with playing and can get you killed.

As far as I know, it’s happening this way: Once the bar is full, the game looks for the mastery line with the smallest level (or smallest needed XP?).

Eg, if you have gliding 4, itzel 3, exalted 1, nuhoch 2, the next chosen line will be exalted 1. If you complete this too, the next one would be exalted 2 and nuhoch 2 after that.

I’d prefer the ability to queue mastery lines. So you finish say, Fractals Tier 1, it automatically spends your mastery point and then moves on to whatever else you’ve set up as your next priority.

Just create a system that the player can set up in advance instead of having to fiddle with on the fly at more than likely inconvenient times. The primary source of experience will come from some activity that is invariably combat heavy. You don’t want to be UI wrangling in the middle of a fight.

Sadly, we were asking for this back during the Beta events. It seems like for now ANet likes how it works and won’t be changing it.

+1 for a wiggly chest or something on the side. Queues would be nice, too, but I think a simple notifier is perhaps easier to implement and thus more likely to happen.

I’ve noticed that the bar starts to glow once you fill it up. I suppose it might not be enough as you guys haven’t seen it. Perhaps they could add a level-up effect to it if it doesn’t have that already.

I’ll settle for the icon at the far right of the bar being lit up and glowing in a very noticeable way. But yes, as others have mentioned, if your XP bar is full, any XP you accrue will simply get allocated to another unfinished Mastery for the region.

The best thing to do would be to copy EVE online with Masteries.

In EVE you level just like this. You select what you are going to master in and some time later there you are.

What Guild Wars 2 could do is have us have TWO masteries going… one actively being leveled and the next in queue, but not getting experience this this first finished.

Simple easy fix.

Thanathos.2063:

As far as I know, it’s happening this way: Once the bar is full, the game looks for the mastery line with the smallest level (or smallest needed XP?).

Eg, if you have Gliding 4, Itzel 3, Exalted 1, Nuhoch 2, the next chosen line will be Exalted 1. If you complete this too, the next one would be Exalted 2 and Nuhoch 2 after that.

I don’t think it works this way, it just starts to fill up(save the exp) for the very next one in the particular line you were already working on, unless you manually change it yourself…at least that’s been my experience(i.e. you finish Gliding 3 it automatically saves for Gliding 4, if you want to switch to Exalted 2 you need to manually switch the Mastery yourself).

I just did a round of CoF farming to finish up my pact mastery and I can say it does show as filled up, but it’s very subtle. It’s a small, semi-translucent gray tab that rises up from the mastery line bar at the end. I only noticed it because I was watching to see when I finished my pact mastery while farming exp.

What I recomend is that the small tab that appears, be a little bit bigger and be brightly colored. The tab that rises up is too small and that grayish color doesn’t catch the eye sufficiently.

It does currently pulse when it is full (provided you are outside of combat), but yeah, a notification, maybe in the area unlocked masteries, bonus chests, etc. , to remind or even the same little red “!” that shows up over the hero panel icon when you have unspent HPs, etc.