Guild Wars 2

So as a good number of people have noticed, if you buy the expansion you no longer acquire spirit shards for exp because you are brought into the mastery system. While this makes sense initially once you have maxed out all the masteries or have garnered all the experience for the masteries you’re working on and waiting on mastery points there is no benefit to gaining exp.

I would like to suggest that ANET adds a repeatable mastery line that does not cost mastery points that awards a spirit shard each completion. That way we still benefit from gaining experience even if we have maxed out all the masteries. It’s not a huge impact in terms of economy but it would make gaining experience at least feel like I was doing something beneficial for myself instead of watching those numbers pop up and go…well nowhere. Just a thought

It doesn’t matter if you buy the expansion or not as spirit shards were never awarded when you gained a level after reaching level 80. We did used to get skill points though before they were split between hero points and spirit shards.

That said, I’m not against something like that although I don’t think the mastery system was built for it. While there’s no direct way to earn spirit shards, you do get three every day from completing the daily meta. You also get them randomly as drops. Whether this equates to more than the old system provided depends on the players and what they did.

When they re-vamped the skill points you got one spirit shard on level up, just like you do if you use a tome of knowledge once you’ve reached level 80, which is why I’m mentioning purchasing HoT. Non-HoT accounts still get spirit shards on “leveling up” once at 80

Aragorn.5462:

When they re-vamped the skill points you got one spirit shard on level up, just like you do if you use a tome of knowledge once you’ve reached level 80, which is why I’m mentioning purchasing HoT. Non-HoT accounts still get spirit shards on “leveling up” once at 80

No we didn’t.

Here’s a thread about someone requesting something similar to yours as early as last June.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/SUG-Obtaining-Spirit-Shards-From-Leveling/first#post5234499

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/updating-your-wallet/

So what you’re requesting is technically something new which wasn’t removed by the expansion itself. How many levels per day did you gain under the old system?

As I stated before, I’m not against them doing something if there is a problem with players earning skill points. The rest was just me making a small correction to something that you said.

I discussed (okay, ranted) about this in another thread just recently. To cut a long story short, I don’t care whether or not anything was rewarded under the old system after level cap. I think something should be awarded under the new system and I don’t particularly care what that is. I still spend a lot of time in central tyria and I’m constantly seeing experience pop up when I kill things and then …go nowhere because I already have all my central masteries done. It’s unsatisfying. The idea of a mastery line that repeats, like the agent of entropy achievement, is a fine one. Either give us something for the extra xp or give us more masteries to put it to. Viva la Tyria!