Guild Wars 2

Earning Masteries would feel like less of a grind if it wasn’t region limited. There’s just a better variety of things to do in Central Tyria than in the new HoT areas. There is a lot more XP to be earned through exploration or completing personal or living story instances, plus there are fractals and dungeons, plus there are just many more maps and areas. Some maps are based heavily around dynamic events (Orr and Maguuma Wastes), others are oriented toward solo roaming. In the new areas, you have a small amount of exploration XP and only a fraction of the story instances, no dungeon content. Once the one-time rewards for exploration and story are done, you’re stuck running the same dynamic events over and over.

The only argument I can see in favor of region-limiting XP is ensuring people are playing the new content, but having different pools of Mastery points for different regions is sufficient for this purpose. Moreover, since mastery points are one-time awards for doing different things, they’re the exact opposite of grindy.

I would be ok with this if they implemented HoT mastery things across tyria… but as it stands those things only work in HoT map areas right now. plus the whole CoF farming would wipe those out in just a couple hours… not that im against it, just sayin is all.

They want people in the new areas, not the old. So there isn’t an incentive for them to allow you to learn how to do Maguuma Masteries by doing Tyrian events.

Worst.Idea.Ever. Let people clear HOT content due CoF1 Farm? No thanks.

Yeah, cause everyone who plays the game does CoF over and over. Would totally ruin everything.

I get the reasons for keeping it this way in the beginning, but after a month or two, the reasons will falter and fall apart.

As a person would bought booster and maxed the Tyrian mastery track I’m really agains region free, I wana block new staff in new places, but! If I could lvl Tyria mastery in maguma that would be great, but if I could lvl maguma in Tyria that’s horrible, I hated the fact I had to farm and waste money and time cuz I don’t wanna fall behind and I want to start all the new staff late if I didn’t fa and all my friends did. The things I do with friends should be a factor that counts, no 1. Plays alone

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Amaya.1483:

Worst.Idea.Ever. Let people clear HOT content due CoF1 Farm? No thanks.

This. In an ideal setting I wouldn’t mind, but we have way too many exploits to enable this and not see it become irrelevant asap. Mind you maxing masteries really isn’t that long to begin with as its acc bound.