Guild Wars 2

Considering how the system works: You will lose everything and get Hero Points according to your level as well as for every Hero Challenge (current skill challenge) you have completed. If you’ve got map completion, you’re in luck
(This is just my interpretation, but it seems logical to me)

They said you can have a good deal of it unlocked just by getting to 80. Exploring the world and doing the hero challenges is a plus.

So.. Chars I used skill point scrolls to unlock skills previously.. I will now be required to grind map complete ( or at least the challenges) to be able to use?

I seriously hope not as that would honestly suck.

I doubt you’d have to complete all maps to unlock everything. I imagine leveling to 80 and doing a few “Hero Point” challenges along the way would be enough to unlock everything. After that it sounds like completing those challenges will get you mystic forge crafting mats instead. At least that is how it sounded to me.

There is more to this than level. An old 80 character would have all but maybe some of the XIII traits unlocked. A recent 80 character might have any random number of traits unlocked. Going forward, some of those traits may not even exist.

I’m very curious how characters will get moved into the new system.

Also, is ‘unlocked’ the same as ‘acquired’? (It isn’t the same thing in the Mastery system.)

i got 8 characters, 4 got full map complition. Rest got everything unlock using gold and skill scrolls. I dont want to run this kitten map again on every character!

if they force this on existing characters then i am gonna leave this game, i already left SWToR because they screwed up the trait system and Anet need to be ether extremely kittened or just plain stupid if they change this for grandfathered characters.

My interpretation is similar to Roseblood. I assume you’ll get Hero Points for leveling and for Hero Challanges, possibly more points per level than per single Hero Challange. The more Skill Challanges a toon has, the more variety of abilities they can unlock, but simply being level 80 will be enough to run a couple of set-ups.

My main account has all skills and traits unlocked on all the characters where-as my Alt account has been purchased after the trait-rework, most characters only have ~30% of the traits unlocked, I never feel I’m missing any of the traits I don’t have, was just a matter of picking the rights traits (which for a dungeon/fractal only toon will cover every meta-build and some stuff such as heatroom-solo traits or few traits to make (solo) skipping easier.) So I’m not worried about only having a few available, as long as I get to chose which ones.

met.9653:

i got 8 characters, 4 got full map complition. Rest got everything unlock using gold and skill scrolls. I dont want to run this kitten map again on every character!

agreed. having to go back and do those maps’ skill(hero) challenges would be very aggrivating

I hope existing lvl 80 characters will be grandfathered in. It is only fair.
I shouldn’t have to regrind what I already earned over again.

Nova.3814:

My interpretation is similar to Roseblood. I assume you’ll get Hero Points for leveling and for Hero Challanges, possibly more points per level than per single Hero Challange.

Currently there is no connection between skill challenges and traits, so you could have all the traits unlocked without having done any of them. But I’d be very unhappy if my characters lost a huge chunk of trait unlocks.

Even if characters get ‘grandfathered’, it isn’t that obvious how they would do that since many traits will be re-worked or combined.

I’m hoping they do it by trait line – if you currently have the line unlocked it will remain unlocked.