Guild Wars 2

Why even bother putting in masteries if you are just going to remove ever needing them for anything?

Every single mastery I have earned so far outside of the first basic 2 has been rendered useless within a day by the constant dumbing down of the content.

Is this going to continue? Should I just not bother trying to get masteries and go do something else for a week?

That’s how I’m feeling too. The thing about masteries, at least conceptually, is that they should give you access to contents which are otherwise inaccessible. And those contents should be solid and worthwhile. But the problem is, a lot of contents can be easily circumvented. Beyond gliding2, itzel2 and exalted marking, there’s only like 10% stuff left maybe and that makes the rest of the masteries completely pointless or at least, not that exciting to look forward to.

Plus, gating contents through unlocking specific abilities render the game obsolete very fast because once you have the abilities, you have them forever. The challenge is pretty much a one time experience.