Guild Wars 2

sorry if this has been brought up before, a quick search didnt show it.
So I like to map and have completed it on multiple characters, played for a long time, so I had tons of skill points, and like 3 and a half stacks of the scrolls that gave us skill points. Anet decided to introduce spirit shards, and took them all away. I mean I have more than 3k spirit shards.

I was like ok, no biggy I got more then I would ever need anyway. Well jokes on me I guess. now I need them. So ANET, my question is, why would you take everything away that I had worked for, and then some months later tell me I need them?
It’s not like I didn’t earn them. It’s more like, “hey you spent 2+ years getting all of this, you’re going to need them really soon, but hey, we’ll just take them” WTH anet?

I know I’m not the only one in this boat, what’s going on with this?

The old skill points were unlimited. You could get as many as you wanted via stuff like dungeon paths, champ bags, ect. The old skill points were converted to Spirit Shards. You got spirit shards exactly equal to every skill point you had in the old system.

The new Hero Points are a finite resource. You get a certain number from leveling up, a certain number from hero challenges (1 point per in the old maps, 10 per in Maguuma) and that’s it.

Surely you can see how they couldn’t convert a formerly infinite resource into a finite one and just give you all the skill points you had before as hero points. The entire system would be rendered meaningless for vets who built up any sort of skill point stockpile.

They didn’t “take them away”. They were changed to something else and remain very useful for basically the exact same things skill points were used for prior to the change. Which is crafting legendaries and other things through the forge. What you want to use them for no longer applies to what they’re intended for.

That is understandable, but it still feels like they took something away, then told me I needed it.

Because they really were taken away. months ago, I had them, now I don’t. They may have given me something in return, but they took something I needed, and replaced it with something that is not as useful.

That is understandable, but it still feels like they took something away, then told me I needed it.

I feel your pain, given that most of my characters are really fighting uphill to get their Elite specs, but it’s understandable on their part. I have around 4000 spirit shards, so if those were all skillpoints then I’d never have to do another hero challenge for the next 2-3 expansions.

All I’m mad about is the last minute announcement that you’d have to max out all your previous lines before you could even start on your elite spec. I had 150-350 HP free on almost all of my characters, due to being frugal about buying skills, but now most of them barely scraped together enough for the first tier Elite ability, one of them didn’t have enough even for that.