Guild Wars 2

and go back to gaining normal levels? i really want the spirit shards… is there any way to stop training masteries?

They never given spirit shards from leveling. Spirt shards are from dailies or from drops.

Skill points used to be from leveling and skill point challenges. Now it’s hero points from leveling to 80 and doing hero point challenges.

No, i’m pretty sure you gained a spirit shard at lvl 80 though..

you did for a time, they dropped skillpoints on level and had us gaining the spirit shards until the expansion launched. Now we only gain mastery points….

I noticed when I’m in wvw I get normal xp from the events, I’m not sure however what it goes towards anymore if anything sense wvw levels are 5k xp each and it’s separate xp

Not sure why this isn’t an option though to choose

Here is the sources listed for spirit shards. It’s never from leveling but is from drop or an achieviement reward.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Spirit_Shard
Random drops for level 80 characters
Tome of Knowledge: if used by a level 80 character
Dessa’s Experiment Journal
A Small Bag of Spirit Shards is the reward for the Daily Completionist meta-achievement
(Page also lists a large number of containers which can have a spirit shard)

sirsquishy.8531:

you did for a time, they dropped skillpoints on level and had us gaining the spirit shards until the expansion launched. Now we only gain mastery points….

This is not true. After the skill point change you did not get spirit shards for leveling.
You could get them from Tomes, but regularly earned “lvls” gave absolutely nothing, it was a big complaint for the months leading up to HoT, people felt like it was entirely wasted exp (and it was really).

Rikkado.7321:

No, i’m pretty sure you gained a spirit shard at lvl 80 though..

Nope. Didn’t.

They split the old skill points into 2 things. Hero points and spirit shards. After the change:
Hero points from leveling to level 80 and from hero point challenges.
Spirit shards as a reward, tome use at 80 or a drop. never from leveling either before or after reaching level 80.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Rikkado.7321:

No, i’m pretty sure you gained a spirit shard at lvl 80 though..

Nope. Didn’t.

They split the old skill points into 2 things. Hero points and spirit shards. After the change:
Hero points from leveling to level 80 and from hero point challenges.
Spirit shards as a reward, tome use at 80 or a drop. never from leveling either before or after reaching level 80.

yea, too much time has passed and I didnt really care back then but I am 99% sure you got shards for leveling at 80. I remember watching my shard count when I was making volcanous and Infinite lite to make lode stones. And I burned though all of them, then went and played for a while(2 months or so) and when I looked again I had 230~. I do not do dailies (no point IMHO) so I know they did not come from there.

Sylent.3165:

I noticed when I’m in wvw I get normal xp from the events, I’m not sure however what it goes towards anymore if anything sense wvw levels are 5k xp each and it’s separate xp

Not sure why this isn’t an option though to choose

Plain xp (not wxp) in wvw doesn’t go towards either set of masteries. It’s useless.

No, you didn’t. I was also watching my spirit shard counts when I leveled up, and got none – and as stated, there were complaints here about that.

You did get them as drops on occasion (though I doubt that would cover all of those), or maybe you logged onto an alt that you hadn’t been on? I don’t remember for sure, but I think you had to log on to a character for the system to convert the skill points from leveling into spirit shards.