Guild Wars 2

I’m just about to start Season 2 on one of my toons and while looking over the Episode 1 description in the hero panel noticed that Mastery Points are included as rewards.

I thought Masteries were introduced with HOT, which came out after Season 2.

Did they add them to the reward later, after HOT came out or am I getting this wrong?

I wasn’t active when either came out so missed the timeline.

If they are red mastery points, those are Core Tyria masteries which were all added after Heart of Thorns was released.

They are red indeed. So, there were Tyria mastery points before HOT?

There were not. When mastery points were introduced, some achievements involving core Tyria had mastery points added to them. Each chapter in season 2 had at least 1, although perhaps 2? One for completing the chapter, and one for getting all the related achievements.

Thanks. That clears it up for me.

One thing to bear in mind. LS2 achievements cannot be completed on any chars first run through on each episode. A char needs to complete an episode (or poss just the relevant instance i forget) for that char to be able to qualify to attempt achievements next time.

Its annoying, but they never updated ls2 to account for this sadly

Randulf.7614:

One thing to bear in mind. LS2 achievements cannot be completed on any chars first run through on each episode. A char needs to complete an episode (or poss just the relevant instance i forget) for that char to be able to qualify to attempt achievements next time.

Its annoying, but they never updated ls2 to account for this sadly

That seems odd. Have they said why they did it that way? Are there any other places in the game where that’s the case?

Sarpan.9074:

Randulf.7614:

One thing to bear in mind. LS2 achievements cannot be completed on any chars first run through on each episode. A char needs to complete an episode (or poss just the relevant instance i forget) for that char to be able to qualify to attempt achievements next time.

Its annoying, but they never updated ls2 to account for this sadly

That seems odd. Have they said why they did it that way? Are there any other places in the game where that’s the case?

Season 2 was before they introduced the masteries that were tied to achievements. I bet it has something to do with this.

Moonyeti.3296:

Sarpan.9074:

Randulf.7614:

One thing to bear in mind. LS2 achievements cannot be completed on any chars first run through on each episode. A char needs to complete an episode (or poss just the relevant instance i forget) for that char to be able to qualify to attempt achievements next time.

Its annoying, but they never updated ls2 to account for this sadly

That seems odd. Have they said why they did it that way? Are there any other places in the game where that’s the case?

Season 2 was before they introduced the masteries that were tied to achievements. I bet it has something to do with this.

I would suggest that LS3 shows they learned from their mistakes. The LS2 achievements have a “do the story, do stuff, then eventually come back and polish them off” feel.

LS3 is very much “all achieves available on day one”.