Guild Wars 2

I was just wondering what happens with the exp after you reach mastery cap.

It does nothing.

yeah, it kinda sucks. before HoT, you used to get spirit shards iirc (I may have this detail wrong, but it was something). I’m not sure why this was removed.

I was actually poking around to see if anyone knew any more about this. Will there be more Masteries to earn in the future?

It feels almost like a waste to play my lvl 80 character in Central Tyria.

Actually, what you’re thinking of happened quite a months before HoT (June 2015).
Before that, you used to continue accumulating skill points, which were used for the same purposes as spirit shards are now. Then when they changed to the specialization system for traits, they split skill points into hero points (for learning skills/traits) and spirit shards (for MF recipes).

The spirit shard aquisition is actually better currently… x3 for your dailies, vs x1 every 2-3 days for gaining extra levels. It does mean exp doesn’t contribute towards anything at mastery cap.

ah, that explains why I was a little off. I think I started playing in August 2015.

I do wish exp counted for something still. At least I have other characters I want to work on.

i know this topic is old, but i wanted to bump it to say…. after the patch today, they re-added the ability to earn spirit shards once you are at the level cap