Guild Wars 2

Used to use celebration boosters to increase event experience in HoT but this seems to have been nerfed??? Anyone confirm this?

Also..

With 150% exp bonus, one full set of meta’s in Verdant Brink used to take around 2-3 hours and gained me 500k exp. without the bonus it now takes 1.5 times longer, ie 4-5 hours….or for me…around 1 level per week of play. 500k exp is around 1 mastery level. I’m at level 14 mastery and have been playing since HoT was released. How the heck did some people manage to get to level 130 mastery in such a short time??? I guess they’re playing 80 hours a week? lol

…or am I missing something???

:-)

Celebration boosters are based on kills I think. The 500K XP is only for the lower tiered masteries. It increases significant the higher you go. Most of you XP will come from killing enemies. Also keep in mind that some boosters do stack.

Thanks Ayrilana. Yeah, 500k gets you 1 mastery point. 2nd tier needs 2 mastery points therefore needs 1mil xp. My question is based on ‘per point’.

Completing a meta event gave you an exp reward…under the reward amount you used to get a figure for the bonus amount. This stopped appearing around 2 weeks ago so not sure if the boosters count towards the meta completion xp rewards any more? I’m guessing it’s been nerfed

Still don’t get how people have got to such a high mastery level so quickly…unless they’re all doing raids and getting the xp reward from the chest drops??

Sounds like you might have hit the brick wall that is “Diminishing returns”…..not only does it affect your drops from kills, but also lowers the amount of xp you get from completing events. If you’ve been sticking to the same map, you need to move your character to another map and do a few events to reset the DR.

Some of the people with the ridiculous mastery point totals probably used some of the grinding methods to boost that. I’m not 100% sure what any of those methods entail as I’ve never been one to pursue the “grind it out as fast as you can” approach so I never bothered looking too far into them, but I know the big one for Central Tyria involved a dungeon with infinite enemies (I think that one is still around, too?), and there was one for HoT masteries that also involved quickly respawning spiders somewhere (think that one was nerfed). There’s probably one or two more for HoT, I think, too.

As for you personally… yah, as Yol said, you might be getting diminishing returns. Event rewards get hit with DR pretty hard after a while. It sounds like you’re just doing Verdant Brink and nothing else. Try branching off into the other zones’ metas.

I haven’t seen any patch notes or complaints about boosters being nerfed, so I’m hesitant to think that’s the problem.

Electro.4173:

Some of the people with the ridiculous mastery point totals probably used some of the grinding methods to boost that. I’m not 100% sure what any of those methods entail as I’ve never been one to pursue the “grind it out as fast as you can” approach so I never bothered looking too far into them, but I know the big one for Central Tyria involved a dungeon with infinite enemies (I think that one is still around, too?), and there was one for HoT masteries that also involved quickly respawning spiders somewhere (think that one was nerfed). There’s probably one or two more for HoT, I think, too.

As for you personally… yah, as Yol said, you might be getting diminishing returns. Event rewards get hit with DR pretty hard after a while. It sounds like you’re just doing Verdant Brink and nothing else. Try branching off into the other zones’ metas.

I haven’t seen any patch notes or complaints about boosters being nerfed, so I’m hesitant to think that’s the problem.

There are a couple places with infinite spawns but that isn’t even necessary. Just doing world bosses and fractals with food and utility will get it done very quickly and that was before they buffed the exp in fractals.

DS is probably the best place for HoT mastery exp since mob of the mobs are gathered up in the lanes. There is very little time spent running around to events. It is mostly events on top of events or events next to events.

Thanks for all the replies. I’ve started rotating between Verdant and Auric now so I’ll see how that goes.

It seems that, to gain the Mastery points you really have to do Meta’s as there’s just not sufficient xp from killing alone. Even completing the story line didn’t get enough to gain 1 Mastery point! Just seems very grindy to have to continually do Meta events like that in order to advance. Come on Anet… give us an alternative please :-)

Great game though. :-)