Guild Wars 2

There has to be something about this system that I just don’t get.

I presently have Mastery Rank 6. My masteries panel shows 2 icons of it for Central Tyria, and 1 for Heart of Maguuma. For Maguuma, I have gliding 85% done, and have a point ready to spend on it when I get around to that. Under Central Tyria, the Pact Commander section shows 3/5, which is six points spent there, and I presently have a full panel bar for “Noblesse Oblige”, and have two points to spent, and need three more. So far, so good. Presently, my screen-bottom XP bar (for Central Tyria) is filled 3175000/3175000. I have two mastery points but need three more to unlock the next skill (Noblesse Oblige), but can’t get another point to spend because my XP bar is full and won’t unfill to give me a point, no matter what I do.

I see lots of people around with a lot of mastery unlocked, so the system has to work, somehow, but I can’t figure it out. Is there something I need to do to convert my full central tyria XP bar into a spendable central tyria point? I did nothing special for the first eight times.

Mastery points don’t come from experience, they come from various tasks.

For Central Tyria, they are 100% tied to achievements. Look though your hero panel > achievement tab and you should see a bunch of red mastery point icons. Clicking on the categories with icons next to them to view individual achievements and you can see which ones give a mastery point.

You didn’t need to do “anything special” for the first points because you had probably already done some of the achievements that give you mastery points prior to the HoT patch, and any achievements done in such a way gave you mastery points retroactively. But now that you’ve used up your stockpile, you’ll need to start looking for more achievements to do to get more mastery points.

A. Choose what Mastery you want to train
B. Once that “Mastery XP bar” is filled you are required to spend the necessary Mastery point to unlock that particular Mastery and be able to progress.

In your situation your stuck until you either collect more mastery points to unlocked what your training, or you’ll need to select something else to train meanwhile you collect more mastery points. Eventually you’ll come to a point where all you XP bars are maxed, and you won’t be able to progress within their tiers until you get more Mastery Points.

Hi. Have you read the wiki article on Mastery yet?

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mastery

Mastery requires two things, Master Points which you earn and a full XP bar for the track you want to train in. Once you have both you can spend the points to unlock that track. It sounds like you simply haven’t found the mastery points in central Tyria.

Thank you all for your help, I think I understand it now (though, yuck).

Yeah, I was expecting MP to be the XP bar reward and not this duo requirement.