Guild Wars 2

I’m playing Guardian and want to fully unlock Dragonbunter, but have not been into HoT yet. How far in the expansion would I need to go to fully unlock it?

Well did you get all the HP in core Tyria yet, since that affects the total needed? You can earn HP in WvW now, well a proxy you can convert into. HP in HoT are 10 each BTW. It’s really tough to say as some HoT HP are in areas that require you to have certain masteries so it’s not just counting all the HP locations in a HoT zone.

First make sure you have fully unlocked every Guardian trait and skill, as you cannot start training DH until you do that. Then go to your Hero panel and click on the Training tab. At the upper left you will see your current HP total. Click on the DH trait line to get that trait wheel up in the main panel area. Click on the very last trait (upper left on the circle, just before the gap). In the middle it will tell you a total number of points needed to train to there.

Divide that number by 10 and that is how many HoT HP you need to get (you can still get HP in the core lands, 1 HP per HP point visited as opposed to 10 per visit in HoT. Useful if, say, you could get to your next trait training with just 3 more points which might be easier to accomplish than one in HoT).

I think, but am not 100% sure, that if you are a fresh 80 without any HP gained in the core areas at all you will need 400 HP to fully unlock the elite, so 40 HP done in HoT or less there and a bunch in the core lands.

They changed it from 400 to 250 (I think it’s 250 … yep 250) soon after HoT launched. Devs thought players would be OK getting the elite unlocked by completing HoT while players wanted to play HoT with their elite.

Donari.5237:

I think, but am not 100% sure, that if you are a fresh 80 without any HP gained in the core areas at all you will need 400 HP to fully unlock the elite, so 40 HP done in HoT or less there and a bunch in the core lands.

I think they cut that down to 250 HP needed to fully unlock the elite in a balance patch following the release. Someone please correct me if I am wrong.

Great info though.