Guild Wars 2

When you are killing monsters, capturing towers and whatnot, you are rewarded with XP. Not just the WvW Xp but regular XP.

Well, even though it claims to give you this XP, you don’t actually get it.
If you check in PvE before you enter a WvW map, and go kill some monsters and capture some towers. Then go back to PvE and check again…. Your XP bar has NOT moved, the numbers are the same.

I opened a bug for this, and hope it will be fixed soon.

I haven’t spent that much time in wvw lately and I made that observation before but the weird thing was that I already had my mentor tag and some other PvE mastery halfway leveled although I didn’t select them. Didn’t notice any progress lately though – but I’m not really in wvw anymore.

If you are not 80 then you get XP and WVW XP. Once 80 then you get only WVW XP. Look at the xp bar. If yellow then xp. If blue then wvw xp. Masteries are only pve. And yes this is a departure from ANET’s original promise that you could level in WVW or PVE pre HOT.

Rhizo.5089:

If you are not 80 then you get XP and WVW XP. Once 80 then you get only WVW XP. Look at the xp bar. If yellow then xp. If blue then wvw xp. Masteries are only pve. And yes this is a departure from ANET’s original promise that you could level in WVW or PVE pre HOT.

Not true, you get normal (yellow) XP after HoT even if you’re lvl 80.
This was recorded on 29th of November, though I don’t have HoT.
https://youtu.be/pNiczV9S544

Correct, you get the exp but it is not applied to any mastery lines. Unfortunately I think this is working as intended as the auto loot was when it original came out. Luckily they have decided to look into changing that for WvW maybe the mastery experience will get the same love. Unfortunately the play anything you like and get progression towards what you want is not longer a GW2 theme. If you want something that came new with HoT you normally have to earn it in a specific area but that is another discussion.

Pink Ninja Man.4375:

Correct, you get the exp but it is not applied to any mastery lines. Unfortunately I think this is working as intended as the auto loot was when it original came out. Luckily they have decided to look into changing that for WvW maybe the mastery experience will get the same love. Unfortunately the play anything you like and get progression towards what you want is not longer a GW2 theme. If you want something that came new with HoT you normally have to earn it in a specific area but that is another discussion.

yeah, how that isn’t a huge problem is really confusing me. even at the reveal of heart of thorns, ‘no grind’ was said many times. so was play how you want, where’d that go?

This is one of many reasons one are staying pvp or pve. Once you have all the wxp traits capped you are earning / working towards nothing as there are no wvw masteries and they aren’t applied to pve masteries.

Pre hot I wasn’t maxed so was at least working towards something. Post hot they took things away and didn’t replace with anything else so maxed. If that wasn’t a hair brained idea……

I wish my WvW EXP applied to core Tyria masteries. I really need the “loot vacuum cleaner” mastery. It would help me farm for materials for my WvW guild upgrades that I do in PvE because it is much more efficient. I wish to minimize the amount of time I spend in PvE since for me it is just a chore I do so I can play WvW.

I think we should get WVW XP in the PVE areas then? You know, to even it out?

OR remove all unusable XP from WvW. At least this would keep the yawnfest ktrains from forming.

Paulie.6215:

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OR remove all unusable XP from WvW. At least this would keep the yawnfest ktrains from forming.

Are you talking about “yawnfest ktrains” in WvW or EOTM? In EOTM they are the norm, I haven’t seen anything like that in WvW on the servers/tiers I have played in.

Both.

There’s zero reason to have pvp xp in wvw or eotm.

It same as in pve. If you completed all masteries, you still get green letter exp numbers, but they dont do anything good. Since wvw does not level masteries, it’s same effect as in pve when they are completed.

They should add some wvw masteries soon though imo for not killing wvw player base all that fast.