Guild Wars 2

My level 80 characters still have an XP bar across the bottom of the screen that does fill up and once filled my character goes through the level up animation.

To my understanding once we reach level 80 we weren’t suppose to ‘level up’ anymore.

I’ve ‘leveled up’ several times on 2 different characters and it seems I’m not getting anything for it. I checked my hero points before and after leveling and there was no change. When you reach level 80 you have enough hero points to unlock all skills and traits and any other hero points afterwards comes from doing hero challenges around Tyria (formally skill challenges).

Level 80 characters get spirit shards as random loot drops from enemies, tomes of knowledge, daily achievements, and other sources instead of getting them automatically upon filling the XP bar, like we had with skill points. So I don’t think I’m getting spirit shards this way either.

So what the heck is going on here? Is there any reason for my character to keep ‘leveling up’ post 80? It seems I’m not getting anything for it. I’m fine with it, but I think it may be a bug that we even have an XP bar on level 80 characters.

This has been in the game since launch. You normally level up even when 80.

My understanding is that this will change when Masteries are added. We’re only half way there with the latest patch.

You can read about Masteries (and how the XP bar will be used, in the future) here:

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

Good luck.

It was stated in the 6/23 patch that level 80 would no longer gain experience though (which was looking forward to Levelup being removed for level 80’s :/ ). But it does seem like it will come with Mastery instead.

Lunacy Solacio.6514:

It was stated in the 6/23 patch that level 80 would no longer gain experience though (which was looking forward to Levelup being removed for level 80’s :/ ). But it does seem like it will come with Mastery instead.

Yeah. That’s what I was referring to. http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Game_updates/2015-06-23#Skill_Point_Conversion

Players will no longer be able to level a character after 80, but level 80 characters will be able to loot spirit shards from creatures in the world.

And I was pointing out that my level 80 characters are still ‘leveling’ but seemingly not gaining anything.

As Inculpatus pointed out, it looks like leveling on level 80 characters will be how we earn mastery points in HoT. If that’s the case I can understand them not changing anything now because then they’d have to change it back.

I assumed the patch notes meant we would literally not level up after 80 anymore. Period. That’s why I filed a bug report about it. The patch notes could have been worded better.