Guild Wars 2

Ok, I bought one of them but I was under the impression and many are telling me that my skills, unlocked for two years plus should not be locked.

Why are my skills locked? Why are some that I had unlocked locked now and others not?

Please fix this asap.

As far as I can tell, your newly-converted hero points got auto-spent in the lines that are connected to your previous build, but when you didn’t have a trait line or skill in use, it didn’t get activated and the points stayed in the pool. On a level 80 character, the amount of hero points you have left should be enough to reskill whatever you unlearned, plus whatever excess you had before the conversion. So far, this has proven true for all my characters, though some have said they didn’t get enough hero points.

Red Queen.7915:

As far as I can tell, your newly-converted hero points got auto-spent in the lines that are connected to your previous build, but when you didn’t have a trait line or skill in use, it didn’t get activated and the points stayed in the pool. On a level 80 character, the amount of hero points you have left should be enough to reskill whatever you unlearned, plus whatever excess you had before the conversion. So far, this has proven true for all my characters, though some have said they didn’t get enough hero points.

I wish that was the case – I was wearing some that I had to buy…

It’s far too random.

So you don’t have enough hero points to unlock all your skills and traits or you just ask why they are locked?
At first login after update you get unlocked skills that resemble your last build as close as it possible (as pop-up window in game say). And if you are lvl80 then you should have hero points to get everything that is still locked.
For me, I had 211 hero points left after unlocking all skills and traits cause of world completion on my character.

Can confirm. Manually unlocked all lines to 100%. Relogged and lines were once again reset. Not sure if total was the same as before unlocking first time…

As I understand your problem is that you have a char which is not lvl80. You bought/got some skills at some point earlier and now after the patch some of these skills are locked?

If that’s the case, then yes it’s working as intended. I don’t like it and since anet told us about their new specialization system alot of people asked about this on the forums.
The problem is, some people have twinks for which they bought all skills with low level and low map completion, but with the new systems the hero points come through level and map completion.
So anet solved this, by only giving everyone their heropoints based on their current level and map completion state. And secondly they “used” some/most of them directly to unlock some skills.

→ Basically if you are not lvl80 you “lost” some skills. If you bought them with gold or skill points pre patch, then you lost that too. Only good part, you now only have to level until lvl80 and then you have ALL skills for “free”…

(If thats not your problem then sorry that I didn’t understand )