Guild Wars 2

I would LOVE this.

I haven’t been really exploring the jungle as unlocking my elite specs for my characters and builds is my top priority, (since they hyped the specs up so much and I want to play them.) If im in the jungle I tend to be running around from green map icon to green map icon, doing very little inbetween. Even then, the WvW hero point method (which is supposed to be an alternative for people who play WvW) is faster than doing it the standard jungle way, so instead of playing the new content, me and a lot of others in my guild have just been running around EB because we just want our hero points.

I believe it would be a good idea to add more methods to unlocking the elite spec / earning hero points. Either that, or reduce the hero point costs a little bit by doing the jungle method. Perhaps give us 15 or 20 points per hero challenge. Yes! 20. Im being honest!
If you want an elite spec you either run around picking off nodes in the jungle exactly like a checklist, or grind out WvW ranks with boosters by following the commander with a zerg that just wants hero points. You either follow around the green hero point icons on your minimap, or you follow around the commander icon on your minimap. It’s not a system im satisfied with. I find it funny that thinking lore-wise, the dragonhunters, chronomancers, druids and others all spent time doing nothing but running around in WvW.

For future expansions I can’t see myself doing this all over again for a trait line and a bunch of skills. I have four characters I play on, well under enough of what most people play, and none of them have substantial map completion. If I want to play Druid, berserker, Reaper and Chrono, I have to tick this checklist off 4 times, which means going to 320 of these HoT nodes again, again and again once more. I don’t actually want to even try revenant yet because I know im going to have to run around all these nodes again, undoubtedly falling asleep in the process.

Guild wars 2 is better than this! it used to be better than this. I know you have it in you Anet.