Pretty sure it’s to do with in-game adverts that happened during PvP esl tournaments, HoT beta events and the like. Many complained about the unremovable ads for it in the top right, near event notifications/story steps, and loading screens.
Not those because I just enabled it and I still get the corner advertisement about the upcoming monthly tournament.
Owning core game doesn’t mean much anymore. If you bought the core game in the past year you got scammed. HoT purchase includes core game, if you had core before HoT then time for an upgrade.
Raids were a big selling point for HoT.
Even if there was a core game raid, you would be kicked out of squads for no elite specialization.
Seems to me like the Mastery Point system is set up only for the raiders and elite hard-core players and less for casual players.
No it isn’t. Those players can have 40-50 extra points and no way to use them, and the spirit shard pity prize is pointless because those players probably have like 2000+ spirit shards (and you get a handful every day from quick dailies).
I’d say a Forsaken Thicket Reward Track would be better, and have it like a dungeon track:
- Small boxes give magnetite shards and bags of gear.
- A few any choice weapon skins or minipets.
- A few boss chest rolls.
- Final reward is any choice of 1 piece of envoy armor.
A fractal reward track would be cool too:
- Small chests give pristine fractal relics and infusions.
- A few select fractal weapon skins. or ascended materials.
- Loads of tier 4 fractal boxes, and encryption keys.
- Final reward is any choice gold fractal weapon.
Look up guides, skip the hard adventures, gold easy adventures, silver ones you can, there are so many extra points you don’t need to gold a single adventure.
I agree with the OP. Dont add more of one thing that the other. Extras are cool but 10 extras for 1 point is a very slippery slope…
This is the problem, added 7 mastery points for a mastery track that requires 1 point, and the required point was even rewarded for completing the mission to get to Bloodstone Fen.
I don’t know about your actual question (other passes are 1 way), but it may be worth noting that it loads the entire Verdant Brink map (not just the small area).
Add empty mastery tracks that use for example, 1 mastery point and 1 million experience to increase mastery rank and give purpose to extra points. Obviously this would require the current max rank so players don’t waste points.
The thread title is going to attract the wrong people.
The game is completely solo-able (except party stuff obviously) and the guild stuff is aimed towards community, so not going to get much done by yourself, 5 player guilds are doable though.
anet should make it so that you would be able to spend all the points you get.
the points are not that hard to get anyway.
And it feels really boring to gain a MP with no use, it is like leveling up after level 80, it becomes something you dont care about. I liked the idea with MP-system, as there was some reward for doing something well. and also it was the closest thing to prestige in this game, as everyone got legendary weapons, all are lvl 80 with ascended (ppl who played more than 200 hours) and everyone can gain almost every title. So the idea about getting that high number next to your name at least was something nice. like the legendary icon from pvp (although anyone could get it, all it took was a little bit of grinding, like getting the mastery points is now, since all the hard ones are not needed)
Yet people who raid will always have a higher number than those who do not. As the number only goes up if you spend them. So your argument holds no real weigh. Anyone who plays PvE and not raid will top out, but people who raid will always have more. Wanting to be a special snowflake is never a good reason.
Anet made it easy by making the siege encounter (as easy as dungeon/fractal) unlock the mastery line, or just buy a VG kill for like 60-80g.
And that guy has a point, if we could maybe fill “empty” masteries just to increase the number next our name that would be great, and it would actually feel rewarding to get and use extra points and experience.
It is gated because it is short, if there was no mastery gate, you could play the story in about 6 hours and people probably wouldn’t even bother to stop in the maps on the way.
IMO, the cap seemed like 20, but if what Ayrilana said is true, that would explain why I got so few.
This is a direct hit to players with more characters, I think 9 characters (9 classes) is reasonable and cap should be 50, or even 40. But capping it to about 5 characters (the base amount for a HoT owner, unless f2p maybe? idk) is silly.
As many have stated, the addition of new ways to get Mastery Points is a good thing! It’s sort of like adding new dishes to a buffet: you can make a choice from an expending menu of options.
I am not maxed on MPs for either HoT or CT. Hey, I’ve been busy! As a daily player, I warmly welcome more ways for me to get those points.
But there is no way to use the dozens of extra points that can be gained casually.
New players either don’t have efficient dps gear, or don’t even understand what crowd control is, and this can make many HoT mobs easily fail with timer.
Please have option to hide EXP, I miss my nice clear EXP bar, now its started filling with that obnoxious yellow again. It would also be nice to hide EXP pop ups, I don’t need to know that I got 2540 EXP gathering unbound magic, or got 607 EXP from slaying a white mantle necromancer.
If hiding the numbers won’t work, I’d be happy just not receiving any EXP.
I agree. The list of daily crap just gets longer and longer. I’ve been cutting down the daily grind, sure I don’t make as much gold, but the game is actually fun again.
This has nothing to do with leveling. It has to do with items that can only be used in crafting and have no other use. A dowel has no stats. On the other hand gems and such can be placed in armor. So, why are they able to be placed in material storage? We can find better ways of leveling other than upgrading gems so lets leave those in open storage. Please.
Because kmyou get gems form mining and they are used as BASIC materials in jeweler.
Like said earlier, you shouldn’t be making crafting components until you are ready to use them.
If you made too much of something, sell or delete it.
Like said earlier,
Running a non steam game through steam only starts the overlay, nothinelse. Obviously it could crash, but it does nothing to the game.
While I do have max masteries, I just find the clutter on the screen pointless.
So it was more of just put an option to remove ugly text from popping up. I don’t need to see the exp, there is a bar for that, but I understand there are people who enjoy seeing the acknowledgement.
As a daily player, I warmly welcome more ways for me to get those points.