Guild Wars 2

Joshua Diaz.6402:

Just as a heads up, the Mastery Points for Personal Story are awarded on a per-chapter basis. So once you complete Chapter 1 and earn the Achievement for it, you’ve earned the Mastery Point for Chapter 1. This includes each different starting storyline: I believe the right names are: Graduation Day, For The Legion!, Crime and Punishment, Rising to the Challenge, and Waking from the Nightmare. Similarly, whichever Order you join, there’s just one Mastery Point there.
Hopefully this helps clarify the total number of Mastery Points you should be expecting from your previous accomplishments in Tyria. That said, the different stories really are fantastic, and should definitely be experienced, but for your own pleasure, and not for Mastery Points.
If any of you still think you are missing MPs from Achievements you’ve completed, let us know via the in-game Bug Report tool and we’ll try to identify if there’s a bigger issue happening.

I think people are missing Joshua’s point that playing through the personal story with multiple races does NOT get you additional Mastery Points. If you look at the wiki page for the Hero section and count them, you find 20 listed, but the wiki says only 11 are available from that section. If you recount them while counting only 1 of the races’ set of story MPs, then you get 11.

I agree with a lot of the complaints made about the Mastery Points in Central Tyria. At HoT launch, I had enough to get all of the Pact Commander levels and I’ve trained all of those. I don’t really have much interest in crafting legendaries, but it bugs me to see that XP bar sit at full, but nothing happening from it ‘cuz I’m out of Mastery Points. I don’t have a problem with the Mastery System in general. I just don’t like which achievements in Central Tyria give the Points. I don’t really have much interest in Fractals or Dungeons, so that’s a whole bunch there that I probably won’t get. And a few of the other ones (like the stupid spoon collecting) require random drops from Fractals or Dungeons. So, that limits me a bit further.

Now, in HoT, I have TONS of MPs earned because they can easily be gained by doing most of the meta event parts in each of the new zones. So, I don’t really have a problem with the system, it just seems that so many in Central Tyria are linked to activities I don’t really want to do. Or connected to achievements that seem really arbitrary or random. (really? collecting spoons?)

I ended up buying all of LW Season 2 yesterday, I’ll admit. I’d been thinking about it for a while. When I jumped back into playing GW2 about 6 months ago, I even did all the grinding to finish all the Luminescent Armor pieces—except for buying the season 2 episodes. (dang, some of those LW achievements are hard as heck) So, maybe I’m just playing into Anet’s hands and giving them my real money because of this system. It wouldn’t be so bad if those LW episodes weren’t just so horribly written. The dialogue hurts my ears.

I’ve played through the Meta-Event in Dragon’s Stand several times now, but once we’ve killed Mordremoth, I find I’m really struggling to figure out where to go to get to the areas with the noxious pods. Those red arrows are really general and vague in a map that has a couple of layers of caves.

I have figured out the area in the SW where you have tigers and wyverns. It’s the other areas that have me confused. There’s something on the East side that I can’t find. I’m guessing that requires ley-line gliding to reach. Am I right?

My big frustration is with the arrow in the center area. I can’t tell where I’m supposed to go there. Anyone have some suggestions or a video somewhere showing where to go for that area?

Yeah, I realized it as soon as I jumped into the game after posting that.

Augury of Death now says that Shouts do a Life Siphon. It’s not clear if that is supposed to work in Shroud, though. It’s in the Reaper trait line, so it wouldn’t make much sense if it didn’t.

For some reason, today I’m not getting any leveling xp when I craft. I got my engineer to level 80 today using Writs of Experience and Books of Knowledge. I then tried to level up his Leatherworking. I went from 174 to 192 in that, but he gained no leveling xp from that. I thought that was strange, so I hopped onto my level 80 Guardian and discovered a new Exotic recipe, which took her Armorsmithing from 472 to 475. She also received no leveling xp for that.

Even at level 80, you should be gaining some xp for improving your crafting, right?

Thanks to those who mentioned reducing GPU speed by 10-20% on NVIDIA cards. I wasn’t able to even play the game until I tried that. It would crash on me 30 seconds into character creation/play. After reducing the GPU Clock from 600 to 540 using EVGA’s Precision X software, I can play just fine even on the highest quality settings.