Guild Wars 2

So I just booted up the beta and tried out a Sylvari Revenant and I started to notice that my skills (while using the shiro tadachi stance, I haven’t tried the others yet) came across as hard to see what is on cooldown and what isn’t. When you don’t have enough resources to use a skill, the colours change VERY slightly and I find it difficult to differentiate the difference. Anyone else feel the same way?

Grootella.1270:

So all the levels I’ve accrued past 80 since the change have netted me nothing? Are they trying to create an artificial supply drop in mystic weapons on the trading post? Because the lack of spirit shards to create forged weapons is going to have an affect much like the Unidentified Dye drop change… everything will get more expensive. And those of us who usually net several levels a day, which should equate to several skill points or the equivelant spirit shards, are the ones losing out here. ANet, I hope you are keeping track of all those lost spirit shards we should be accruing in the background and intend to reimburse us eventually.

I hope this is the case! Those Mystic Clovers aren’t going to make themselves!

So as the title suggests, what exactly is the point of leveling after 80? We don’t receive a Spirit Shard or even a Hero Point so why is the experience bar even there? I understand that it will be part of the mastery system when HoT comes out but until then it just feels like a lot of wasted xp. I think this system should have instead been rolled out when HoT releases. It would be much better now if we did receive a Spirit Shard after leveling up. Thoughts?