Guild Wars 2

Fantastic, great move to all involved

I have my fingers crossed that the requirement for Mastery XP will be lowered also, but this is a step in the right direction!

Red Mistress Denna.9804:

Either way Turethir, well thought out response, thank you for posting these ideas and I hope Anet reads your post.

Thank you (and also a big thanks to Preserver who quoted my post also) – and thank you for your insights, too! I like the idea of a ‘challenge mode’ for Hero Points. Shame there’s no Build Switcher yet, as it would be a lot easier to switch to tankier gear/specs quickly to take on these challenges, if soloing champs is something you like to do!

Ha, just had a whisper from a friend of mine – “is there no way to increase masteries without grinding XP” – she doesn’t even read the forum and I haven’t even mentioned my displeasure with this to her.

I’m now worried she’ll be put off playing too…

Asheron.1865:

This is not working at all for me
I still need Poison Mastery to get through personal story

It hasn’t been patched in yet; they’ve said they’ll do it later today.

A step in the right direction, ANet. Now let’s see this done for masteries and elite specs and we’ll be a lot closer to where it needs to be!

/signed

Although I won’t be asking for a refund I agree with everything you said.

I don’t want everything on day one and I have no problem having to work for some things. I just want a healthy middle ground especially when it comes to masteries/elite specs!

I was ganged up on in my guild for expressing negative opinions in GC yesterday, which is a shame, as I was always very positive about this game. Luckily there seem to be lots of kindred spirits here so I’ll freely express my opinions.

In my mind (and as many have said) fixing the three things below will make a massive difference.

1) Drastically reduce the number of hero points needed to unlock elites. While I am not especially bothered about my elite spec I know how much others were looking forward to them. It was only in a post literally a day or two before the expansion that it was explicitly stated that these would be ‘unlocked’ – not helped by the beta weekends making them instantly available. This gave a lot of people the wrong impression and I can understand their frustrations. I would reduce this to around 60 points or so.

2) Half the XP needed for each mastery. Although these are account-bound (which is good) I still feel they’re too grindy. I find myself looking at my XP bar a lot. I never did in the base game.

3) When people are not around hero points (often because they’re mastery gated or very hard to get to) stop with the unsoloable champions with time limits! Downscale them to veteran mobs so that soloers can have a chance. This will become even more obvious once fewer players are on the map and people are attempting to get hero points for their alts. Implementing point 1 would massively reduce this issue also!

ANet made a good move by getting rid of the story requirement to have Itzel 4 mastered.

Come on ANet – if you sort these three things out, the majority will be a lot happier.