Guild Wars 2

evilunderling.9265:

The second half of LS2 has some important reveals that you might not want to spoil, and you can’t get past the opening cutscene of Heart of Thorns (or even some of the trailers) without spoiling at least one thing.

Rats, that’s what I was afraid of. Thanks for the heads-up, evilunderling. I’ll see season two through instead of jumping ahead.

-Tom

Kaz.5430:

A lot of us have been ‘wasting XP’ for the last few months, because when they last changed the levelling process, they took away the skill point on level-up, leaving no reward for filling the xp bar post level 80.

Does it matter?? Not really.

Ah, I didn’t realize the change pre-dated Heart of Thorns. I’ve been away for quite a while!

I’m a bit surprised that it doesn’t bother you. I guess I’ve just gotten so accustomed to having some sort of advancement as I’m playing, even with my level 80 characters. You guys had to deal with stopping that advancement until the masteries system was introduced? Yikes.

So can anyone help me jump ahead to the prologue and then first mission for Heart of Thorns? Where exactly do I go? Will I be able to trigger the missions even though I’m only part way through season two? And would it have killed Arenanet to have a “show me” button on the locked mastery screen?

-Tom

DarcShriek.5829:

Start the HoT personal story on your hero tab. It will tell you where to go.

Nope. It just tells me what missions I’m supposed to do. Which doesn’t help. I Googled it and it turns out it’s the mission right after the prologue. But as I mentioned, I have no idea where I’m supposed to go to start the Heart of Thorns storyline.

I’ve only recently gotten into the Silverwaste area, or whatever it’s called, so even Googling the location of the missions didn’t help. I figure it’s someplace out here.

But the bottom line is that I am wasting xp, right? If that’s the case, I should have held off buying Heart of Thorns until I’d finished season two?

-Tom

I’ve got a level 80 character finishing up season two, but I’ve noticed that my xp bar is “stuck” on full. After looking into the issue, I see now that post-80 levels don’t give you skill points anymore, but they give you mastery points. Fair enough.

However, I haven’t unlocked masteries yet, which must be why the xp bar is “stuck”. The mastery screen says I need to do a certain mission in the Heart of Thorns storyline. But I’m not even sure where to go to get the Heart of Thorns storyline underway. I presume I’ll be breadcrumbed over there at the end of season two. That’s also fair enough.

But my concern is that I’m wasting experience points. Since the xp bar is stuck at full, and since I’m not getting any messages about earning mastery points from leveling up, am I just throwing earned xp down a hole? Or will my xp progress somehow be credited to me when I unlock masteries?

Should I jump ahead and do the prologue and first mission in Heart of Thorns to unlock masteries? If so, where do I go and how do I start the prologue?

These seem like simple issues that should affect a lot of players, so apologies if it’s already been covered here. I’m surprised that I’ve been unable to find the answers by Googling and searching through the wiki.

-Tom

This has also been a recurring problem for me. But now that it’s interfering with my ability to do the Fractals, it’s no longer just an acceptable annoyance. It’s interfering with my ability to play the game, since it’s twice reset my progress. I’d appreciate any help resolving this. Anyone? ArenaNet?

Cheers,

-Tom

P.S. Oh, and my most recent error code is slightly different than the ones listed above. It was 11:1000:7006:861:101.

Colin, while I appreciate your response, I’m still dismayed at how little impact ArenaNet seems to have on the situation. After writing my Gamespy column, I put the game down in disgust for the weekend. It was a bit encouraging when someone pointed me here to your response. Yet I logged in today to be greeted by the usual cadre of bots running around with impunity. I reported them and then checked on the bots I’d called out by name in my column. Sure enough, they’re now level 80 and currently farming Bloodtide Coasts.

If outing bots by name in a column at IGN isn’t enough to get an account investigated and subsequently shut down for botting, why should I even bother with the game’s unresponsive and ineffectual reporting feature? Whatever you guys intend to do about the issue, I hope you’ll do it quickly. Because these days I find myself shutting Guild Wars 2 down in disgust far more frequently than I boot it up.

-Tom