How would season 5 masteries even work?

[Menadena.7482]

It is pretty much accepted by everyone that we will go straight from season 4 to season 5 but one thing is bugging me: mastery points.

 

I know it may seem a little thing but in 3 and 4 the points were the same as the ones in the expansion. With no expansion yet to draw on it will change the whole dynamics of how many points you have at what time. Then you will need a glut of them all at once when we do expansion 3.

 

Another option is it uses the same 'color' as season 4 but that has problems too.

 

[edit: As you might guess I am more of someone who focuses on details rather than big pictures.]

[Gorani.7205]

The easiest way to gain new mastery points (if we get any, which we currently can't say), is to expand the Core Tyria Mastery points for Season 5. There is a surplus of Core mastery points already on the table, so each new LS map (if we get any) will just have to add the extra points required for the mastery tier, so each "new player" (who has just the HoT or the PoF expansion) can catch up, if he has no surplus.

[Inculpatus cedo.9234]

I must be misunderstanding. Why can't we gain new Mastery Points in the map, whichever it is, of the Season 5 Episode release?

Why can't it be associated with Path of Fire? Or associated only with Season 5?

Why do we need a 'glut of them' with expansion 3? Why would that be any different than HoT or PoF?

[Danikat.8537]

Why can't it use PoF mastery points? (Or Core or HoT mastery points?)

 

Alternatively since they're saying Season 5 will be the start of introducing expansion style features through the Living World maybe it could have a new set of mastery points just used for Season 5 and maybe other Living World seasons in future.

[Ayrilana.1396]

It will likely just be a new mastery line with it requiring PoF and using PoF mastery points. While this is technically new ground, I don’t see why they wouldn’t continue on with the existing system.

[LucianDK.8615]

Or they could simply invent a whole new line of mastery points to seperate them. Like Canthan Mastery points.

I am sitting on about 25 excess pof mastery points with everything filled out.

[AlexxxDelta.1806]

As mentioned above, nothing stops Anet from creating a couple expansion-like maps in a completely new area with LS5, along with the respective masteries. Besides themselves that is.

[LucianDK.8615]

> @"AlexxxDelta.1806" said:

> As mentioned above, nothing stops Anet from creating a couple expansion-like maps in a completely new area with LS5, along with the respective masteries. Besides themselves that is.

 

Exactly, they are going into unknown territory. So its hard to know what we are going to get. Like if they might be trying to shake up the current living story format with a different approach since its not 'bound' to an expansion pack as foundation.

I for one cant imagine a continued focus on mounts, a dragon mount is a fantastic capstone to a mounts collection.

[Turkeyspit.3965]

> @"Danikat.8537" said:

> Alternatively since they're saying Season 5 will be the start of introducing expansion style features through the Living World maybe it could have a new set of mastery points just used for Season 5 and maybe other Living World seasons in future.

 

Living World Mastery points - makes perfect sense.

 

Just because ANET did something in the past, doesn't mean they will always do it in the future. For all we know, Season 5 and on may not even use the mastery system?

 

[Ayrilana.1396]

If PoF is required for any seasons, it makes sense for them to use PoF mastery points. Whether season 5 requires PoF is up to Anet.

[Konig Des Todes.2086]

It'll use PoF points if S5 requires PoF like S4. If it doesn't it'll likely either have its own set or just use core mastery points.

 

Simple as that.

[Menadena.7482]

> @"Gorani.7205" said:

> The easiest way to gain new mastery points (if we get any, which we currently can't say), is to expand the Core Tyria Mastery points for Season 5. There is a surplus of Core mastery points already on the table, so each new LS map (if we get any) will just have to add the extra points required for the mastery tier, so each "new player" (who has just the HoT or the PoF expansion) can catch up, if he has no surplus.

 

It depends on what you do in core.

[Etria.3642]

There's a surplus of all of them, Core, HOT and POF but I personally have more POF 'extras' than the other two. Just went and looked. I have 14 extra Core, 14 extra HOT and /23/ extra POF.

 

I vote more POF!

[Eloc Freidon.5692]

I'm hoping its not tied to any expansion at all. To benefit core game.

[Inculpatus cedo.9234]

I'd guess the Core-only population grows smaller each year. It's not like you can easily acquire just the Core game, any more.

Well, except when it's part of a give-away.

I'd also guess tying a Season to an expansion helps with revenue, if only a bit.