Mastery Experience

If you own Heart of Thorns or Path of Fire and one of your character reaches level 80 and completes the story chapter Torn from the Sky (HoT) or Sparking the Flame (PoF), the Masteries tab will unlock in the Hero panel for your account. You can also open this panel by clicking on the experience bar. In this tab, you can select one unlocked mastery track per region as active by clicking on the check mark icon on the left of the chosen mastery’s row. There are currently three mastery regions: Heart of Maguuma, Central Tyria and Crystal Desert.

All experience gained on any level 80 character on your account while in one of the regions will be applied to the respective active mastery. You can freely switch the active masteries without any cost, as the amount of experience previously gained will be saved until you return to train that mastery.

Once the current active mastery is fully trained by obtaining enough experience, the experience bar will start blinking and you can spend a certain amount of mastery points in the Masteries tab to permanently unlock the mastery on your account.

Before you spend the points or switch to train another mastery, any experience gained will be redirected to train the first unlocked, untrained, least progressed mastery track in the list for the same region instead, if one is available

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Notes

• The hero panel to change your current mastery cannot be opened by clicking on the experience bar while in combat, the current mastery can however be changed at any time in the hero panel if it’s opened previously or by any other means.

• Obtained Masteries are active regardless of level. That means even a Level 2 character can glide if Glider Basics has already been unlocked on a Level 80 character on the same account.

• Experience received in WvW currently does not contribute to any mastery track.

• Once all tracks in a region are completed, experience goes towards a 254,000 repeatable track to gain 1 Spirit Shard.

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