It goes away after the first mission of either of the expansions (minus the prologue). It's super annoying, yeah. The reason is that after you reach level 80 your XP starts funneling into your core tyria masteries, but the UI for it is locked until the expansions. Eventually the XP for these maxes out and you already have some points unlocked in the background through achievements and

1: It appears that the best thing to do with Testimonies of Jade Heroics is to use them to level Elite specs. Is that still true? 2: Assuming so, I am trying to decide which specs to train. I have a max level character of every class except Revenant, who is level ~25 (I have multiple level 80 boosts).
Pof are pretty easy, too, but you need mounts to get to most of them. Hot maps are the only maps which you can get into without full masteries or story chapters done but you will need help for most hero points. You can try to find hero points train squad in lfg (type Y and open hot map that you need. There is not always hero points train but
You need to buy HoT to unlock reaper, but you can use any hero points, including those in PoF. It takes 250 to fully master the spec and you get 10 per hero point location. So time depends what you do. If you get someone to guide and port you around, you could get it in like half hour. 3. hand_me_a_shovel. Firstly you need Path of Fire. Then you need to max out all your core traits/specialisations, then you can work on using hero points you gain to start unlocking Deadeye. You can play it without every Deadeye trait unlocked though, but the other reqs are needed. The first trait will unlock the associated weapon as well. For example, at level 21 when you get your first Core Specialization slot and Traits to fill that Core Spec, you will have accumulated 32 Hero Points from leveling. However, it costs at least 44 Hero Points (max 60) to fill in every trait slot in a Core Specialization line, which you want to do as soon after you unlock each Core Spec as possible. iqTyW. 254 241 166 304 150 158 486 70 171

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