There are 202 hero challenges right now, and there will be more in the new Heart of Thorns zones. It will only take 60 points to unlock the traits for the elite specialization, and assuming it gives 1 healing / 3 utility / 1 elite skill of the new skill type, it will take 2 + 3 + 4 + 4 + 9 = 22 points to unlock the skills. You need 30 hero points to unlock an Elite spec, so not too hard, you just need to do 3 hero challenges in Hot/PoF. As you said the only benefit to leveling up from scratch is learning the class at a slower pace, there aren't any achievements tied to it. You do lose out on the incremental level up rewards, but those aren't that great to begin with, and the stuff you get in the lvl 80 boost is way HPs are not to be confused with Mastery Points (or Mastery Insights), which are account-bound. Unspent HPs are used to train your character in an elite profession - you need a total of 250 unspent HPs to completely unlock an elite. Hero Challenges on the core main maps are worth 1 HP each while those on the expansion maps are worth 10 HP each. Select crafting professions and level them up. Get some cool looking armor and dyes for your character. Select a legendary weapon you like and you can start working towards that SLOWLY. (This is a really slow process or can be fast and expensive :D ) If you like fractals you can do them. Posted January 16, 2018. As other people said what you need to do is level up. As you gain levels you'll also get Hero Points which can be spent to unlock skills and traits (passive skill lines basically). Levelling from 1-80 will get you enough Hero Points to unlock all the core skills and trait lines. If you check the points tree of Mech or other new elite its the same with the old elite spec,so its 250! In case you dont know it,you can get the points really fast from WvW ventor,only thing you need is to have Proofs of Heroics or Testimonies of Heroics! Players Helping Players. Returning player question about main characters. Hello - I haven't played in a while, and to be honest I really don't have much experience with the game. I got a character to level 80 a few years ago, but barely dug into the content. Now I have returned, I'm feeling a bit lost, and have a couple of questions. Having played a lot of both this game and Destiny 2, I vastly prefer this system. Especially with Destiny 2's Stasis unlock, having to go through the quest 3 times, and unlock each ability 3 times was so asinine and I hated it. And when there is a new expansion, the happy traders will be the first ones to ask for a refund, because they cannot instant-unlock the new elite-specializations. About the 2nd idea: To unlock an elite-specialization we need 250 Hero Points. That would be 250 spirit shards. BfSvMbm.

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