Harrik of Avalone.1867

[Havn't kept up much so this might be a known bug.] I just found out that the additional AOE dmg of the third staff auto attack skill on warrior occurs around the selected target not the hit target or the player. This works with any target as long as you can select them. I tested this in fractals and the heart of the mists. The damage is not huge, so I dont think its super exploitable, but in PvP especially it could potentially keep people in combat across half a map, so it should probably be fixed.

The amount of easily accessible mastery points in PoF is absurd already. The only reason why people might feel otherwise is that the needed experience amount has been lowered so much (a max lvl mastery now costs ~600k XP while in HoT it was arround 5.000k) that people max them very quickly and as such start looking for the next mastery points way faster. While casual players took months to max HoT and core masteries most players finished the 4 basic one in PoF in a matter of days. This is obviously no accident, but simply means that the role masteries are supposed to play has shifted from a somewhat long-term-progression system to a system that allows players to unlock the mount realated abilities during a single playtrough. Why do I still bring this up? People need to keep in mind that masteries are still supposed to be some kind of progressio nsystem otherwise they coudl jsut throw the mounts and abilities at us from the get-go. Part of this system is that while some abilities are convinient and cool and maybe necessary for some hidden content, they usually aren't especially in earlier maps. The OP is plain wrong when he/she states that they need the lvl3 masterie of the springer to collect the shards in this story step. What I'm really curious about is how ANet will keep developing the masteriesystem. It was in an odd palce before and PoF did little to fix this. While the roel it playes with mounts workes to a degree (its pretty much a non mechanic for many people) it is unclear how it is supposed to work o any future masteries that arn't mounts and if it ever really will fucntion as a "mid-term horizontal progression system".