I did solely story and map exploration on my first ever character - a mesmer - until level 80.I started HoT story at level 80 while simultaneously opening maps, but I stopped the story after I got gliding and I went to doing LS2 story instead.By the time PoF came out, I was just starting to work through the HoT story - but by then I was already Had a level 24 Elementalist that was made 3 years ago, so with the change in Hero Points it had a bunch of stupid abilities auto-selected. But I figured if I just leveled up quickly enough, I'd get a bunch of Hero Points to fill out a different track. So I used the one level 30 Experience Scroll I had from the 3rd Birthday gift, and went to 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. Dec 14, 2014 at 21:46. Add a comment. -2. The official wiki explains how you get there: Starting from Camp Resolve, go north-west towards Northern Shelf and then east to Picaroon Scratch. Go down the stairs along the eastern wall and then west through the cave until you reach Drydock Grotto Waypoint. One of the things that really got me into GW2 was the fashion. I'm really interested in some of the elite spec's special armor skins (well, all of them except berserker). To waste as little of my time as possible, I was wondering the fastest way to acquire the necessary hundreds of HPs to max the an elite spec. Go into jungle > do hero points. And we should get 398 hero points on getting to level 80. Everything was working well before this patch on 11/9. Now, after many levels, the hero points remain to be zero. And when checking the net, at level 29 I should have gotten 8 hero points, and at level 31 another 8 hero points. 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 In order to first unlock your elite specialization, there are two important criteria that must be met: Your account must own the associated expansion in which the specialization was introduced. The character (of the corresponding base profession) must be Level 80. Once you have met these requirements, you can begin spending hero points to J4Z3k.