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The original was posted on /r/guildwars2 by /u/adv0catus on 2024-12-04 17:24:50+00:00.

Hey Everyone,

Back again and this time with Heart of Thorns and Season 3. This one is a beast, with a huge amount of points needed and, thankfully, points available. It's a bit different with this one, as there's Strongboxes which you open and get loot and the first time gives you a Mastery Point as well. Functionally, they're the same as Insights so will be treated as such and assumed that you have completed all of them. Activities are a whole other can of worms and can range from shockingly easy to infuriatingly challenging. As a result, they are not factored in because it's such a personal thing and the range of difficulty is so wide, it's impossible to accurately factor them in. However, any activity you do (1 for Silver and 1 for Gold) will add to the total and means you have to do less elsewhere. Finally, and this is mentioned a few times, but to unlock all the mastery tracks to get full mastery rank, you have to have a kill on at least one boss from Wing 1 to 4. Only one, in any of those wings, but that is required.

A few assumptions first, before we get started:

1. This assumes you have all Story completion mastery points.
2. This does NOT mean you have the meta/achievement achievement mastery point for doing all the achievements in each chapter and season.
3. This does not include raid related masteries.
4. This assumes you have all Insight achievement points.
5. I am not going to say which are the "easy" easy Mastery Points and which are the "hard" easy Mastery Points. Determine the difficulty and strategy/priority yourself.
6. This is a part of a full guide to get to maximum Mastery Rank and assumes you have access to all content currently available.

Heart of Thorns Story: 15

Insights: 41

Strongboxes: 20

Living World Story: 8

Activities: 30

Miscellaneous/General:

• Forgotten City Arches: Glide through all 3 arches below the waterfall on the eastern side of Tarir.
• Tarir Challenge Winner: Get 1st in one of the challenges.
  • Note: There's one to bid 100 Aurillium or you can just go during off hours and get it without anyone else challenging you.
• Quirky Quaggan Quest: Find all 7 poem stanzas.
• Ley Line Glider: Glide on ley lines in Dragon's Stand.
  • Note: This requires a previous mastery to achieve.
• Shooting Star: Stealth glide to reach the Modrem Vineyard in Dragon's Stand.
  • Note: This requires a previous mastery to achieve.
• Prismatic Percher: Glide to new heights in the Prismatic Postpile in Dragon's Stand.
  • Note: This requires a previous mastery to achieve. [UNCONFIRMED]
• People Watching: Plant scanners for Whispers.
• Searing Ascent, Abaddon's Ascent & Skip up the Volcano (3 points): Complete the jump puzzle.
• Magic Unbound: The Gathering: Get 10 unbound magic in 60 seconds.
• Ths Time, Stay Dead: Defeat Ghostly Justiciar in Bloodstone Fen.
  • Note: This is a daily.
• Pulse Room Glider: Fly to the place of power in the Ley-Line Confluence.
  • Note: This is referring to the giant glowing ball in the center near the ceiling. You need ley-line gliding (the last mastery in the Gliding line) or a mount and Bond of Faith (Path of Fire)
• Dive Master: Chak Hive: Use the diving goggles near the SCAR outpost.
• Hungry Hal: Feed Hal special apples in Ember Bay.
  • Note: Apples are character bound.
• Echolocation: Fly through the wyvern's rings in Siren's Landing without getting hit.
  • Note: Skyscale makes this very easy.
• Sum Viewer: Look at Rata Sum in Dragon's Stand
• Wallowing Whiz: Travel from Toadstool Mire to Exhumed Delve via Nuhoch Wallow.
  • Note: This requires a previous mastery to achieve.
• Dragon's Stand Overviewer: Use advanced gliding to reach the farthest overlook of Mordremoth's domain.
  • Note: This requires a previous mastery to achieve.
• Dive Master: Verdant Brink: Use the diving goggles found in the Pact fleet wreckage.
• Potoni Masher: Defeat Champion Potoni the Massive in Tangled Depths.
  • Note: This requires a previous mastery to achieve.
• Master Mushroom Spelunker: Get to the treasure chest in the mushroom cave.
• Lore Untangler: Answer 20 questions correctly in Rata Novus.
• Cloak and Snagger: Bypass the Mordrem Snipers to steal their supplies.
  • Note: This requires a previous mastery to achieve.
• Chak Crusher: Defeat the Chak Driver.
• Skip up the Volcano: Get to the top of the volcano.
• Metal Mountain: Find the tallest, hottest spot.
• A Fly in the Ointment: Interfere in Fort Evennia 10 times without getting caught or leaving.
• Holding Back the Tide: Defend the key areas of Doric's Landing.
• It's a Trap: Navigate Noran's secret trap maze.
• Those Giant Hands: Defeat the Harathi High Sage.
• Wurm Slurper: Defeat the champion bloodstone charged lava wurm.
• Mastery Storyteller: Complete the parable of all the gods.

Map Metas:

• Central Tower Taker, Northern Tower Taker & Southern Tower Taker (3 points): Capture the Central, Northern and Southern tower.
• Dragon's Stand Events to Complete (9 points): Bat Wrangler, Enchanted Armor Wearer, Fire Jumper, Laser Lighter, Munition Re-Upper, Mushroom Musterer, Pact Pilot Protector, Prismatic Plunderer, Tamer of Wyverns.
• Droppin' Bombs: Participating in Octovine east.
• Terror of the Boiling Sea: Defeat one of the Legendary destroyers

Total: 161 Needed: 144

Notes:

• Strongboxes are the equivilent of Insights for this expansion, so the assumption is that you have all of these also.
• There's meta achievements available that aren't included in this list. Each Act and each episode of Season 3 has a meta achievement and a mastery point associated with it.
• If you want then highest mastery rank then you HAVE to do raids. Personally, I did Wing 1 and Wing 4. Once you get 1 raid-related mastery point, then that category will unlock for you. You don't need to get any more raid related masteries after the first, but it might make things easier overall with access to a wider pool of options. There's multiple training groups, guilds and guides to assist you.
• Activities are more personalized for each person. I found some to be extremely easy and some to be impossible to get even Bronze. I'm including the total amount of mastery points you can get from these but not including them into the total.
• Dragon's Stand is a HUGE single source of Mastery Points. Expect to run this meta at least a half dozen times.
• There's a huge amount of points required for Heart of Thorns and even more points available - making parcing through the list extremely difficult. This expansion is by far the hardest for mastery points but there's so many that it's difficult to put a coherent list together. This might involve a more dyanmic strategy and revisiting the areas/list multiple times. I did the best I could for this, sorry.

Useful Links:

• Core
• Path of Fire & Season 4
• Icebrood Saga
• End of Dragons
• Secrets of the Obscure
• All Mastery Points available
• Mastery track breakdown
• Original mastery point guide (only up to and including EoD)

Note: The currently released expansion will not have a guide written until all content has been released.

P.S. If you're on EU and are an achievement hunter, let me know privately, as I have created a Discord server for this.