Open up the hero panel, go to your story journal, and switch to the HoT story. Basically how masteries work is you go into the masteries tab in your hero panel, click on whichever one you have unlock so it's the active one, then you fill up the EXP bar until it's full. Once you have + the required mastery points, you can "master" it, which
The guide is intended to level faster, since you only get a boost in XP, when you finish them, and i think this is reduced, when reaching level 80, since you don't need to level anymore. So doing those achievements after hitting level 80 is kind of pointless. before hitting level 80 one volume gives like 100k points. after lvl 80 they only give 7k.The hearts are there simply to warm you up to playing the game. As you guys get into higher level maps, you will see fewer and fewer hearts til you get to the Orr maps, which have no hearts. Here are some other ways you guys can level up: Map completion: This means getting all the hearts, vistas, PoI, Hero Challenges, and waypoints in the map.
While your higher level gear, weapons and amount of skills/available skills/trait points & hero points all play a major role in how fast you can kill the lower level stuff it still makes it much harder being around the mobs level. Whereas in other MMO games you're able to backtrack and own 400 mobs at once in lower level areas.e8r7.