It won't. It will be wasted, so working on unlocking the next step should be your top priority. That said, you shouldn't really worry about it, there's plenty of exp to be gained and since everything you do gives exp, you'll eventually get enough whenever you unlock it if you just keep playing. 5. Mastery system is an account-wide progression system which unlocks account-wide benefits such as gliding and mounts. -from Guild Wars 2 wiki I feel like this part is done fairly well. It is a meaningful max level character progression and it increases player retention. Yes, I've completed the story and, as far as I can tell, gotten every Mastery Insight that doesn't require a Jackal Portal to reach. I am still like 10 Mastery off having enough to get it done, then as I said, there's still the Griffon to entirely master that I've seen mastered by plenty of people as well, so I just don't get how everyone is getting that many Masteries this quickly, when the Posted August 2, 2020. No, you do not need all the mastery points. There are 198 HoT mastery points available and you only need 144 to train all the masteries. (It's the same for Core, and PoF masteries, Icebrood Saga is a bit less forgiving with only 7 spare points, but the season isn't finished so that might change.) from the wiki: Mastery points can be spent on selected Mastery tracks; they are earned from completing achievements within the game, but may only be spent after reaching level 80. These achievements include but are not limited to: Interacting with Maguuma Mastery Insight locations. Here it says that the simple act of communing is sufficient. Yeah, when you're roadblocked on masteries the excess XP defaults to the hidden spirit shard track. It doesn't show up on the bar, and is a bit of a waste as you'd likely prefer it go towards masteries, but it doesn't just get deleted. So if you have alternate characters, or on your main, make HoT active and do enough of the 1st part to unlock Masteries, then flip back to the original personal story and finish it.. go to Living Story season 2 and do it, and then HoT.. watch your XP bar because when it fills up for the current mastery selected then the XP is "lost" unless you Max all lvl 60 spells. Learn the element chart, use the best spell against the monster you are fighting. (Wind>stone>electric>water>fire>wind) At lvl 63, max earthquake, windfield and electric shock. Those are your main aoe skills. Electric shock is a proximity spell, the other two are targeted spells. At lvl 70, max all mastery skills. Hg4Ed.