Hero point

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You can unlock skills by spending hero points in the training tab inside the hero panel. Hero points are earned by leveling up and by completing hero challenges found throughout Tyria.

— Hero Points

Hero points is a character-based currency, earned by completing Hero challenges, leveling up, or purchased from the WvW vendor Heroics Notary and spent on unlocking new skills and traits in the Training tab of the Hero panel.

Completing a hero challenge in Central Tyria grants a single hero point. Hero challenges in the the expansion zones (Heart of Maguuma, Crystal Desert, and Cantha regions) grant ten points each, which makes them the primary method of training the more costly skills and traits of the elite specializations. Between the hero challenges and the rewards from leveling, there are more hero points available in the world than needed to fully train all skills and traits, so completing every hero challenge is not required.

Acquisition

Leveling a character to the maximum level 80 rewards 398 hero points, exact amount needed to unlock all core skills and traits.

• Unlocking all core skills takes 98 hero points.
• Unlocking all traits from a core specialization takes 60 points, 300 in total for all five specializations.

It takes an additional 250 hero points to fully train all skills and traits of each elite specialization.

• Level rewards — 398 points

Level	Hero Points Gained
11	5
13	5
15	5
17	5
19	6
21	6
23	6
25	6
27	8
29	8
31	8
33	8
35	10
37	10
39	10
41	10
43	10
45	12
47	12
49	12
51	12
53	12
55	14
57	14
59	14
61	14
63	14
65	16
67	16
69	16
71	16
73	16
75	18
77	18
79	26

• Hero challenge — 1214 points
  • Central Tyria — 189 points
  • Maguuma Wastes — 11 points
  • Heart of Maguuma (Heart of Thorns) — 400 points
  • Crystal Desert (Path of Fire) — 290 points
  • Cantha (End of Dragons) — 310 points
  • Krait Obelisk Shard — 1 point
  • World versus World — 13 points
• Heroics Notary — offers consumables to complete a random hero challenge

Trivia

• Skill points were replaced with hero points:
  • Unspent skill points earned through level rewards and skill challenges were converted to hero points.
  • Any remaining unspent skill points were converted to Spirit Shards.
• Trait points were replaced with hero points:
  • Trait guides or trait specific tasks are no longer required to unlock traits.
• When the patch hit, each character got automatic unlocks based on the skills and traits equipped before. Low level character often found themselves with more unlocks than hero points available at their level. In that case, they had a negative amount (even though the value displayed did not reflect it) and were barred from gaining Hero points on level up until they had gained back those missing points. They could still gain points through Hero challenges.

See also

• Black Lion Hero Point Scroll

External links

• Specializations, Part Two: Reward Tracks and Elite Specializations
• Ready Up: Specializations system overview on YouTube

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Currencies
General	Gem	Coin	Karma	Laurel
	Spirit Shard	Guild Commendation	Transmutation Charge	Astral Acclaim
Character	Hero point	Supply
Competitive	PvP League Ticket	Ascended Shard of Glory	PvP Tournament Voucher	Badge of Honor
	WvW Skirmish Claim Ticket	Proof of Heroics	Testimony of Desert Heroics	Testimony of Jade Heroics
Guild	Favor	Aetherium
Instanced	Tale of Dungeon Delving	Fractal Relic	Pristine Fractal Relic	Unstable Fractal Essence
	Magnetite Shard	Legendary Insight	Blue Prophet Shard (Crystal)	Green Prophet Shard
Keys	Zephyrite Lockpick	Bandit Skeleton Key	Pact Crowbar	Exalted Key
	Vial of Chak Acid	Machete	Trader's Key	Mistborn Key
	Cache Key	Jade Miner's Keycard
Miscellaneous	Geode	Bandit Crest	Airship Part	Lump of Aurillium
	Ley Line Crystal	Provisioner Token	Unbound Magic	Trade Contract
	Elegy Mosaic	Volatile Magic	Racing Medallion	Festival Token
	War Supplies	Tyrian Defense Seal	Research Note	Imperial Favor
	Ancient Coin	Unusual Coin	Jade Sliver	Canach Coin
	Static Charge	Pinch of Stardust	Calcified Gasp	Ursus Oblige
See also: Tokens