XP After lvl20

grassroots

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Sep 2011

W/Mo

I've been playing a couple of weeks and I recently reached lvl20. My green experience bar filled up again but nothing seemed to happen when it got to max, it just went back to the start again. I understand that 20 is the final lvl, but are any extra skill points awarded or anything like that, or is the experience bar now completely redundant?

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Forge Runner

Join Date: Jan 2008

Rubbing Potassium on water fountains.

LF guild that teaches MTSC (did it long ago before gw2 came out and I quit...but I barely remember)

N/A

skill points are given each time the xp bar fills up after lvl 20...useful in the beginning but becomes unneeded later on.

Horace Slughorn

Horace Slughorn

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Oct 2008

Experientia Docet [OHX], Trinity of the Ascended [ToA], We Gat Dis [HRUU]

W/

ya i just removed the xp bar from my interface, didn't see a need

Wenspire

Wenspire

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Mar 2008

USA - W.Coast

HiME

Mo/

After level 20, skill points are pretty much only spent on crafting consumables.

cataphract

cataphract

Forge Runner

Join Date: Aug 2005

Ashford Abbey

Hey Mallyx [icU]

Mo/Me

Buying Signets of Capture too.

cosyfiep

cosyfiep

are we there yet?

Join Date: Dec 2005

in a land far far away

guild? I am supposed to have a guild?

Rt/

after you have all the skills (you will need skill points to get those)--both elites and reg skills, skill points are used for making consumables.
so useful at the start, but after you have been around for a while--not so usefull anymore.

wilebill

wilebill

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Dec 2005

Mt Vernon, Ohio

Band of the Hawk

W/Mo

http://www.guildwiki.org/Consumables list of consumables. The perfect salvage kit is very useful if you are changing armor and don't want to lose your rune of superior vigor. The Arctic Summoning stone is relatively cheap and the Kveldulf it summons can be useful doing dungeons or HM vanquishes.

Then too, you might want to buy all the skills for your main character so you can try out different builds on the fly. Skill points are very useful. You can see how many you have by pressing the "H" key.

Carrying Scrolls of Resurrection makes a good out of combat rez for the whole party. You can also sell consumable sets and components for those sets.

Additional skill points are far from useless.

BenjZee

BenjZee

Forge Runner

Join Date: Dec 2006

The Overacheivers [Club]

Mo/

Also ofcourse if your going for the legendary survivor title you need to get 1,337,500 xp without dying.
Also XP in general when in explorable areas will remove death penalty, having quests with xp is good for leveling up your heroes too just by puttin them in your party when you accept the quest reward.

Sirds

Sirds

Academy Page

Join Date: Jun 2006

Riga

Mo/

I just wanna add, you can use normal skill points to buy hero skill points at a hero skill trainer. Useless if you already can change your secondary profession, but handy if not and want to but more skills for your heroes.

Big John Thomas

Big John Thomas

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2006

Urgoz Warren

R/Rt

You also need 15 skill points to craft Envoy weapons.

grassroots

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Sep 2011

W/Mo

Thanks all, I must admit so far I've just been using the same 2 or 3 warrior skills to kill monsters.

Another question though - have I now maxed out the number of attribute points I can get? I've been looking forward to maxing out both my hammer skills and strength but I need just a few more points.

Raven Wing

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Nov 2005

The Imperial Guards of Istan [TIGI]

N/

You can check that by setting all attributes to 0. If you have 200 available points then you are maxed out. If you have 170 or 185 then you need to do one or 2 specific quests, depending on what campaign you are born in.
And remember to put the attribute points back before you go kill more monsters

cormac ap dunn

cormac ap dunn

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jul 2007

Mystic Empires III [xMEx]

Me/

Each campaign has a way of acquiring 30 additional attribute points for characters from that region. http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Attribute_points