Locking rewards behind masteries

I don't like open world and unlocking masteries, but I wanted to play strike missions to discover I can't even get any rewards without the living world masteries.Why is the reward itself mastery gated? Isn't not getting the pylon buffs not good enough of a reason to get masteries? I have literally no reason to go do strikes despite wanting to. This is the first time a closed raid-like instance rewards are blocked by something like this.Seems like bad design, would love clarification - all this is doing is making me dislike the content I would otherwise like.

Please don't complain about having to actually play the game and participate in the releases. You still get something from the tier 1, you just won't get full rewards. It's not asking for much to actually go out there and play the maps when they come out and pressing F on a few Mastery points.

@Blocki.4931 said:Please don't complain about having to actually play the game and participate in the releases. You still get something from the tier 1, you just won't get full rewards. It's not asking for much to actually go out there and play the maps when they come out and pressing F on a few Mastery points.

I want to play the game doing the things I enjoy doing in the game. If a mastery was locked behind PvP ranked or wvw I doubt you'd have the same response.

@BeLZedaR.4790 said:I don't like open world and unlocking masteries, but I wanted to play strike missions to discover I can't even get any rewards without the living world masteries.Why is the reward itself mastery gated? Isn't not getting the pylon buffs not good enough of a reason to get masteries? I have literally no reason to go do strikes despite wanting to. This is the first time a closed raid-like instance rewards are blocked by something like this.Seems like bad design, would love clarification - all this is doing is making me dislike the content I would otherwise like.

Well many raids wont even let you start the fight. For most encounters you need either glider or mount to even get to fight arena and many others are either hard gated (xera) or soft gated(matthias) behind the mastery to complete the encounter.

i agree, because the last few masteries released has been garbage. so gating rewards behind is a trash move. Needing a mastery to open a chest after going thru the trouble of doing the meta isn't fun gameplay or good content. Anet needs to be more creative with their masteries or just release updates without new masteries if they can't think of any good ones. I agree with OP.

Unless you are going the boreal weapons set, you can just ignore the extra chests. All the good rewards are in the wobbly chest you get for finishing the encounter.

Agree, i like eye od the North hub that gives me Access to strikes, that was very good thing. But im forced to do boring masteries that dont have any other use for me, outside of strike rewards. Bad design imo