Hero points

[Mechtec.3827]

What good are Hero Points after you have all three Elite Specializations mastered???? 

[Sobx.1758]

If you have all especs fully unlocked, you don't need hpoints for anything else.

Edited June 13 by Sobx.1758

[bq pd.2148]

there are more hero points then needed for you to have a choice to skip some

[DeanBB.4268]

Who knows, maybe Anet will make more e-specs?

[Danikat.8537]

Hero points don't have any use other than unlocking skills and specialisations. As @bq pd.2148 said there's more than you need in each expansion so you can skip ones you don't want to do.

[Dean Calaway.9718]

1 hour ago, Mechtec.3827 said:

What good are Hero Points after you have all three Elite Specializations mastered???? 

You can use them as UI decorations.

[Linken.6345]

Well if your going for legendaries later you will go for all hps anyway since its needed to complete maps.

[Mechtec.3827]

Thanks all, it what i thought. Who knows maybe GW2 will create another tier for Specialization

[Ronin.4501]

5 hours ago, DeanBB.4268 said:

Who knows, maybe Anet will make more e-specs?

Dear gods no!!! If the powercreep that comes with every additional e-spec gets any worse, we'll all be 1-shotting npcs just by glancing in their general direction.

[Danikat.8537]

7 hours ago, Ronin.4501 said:

Dear gods no!!! If the powercreep that comes with every additional e-spec gets any worse, we'll all be 1-shotting npcs just by glancing in their general direction.

Balance patches often come at the same time as expansions, so I think an expansion which also introduces new elite specs could be an ideal time to adjust balance across the game to address power creep.

[Nash.2681]

3 hours ago, Danikat.8537 said:

Balance patches often come at the same time as expansions, so I think an expansion which also introduces new elite specs could be an ideal time to adjust balance across the game to address power creep.

While I agree that this would be an opportunity to balance the game on a large scale, the past has shown that it's quite unlikely to happen. We always got steadily more powercreep in general, so I don't see why this would suddenly change if they ever add more E-Specs. 

[Danikat.8537]

58 minutes ago, Nash.2681 said:

While I agree that this would be an opportunity to balance the game on a large scale, the past has shown that it's quite unlikely to happen. We always got steadily more powercreep in general, so I don't see why this would suddenly change if they ever add more E-Specs. 

If there's one thing Anet are consistent about it's being inconsistent. I don't think they have any intention of sticking to an established pattern with each release, beyond where they've explicitly said so - like the annual schedule (and then only until they want to do something different). Power creep isn't a deliberate part of expansions (unlike some games where needing the new skills and items to keep up is part of the selling point), and they have made efforts to reduce it before, just not very effectively.

They've also done big re-works with expansions before, like HoT changing the whole way skills and traits are unlocked and used (that's when specialisations where introduced), so I don't think it's out of the question.

[Vayne.8563]

On 6/14/2024 at 9:35 AM, Mechtec.3827 said:

Thanks all, it what i thought. Who knows maybe GW2 will create another tier for Specialization

Even if they do, they'll give you more hero points than you need. That was the point of giving you more, so you could skip hero points you don't like.

[zeyeti.8347]

On 6/14/2024 at 2:44 AM, Ronin.4501 said:

Dear gods no!!! If the powercreep that comes with every additional e-spec gets any worse, we'll all be 1-shotting npcs just by glancing in their general direction.

that's already the case , i play shout reaper and i scream at my enemys "you are all weaklings" and they die out of emotional damage and the few left have so less hp i only need to belch "your soul is mine" to finish off.

E-spec is not only equal powercreep , it give you another way to play your class , i didn't remember the introduction to druid being an insane powercreep , nor scourge for the necro who was very underwhelming on release.

[Tinker.6924]

On 6/13/2024 at 2:36 PM, Mechtec.3827 said:

What good are Hero Points after you have all three Elite Specializations mastered???? 

You'll need the HP's and the POI's, Hearts, Waypoints, and Vistas to earn the Gift of Exploration which is used to create the Gift of Mastery and used for crafting several legendaries.

[Sobx.1758]

19 hours ago, Tinker.6924 said:

You'll need the HP's and the POI's, Hearts, Waypoints, and Vistas to earn the Gift of Exploration which is used to create the Gift of Mastery and used for crafting several legendaries.

OP is asking about Hero points, hero points are a "currency" to spend on traits/skills -both core and elite- and nothing other than that. What you're talking about here are hero challenges. While these are connected, they're not the same thing. Hero points are not needed for anything else (that includes map completion), but getting them will be the side effect of completing hero challenges if you're going for the map completion.

If he has all specs/especs/skills unlocked, hero points are not used for anything else. If he'll need map completion for legendaries, he'll need to complete hero challenges and yet he'll still have no use for hero points he keeps accumulating.

[Tinker.6924]

14 hours ago, Sobx.1758 said:

OP is asking about Hero points,

Especially since everyone above me had essentially said it already, I thought that the implication of what I wrote was too obvious to need explicit stating: unspendable hero points have no value, but there is value in acquiring more to get map completions and possibly the gift of exploration.  I will do my best to keep future explanations more simple.  I hope that helps you.

Edited June 20 by Tinker.6924

[Sobx.1758]

6 hours ago, Tinker.6924 said:

Especially since everyone above me had essentially said it already, I thought that the implication of what I wrote was too obvious to need explicit stating: unspendable hero points have no value, but there is value in acquiring more to get map completions and possibly the gift of exploration.  I will do my best to keep future explanations more simple.  I hope that helps you.

You directly quoted OP's initial question and responded with something else. It's ok that you misunderstood the difference between hero points and hero challenges, it happens. I just corrected what you were wrong about -not just for you, but also for any potential future readers with the same question as OP. No problem. 
...and no, in OP's case there's no value in acquiring more hero points. For all we know now, they'll remain being useless. Worth pointing out especially considering the not-so-recent-anymore implementation of the lantern system.

Edited June 20 by Sobx.1758