So anyone have comments on what masteries should be unlocked first and what we might need to be ready for the next expansion?
I took a break from the game for a while, but just jumped back in and finally started working on the HoT expansion (which I never played). Took a little while to deal with all the changes with the classes that happened since I took my break (skill points becoming hero points, all the changes with the various traits, etc.). Luckily my favorites didn't change too much, but I am behind on ascended equipment and crafting skills (i.e. need to spend some time/gold to get the various crafting up to lvl 500 now so I can start crafting ascended armor and weapons and get back on power curve).
I don't think I am ready for any dungeons or fractals at the moment as too much has changed for me to be able to jump in, but I have been playing 2 of the HoT maps doing the meta-events which have been a lot of fun (and let me at least kit out 2 more characters with exotics (I just trained up a lvl 80 necro, and a lvl 80 engineer... need to work on expansion elite (scrapper) still for the engineer, but was able to easily get a nice exotic armor set from the first map in HoT as it was nice that you can select the stats for the armor (unlike the dungeon armor which were simply what they were and you had to run the specific dungeon(s) to get the stats that you wanted).
Any hints/tips on ascended weapons armor (especially given that I have multiple lvl 80 characters (Warrior, Gardian, Necro, Ele, and Engineer and would like to limit the grind if possible)?