the problem with that is it ' s at the mercy of whatever winds of change that move the populace . <| sep |> In PvE raids you need to be there , you need to be there for a longer period and often several times a week . You have to adapt your gear , your build and even possibly play something you usually don ' t play and there for learn a new profession . In WvW you don ' t need to do any of this to get the reward track done . It is optimal ofc , and even better if you stay and start play for real , but either way you can come with what you have and never change a thing . Imo and i have it unlocked so it is not why i write this there should be a story mission through the raids , that have nothing to do with the raid rewards but to unlock mastery points and and let players interested about the lore being able to join this special instance . It could also be fixed so that if you don ' t open the raid mastery you can pick to gain normal xp . Loosing the possibility to gain spirit shards because you can ' t gain access to unlocking the raid one is kind of unfair .