Guild Wars 2 - 1-80 Leveling Guide! (how I do it)
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- This is how I usually go about leveling but with a brand new players experience in mind. When you finally hit 80, focus the rest of the personal story for gear. Be sure to do your dailies as soon as you have the waypoints. 2 gold a day can pay for your crafting!! Hope this helps!!
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also me:
watching this video
Me: Stabs my sister's cat
Also me: My sister doesn't have a cat
Also, also me: I don't have a sister
wtf DUDE :D
Same lol, feels like I just wanted to check if he does everything right...
@@sinameth7457 well did he?
JeLLy damn now i need to watch the whole vid again... 😂
But basically just do the startmap and personal story, while getting known to your Charracter until u can do the first dungeon. Level up for unlocking the next dungeons for better rewards and collecting their currency for buying exotic armor at lvl 80.
I would personally recommend to finish all important world boss maps if it is not a charracter specified for one gamemode like pvp or raiding. Also keep in mind to collect the daily login reward if u are really looking forward to lvl that charracter up as fast as possible. If this charracter is one of your favourites, u should defenitely teach em a job and pleeeeease a job that the charracter can also use for own weapons/armor.
And now have fun leveling.
Just waisted another 15 minutes for writing an answer that was 1 sentence long.
After playing WoW for years the feeling of having no friggin clue what the heck is going on in GW is really refreshing.
Stick to wow
@CrazyReii hmm idk if id say that lmao. This game looks 10x more casual
@CrazyReii eh i started it today its fun we will see how end game is, but its defintly insanely casual. U literally cant die for the first 20 levels. But im assuming that changes hopefully.
I started GW2 less than a month ago and while i had no issues in the other starting areas i died several times in new ascalon (charr) XD Oh and i once stumbled through some portal in a 2nd Area Event and got ported into a highlevel area... wasnt an issue at first as i was scaled up but when leaving through the portal i got ported to a highlevel area and as you cannot port during fight and some weirdo kept ressurecting me whenever i died it took me a while to escape back to my noob world xD
@@Brandon-yd3rk that is true you cannot die probably up to level 20 but since you compared it to WoW and saying it is more casual. 10 times was your words to be precise. Please do tell me where can you die in WoW from level 1-120 while doing pve since whole WoW leveling progress is one big tutorial where you cannot die until you get to an end game not even dungeons can kill your group if they are not total retards or bunch of brainless kids :)
Some things I want to point out:
The character shown in the video is of the Revenant profession and is only available with the Heart of Thorns expansion
Free to play players (No expansions)
- not allowed to enter the main cities until level 10
- not allowed to enter lion's arch until level 35
Players with Heart of Thorns:
- if you join a guild with guild boosts you can get a free 10% exp boost that helps a lot (there are also exp boosts for crafting, pvp, wvw etc)
Personally, I recommend skipping most hearts unless they are short and quick, because a lot of hearts take ages to complete and give the same amount of exp so going for vistas, hero points and points of interests instead will save you a lot of time. You can come back later at level 80 with much better gear to complete the hearts faster for map completion.
I'd also avoid using scouts (telescope icon NPCs) to show the location of new places because discovering them yourself also gives exp.
If you don't have the Path of Fire expansion and mounts, the buff 'Swiftness' is your best friend. It makes travelling across maps much faster and enjoyable, so use skills that give you swiftness as much as possible.
Warrior's greastword skill #3 and #5 and utility skill 'Bull's Charge', and Thief's shortbow skill #5 are fantastic skills to help you travel around even faster
Killing mobs with yellow names grant extra bonus exp compared to killing mobs with red names so you should kill basically everything in your way :)
Good video, I'll definitely share it with my friends who want to try the game for the first time :)
Using the scouts don't really waste your experience. They show part of the map and hide then again.
They are actually, a good way to identify Hearts on maps. Since some of then can be hiding on corners and are harder to find.
its path of fire only and it doesnt matter what class you pick you could of chose warrior
Thank you very much for this! But i'll complete all the hearts early in order to have a better experience.
Thanks Alot
Thank you so much
Or you can buy the game at launch in 2012 or whenever it launched, quit the game for 7+ years, login back, open all the birthday presents and have enough level boosts and exp boosts to level a dozen new characters. :P
dude wtf that id exactly what happened to me
Lol that’s what I just did….
Lol same
Thanks man, just started playing last year and doing this helped a lot ❤️
This is basically where I am right now... so many boost for 20, 30, 40, 50 or 60. I don't usually like skipping but seems to me that between scaled levels, map completion and personal story there aren't really any detrimental effect to skipping and just completing after 🤷🏼♂️
Should always mention to set up the game options to AoE looting. Explain that u can save space by sending all materials to your bank instantly. Explaining to keep a salvage kit handy to salvage items for materials. Set AoE to snap target enemies to enable quicker and easier casting. Explain that this game gives a ton of loot in which if you see storage on sale take advantage to buy storage upgrades. Explain that the storage is shared across all characters and if you plan to make another character to save weapons or gear for that character as u level up your first character. If you dont craft your own food there are certain low level areas to buy cheap food/utilities that will increase exp gain 20% as you fight. Also doing achievements as you level will grant special skins and PERMANENT boosts across all characters. Karma, exp, gold, etc.
Very much well explained brotha
Superb
From someone who have 5000 hours in game and 18 max level characters.. great guide!
Woah, how many achievement points do you have altogether???
Zemium1994 ah not so much, just hit the 21k mark.
Ac W Where do you see how many hours you have played?
type /age into the chat box
How do u not get bored
I enjoyed exploring and making it a mission to get 100% map completion. got to lv 80 in 3 days just by doing that. It helped me understand the pre's and most popular world events per map.
Yes! I did the same. Always doing map completion every map I went in my first char so I was always earning things and the Gift of Exploration in the end. Its not like it will take several days like wow to level up. It took me like 4 or 5 days of lazy leveling (with map completion) to level up. No xp boosts or anything
@@lucasl4433 you can get 1 to 120 in 3 days in wow right now there's an exp boost buff
Good advice. As someone that has leveled each class to 80, most of them the challenging long way, one piece of advice I have is: during your map completion segments, look for sparsely traveled patches in zones. You'll notice when you kill mobs, it gives you an XP reward and, frequently, bonus XP rewards. Bonus XP is time dependent; the longer a mob is alive, the more valuable it becomes. There will be instances where your bonus XP is 150% on top of the regular XP reward. Couple that with foods from the store or one that you crafted, and both are multiplied by 10% or so.
Nice Guide. I 100% agree that your first character should never be rushed. The way the game is designed, lower level zones are still highly trafficked by veteran players. Many World Bosses are in the lower level areas. Player levels are adjusted down to fit the level of the zone so you will not feel too overpowered.
I also suggest asking to group for events or even join a squad. You simply get more credit for kills this way. Sometimes a group will have a commander or mentor leading it. A commander will be someone with a chevron or a cat-face icon on the map. A mentor will have an apple icon. Some maps will have event "trains" which will almost always be a huge zerg of players.
6:33 LMAO "Avoid Southsun Cove". That is some good advice, the enemies hit pretty hard there. This is a really helpful video! Especially the part about unlocking Lion's Arch early on so you can go there whenever. The part at 12:59 is good too. I remember as I was reaching higher levels, only buying armor for my character every like three to five levels. There's things that you can equip at like every single level, it'd be a waste of your hard-earned money to spend it on things at every level and not wait a bit.
Thank you for making this!
Here's how I do it when I play the game
1. Make a new toon.
2. Get past the first little story/tutorial mission
3. Get to level 10
4. Open the pvp menu
5. Enter the pvp area
6. Pvp until I have at least 80 tomes of knowledge
7. Repeat until you have so many tomes you can't spend them all.
8. Have a bunch of level 80 toons
9. Tada ;)
What are toons for?
@@ceshadow Whatever you want them for, roleplaying, different classes, certain builds, etc.
@@kalel4677 ah I see, I thought they helped you level up
@@ceshadow They can help you level up, you can use them to run pvp and farm tombs of knowledge, and since each tomb of knowledge nets you 1 level, farming them on different toons can be a bit easier than just 1 of them.
Where were u when i needed u the MOST?😭 I’ve been playing this game for like a year now and I’ve bought all the expansions and I still have no idea what im doing most of the time... I just wander around and hope theres an event happening or do dungeons if i feel like it... That’s all....
Feel free to join my discord to ask questions. Even if I'm not online we have some really cool and helpful folks
Heh. About the lack of direction. I remember when I first started playing the game, I got to about level 10 and just stayed up all night wandering around Divinity's Reach. It was surreal at first, and I fell in love with the world there. But at that time I was still very new to the game so I had no idea what to do and I got a little lost.
Still, I had fallen in love with the game, and after that little bump of bewilderness I made it back into the 'level grind'. I've been played for about two years now. Heres to another two.
Still playing?
@@charlesmatthew9537 holy shit. I made this comment five years ago. So that means I've been playing this game for 7 or so years.
Something to point out: Free accounts can't access Lion's Arch before having a lvl 35 character. (so go get that expansion;) Great video!
Erqiosk what if I purchased the game back before it went f2p .-.
Reynaldo Antonius Then you can. Also you got log in rewards, 5 character slots and other goodies!
As if getting lvl 35 is hard 😂 People buy expansions for other bonuses, just pointing that out
Edgar Rätsep It isn't but you can't do what the video suggest with a free account. (going to LA) but on the other hand you get the starting waypoints of each starter zone unlocked and you could just walk in all the racial capitals to get the waypoints there.
As someone who has played since launch, the best way to lvl up is...#1: run through all the towns first. This will get you somewhere around lvl 10 before you even face an enemy. #2: start on the 1-15 maps and do EVERYTHING! Especially the hearts! Hearts will give you a lot of XP and you will learn how to play your class as you go. That’s pretty much it! Now as you collect mats n items along the way you can start crafting to lvl up a bit, but since you won’t have much gold or mats, that won’t get you very far, but it’s good for a few lvls. Another way to lvl is Edge of the Mists. IDK if they do zergs in there anymore, but there used to be zergs going on all the time.
Just switched over from Bless this morning. The timing of this video👌
The Nerd Beast Two classes to max level in Bless, glutton for punishment :P. LOVING GW2 so far
Wanted to mention that you can set up the game options to AoE looting, that u can save space by sending all materials to your bank instantly. That to keep a salvage kit handy to salvage items for materials. Set AoE to snap target enemies to enable quicker and easier casting. that this game gives a ton of loot in which if you see storage on sale take advantage to buy storage upgrades. that the storage is shared across all characters and if you plan to make another character to save weapons or gear for that character as u level up your first character. If you dont craft your own food there are certain low level areas to buy cheap food/utilities that will increase exp gain 20% as you fight. Also doing achievements as you level will grant special skins and PERMANENT boosts across all characters. Karma, exp, gold, etc.
YES! Welcome:D
Same here, where was GW2 all along!??
So many Bless refugees. You guys should wait a couple days first for reviews before buying games.
First time ive seen one of your videos, i bought the game back in 2013 and kinda stopped for some reason after playing gw1 for a long time. This video has helped me get back into the game. Also your voice and pacing is pretty good. You deliver the information in a clear manner and you keep it condensed without leaving out too much. Good job!
I only do events when they help me complete the heart in the area they happen. events give very small exp and are mainly there to farm Karma not exp. the only exception to this is group boss events. those give a fair amount of exp and sometimes good items. I only do exp this way until level 30. at which point I begin to do dungeons on story mode and repeat them. they are short, they give a massive chunk of exp, and a decent amount of gold for the mats you gather inside. The diminishing return is not that much and mostly effects item rewards. the kill exp and the final reward are not that reduced. meaning I can do a dungeon and the first run i get 65% of my total exp required to level the first time and then repeat for 40% over and over again to level every 3 runs. this scales at your level so that means a level 50 can do the level 40 dungeon and level up every 3 trips all the way to level 80. I still explore maps but I do them while I wait for dungeons and usually only the non heart parts of the map like vista, waypoints, point of interest, and hero points. I go back later to do hearts when I run out of same or lower level content to explore. I do break every 10 levels to do my story missions tho.
oh and for the cities. do not explore them completely until higher level like 70+ the reason is the exp for completing those maps unlike the level set zones SCALE with your current level. meaning if you do them at level 10 you might get 2k exp as a final reward for completing the maps... however if you wait until level 70 you will get 52k exp it will complete the same % of your exp bar BUT at a higher level its a cheap and easy way to get exp so you don't have more grinding to do.
You say to avoid Southsun Cove but it would be helpful to signify which gate leads to that. In fact, it'd be good to signify which gate leads where.
The gate with Consortium NPC's leads to Southsun, don't go there yet.
Seraph, human zone.
Iron Legion, charr.
Peacemaker, asura.
Wolfborn, norn.
Warden, sylvari.
To be fair I did put up the warning text while the portal was on screen! Yes avoid the portal with consortium!! Sorry if I confused anyone
I’m newer to guild wars 2 and so far I’m loving it and live stream it each day. I say that because everyone that comes in to the live stream are very nice to me and helpful. Personally I like to just get to level 80 and then do the story mission because I don’t like to be interrupted sort of speak with having to do the story and then I can’t continue the story because I need to level up even more.
Not a big fan of the "I'll explain why we did this later" like noooo I need to know all
Thank you for this guide. Just took my first dip into the game, and this is exactly the kind of information I was looking for.
Thanks for this! I just came back to GW2 after a few years. I like the game a lot, but I've definitely hit a wall leveling around level 25.
same. I got to about level 30 and just couldn't do it anymore right before HoT got released,
@@MrSuspenser Give it a chance and push to 80. Heart of Thorns is truly where the game became amazing, compared to vanilla. The true game is 80+ with amazing horizontal progression and great maps, encounters, etc.
Path of Fire is also amazing.
I never enjoyed the vanilla experience, maps are designed differently, enemies are different, everything is old.
Thank you! I started like 3 weeks ago and I am enjoying the game so far! I'm currently lvl 60. I am leveling slowly since I am reading all NPC texts and storylines. Sadly I didn't had the chance to do dungeons yet.
Few things i want to add:
1. Always complete every Skill Point challenge you come across on map to be able to unlock Skill/Traits as they become available.
2. Also bookmark this link so if you on a beginner map or any map for that matter, you know the time when world bosses will be on. wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/World_boss
3. Also once you reach level 65 (recommended) and over, always and i repeat always do Tequatl World Boss. This event has chance to give you Ascended Weapon/Gear which will help you save on crafting weapons/gears later on. (if you lucky though, but rewards from this boss are generally good)
me: tome of knowledge and all these birthday "level a character to level X instantly" boosts
LMAO SAME
Taking it slow for my revenant. Map completion all the way from 1-80. Currently level 66 doing level 40-50 zones and still getting good chunks of exp per quest and map completed. Going into a new zone is really exciting for me.
Lvling on a revenant Q.Q
your voice reminds me of the main character in How To Train Your Dragon. I like it. Also good video.
Hiccup!
Jay B is funny guy.
as an experienced player who has multiple lvl 80 characters fully geared in ascended armor and weapons I would like to point out you can run dungeons on any class and level as long as you can get to the area. not to actually do them on a low level but you could wait it out and just stay for the final reward which is 3/4 of a level each time
Thank you a million times for this! I've had this game for a long time and just haven't played because I found it a bit confusing. This has been a HUGE help!
5 months later. Have you been playing?
15 months later. Have you been playing?
25 months later. Have you been playing?
I love your content! You‘re my favorite youtuber for GW2 vids! :) Please keep them coming, they‘ve been immensely helpful for a new player!!
Had to sub, anyone this passionate about GW2 and the mmo genre in general, I want to help all I can. Thank you for the quality, and depth to this. I look forward to catching up on your mmo and gw2 back catalog.
I bought the game on its Steam launch. Got my character to level 40 by just farming Events and Hearts around Divinity's Reach. Never touched the personal quests until level 50 which was a mistake as the rewards didn't scale to my level. The biggest challenge and enjoyable moment was running from Divinity's Reach to Plains of Ashford which took about three hours.
Thank you for the crafting website link, it took me 10 minutes to max out cooking.
A year late but for what it's worth, there's a little bit of math to leveling with crafting. Specifically, every crafting profession from 1 to 400 will grant you enough exp for 7 levels. If you go from 1 to 500 that's ten levels, and exp boosters apply to this (so long as the exp boost says all exp and not just kills). It's more valuable to hold off on crafting while leveling until the last stretch, as that last 10 levels will take significantly longer than your first 10 levels. In summary, i recommend waiting until you hit about level 60 to do your crafting. Two professions will give you 14 levels without boosters. If you have money and exp boosters available, check the gw2crafts.net website for prices and level the "cheapest" professions with the booster. If you level 5 professions all the way to 500 with a booster that will put you at level 75, which tomes of knowledge can knock those last bits out. Leveling cooking is a guaranteed 7 (or 10) levels for you, so save those levels for later, just like your tomes!
I just started this few days ago, and its beautiful game and super smooth
Great guide. While I'm new to Guild Wars 2, I spend a number of years playing WoW so the basic game mechanics aren't totally foreign to me. I did learn some things that should make leveling easier. And yes I used a level 80 boost on a character I specifically set up to use it on (not my first which I'm still leveling). This was primarily to unlock mounts which I feel should have been handled as you leveled rather than being end game only to acquire. So far I'm really enjoying the game and the lack of set quest chains is something I'm really enjoying vs how WoW did thngs.
Thank you. I think this is my first MMO? Thank you very much!
Just a note here, you have to buy an expansion to get access to Lion's Arch. Other wise you'll have to wait till lvl 35, I believe, to gain access.
I got to level 40+ within about 3-4 ish weeks c: I am new to this, but since I’m having this for a class at my school, I’m trying to learn as much as I can before school starts again :)
Great video! I am a brand new player and, though I have DAoC and WoW experience, am struggling to get up-to-speed on the mechanics of GW2. Thanks so much and I look forward to watching your other videos.
I have DAoC experience as well. GW2 is not what I expected when I first played it.
Yes me too. The surprise for me was the focus on exploration - just wander around an area and see what events/activities come up. Sounds like after clearing a map, the player just moves on to the next map. Not sure how I feel about it all, to be honest.
@@arentol99 I kinda like that events come up, kinda like quests. So that's cool.
No character seems to have a role so to speak. There isn't your run of the mill tank, or healer that sort of the thing. I liked that about DAoC.
Not as grind heavy either. You level rather quickly in this game. It's like a more streamlined mmo/rpg.
thank you so much
I'm late to the party, got into GW2 two days ago, about to hit 30 and although I pretty much did it the same way you did, i say Thanks for this guide!
Why do you need to use the Lion's Arch portals? No matter the character the first way point in each starting zone is automatically unlocked. You can easily skip the Lion's Arch step to travel from starting zone to starting zone.
If your a new player you don't know where all the starting zones are. You can comb the map for waypoints but I thought the LA portals where easiest from a new player point of view.
one thing that really made me not get into Guild Wars 2 is the non-linear game-play, I just wasn't used to it. I was used to following a certain story-line really closely or being told what to do. And so when I played GW2, I felt directionless. I'm not saying that the openness of GW2 is bad, it's just wasn't what I was used to and liked. I also didn't like the lack of different and unique skills/spells unlike traditional MMO's where you get a bunch of flashy skills even for a warrior class. Again this is just me being so used to that type and liking different spells, which made GW2's combat felt a little dull for me. But I want to try and get into this game as I know there's great content pass that first 20-30 levels. I really wanna like this game, its just that for some people, feeling directionless can be a turnoff and uncomfortable, same thing for real life.
Just started after 7 years! Burned of dying wow and i am wondering how come i didnt play at first time gw2 bcs it is much complexed then casual wow!
Nice guide man, cheers !
Started a new account with my Mate to get a fresh start, haven't played sense 2014,and this guide is pretty awesome TY!
Is it still viable?
Just play through the maps. Start with the cities. Run through the 5 or so cities & get the free xp from those. You’ll be like lvl 20+ most likely by the time you start your race’s starting map. Then do all the 1-15 starting maps, then do all the 15-30 maps n so on. You will be leveling up fast. Make sure you get all the WP, POI & hearts you can do on each map. Also run around as much as you can to unlock the areas on each map. Head back to Lions Arch once every 5-10 lvls to buy new armor & weapon. Just buy green armor. Don’t worry about the extra stats on the armor, just get the cheapest armor you can. Wait til you get to lvl 20+ before you do the story. Do a few quests there & then go back to mapping.
i really appreciate this guide cause a lot that i look for have you boosting to 80 and then completing the map, like that's not helpful lol but this was great!!
Could've mentioned the haloween event - if you play during october you can fast exp with it.
I always want to add information like this but I try to keep these on the point if possible. If it helps my Halloween video did cover this!
A really high quality video. I am a new player in GW2, it helped a lot. Thanks!
I've just started playing (since a couple of days) and i find your video very helpful. Thanks for the info!
Even though I just started playing this game 3 days ago I've been looking at different ways you level up and you kind of looked at some of the best ways
And thus, Grape Groot was awakened...
I like your consistenci of videos. I don't need this tutorials cause i already played a lot but it's aprecieted and are well done.
Tips on remaining interested? I find that I usually come back to this game every year or so, and I can only really squeeze 1, maybe 2 days of entertainment out of it before it becomes too samey to maintain interest. It's been like 5 years now, and my highest character has only just reached 61 yesterday. I want to like the game because Engineer speaks to me as a class, but it just feels like I never stop doing the same thing on repeat, and promptly lose interest
That's interesting I've basically done this for the past week. I've even been leveling up cooking and doing huntsman as a ranger. This game is pretty intuitive. I like it.
Great guide for first timers. Awesome job :)
Quick thing I wanted to point out as a new player =
Finding a group for a dungeon is actually not that hard. Looking for group gave me 2 open groups with no waiting at all and both for story mode.
If you don't find any, just advertise your own group. I'm sure many new players come there and just leave if they don't find any group.
At least that works in the first dungeon and with barely any waiting time at all...can't say for the other ones since I'm not there yet.
Yeah my first dungeon took 5 minutes to get a group after I advertised and it was fantastic.
Simple but extremely helpful. Exactly what I needed
I’ve played guild wars since the first one came out. I even did the beta testing for GW2. Sadly I had to leave for a couple of years for reasons.
And I will say...GW2 has changed a good bit.
I would like to make a new character and level up again, it was so fun!
But those 500 Tomes of Knowledge kinda discourage me :/
Nice pointer with the pvp tab. I've been playing very leisurely and would have never clicked that!!
This is such an awesome guide. Great job!
This is pretty much what I did as a new player.
Except I ignored material gathering, crafting, dungeons, my necromancer's main ability, and half of the other game mechanics because I'm terrible at games, especially MMOs.
Had a great time with this up to level 80 (i still cant believe they let me do that unhindered entirely ftp, bloody brilliant) but then stopped because I have no one to play it with. :(
It has the potential to be my favorite game of all time if I can get a group of friends on at some point in the future.
never forget mining and lumbering and foraging! Those are needed esspecially for crafting ascended gear
Well, with Corona raging and all expansions bought, might as well play the damn game.
Thanks for the video, very informative. Will report back when I hit 80! :D
Hope you enjoy yourself! Happy to help!
at 80 yet? :D
XxX616 Nope, not quite yet, hovering around lvl 70 but I spend a lot of time jacking off and I haven't played much recently due to Terraria update. :D
Thats facts Ill be finishing a chapter and it says cant continue till you reach this level so i end up running around doing random stuff to level which was annoying at first but now i love it
Have you updated your graphics driver yet? Cause I saw it like 4 times and thought it was mine. lol
Me: Slams Tomes of Knowledge in LA at the bank to annoy everyone
I actually love seeing that in LA lol
damn - I wish I'd seen this video when I first started playing years ago. So helpful
Very helpful thanks. Loving the game so far.
You don't have to go to the PvP lobby in order to take a portal to Lion's Arch (LA). There's a portal to LA in each race's city. This would be better for free players who don't have access to PvP yet.
or just join a group with commander that is doing map clear for way points and hero points and some events while using exp buffs = fast leveling that what i did it took me 3 hours to reach 80 as there was some breaks in between.
I just returned to the game with a birthday gift, nice 24 hour boost item for sure
The cooking was a good tip got level 44 to almost 52 for less then 3 gold and a little bit of karma. Good deal :D
Note to all of you who own a F2P account : *Also*
Don't not waste your time leveling up a free to play account because the amount of free content are insanely a disappointment. Content included are : PvP, WvW , Personal Story and that's is pretty much it.(And you can't join any big real life prizes events like the recent one: Roller Beetle
Racing Event)
No matter if you finish the whole map, they won't be giving you cool shit that you can show off with or anything impressive. Not saying its unfair either since its F2P. I'm only stating this because I want to recommend you to buy any expansions of this game and i guaran fucking tee you , ArenaNet(developer) themselves with gift you humongously.
The expansion contents are highly recommended by 87% of GW veterans and i'm pretty sure its wont be wasting your money or your time, Don't worry.
I, too will share this game history and fyi this game is the first game i ever use my money on and i'm depression-free
That s not true, but....
Don't u need to be lvl 30 to enter lion arch the first time?
I usually use my roller beetle from lvl 2 and just race through all maps, gives some good starting exp/lvls, plus it's fun to speed along
Apart from the profession leveling there was really not much news even for a new player like me. Thanks for the effort though
I got my first level 80 through completing maps...
Levels 1-5: 100% starting cities and LA
5-11: 100% 1 starting area
11-17: 100% other 4 starting area’s
Then move on to the next level areas
Then the next
Then the next
Etc...
Leave the 3 Orr area’s for last and you’ll get to 80 while completing Frostgorge sound
That’s what I did when the game first released; on my first character. 🙂
You did great, helped me a lot, I'm not lost in the game :)
I watch that just because...
But I really didn't understand crafting. I'm around level 28 now and only playing about a week, so can happen. I really love to explore the world.
This is the slower way to level. You could just kill enemies off the beaten path that have not been killed in a while. They provide a ton of xp and they are weaker so you can kill ones up to 10 levels higher. Get to 80 from one in about 17 hours if you do it slowly.
I'm new to GW2, kinda bored running around the map and doing the heart quest over and over again.
I've been meaning to make alt versions of this video. This was the core mechanics of what to do but it makes the game sound boring and repetitive. (At least if you hate exploration) This isn't the only way to do it but I still feel it's the best way to play your first time through.
Two things I'd also suggest for anyone's first character leveling.
1: Do map completion for all the starting zones. Believe me, by completing every zone, you'll be getting essentially a solid 40-50 levels worth of EXP just from those zones alone. Add in completion for all the major cities and that's even better.
2: Look for the "Tutorial" subcategory of Achievements under the General tab. There's a whole list of rather simple tasks you can do that reward you with Stat boosting items, movement speed boosting items, exp boosting items, decent early leveling gear, and most importantly, an item that teleports you to an exclusive location in the Human major city that holds every crafting station, a Bank, a Trading Post, a Mystic Forge (very important for endgame gearing) and even Guild Vendors.
well great guide and still its not a bad idea to buy gear like every 10 lvl so its might just cost less than 30 silver with fine or master + good and useful sigils and runes if u search for a good lvl parts but some how thing might be a drag to do so but it give tons of power to do some events solo or due with other low lvl players and u might wish to buy some food and consum foods early game or if u dont have trading post at early game u can ask ppl in say chat and they will buy it for u for sure cus gw2 has a nice and friendly community still it will give u tons of extra exp which can be really helpful.enjoy the game and goodluck.
i'm still don't know where can i buy thous food please help me
Been wondering about this. GW2 was almost too overwhelming for me. One of the reasons I can't get into WoW. They give you a really short basic tutorial then throw you into the deep end and expect you to know what to do and look for while leveling. I really wish they had some dungeon feature for lower levels. I don't mind killing things if I know at the end of it all I'll be getting some sort of loot for my character, but simply helping these NPCs is so tedious. It seems I have to grind 4 or 5 hearts just to gain 1 level. At that rate it would take roughly 320 hearts to get to max level (minus the discovering of vistas, hero points, etc). That's still an insane amount of tedious grinding just to get to the fun part of the game. :\
I find this interesting. I think the hearts could be better but are certainly less grindy than a traditional questing system. If all you've been doing are the hearts, you'll probably get burnt out pretty fast. Are you opposed the helping NPCs via events? Are you uninterested in leveling via general exploration? Gw2 grants xp for doing a little bit of everything. This can be a little overwhelming as well as freeing. I do agree that a the leveling experience feels like it's missing more direction and was hoping to help lay it out with this video. I'm sorry I failed to do that
CommonTate I wouldn't mind exploring and finding hero points to help keep myself from getting stone faced but without the expansion and mounts to make it much quicker and easier, it just seems to take quite a while to get anywhere. Maybe I'm used to other games in which i can get to max level or close within a few days to a week. Maybe I should try slowing down and care more about what's going on in the game world. Your video was fine, it's just a personal opinion that I wish there was more to do at lower levels. Gear is a big part of mmos for me and it seems i only get gear when i level instead of farming mobs and bosses like I'm used to.
Fastest way to powerlevel is Dungeons - 70% XP per run
Great video man i'm sure it will help me a lot on my lvling. Btw what is ur PC configuration?
You forgot to mention foods to get extra exp, and later on get Halloween foods because it gives 15% exp
This video is a bit out dated. DO NOT DO DUNGEONS. And "personal story" can be done at any time and you can wait to do it. There are certain places you can "revisit" periodically to do a special event or something to get "better gear" as you level. Once you have a level 80 you can literally just do stuff on a map called SILVERWASTES and open the loot bags on your OTHER character you want to level every so often to "gear up".
Did your revenant character have a whip? I'm a returning player and have a few 80s but so lost on hero points so I made a new revenant character to level to help me understand the game again.
Didn't know about dungeons giving more xp, thanks
Me, a WvW grinder with hundreds of tomes in the bank:
haha
You're lucky though ): We Australians (and Asians, rip) can't effectively play or even grind out PvP anymore, ever since 2015 (2017?), I think, when Arenanet moved servers to AWS cuz the central datacenters moved even further away from prior locations.
It's impossible to compete with 270-350ms ping (this is with NBN too).
PvE is the only way for us to level effectively which sucks cuz WvW is the best PvP game mode in any MMORPG to date
Imo, gw2crafts isn't a good site. It's FAR better just watching youtube videos that explains what mats you need, and how to do it step by step. Also, I don't think crafting in this game is good, but I do recommend getting one of the crafting professions to 500, to make bags to all your toons. 32 slot bags are very expensive, but for those who are going to play a lot, it's well worth it. Note that only armorsmits, tailors and leatherworkers can make these.
You do need to level crafting if you're going for legendaries, but they are so insanely expensive it's not worth it, especially considering that stats are exactly the same as ascended, which are FAR easier to get. Which is the reason very few have them.
I have three characters in guild war 2 tons of experience all three are level 80 but exp is 0 what am I doing wrong do I have to do PVP to get this exp????
Also just an update you can go to lions arch because you need to be level 35
''Dont buy gear off trading post''! I would actually disagree with this statement as nowedays you can get full set with couple of silver (copper at very low levels).
After some years of playing WoW; I reinstalled GW2. But I'm a bit concerned about the amount of stories available (whilst leveling). Is it only the personal one available at lvl 10, 20, 30, etc ? Or is there more ?