Guild Wars 2

I personally feel like the level system is kind of screwed up in this game. My first time running AC on story I went in at lvl 33, when I came out I was level 35 and a half. I then went and did one personal story quest and reached 36. I just feel like at some point you character progression should slow up. I do not have a maxed level character yet so maybe I am missing something and speaking out of ignorance, but when compared to other MMO’s it seems like once you hit 20 the rate at which you level slows down drastically.
I just do not feel like a level 35 character should be able to go into a level 15 zone and level up twice just off of map completion. I understand this game is not meant to be a grinder, but at the same time I do not want to just be given my level for simply walking around the world, which is something I was going to do anyway.
In short I just feel like the levels are given to the player a little to easily and not that much work really goes into leveling your character.
And by no means does this aspect of the game really make or brake my experience I was simply wondering if others felt this way as well.

well the game on the other hand don’t change much if at all at lvl 80 (max level) so really don’t worry too much about it, also you can still go to lowerlvl areas and have fun without being too OP there as you get scaled down to the lvl of the area

I feel the same way, especially with regards to map completion / crafting. I feel like those things reward far too much experience. I don’t really think they need to award experience at all personally (you found walked into a random village, have some experience!… really, I get experience for THAT?), but even putting that aside, the amount you get is pretty crazy (half the time I’ll go to craft myself some items and by the time I’ve levelled my crafting up from the last point I made stuff I’ll gain 2-3 levels). I mean, its kind of a general trend now that everything needs to be rewarded and in particular fewer people seem to like exploration for the sake of it but rather for what they can get, and experience is the “best” option to give as a reward because giving money would make people too rich and awarding karma would decrease the desire for people to do events. So I guess with that in mind this is the best possible scenario.

While I may prefer it a bit slower, many people seem to enjoy it as is, so I’d say people like me should just get over it and let it stay for the people who do like it, because changing the experience gain now would probably annoy people more than anything.

crafting a agree does gives way too much but anything else is fine for this game, is not supposed to take half a year to reach max lvl on 1 character in this game like other MMO’s are

Right the scaling is one thing that I do love about the game. It is great that you can have two level 80 guys in a dungeon run and not feel like you aren’t contributing anything to the fights. Where this is not the case in other MMOs.
Again the xp problem to me does not make or brake my experience I just found it to be “out of the norm” (that’s the only thing I can really come up with, not to say I hate this aspect of the game I am just not use to it I guess).

I think the issue is that there needs to be more content that’s less level-restricted.

The removal of up-leveling from beta made the game more focused on leveling to unlock content, imo. So, when players max out to 80, there’s a subtle sense that they’ve done enough and have unlocked everything, when there’s so much more then be enjoyed.

No, not at all.

“I do not want to just be given my level for simply walking around the world, which is something I was going to do anyway”.

Honestly, this is one of the things I think the game got RIGHT. I love the fact that I can gain exp by just exploring the world and not feel like I would of been better off doing something else.

not really, no. the first 20 go pretty fast, but they are supposed to. its usually a level an hour or so, which is great IMO. I hated other games where it would take me about 5 days per level, 10 hours a day. that was horrible. this is rewarding.

I’m fine with the way it is right now. They said before that they did not want the players to have to grind just to level up. The balancing system of going into higher/lower areas also helped with keeping the game from being too easy/too hard.

For my first character, yes, I felt that leveling was too fast. I was like, “What!? The adventure is finished already!?”

For my alts, I am pleased that I could speed level with crafting and other methods.

It’s part of the GW2 leveling concept and very much intended – after the first couple of levels it shouldn’t feel awfully slow to level and you should reach max level relatively fast compared to other MMO’s. After a certain point making it slower wouldn’t make the game last longer for you, it would just force you to repeat content over again just for the sake of leveling.

You level as fast as you try to.

i think the leveling is fine the way it is

I will say that the leveling is very fast in this game. I currently have 3 80’s and they hit 80 in the following times from first to last 80, first 80 100 hours, second 80 80 hours and third 80 was 50 hours. I do think that these leveling times are way to fast. I should not be able to reach max level in an MMO i have never played in 100 hours. This being said i think a reasonable amount of play time to reach level 80 for a first time experienced MMO player would be closer to around 180-200 hours, this works out to about 3 hours a day for 2 months. The only reason i feel the leveling is to fast though is that with fast leveling all you have to work to until max level is leveling, So say getting nice drops at low levels isn’t really exciting seeming as though you will replace it in a couple of days.