Guild Wars 2

I as well as a lot of other players really hate leveling. Granted it’s not as stressful in this game but once you’ve seen everything once it’s kind of bland doing it again, and I feel even worse for those who do it a 3rd or 4th time.

Granted there are players who do enjoy this leveling process and I’d never suggest to rob them of their enjoyment. But for those of us who wish to accelerate our alts I’d suggest making it so scrolls of knowledge give one solid level. As well as making them trade able could be healthy for the economy to have another market especially one for alt-oholics.

I never played GW1 (and from what i have heard I clearly missed out in past years) But I heard that you could max level in a day or two. This is clearly not the case here, and although this is a different game, leaning towards that old design choice I think would be healthy, or at least not restrictive.

“But then we’ll have more people who don’t know their class who get insta 80 and they hurt groups.”

Well

1. You don’t learn thaaaaaaaaaaat much leveling, except maybe your skill list and traits, this is clear since there are level 80 players fully geared who are terrible and have no idea how to play.

2. This is not necessarily true, there are a lot of players who play alts in the mists but only have one 80 because of the leveling process, despite being good ar more than one class. These people I think it would be good to help as well with this suggestion, and they will add to the population.

3. There will always be bads, noobs, and newbies.

Newbies need to be nurtured and taught how to play, flying off the handle at them doesn’t accomplish anything, everyone was a newbie at some point, and although it’s true that they may not have the same natural talent or game sense as us it doesn’t mean we shouldn’t tolerate and try to help them.

Bads, and Noobs (noob as in someone who should do fine but sucks) In every game ever for all time they will exist, this is why we have the vote kick option.

TL;DR: Skill points should give a full level and be trade/sell able.

I would have to say a big NO to this.

The boxes from champions give out scrolls of knowledge at a ridiculous rate. It’s already dreadful that you can have an alt that is level 20 and has more skillpoints than they can spend on learning all of their skills 10 minutes into creating them. Quite frankly, it would be faster for anyone with an existing level 80 character to just farm champs for 70+ scrolls to get their alt from 1 to 80 than to actually play them.

And what comes to crafting an alt to level 80. It’s very costly so it’s not something you can do easily. On the other hand, farming champs and using excess Scrolls of Knowledge (like you seem to want) to level a character to 80 is profitable.

And what’s with selling/trading everything? Honestly, if it’s gold you want, you can already do that with the Mystic Forge.

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I would have to say a big NO to this.

The boxes from champions give out scrolls of knowledge at a ridiculous rate. It’s already dreadful that you can have an alt that is level 20 and has more skillpoints than they can spend on learning all of their skills 10 minutes into creating them. Quite frankly, it would be faster for anyone with an existing level 80 character to just farm champs for 70+ scrolls to get their alt from 1 to 80 than to actually play them.

And what comes to crafting an alt to level 80. It’s very costly so it’s not something you can do easily. On the other hand, farming champs and using excess Scrolls of Knowledge (like you seem to want) to level a character to 80 is profitable.

This is a bad thing why?

the idea of having more skill points than you possibly need to spend to get all your skills is problem why? That’s not really hurting or effecting anything other than people having left over skill points?

As to it being faster to champ farm an alt, yeah that’s true but what harm does that really cause, other than having another class to play that’s a viable option for group comps? It’s better than being a 2nd mesmer or ranger in a group that doesn’t want more, esp if you play with friends who main the same.

As to crafting, Why would you even want to force players to power level crafting professions they don’t even care about? Why force a large money sync just to play a class? It’s profitable in the sense that you don’t have to waste gold and resources on it, but other than being able to play more I don’t see how you “Profit” from it since a lot of things are account based while being time gated.