Guild Wars 2

I was just wondering if anyone could give me a few quick tips on how to level up quickly. I have only one character, a level 61 Ranger, but I am beginning to tire of him. I would like to make either a Thief or Guardian, but I dread the time it will take to get back to my old level. Can anyone post a good guide or some of their own tips to help me out? Any feedback is appreciated!

Edit: Oh crap, I meant to put this in Players helping players. Could a site mod please move this thread there, if this is an inappropriate place for it?

If you haven’t crafted yet, crafting two professions to 400 will get you 20 levels.

You can grind dungeons. Each dungeon run gives you like 70% of your exp bar. Especially the easier ones, like AC, can be done in like ~30 mins per run for loads of exp.

I’ve also noticed personal story gives you pretty hefty chunks too.

Crafting, personal story quests, and events. Buy and use religiously food and “tech” consumables (potions and oils) which each give you 10% experience bonus and are dirt cheap.

I lvled a second guardian for pure aesthetic reasons and I was able to get to 80 in 30 hours. I lvled to 45 with hearts/zone completion, maxed out 3 jobs in 2 hours and completed the 60-80 zones for exotics.

maxing each craft = 10 lvls, so I was 75 when I hit mount maelstrom

Ursan.7846:

If you haven’t crafted yet, crafting two professions to 400 will get you 20 levels.

You can grind dungeons. Each dungeon run gives you like 70% of your exp bar. Especially the easier ones, like AC, can be done in like ~30 mins per run for loads of exp.

I’ve also noticed personal story gives you pretty hefty chunks too.

I’ve been crafting on my Ranger, as well as done a few dungeon runs. I probably should have specified what I want: A way to get a new character off the ground as fast as possible (for the creation of a new guild, specifically).

kiba.2768:

I lvled a second guardian for pure aesthetic reasons and I was able to get to 80 in 30 hours. I lvled to 45 with hearts/zone completion, maxed out 3 jobs in 2 hours and completed the 60-80 zones for exotics.

maxing each craft = 10 lvls, so I was 75 when I hit mount maelstrom

How much gold did you spend on your first character to level your second one so efficiently?

Lt Surge.3275:

Ursan.7846:

If you haven’t crafted yet, crafting two professions to 400 will get you 20 levels.

You can grind dungeons. Each dungeon run gives you like 70% of your exp bar. Especially the easier ones, like AC, can be done in like ~30 mins per run for loads of exp.

I’ve also noticed personal story gives you pretty hefty chunks too.

I’ve been crafting on my Ranger, as well as done a few dungeon runs. I probably should have specified what I want: A way to get a new character off the ground as fast as possible (for the creation of a new guild, specifically).

My advise to you is still the same. Do your personal story, do events/hearts while you’re running to those instances, craft, and do dungeons when you hit 35.

it’s my third 80. I actually had banked mats and I made about 10g selling everything I made.

I suppose if you took cooking and artificing you could get to 400 on both and only spend about 1-2g on each if you had to buy everything. don’t quote me on that haha

oh I’m sorry I misread your question. my first character I spent maybe 4-5g. my second 80 I spent close to 50g fully outfitting. I took a break from lvling any new characters and focused on 100 map completion and dungeon master. I earned a lot of coin and banked a ton of mats and when I got bored of the way my original guardian looked, I rolled a new one and crafted to victory =]

Cool, so if I max out my credit card I should be able to buy enough gems to buy enough gold to buy enough crafting materials to get enough exp to level up enough times to get to my previous level.

On a serious note, which areas did you 100% fastest?

Consumables (Food etc) buffs for =10%, AoE + Tank based builds = ~5x kills per/time capacity, plus less deaths means less transit and repairs.

Fungeons will return well on time only if you have a decent group to run with, all time looking for people is time wasted – managing the keyboard munchers even more wasted time.

Run your personal story – if you can a couple of levels ABOVE your current level – checkpoints make it a moot point to die/respawn spam cycling NPC resses to stop the encounter resetting.

And the one a lot of people miss – EXPLORE!!! Just run to every WP/PoI easily grabbable on every map you see, go to other newbie zones and boost the lowbie character up fast, throw in a 50% Exp. boosting thingy and some speed buffing and you’re golden.

There are a lot of power levelling nooks that are level/location specific too… buin a game where the story is dynamic and pretty well written power-levelling made me sad!

I didn’t spend any real money on the game… I prefer to spend it on food haha. 100 I’m terms of reward or lvling speed?

kiba.2768:

I didn’t spend any real money on the game… I prefer to spend it on food haha. 100 I’m terms of reward or lvling speed?

Both, of course.

well in terms of speed, each starting zone is great, but since the rewards aren’t scaled or rather if they are scaled, they don’t scale that great, I suggest doing only 2 starter zones. I mainly play humes so I have queens completely memorized. the problem is that I would be underleveled after clearing that zone, so I would move onto another starter just to give me a few more lvls boost before I hit kessex.

kessex is a great area to lvl in. find the chain with the centaurs that starts at the bridge and follow it through until you kill the champ. there are groups running these usually. a chain can be done in about 12-15minutes and you get easy and fast exp. I think I went from 20-25 doing that chain alone in 1 sitting.

after kessex I cleared gendarran. I found that a good return on my time spent vs lvling speed was doing the centaur chain where you help the rock dogs rebel and the following events. I think you eliminate the 3 centaurs having a meeting in a cave, defend a seraph camp and break the centaur siege weapons. all 4 events took me from lvl 30-35.

[edit]
I forgot about the 35-45 lvling. I did personal story quests(skipped them all from start) and a few hearts in harathi.
then I crafted to 75

after that I spent each day clearing 2 60-80 zones for the exotic rewards. maelstrom+fire heart. frost gorge+straits. finally malchor+cursed shore. I was 80 after finishing just mount maelstrom, however.

I’m sorry if this is starting to sound like a guide…it is totally not one. I am only outlining y experience with gettin to 80. the fact that I chose to stop at 45 to craft is mostly arbitrary. I figured I was going to complete all the 60-80 zones anyway, so crafting to 80 didn’t matter. in retrospect, crafting from lvl 30+ would be a more efficient use of my time. if I had enough mats to max all the crafts, I would never step out of queens =]

Being a few levels underlevel for your area is good too, but not too much or a powerleveling blocking diminishment of xp kicks in.

Do as many DE’s as you possibly can.

Crafting, by far.

By very very far.

Always have an XP boost or food buff on. The mid levels (40-60ish) are by far the slowest. Once you get to 60-65 though the leveling takes off like a rocket. Like what someone else said, do all the DEs you come across. Crafting is pretty good as well. Gather a ton of mats and then use the crafting XP booster (found in Black Lion chests and from the gem store.

What are “mats”?

Lt Surge.3275:

What are “mats”?

I think he means materials. Crafting materials.

Oh, okay. I’ve never heard that term for them before.

General explore/AC grind – get a good team and you will get tons of $$$ + tons of xp. You will also earn enough tokens that by the time you hit 80 you will have a full set of exotics waiting for you – IIRC AC gives P/T/V which is a great starter set till you figure out exactly what you want (or stick with it).