Guild Wars 2

Rolled a Norn Guardian few days ago and completed Wayfarer’s Foothills 100%. I also did a healthy amount of events, did the daily quest twice and every story mission. However, after all that, I was only halfway through level 13. The next zone was pretty tough for me and I really do not remember my former characters to have had that problem. I think you should easily be on the zone’s max level after 100% completion.

Always been like that, in fact i think it was either the Lost Shores or Halloween event that actually buffed exp gain, so that you will get the same exp in a 25-40 zone and a 40-50 zone, until you reach 50.

You are meant to find an area with a lot of DEs and just spam those chains over and over again and unfortunately, certain zones have less than others. Like, in Gendarran hills, I could barely explore because the meta-event was up 5 minutes after leaving the area.

Queensdale, much fewer DEs.

Doing plenty of DE’s and gathering are a huge part of your xp gain as well.

Gathering is actually pretty important for efficient leveling IMO. You should gather everything you can that isn’t too far out of your way. It’s like a bigger chunk of exp that’s faster than killing a mob.

Hell, I even gather if my tools don’t work on it, still gives exp.

I have a level 80 engineer and warrior, and am currently leveling an ele. I haven’t noticed a nerf but then I always thought leveling was a bit too fast, especially if you do crafting. As far as map completion to achieve map max level, I think it would be very possible to only complete the heart quests, and find all the vistas, WPs, and POIs without reaching max map level. Try doing the DEs, some gathering, and completing the daily achievements.

I posted the same question a week or so ago. I don’t feel like I’m leveling any slower out in the world, but I did have interesting results on a new character I just recently rolled.

I cap all six cities right out of the tutorial area before doing anything else. I used to get to about midway through level 8 doing this.

On my most recent toon I only got midway through 5.

I was wondering if exploration XP got nerfed.

Gibson.4036:

I posted the same question a week or so ago. I don’t feel like I’m leveling any slower out in the world, but I did have interesting results on a new character I just recently rolled.

I cap all six cities right out of the tutorial area before doing anything else. I used to get to about midway through level 8 doing this.

On my most recent toon I only got midway through 5.

I was wondering if exploration XP got nerfed.

Exploration experience in cities appear to have been nerfed yes. I noticed this with an alt of mine when I only got 20exp for a vista instead of the usual 60-80 in Divinity’s Reach. Went out into Queensdale and sure enough I got the proper amount we used to get. I have no idea why they nerfed city exploration experience, it was always a nice way to get slightly ahead of the starting zone and make things a little easier…./shrugs

Rysinsun.7306:

I have no idea why they nerfed city exploration experience, it was always a nice way to get slightly ahead of the starting zone and make things a little easier…./shrugs

Yes. My big thing was weapon swapping. Once you get used to it, it’s annoying being tied down to one weapon, even for just a few levels. I appreciated that I could unlock it before ever fighting anything after the tutorial.

My brand new Thief seems to be doing ok. I have yet to explore the Sylvari city yet I am going to out level Caledon forest before I leave. I made it even worse by doing a bit of crafting, so once I do the city exploration and finish Caledon with a bit more crafting I expect to be around level 20.