Guild Wars 2

Whenever i make a new character, as soon as im done the beginning scenario i am lvl 2 and from there i always went to Hoelbrak, The grove, The Black Citadel etc, all the main cities and do the poi’s and vistas. After doing all the cities i was always lvl 8+. But the last couple days i made a couple new chars and did my usual run through the cities but im not even getting to lvl 6 now. It’s no big deal but im just wondering if there was some experience nerf that we weren’t told about?

There was. Doing even events at lv 80 in low level maps reward half the exp they used to reward. It use to be 14k and now its 7 k.

If this is true, I actually don’t have that much of a problem with it, I’ll just look forward to more content to level through.

hmm well that’s complete rubbish. So now not only is grinding mats for legendaries a pain but they want to make lvling up to 80 a pain as well. Oh well. thnx for the fast reply.

They rebalanced the rewards 80s get from low level events. I haven’t seen anything saying it extended to any other parts of the game though.

Not to mention your characters were lvl 5, not 80.

What possible reason is there to nerf lvl 80 experience from low level events? Anet should be encouraging people to spread out and do lower areas rather than congregate in Orr. The early zones are already ghost towns at the best of times.

I still leveled to 80 faster on my Guardian (3 days) compared to my ele (2 weeks) using crafting of two professions and 50% of the game’s maps + story on her up to A Light in the Darkness (still not done as its impossible on my guardian).

Vamistle.9710:

hmm well that’s complete rubbish. So now not only is grinding mats for legendaries a pain but they want to make lvling up to 80 a pain as well. Oh well. thnx for the fast reply.

Maybe until recently it was too easy and fast leveling up to 80, so they decided to extend the time of game-playing by cutting down the experience and loot you get.
That way you need longer to level up and to receive appropriate loot (like green armor pieces which would improve your game-play).
^^

IME the rewards actually went up for most of what I do. As long as the event isn’t less than 2/3 your level, your benefit increased from what it used to be.

mulch.2586:

IME the rewards actually went up for most of what I do. As long as the event isn’t less than 2/3 your level, your benefit increased from what it used to be.

They also greatly increased the rate that high lvl items drop from low lvl mobs.

An 80 running a lvl 5 event for example gets about half the straight event rewards they used to but the extra drops more than make up for the lower cash reward.

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mulch.2586:

IME the rewards actually went up for most of what I do. As long as the event isn’t less than 2/3 your level, your benefit increased from what it used to be.

They also greatly increased the rate that high lvl items drop from low lvl mobs.

An 80 running a lvl 5 event for example gets about half the straight event rewards they used to but the extra drops more than make up for the lower cash reward.

Well at no time have I ever gotten T6 mats or lodestones or rares for globs of ectos with or without mf on.

Really haven’t noticed an XP nerf on my end. I get levels like mad crazy as usual.

There’s no XP nerf. Except for levels 1-15 where there’s a bonus, XP gain per same level activity is fixed at a % of the total XP required for level up and it didn’t change that I can see.

What’s more likely is that at start, with the much higher population in the starting maps, you were getting more XP per time spent due to events happening more often, finishing more quickly and mobs getting killed faster for the same XP reward thanks to the help from other players around.

I played in BWE1 and felt like I was clawing and scrounging for xp wherever I could find it. Now I seem to be over level on most of the stuff I’m doing. This could be from the Vistas that weren’t in BWE1, or just an overall increase in XP.

But, I have not seen an xp Nerf. However I dont do just PoI for xp. . .they could have nerfed PoI xp