Guild Wars 2

I’m thinking about buying GW1 to unlock some of the skins and other items in GW2. About how long would it take to unlock everything?

To unlock everything? Like even the titles?

If you just want the rewards (30/50), then it all depends on if you get help or not. You can get it easily if people load you up with everything you need. Would only take a few days. But if you are going to do it all yourself, expect a few months to do most of the stuff and that’s with a little help on the side.

If you are going for everything, including titles (50/50), then it will take much longer. Grinding out titles is tedious and will take a lot of time. Expect at least 6-8 months to even maybe a year depending on your play time.

But if you just want rewards, find some people willing to help. Most old players are usually willing to give you tons of free stuff to get you going. Then it will only take about a month or a little less to get the rest you will need on your own.

Thanks for the reply. Yeah, I just want to get to 30/50 to unlock the heritage armor and weapon skins.

I managed to get 30/50 in 3 months of fairly regular play with no outside help. I only ever grouped with people twice. There was one mission I couldn’t get the bonus on by myself, though i’m sure it’s possible, and once to hatch my black moa chick I got a group to help.

Other then that I managed to do everything by myself. When I needed money to buy my way to points I did the mission “Auspicious Beginnings”, Think I ran it 500 times or so, but I was able to buy 15 points that way. once you get good at it you can run it 10 times an hour without a problem.

I had GW1 for a while before they brought in the HoM but I did not have too many titles. So when they brought in HoM I probably had about 5 points at that time.

From there to 30 points it took me a solid 2 months. Depending on how many hours you can play and how you would enjoy GW1 I’m not sure how long it would take you. But I will tell you I can play many hours a day and do, so it would probably take you a bit longer than it took me.

I highly suggest you start with the Nightfall campaign. You get quick access to heroes that are very helpful with everything else.

actually its known that people looking to power level start in cantha, not nightfall.

Nightfall is one of the longest campaigns to progress through, partly due to the requirement of attaining sunspear general before you can leave the continent.

secondly, thats the reason “Vabbi” runs were popular, which are now pretty much extinct, or absurd prices. you skip to vabbi by being ran because no one wants to do nightfall.

bad advice. only worse advice would be to start in propcies.

pros looking to power level/clear = cantha.

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actually its known that people looking to power level start in cantha, not nightfall.

Nightfall is one of the longest campaigns to progress through, partly due to the requirement of attaining sunspear general before you can leave the continent.

secondly, thats the reason “Vabbi” runs were popular, which are now pretty much extinct, or absurd prices. you skip to vabbi by being ran because no one wants to do nightfall.

bad advice. only worse advice would be to start in propcies.

pros looking to power level/clear = cantha.

If his objective was to get to level 20 as fast as possible, I would agree with you. It isn’t, it’s about achieving titles. Nightfall has distinct advantages over Factions.

The first; heroes. There are quite a few missions in both factions and prophecies which would be very difficult to complete using only henchmen. With the population being as low as it is, heroes are a must. What’s more, six HOM points are tied up in heroes.

Even if you start in Elona you can still go to Cantha for some of the advantages of Factions. You’re wrong in stating you need to level up to General to leave Ikittenan, you have to be Captain or level 17. Leveling to Captain is fairly trivial, and only marginally slower then leveling in Cantha. Once you unlock the mission to leave Ikittenan to go to Elona you can also unlock the mission to go to Prophecies and Cantha. Once you are level 20 you can unlock Eye of the North. All of the campaigns are going to be needed to successfully go after most of the titles.

Vabbi runs weren’t nearly as popular as some other runs in the game, and the only reason runs through Cantha weren’t more popular is it was nothing but locked gates and running through the content was time/cost prohibitive.

What’s more I would never suggest someone to start with Factions simply because much of the Canthan content would be incredibly difficult to complete without friends helping or heroes, especially if you are new to GW1. Zen Daijun would be the biggest roadblock initially because of tricky mechanics and terrible henchmen available at that point. I would never suggest someone new to the game take on by themselves or with heroes. If you can’t get through that mission you’ll be stuck in the training area without heroes and without the ability to go to Eye of the North.

Again, Factions is nothing but roadblocks, and most of it can’t be run. Some of the more difficult roadblock missions that pop into mind are Vizunhah Square, Nahpui Quarter, Arborstone and the Eternal Grove. They might seem trivial to you after playing the game for years with fully decked out heroes with access to the thousands of skills and a firm understanding of the mechanics, but these can be prohibitive to someone new.

Nightfall offers advantages over Prophecies and Factions. You’re right that you will level up slightly faster in Factions, but we’re talking about maybe a few hours difference and leveling to 20 is only a small step in filling up your Hall of Monuments. Nightfall is more forgiving of those just starting the game. The missions are less difficult and there are fewer gates to content. You have early and easy access to a wide variety of heroes. And money is much more plentiful early on in Nightfall then both Factions and Prophecies. All of these things are more helpful when filling up the Hall of Monuments then saving a few hours to get to level twenty by starting in Factions.