Guild Wars 2

So the devs have released timing info about The Lost Shores to let players plan around the event. Which I think is fantastic. But there’s 1 more piece of info that I feel I’d like to be provided to properly plan for the event, and thats character level requirement for the event. It seems like its going to be a new world area (not an instance) which probably means no auto-scalling, so whatever level the enemies in the area are is probably going to determine who can do it.

I’m basically in a situation where every character I have is level 25 -40 (and my level 40 is only that high because I used him for most of the Halloween stuff). I’m mostly shuffling between all 5 characters levelling them up somewhat evenly.

This ended up messing me up just a bit for the Halloween event itself, because even my highest level character ended up underlevelled for the 2nd part of the Scavenger Hunt and the rest couldn’t even do the first part entirely. Thankfully the rest of the stuff was open to any level, but still.

So with regards to The Lost Shore, I’m really interested in getting some idea from the devs of what kind of level requirement might be attached to it. I’ve still got a week to go and if its a high-level event I can forget the multicharacter levelling, grab my highest level character and play only him for the week and hopefully get him high enough to do the event at least.

Since they’re offering the free trial with it, I expect it’ll be fairly low. I would think probably around 10-30.

I can’t find the reference, but I believe the area will upscale low-level players to level 80.

The specific answer to your question is that they’re intending to make it more accessible to low-level characters than Halloween was.

The more general answer is that if you can’t get a character from 0-80 in the time between when they announced Lost Shores and when it goes live, then how on earth do you care enough about the game to be posting on forums and hyping yourself for the event?

GregT.4702:

The specific answer to your question is that they’re intending to make it more accessible to low-level characters than Halloween was.

The more general answer is that if you can’t get a character from 0-80 in the time between when they announced Lost Shores and when it goes live, then how on earth do you care enough about the game to be posting on forums and hyping yourself for the event?

I prefer to take my time and enjoy the levelling experience rather than just grinding in a blind rush to get to 80 ASAP. Though if I was actually levelling only 1 character I’d probably be at or near 80 by now anyway (if I’ve got 5 characters at lets say 30 average, then that means I’ve gained 150 levels, and if applied to one character that’d be 80 easily, assuming the levelling speed doesn’t massively drop at higher levels which I’ve heard it doesn’t). But as said, I’ve got 5 characters all working up.

I don’t see how my preferred playstyle disqualifies me from being excited about an event. Though the point of making this thread was that IF it was a high level event and I needed to hardcore grind to a higher level I would.

Doesn’t sound like it’ll be nessicary based on the responses thus far, though.

If you find the video interview with one of the devs with some blogger chick, I beleive he said it will be an up scaled zone. So a level 80 zone, but all players would be scaled similarly to WvW.

wookalar.8952:

If you find the video interview with one of the devs with some blogger chick, I beleive he said it will be an up scaled zone. So a level 80 zone, but all players would be scaled similarly to WvW.

Ah, now thats exactly what I wanted to hear. Sounds good to me. Thanks.