Guild Wars 2

Ok, first of all i’m super casual gamer so i don’t like grind and just want to enjoy the game. But the amount xp I get is just to much to do that. Each story mission gives me half of a level! And if I play just few hours a day (which is almost always the case) then the xp amounts from dailys is just rediculous! Cut two trees, kill ten monsters and the second half of my level i done. In about an hour! Without doing any dynamic events or hearts!

Please remove xp reword from dailys or lower it.

Wait what? You get half a level just from your daily? Ok, that’s gotta be BS because I ain’t getting that much on my lvl 30 alt…

I’m calling BS on this one as well. I’ve been playing the game for a month [or more] and I play my first character every day [no alts] and I’m JUST on level 29, going onto 30. I gather, mine and chop down trees all the time. I also do DEs and Hearts and all that stuff. Either you’re not a really casual player [I’m about as casual as anyone can get] or there’s something wrong with the game or something… o3o

On the other hand, I love the levelling here so I can quite quickly (about 3 1/2 weeks of casual play) get to a stage where I feel I can be an asset during events and not a liability.

Try playing APB Reloaded where, as a casual, I’ve been levelling a character for 5 months and still have about a month to go

Leveling fast is not a bad thing in a game like GW2.
It’s not like levels have a point to be in imo, for all it matters they can remove levels altogether.

I don’t know if its just because i suck at MMO’s. But it takes me up to 3 hours to get a lvl up, from a half full xp bar! While my friends say “Do this quest and then do that one!” i do them all but then get hardly any xp let alone a lvl! While they say they got like 3 lvls from it! and there higher lvls then me to!

Guild Wars is not about leveling.

Ok, guys… You just didn’t get what I meant. If you play three hours a day then amount of xp you get from dailys is fine. But when you play like 40 minutes or less then it becomes rediculous.

He’s exaggerating, but I also wish there was an xp off button, because sometimes I also level too fast since I’m deep into crafting and exploring.

There is a little exaggeration but it’s not far off. Leveling is waaaaay too fast in this game. It’s balanced for the content, because if you do everything in the zone, you should be ready to go on to the next. It’s still much too fast. I’m casual as well and was shocked to hit 80 in a month. It took around 5 months to get to 60 in WOW vanilla and I was doing dungeons, pvping, ect. No grinding what so ever.

I don’t quite understand. Surely the only negative thing about levelling too fast is that you end up skipping content and it becomes trivial (in other MMOs)

Here, you are auto-scaled anyway – so frankly, the only aspects of levelling are nicer gear to look at and augmenting your traits with greater freedom. Both are good things.

So yeah if someone could explain to me exactly WHY levelling to 80 is bad in a level-scaling game, that’d be nice thanks

HiddenNick.7206:

… In about an hour! …

An hour per level seems quite right if you mix it up.. 80 hours per character, times 5 slots.

OP i’m from the Scotland Yard. My name is Sherlock Holmes.

I would like you to tell me in details who pointed a gun to your head while twisting your arm to complete dailies.

I’m taking notes and when i find the culprit i’ll contact the Queen to send the British Army to destroy the enemy.

Yours Sincerely,

Sherlock Holmes

Casuals can’t really enjoy most of the game. I started another character recently and I could find nowhere near the amount of dynamic events I had with previous characters. The game is awefully boring without lots of players in the map.

The complaint of “leveling too fast” is valid in a game where you can out-level content, but GW2 has a level scaling system that lowers your level to the area you are in. There is no out-leveling content in this game, so this thread is moot.

Faul.8109:

Casuals can’t really enjoy most of the game. I started another character recently and I could find nowhere near the amount of dynamic events I had with previous characters. The game is awefully boring without lots of players in the map.

Most of those dynamic events have a quest starter, you have to find and talk to the guy/girl to get the event started. Otherwise you are just relying on the normal push/pull events that fire off during the day.

Most are right about what your saying. In fact I am exaggerating a bit… But still. If people had to stay in areas a bit longer and participate a bit more in the events… This wouldn’t be so bad for anyone.
I think that this would also encourage people to care about crafting and their equipment a bit more. Now they are outleveling their equipment so fast that they don’t care! Just wear what they find.

I rather see game difficulty increased like harder mobs and specially champions are way to easy. Lvl 80 area is a joke way to easy.

I have 4x 80 characters and I dont think has to do anything with this And also you cant do 30 dailyes per day, so even if it was true who cares …

man I dont know why you see this as a problem .. really

The Downscaling is better in theory than in practice. Mobs are painfully easy once you’re heavily geared up at 80 and when you realize that all the rewards in low level zones are vendor trash, it really makes going back a complete bore. I don’t need the skill points and map completion rewards are a joke as well. A title or achievement means diddly squat…sorry. The money rewards are a joke as well. It just wasn’t planned out.

vasidino.3276:

I’m calling BS on this one as well. I’ve been playing the game for a month [or more] and I play my first character every day [no alts] and I’m JUST on level 29, going onto 30. I gather, mine and chop down trees all the time. I also do DEs and Hearts and all that stuff. Either you’re not a really casual player [I’m about as casual as anyone can get] or there’s something wrong with the game or something… o3o

And I’m calling what you said pure BS as well. So after more than a month you’re only 29??? With just 1 character, no alt? That’s totally impossible. Just like you I was gathering everything, did all quests, participated to all events and guess what, it took me about 10 days to get to 80. There’s really something wrong with you. And yes, leveling in this game is way to easy and way too fast. Considering that there’s nothing at all to do once you’re 80, nothing that’s really worth it I mean, it’s not a really good thing.

Get my alt warrior from lvl 1 to 80 in 80 hours !
im kinda happy its fast and u get exp from every thing u do !!

the reson u get lot of exp and u get it fast , is just because after lvl 80 u still gain skill point for legendary !
and since u have lot of classes and u want to try some for pvp and WvW , u want to do it fast and not spend another 1 mouth to lvl 1 champ

I disagree, it’s perfect as is.

Bought the game the day after release…

Just hit 80 on Wednesday the 17th…

It’s perfect as is.

I wish it was faster. Leveling alts is a chore.

As someone who started at release, I call BS on the majority of this thread. Leveling speed is just fine. All I’m really seeing are people who hit 80 and want to be special snowflakes by getting ANet to slow down the progress of those who haven’t hit 80 yet.

The only problem I see with leveling too fast is getting the best gear for your current level being expensive if you’re getting new levels really quickly.

Aramanth.1546:

The only problem I see with leveling too fast is getting the best gear for your current level being expensive if you’re getting new levels really quickly.

Who buys new gear every time they level? I still had lvl 30 gear at 60 and did fine.

What i dont get is… Is it fun to lvl? Because you walk around, doing hearts, events and doing daily tasks. When you come to level 80, you stop completely. But why? Is the events, hearts etc. boring, just because you wont lvl anymore?

I agree that levelling can seem very fast if you’re playing casually – just running around doing whatever you come across and not paying attention to your level or how much XP you get.

Ironically if you’re deliberately trying to level and therefore paying more attention to how much XP you’re getting and how fast the bar is going up it seems much slower. I guess it’s like time; when you’re doing something fun it seems to fly by but when you’re bored you do more clock watching and it seems to drag on.

But as everyone else said levelling quickly isn’t a problem in this game because you’re not locked out of any of the content so you won’t miss anything. All levelling really does is give you more options for skills and gear.