Guild Wars 2

Firstly let me say, Im tired of all the negativity and trolling, if you dont want to contribute to this post, please move on.

Having just broke my 200hr mark, level 80 for a couple of weeks, with 30% map completion I decided to walk out of my comfort zones (playing the DE’s I like, in the areas I know) and explore other areas, and…. wow, the game is sooo much larger than I had imagined!

So, with just the basic 25 zones, and from an explorers frame of mind, how many hours do you think, theoretical, it would take to fully explore and appreciate JUST the pve in GW2?
By this I mean, participate in all the DE’s and Meta Events, explore all the vistas, poi, skill challenges, hearts AND all the hidden/unmarked areas and caves.

My guess is 502.
500 for the content, and 2 hrs to climb random mountains and high places, to marvel at the view!

Im at 46% map completion and have a play time of 126 hours so for me it’s going to be somewhere in the region of 260’ish hours.

I like to get 100 % zone completion before I move on to the next area.

I may be wrong but I think you have to explore the wvwvw maps too in order to get 100% world exploration.

Took me just over 220hrs to get full world completion,I basically just worked my way through a zone at a time,didn’t rush it and that also included some wvwvw till I could get all those zones.

It took me a bit under 100 hours to get all the points of interest/etc. I reached level 80 in 72 hours, when I had just stepped into Straits of Devastation (and had all of Orr, WvW, and Frostgorge left).

I then went back and did the jumping puzzles, mini-dungeons, hit DE’s and such I did not do before, and generally “poked around”. At 390 hours total, I still have not seen or done everything by far. I still need to do Melandru and Balthazar, and have still not managed to catch the Queensdale swamp event yet on live (I did it in BWE2).

I also haven’t done much in the line of dungeons either. Story Cadecus and Arah, Explorable Catacombs 1 and Citadel 1/2.