Guild Wars 2

Should I use the level boost thing? I know know one can answer that for me because it’s a personal choice…but it’s really tempting to use. I don’t want to miss content but my highest character is level 25 (new to the game) and I am now enjoying a new Elementalist who is only 8th level. I think I’m going to stick to her. My question is, at 8th level, how much will I really miss if I jump to 30? Eighty levels is a lot so I’m thinking I will be okay. But I am really enjoying leveling, too. Any insights from those who have played through everything?

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.

PS: Well snap my staff guess what I just discovered? Everyone here probably already knew this but I only have boosts on characters I made 2 years ago when I bought the game. I had 2 level 2 chars so they had them. The new one I just made…nope. So, I’m thinking to boost it up!

The boosts are account bound? You should be able to use them on any char. You won’t miss any of the story by boosting your level, you can insta level a char to 80 then do the story if you wish. The game will try to lower your stats to match the story instance level but that doesn’t work too well so you’ll be a little overpowered but that’s all.

You miss nothing, they’ve been pushing the unlocks and story later anyway.

1-80 is a big tutorial, with 1-10 being the “use wasd to walk and 1-x to attack!” then 11-20 being “you can also use x-y buttons!” then 21-30 being “Look, a few more buttons! try to keep up!” etc

Hmmm….interesting. Thanks for the feedback; it helps if you guys are saying I won’t miss much. These boosts on my 3 old characters only are to level 20 and 30. Don’t think I have anything that gets me beyond that point. I have not tried to mail them to other characters yet.

If you haven’t played at least one character to 20/30 naturally, I wouldn’t boost through it, but if you have, you’re not going to miss anything too exciting by boosting alts.

I actually really like the simplicity of the lower levels, and the starter zones are great, so I find myself not boosting right away, especially if I’m leveling an alt alongside a low-level friend. But that’s a personal preference.

FattyLumpkin.3420:

Hmmm….interesting. Thanks for the feedback; it helps if you guys are saying I won’t miss much. These boosts on my 3 old characters only are to level 20 and 30. Don’t think I have anything that gets me beyond that point. I have not tried to mail them to other characters yet.

You won’t mail them. You have to put them in your bank and then your other character can take them out.

Redenaz.8631:

If you haven’t played at least one character to 20/30 naturally, I wouldn’t boost through it, but if you have, you’re not going to miss anything too exciting by boosting alts.

I actually really like the simplicity of the lower levels, and the starter zones are great, so I find myself not boosting right away, especially if I’m leveling an alt alongside a low-level friend. But that’s a personal preference.

That’s why I posted this thread because I also like the simple quests and starting areas. However, I hate to waste the boosts. The ones I have say to level 20 or 30 so at some point they’re not as useful. I leveled 1 character ye ol slow way to 25. But in thinking about 80 levels it currently seems daunting.

And thanks, Simple, I’ll just put them in the chest/bank.

As long as I’m having fun at lower levels, I don’t worry about wasting birthday scrolls. If I want to catch up to a friend, skip to my story section, or find myself getting bored, then I’ll use one, whether it’s optimal or not.

Unless I take up key farming, I have more scrolls than I can realistically use.