Guild Wars 2

Would you like to Level your alts and give them EXP while playing and enjoying your favorite character class main?

Take for example:

I like playing support role in PvE and PvP. I also enjoy having a Melee Defensive theme and a magical theme like my Guardian delivers.

But if I decided to roll a Warrior as my alt who also share similar Melee Defensive theme, and heavy cool looking armor,
I may be interested in playing a support role on that character. But here is the problem.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/List_of_warrior_traits#Tactics

My only heals come from Grandmaster Traits.

That means I have to level all the way to 60 on my Warrior just to unlock the full potential of the role I enjoy playing the most, on my alt.

So thats hours of playing something I am not having a lot of fun with, just to unlock the things I may have fun with later on…

Well If somehow I could have leveled up my alt Warrior while continuing to play on the class I enjoy most, I would be able to skip over the boring part of the game for me, and have nothing but more enjoyment, simply from the option there alone, to progress past the boring parts of the game to the role I enjoy playing.

My warrior is 65 now, but I remember the feeling I had while grinding those levels out. Trying to play the way I wanted, but was locked away from the fun simply from the numbers associated with my level.

I really dont feel that the Levels themselves determine “Player Skill” in anyway.
A level 10 player may have better skills than a level 30 player. And so on.

So something like this wouldnt hurt anybody.

I feel your pain. I’m an altoholic myself and, compared to GW1 it takes way to much time to get an alt leveled in GW2, and I’m not even talking about gear.

I do find it difficult to level an alt when I already have a maxed out main.

I think it would be pretty fun if you could use an alt as a follower. Think the henchies in GW1. You pick one alt that follows you around. Only available to lvl 80s. Your alt gets all the reward except when it comes to looting. You would loot using your main.

I do kinda agree that it can be a pain but at the end of the day I don’t think ANet would happily say “no worries we’ll just let you skip half the game for the sake of being at the top”. Just seems a bit counter-productive for them, seeing as they want to keep people playing as long as they can.

Maybe though, they could add that follower idea for people who have a lvl 80 already, but lower the exp gained, so it does take a longer time to lvl up but at the same time it’s on a class you truly enjoy. Still though, there are always going to be a lot of problems when you allow faster lvling and where you aren’t actually playing the class you’re lvling. Would give the elitist population an excuse to only take “flavour of the month” because anyone can lvl a zerk warrior, even without playing it.

I have the opposite problem. I have 5 80’s and four other characters, and they level too fast to suit me.

IndigoSundown.5419:

I have the opposite problem. I have 5 80’s and four other characters, and they level too fast to suit me.

Yes me too, although I only have two 80’s.
I even tried slowing down the process by not crafting and alternating between 3 alts at a time for 10 levels or so.
Still they manage to sneak up.

TBH once you have a 80, you can easily round up enough cash over a weekends play to get an alt up to level 30 using crafting. Which to me is the hardest part of the battle. That gets all your Utility Slots unlocked and your Elite, and gives you enough SP to get useful utilities. Also it unlocks your second weapon slot.

IndigoSundown.5419:

I have the opposite problem. I have 5 80’s and four other characters, and they level too fast to suit me.

easy. dont do Hearts. And no Meta events. only explore and Event(non meta). That should slow things down. also no crafting of course.

Ratty.5176:

TBH once you have a 80, you can easily round up enough cash over a weekends play to get an alt up to level 30 using crafting. Which to me is the hardest part of the battle. That gets all your Utility Slots unlocked and your Elite, and gives you enough SP to get useful utilities. Also it unlocks your second weapon slot.

doesnt do a thing about Traits. again take a look in the OP for the Support Warrior example. they get a heal from traits but its grandmaster.
in other words you cant play Healing Support Warrior unless you a high level.

Knighthonor.4061:

Ratty.5176:

TBH once you have a 80, you can easily round up enough cash over a weekends play to get an alt up to level 30 using crafting. Which to me is the hardest part of the battle. That gets all your Utility Slots unlocked and your Elite, and gives you enough SP to get useful utilities. Also it unlocks your second weapon slot.

doesnt do a thing about Traits. again take a look in the OP for the Support Warrior example. they get a heal from traits but its grandmaster.
in other words you cant play Healing Support Warrior unless you a high level.

This is very true, same with the Engineer, where Grenades only become really viable at 60. However I’ve not had any real issue running dungeons at level 30 on any of my toons. You do mess around with other builds on the way up, for example the 5 Signet Warrior, probably a bad choice at 80, but at 35 very reasonable.

No I would not like to do that, and I think it would be wasted development time.

Leveling is very easy as is and there are some nice shortcuts for skipping some or all of the road to 80 with in-game currency if you really want. Try doing only the daily for its xp boosts on the leveling char or simply crafting through the levels you find dull.

I think you are trying to solve the problem the wrong way. Rather than skipping levels on alts, you want builds to be viable earlier on so you enjoy levelling them again. I find it rather strange how some utility skills that are so gameplay defining are locked in the 3rd tier. I think this could be addressed, rather than skipping levels on alts. If all utility skills were readily available, you don’t have to wait till level 30 to atleast have the action bar you want. Just keep them at the same cost so it takes as many skill points to unlock them, just not in a tiered system. I am not sure how this can be or if it should be addressed for traits. I understand why they don’t want you to have access to everything at level 11.

I now have one of each profession at level 80, the last two of which I levelled almost entirely by crafting.
And of those 8 characters, I only levelled 2 of them “Normally”. The remaining 6 all used crafting to some degree to get to 80.
What I have found is that GW2’s convoluted levelling and trait system means you really can’t properly construct a build until you’re 80 with access to all trait points and level appropriate gear.
I have no reason to request this now, as I have reached top level and max stat gear on all my characters, but yes, I agree. There need to be quicker methods of reaching top level and getting bog-standard but maximum stat gear.

Deamhan.9538:

I do find it difficult to level an alt when I already have a maxed out main.

I think it would be pretty fun if you could use an alt as a follower. Think the henchies in GW1. You pick one alt that follows you around. Only available to lvl 80s. Your alt gets all the reward except when it comes to looting. You would loot using your main.

That would simply be amazing. +1

Knighthonor.4061:

Would you like to Level your alts and give them EXP while playing and enjoying your favorite character class main?

Nope. If i am not playing a class, i will never learn playing that class. Besides, i don’t see a reason to create alts i’m not even bother to play on.

I had a “main” in GW1 and only used alts for specialty stuff. But in GW2 I haven’t found a main character, so all 8 of mine were always within 10 levels of each other. I’d play one profession for roughly 5-10 levels, then switch to another.
There really isn’t one profession I like better than the others.

Astralporing.1957:

Knighthonor.4061:

Would you like to Level your alts and give them EXP while playing and enjoying your favorite character class main?

Nope. If i am not playing a class, i will never _learn_ playing that class. Besides, i don’t see a reason to create alts i’m not even bother to play on.

I agree. Plus leveling is really easy in GW2 anyway. I’d rather wish for an option to quickly switch traits and gear sets for an already leveled character so I can take different roles without having to manually switch my equipment and retrait all the time. That’s a major reason I’m currently not playing GW2, because my WvW setup differs a lot from what I’m using in PvE.

It’s not quite the same, but I would like being able to use my main as a “mercenary hero” (like in gw1, factions edition I think) to run with me when playing my alt.

But yes if excess xp, on the main ,could be transfered to alts, I would be happy aswell.

I think you’re mixing up support and healer. These two roles aren’t necessarily the same. There is such a thing as offensive support, for instance, but support can also simply be a Thief who stealth allies.

I have two level 80 characters that I leveled in WvW, but I decided I would like to create a MESMER. However I did not want to take the weeks to do it because I really wasn’t sure how much I would play him.

So I leveled him with crafting. Took me 3 days from 0 to 80 and now he is almost a Master Craftsman – didn’t do the cooking skill. It was surprisingly easy and very cheap, I never had to go gathering, mining or lumber choping. I bought everything I needed on the market. If your goal is to just level someone to learn to play at 80 it will cost you about 50 gold and a few hours per day for 3 days.

I can’t do it. I was driving myself crazy when I attempted to level multiple characters.

For me it’s one character at a time. Max that character out meaning, get the highest stats with the build you are running, complete the map at 100%, definitely hit 80 and unlock all the abilities, and last but not least, complete the personal story.

I haven’t accomplished this yet because, yes, I WAS ATTEMPTING TO LEVEL MORE THAN ONE CHARACTER AT THE TIME !

To curve this behavior of leveling more than one character at a time I deleted every character that was beneath 80 leaving me with two characters, those characters being Warrior and Guardian.

I WILL NOT CREATE ANOTHER CHARACTER until those two are maxed out which doesn’t seem is going to happen any time soon.

Since I’ve taken on the " One character at a time " method, my game play has been much more enjoyable and less stressful.

The way I do it is that I play with my main right up until a daily (or monthly) is about to tick, then I swap and finish it off with my alt. It’s slow, but it allows the alt to get the XP from finishing the task.

I find this game very ‘multiple character friendly’. The only exception seems to be ascended items and legendaries. Neither of which is needed.

I have 2 80s so far. Know many people with a lot more. I have another in the high 50s, one in the low 50s. A couple in the 40s, and so on out to 9 characters.

I alternate between them all at a whim.

All my characters are main so I dont know what you;re talking about.

Deamhan.9538:

I do find it difficult to level an alt when I already have a maxed out main.

I think it would be pretty fun if you could use an alt as a follower. Think the henchies in GW1. You pick one alt that follows you around. Only available to lvl 80s. Your alt gets all the reward except when it comes to looting. You would loot using your main.

But then you don’t learn the profession as you play. And your alt doesn’t get any new gear or weps, making them extremely fragile. Maybe the other way around, letting your 80 be a henchie for you to take the pressure off while you level your alt.