fastest way to level?
The Queensdale Champ Train, with boosters and food. Also, besides killing the champs you should gather every node, revive every NPC and kill every mob while waiting for the champs to spawn. IIRC, it will net you a level every 40 min or so if it is not derailed.
Anyway, by exploring the maps (which means discovering new zones, reaching POIs and views, gathering everything on sight, doing the easy hearts andstaying away from events and time consuming hearts you get about a level every hour.
Also you can run CoF and HotW with your guildies using your main, and switch to the lower level toon at the final boss.
All in all, unless you really stop to see the scenery, look under every rock, complete every event you find in your way, and look at every corner for secrets and participate in the LS events, you should get to lvl 80 in anything between 50 to 80 hours without much effort with enough Karma to buy you an armor set and enough gold to buy one or two exotic weapons.
But I DO NOT recommend fast-leveling your main. You’ll miss a lot from the game. Every map has a story going on, and exploring them while doing the events let you discover that story.
(edited by Soronthar.7236)
Get to lv30ish is decently easy. Then you would need to grind a bit to reach near 40ish.
Once you are 40ish, u can join WvW and just run along a zerg to capture tower and keeps. Also do your personal story whenever you are within level range of difficulty.
Once you hit 60, tequalt event can give you almost a full level.
Once u r 60ish and up, http://us.gw2stuff.com/en, select your server on top, it will tell what event is going on, and u can bring urself there to get some event exp.
I don’t recommend playing every event you see on the way, especially the escort ones. They take too long for too little reward.
Personally I find leveling fast to 80 is extremely important. I have more fun in gw2 at 80. Because at low level, you almost can’t find people to play with nowadays, even on highly populated server. Generally the lv80 will not waste their time playing with lowbies; there are too many event going on with reward they are after to care about lowbies.
(edited by pulupulu.9730)