Guild Wars 2

This might have been shared before but I could not find any references, hence my questions:

1. To be able to effectively play in the HoT expansion, must the toon be level 80?

2. If I create a new toon, do I have to go through the same “routine” to level it to 80?

IMHO, it would have been a nice perk for long-time players who have multiple level 80 toons to be able to fast track new ones to level 80 upon creation, or at least to level 50.

Seems like most will “power-level” a new toon to be able to get to HoT quickly, thus not being very helpful in the “old world”.

1. Yes.

2. Many will use Tomes to ‘fast track’.

Flashfox.9753:

This might have been shared before but I could not find any references, hence my questions:

1. To be able to effectively play in the HoT expansion, must the toon be level 80?

2. If I create a new toon, do I have to go through the same “routine” to level it to 80?

IMHO, it would have been a nice perk for long-time players who have multiple level 80 toons to be able to fast track new ones to level 80 upon creation, or at least to level 50.

Seems like most will “power-level” a new toon to be able to get to HoT quickly, thus not being very helpful in the “old world”.

1.) The HoT expansion is aimed at level 80 characters. There are some changes to rewards and old zones, but the majority of the content is 80.

2.) You mean like this?:
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Experience_Scroll
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Tome_of_Knowledge

Cyninja.2954:

Flashfox.9753:

This might have been shared before but I could not find any references, hence my questions:

1. To be able to effectively play in the HoT expansion, must the toon be level 80?

2. If I create a new toon, do I have to go through the same “routine” to level it to 80?

IMHO, it would have been a nice perk for long-time players who have multiple level 80 toons to be able to fast track new ones to level 80 upon creation, or at least to level 50.

Seems like most will “power-level” a new toon to be able to get to HoT quickly, thus not being very helpful in the “old world”.

1.) The HoT expansion is aimed at level 80 characters. There are some changes to rewards and old zones, but the majority of the content is 80.

2.) You mean like this?:
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Experience_Scroll
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Tome_of_Knowledge

These items are awesome, I made an elementalist thinking that they would be the main healing class when the expansion came out, and leveled them to 80. Then druid gets revealed, so I made a ranger, I didn’t think I’d come anywhere close to getting them to 80 by the time the expansion came out, but I dinged 80 yesterday.

PVP dailies are great, you get a book almost every time.

Don’t forget crafting to level up. You can use the gold you have to burn through crafting 1-400 really fast and cheap, I think it nets you around 10 levels per crafting discipline

Don’t forget about those purple things that level your toon up to level 20.

I am running around with 8 level 80s right now gathering HPs – some at at 85, some at 90. I have a pile of tomes saved up. A couple days after HOT my next 20 scroll drops. Insta-20 then 60 of my tomes.

The problem with an insta-80 is hero points. Assuming you need some for the elite and if we need a full unlock of everything else first ….

Yeah dont forget the bday scrolls, instant lvl 20 (or 30 if you have the 3rd birthday gift) then only 58 (or 48)Tomes to 80, which you can accumulate faster than you think if you go try.
Daily logins, PvP, daily chests, its good stuff.

Menadena.7482:

I am running around with 8 level 80s right now gathering HPs – some at at 85, some at 90. I have a pile of tomes saved up. A couple days after HOT my next 20 scroll drops. Insta-20 then 60 of my tomes.

The problem with an insta-80 is hero points. Assuming you need some for the elite and if we need a full unlock of everything else first ….

True, I assume I wont be able to elite spec day one, but I’ll still insta 80.
Reason being, all exp before lvl 80 is wasted on getting to 80, whereas if I’m 80 all that exp goes to mastery tracks.
So I’ll insta 80, then go HP hunting/map completing/etc.

do pvp for the tomes, im one away from an insta 80 revenant myself

My last three alts leveled to 80 without doing any combat past the tutorial. I just fed them books, scrolls, and used them to learn crafts that I hadn’t done yet.

I have more level 80 characters than classes I’ve actually played for more than an hour, heh.

ScribeTheMad.7614:

Menadena.7482:

I am running around with 8 level 80s right now gathering HPs – some at at 85, some at 90. I have a pile of tomes saved up. A couple days after HOT my next 20 scroll drops. Insta-20 then 60 of my tomes.

The problem with an insta-80 is hero points. Assuming you need some for the elite and if we need a full unlock of everything else first ….

True, I assume I wont be able to elite spec day one, but I’ll still insta 80.
Reason being, all exp before lvl 80 is wasted on getting to 80, whereas if I’m 80 all that exp goes to mastery tracks.
So I’ll insta 80, then go HP hunting/map completing/etc.

Same here. After all of the HP grinding I know which ones are easy, which are challenging, and which are insane. Plus once we have HOT I will know what target number of HPs I need.

Hopefully we will not have to unlock the armor first and the unlock will take 80-100 HPs. I can then unlock things and worry about the armor skins later. Probably getting them with characters who I will not play the elites on anyway.

Unless they are truly great I do not care that much about the ‘exclusive’ skins. Let others have them if they need that to feel superior. I just am drooling over the traits, skills, and a new weapon.