Q:
Fast way to get mass XP?
I would recommend doing Dragon Stand. You do have to work a little to get into an active map, but i routinely get 1-1.5 million exp (you do need booster though) and some great loot. It’s also a ton of fun and, while some people disagree I really do think it’s a well-designed map and fight style.
Alternatively, you could always do a verdant brink spider farm but that’s so unengaging I don’t know how people stand it.
If you are looking for Central Tyria masteries, do a CoF farm. It’s easy and mind-numbing lol
Rev, Ele, Burnzerker
“Beware he who would deny you access to information,
for in his heart he dreams himself your master.”
“Beware he who would deny you access to information,
for in his heart he dreams himself your master.”
Well this forum seems to be a kitten of people complaining about HoT and I can’t seem to find a single post that answers my question before turning into a debate.
What is the best/fastest way to get mass XP for masteries and why? I’ve been running meta events but it just doesn’t seem fast enough for me.
Run meta event’s in hot for hot mastery’s ITS THE ONLY WAY
Alternatively, you could always do a verdant brink spider farm but that’s so unengaging I don’t know how people stand it.
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Got nerfed.
Alternatively, you could always do a verdant brink spider farm but that’s so unengaging I don’t know how people stand it.
lGot “SLIGHTLY” nerfed.
Fixed that for ya. Its still a viable way to get xp, it just isnt quite as fast as it used to be. But still tons faster then any Meta event or train.
TBH, I haven’t found a truly fast way to earn Maguuma Mastery XP.
It all feels slow to me.
Honestly, the best way to do it is to do the Meta events on maps you enjoy playing on, and stop thinking like you want to get it immediately. I’ve gotten 14/23 HoT masteries and 6/13 Tyria masteries so far and I don’t feel the rush to get every single one. The only thing I’ve done to directly farm exp was 2 hours in CoF to get my fractal masteries since I do a lot of them.
Rev, Ele, Burnzerker
“Beware he who would deny you access to information,
for in his heart he dreams himself your master.”
“Beware he who would deny you access to information,
for in his heart he dreams himself your master.”
I run through most (~13) of the adventures in about an hour, which is worth roughly 700k XP daily.
spider farm still nets over a million xp per hour… twice as fast as any meta… If they are gonna nerf it, it will have to be less then 350k per hour in order for Metas to be a comparable alternative. People pushin Metas as the fastest are just white knighting, and trying to get their own maps full so they can get the rewards they are after for that map. 90% of the people I see fighting the farms are the ones after their bladed chest box is all… when they finally get it, I bet you wont see very many complaints about it at all.
spider farm still nets over a million xp per hour… twice as fast as any meta… If they are gonna nerf it, it will have to be less then 350k per hour in order for Metas to be a comparable alternative. People pushin Metas as the fastest are just white knighting, and trying to get their own maps full so they can get the rewards they are after for that map. 90% of the people I see fighting the farms are the ones after their bladed chest box is all… when they finally get it, I bet you wont see very many complaints about it at all.
But spider farming is so boring… Already got all the bladed chest boxes unlocked for the 3 armor types. I haven’t gotten back to the new expansion area for a week now. Game got boring too fast. XP rewards are so pitiful and grindy…
-S o S-
XP boost grinding.
Pop an XP and killstreak booster and kill creatures in locations not frequented by players (away from common quests). Each mob ends up being worth near 2400xp. 30 seconds worth of killing gets you near the xp output of an event. A lot of Verdant Brink and Auric Basin paths are not frequented so you’ll get a steady chain of mobs to kill.
Each mob in GW2, even players in WvW, gets a bonus to its XP value based on how old it is (how long it has been spawned on the map). I think the XP caps out after about 5-10 minutes. XP boosters will effect this bonus. Needing the mobs to be spawned for a certain amount of time is why you want to visit areas that aren’t frequented (away from event areas).
Best yet the XP for masteries is account bound so grab your character that does the most DPS to make the grinding go faster.
Little red Lioka
In addition to all the above suggestions, I would add: kill everything. Kill every critter you pass on the way to anywhere to go. Granted, the jungle critters are tougher so maybe this advice is better applied in central tyria. Kill anything, no matter how weak. Harvest everything. Res anyone. It all adds up.
spider farm still nets over a million xp per hour… twice as fast as any meta… If they are gonna nerf it, it will have to be less then 350k per hour in order for Metas to be a comparable alternative. People pushin Metas as the fastest are just white knighting, and trying to get their own maps full so they can get the rewards they are after for that map. 90% of the people I see fighting the farms are the ones after their bladed chest box is all… when they finally get it, I bet you wont see very many complaints about it at all.
But spider farming is so boring… Already got all the bladed chest boxes unlocked for the 3 armor types. I haven’t gotten back to the new expansion area for a week now. Game got boring too fast. XP rewards are so pitiful and grindy…
yea, it is boring, but the question asked wasnt about fun, it was just about whats the fastest…. I agree, its boring as hell, but it IS effective (and fast).
Spider farming may be boring, but how many times can you do dragon stand before you want to claw your own eyes out. Masteries require repeating the same content over and over.
Spider farming may be boring, but how many times can you do dragon stand before you want to claw your own eyes out.
Well if that number is about 20-25 times and you do some other content as well you’ll have max masteries, grats. Along with more fun and better loot.
(edited by Wahaha.7938)
If I can offer any suggestions to null the pain, as I too, have asked the same thing before going out and trying things my own way it’s a combination of:
- going around on alts and communing/focusing on acquiring HPs (this nets you XP + anything you explore along the way = more XP)
- simply do events or anything meta event
- Dragons Stand event
- Spider farm when you are every close around 80% done and just wanna grind it out
Anything else I haven’t found any farms save for some weird LFG stating “vet tengu mastery farm” so I’m assuming someone found something to farm in AB as those were the only tengus I saw in these new maps.
Hope that helps.
If I can offer any suggestions to null the pain, as I too, have asked the same thing before going out and trying things my own way it’s a combination of:
- going around on alts and communing/focusing on acquiring HPs (this nets you XP + anything you explore along the way = more XP)
- simply do events or anything meta event
- Dragons Stand event
- Spider farm when you are every close around 80% done and just wanna grind it outAnything else I haven’t found any farms save for some weird LFG stating “vet tengu mastery farm” so I’m assuming someone found something to farm in AB as those were the only tengus I saw in these new maps.
Hope that helps.
Spider farm has been severely nerfed. Them vet spiders aren’t vets anymore… Anet will find ways to make you do more grinding to prolong this expansion as a game that is isn’t short… Extra grinding and lack of contents makes this game a bored fest. I have already given up on grinding and just doing my daily fractals only.
-S o S-
The simple fact this question is even raised and that xp-boosters exists tells me there’s something fundamentally wrong with the expansion. XP gain was never an issue in old Tyria which was very relieving.
With HoT we got something like ESO Mk2 with their champion-points grind. I’m sad this once so unique game had to copy such things from others…
The simple fact this question is even raised and that xp-boosters exists tells me there’s something fundamentally wrong with the expansion. XP gain was never an issue in old Tyria which was very relieving.
With HoT we got something like ESO Mk2 with their champion-points grind. I’m sad this once so unique game had to copy such things from others…
Not really. When you can easily obtain it with laurel.
It’ s nice to have other way to have xp boost that not a gemstore.
Only do meta event is not a good way to mastery up anyway. //most sorce of my xp is from explore and adventures daily.
Core tyria xp is not an issue? Sure. Tome of knowledge is there. Eotm train , crafting stuff. CoF farm still here too.Yeah. Wonder how many people level alts by normally exploring.