Guild Wars 2

Hello everyone, with the new expansion coming, i’m thinking of leveling up and engineer because an asura with a riffle is cute and looks fun.

I use Octovine to level up new characters.

this method is for people who don’t pvp or wvw, and also needs some exalted masteries as well as a guild that has a guild hall in the gilded hollow.

it also a good way to get bags everytime octovine happens. I use corresponding alts to open bags, depending on what mats i need.

Yep, people have been doing that since HoT launch. 2 to 3 levels per vine at the lower levels, and 2’ish all the way to 80.

The tl;dw:

• Enter any Gilded Hollow hall.
• Exit into Auric Basin (southwest waypoint).
• Enter Tarir.
• Die (OP recommends starting Hero Challenge, so you get access to Eastwatch, but you could also mushroom up)
• Steal an exalted armor
• Leech the defense events by letting other people fight, while you tag using the first skill.
• Leech the east gate event the same way.
• Leech the Octovine event @East the same way.
• Collect loot.

I use “leech” here descriptively, since in the OP’s video, the low-level clearly has to let other players take the lead in fighting. In the Octovine event, you’re using an exalted armor conservatively rather than offensively to help clear mobs. During a busy event, this is no big deal; during a weak effort, it could make things harder.

@OP: I personally hadn’t heard of this (although Ubi’s no doubt correct that this has been done for 2 years). I appreciate calling it to our attention.

Looks like a lot of effort and less like “power levelling”. Many people are hoarding tomes of knowledge and then there’s some who need to do Octovine events to get to 80.

Its for people who has many alts, or never do any of those “spamy” tracks that fill your inventory with tomes. I’m quite in the middle: I have tomes for uplevel 1 and a half character, and soon will have a lvl 80 booster… and I will not use them on any new character because I don’t want more alts.

However, this still seems fun, in an “ironman challenge” sort of way.

Faaris.8013:

Looks like a lot of effort and less like “power levelling”. Many people are hoarding tomes of knowledge and then there’s some who need to do Octovine events to get to 80.

It’s maybe 5% more work than doing Octovine normally (arguably less, since you’re mostly letting other people do the fighting). You get the same loot as anyone else doing the meta. And while many vets have tons of Tomes, many do not.

This is something I’ve done for a cpl years. I am one of those altholics as well as with multiple accounts. I wasn’t aware you could start them at low level. I had to start around lvl 60 or so because I thought I wasn’t doing enough damage to get it to count. Maybe the time I tried it with a level 10 or w/e I did something wrong. Will check it on some really low levels. thanks for correcting my flawed thinking on this.