Guild Wars 2

I am trying to understand something I read on wiki, hopefully someone can explain it. The following text is taken from the Guild Wars Wiki Dynamic event Page and it sounds wrong to me.

A dynamic event rewards 7% of experience required for the next level for players of the same level of the event. If the level is higher than the level of the event, the player will receive the base reward and an additional portion that scales with the difference in level.

Wiki makes it sound like if you are of a higher level, you will receive more experience from a lower leveled event.

My question is, If a level 1 player receives “gold reward” from a level 5 dynamic event, will they receive the same experience from that as if they had done a level 1 dynamic event, or will they receive more experience?

Sounds to me like you receive the base reward per completion level (gold reward, etc). Why is this important?

The way I understand is that since higher level characters need more actual XP to level up, they get adjusted, but the percentage remains the same.

Like, hypothetical numbers, but if say, a level 1 needed 100XP to level they would get 7XP for the event, a level 10 needing 1000XP to level up would get 7+63=70XP for the same event? So the numerical value is greater for the higher level, but the effective value doesn’t. This is probably simplistic but I think it’s more or less what happens.

Once an event is successfully completed, everyone who actively participated will receive experience, karma, and coin. The amount is based on the level of the event, the level of the player, the medal ranking, and whether the event was successful. If the level of the participant is below or equal to the level of the event, the reward is based off the level of the event. A dynamic event rewards 7% of experience required for the next level for players of the same level of the event. If the level is higher than the level of the event, the player will receive the base reward and an additional portion that scales with the difference in level. Keep in mind that level scaling for the area still occurs and the effective level of the player will be likely be one or two levels higher than the event. Participation can be very difficult for players more than a few levels below the event due to level scaling. Players with a difference of 10 or more levels are not able to participate and receive a ranking for the event.

Bolded the line right before what you quoted. That should answer your question.

Yes, a higher level player will get more XP than a lower level player at a low level event. If not, why would they bother to join in.

so because this forum is terrible, I can not see what was bolded in the above post. but no one else answered my question either.

My question is, If a level 1 player receives “gold reward” from a level 5 dynamic event, will they receive the same experience from that as if they had done a level 1 dynamic event, or will they receive more experience?

Shouldn’t you be rewarded for doing harder content?

If the level of the participant is below or equal to the level of the event, the reward is based off the level of the event.

Again, it was the line right before the part you quoted, straight from the wiki.

Going off of this, say you go to a level 10 event. It gives 7% of the exp a level 10 character needs to level. Anyone at level 10 or below will get that amount, even though for those under level 10, it’s more than 7% of what they need.

For characters above level 10, they get the 7% that a level 10 character would need to level, with additional exp so that it will still help them actually level up.

ok, so if I am reading the table correctly, a level one player needs 2000 xp to get to level two. so a Level 1 event will reward 7% of 2000 which is 140 xp.
A level 5 player needs 2999 xp to get to next level, which 7% of is 209.93xp.
So if that level one player does a level 5 event he will receive 209.93 xp

party buddy.4956:

ok, so if I am reading the table correctly, a level one player needs 2000 xp to get to level two. so a Level 1 event will reward 7% of 2000 which is 140 xp.
A level 5 player needs 2999 xp to get to next level, which 7% of is 209.93xp.
So if that level one player does a level 5 event he will receive 209.93 xp

Nope .. he will get 7% of the exp he needed to get to level 2, so thats still 140xp.

Afaik you will not get more than those 7% .. only less if you are quite some levels
higher than the level of the event.

And that also makes sense, since else you could powerlevel characters with
shuttling them to higher level events where they only need one hit while
high leve character complete the event.

So who is correct?

MasterJediSoda.5926:

Say you go to a level 10 event. It gives 7% of the exp a level 10 character needs to level. Anyone at level 10 or below will get that amount, even though for those under level 10, it’s more than 7% of what they need.

Beldin.5498:

Nope .. he will get 7% of the exp he needed to get to level 2, so thats still 140xp.

I think there’s some adjustment made to higher level characters so that it’s slightly less than the base percentage, but Beldin is absolutely not right, it is in fact very possible to level your level 70+ chars by having them sitting around low level areas and grabbing every other event. It takes longer than it would on a low level character because of the adjustment, but the experience gain remains significant.

Well, the way it put it, a level 10 character doing a level 5 event would get 7% of whats needed to get to level 6, plus some extra, so I’d agree that it’s probably less than 7% overall for higher level characters – and that percent probably isn’t much lower.

And party buddy, I don’t have the space right now to test it myself with a low level character. You have the right idea with the amounts of exp you’re using, again going off of the wiki – but if you look at the bottom of https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Experience

it shows that, for the amounts of exp it gives out, the first 15 levels give out more exp than you’d expect. So any character at level 5 or below doing a level 5 event (and getting gold) would gain 7% of 4940 exp, or 345.8.

Well now that this all perfectly clear :P

I guess I will just have to test it out, if I can find the time. If only they would let me install gw2 at work…

jackaljag.8637:

but Beldin is absolutely not right, it is in fact very possible to level your level 70+ chars by having them sitting around low level areas and grabbing every other event. It takes longer than it would on a low level character because of the adjustment, but the experience gain remains significant.

I have not said that .. at least not that i’m aware of it.

Heck i leveled my last characters all to 80 in Dredgehaunt Cliffs.

What i said is only that you can’t powerlevel a low level character with doing
high level stuff, Like going with your level 2 into cursed shore and get 10 levels
for 1 event or whatever.