Guild Wars 2

Just as the title says,I’ve had HoT for a year,and I still couldn’t crack the level 40 barrier.I either find myself really bored,running around and doing hearts and quicktime events,either I get dead bored of my class and switch to another,and so on.The thing is,I really like GW2,I’d love to get to the endgame,but I can’t pull myself through the grind.

What should I do?

Stop grinding. Just go out and do … whatever. Try exploring new zones. Turn left instead of right.

Everything in this game grants xp (except chatting and posting on the forums), so it hardly takes anytime compared to other games, imo.

You can boost your XP gains with cheap consumables, including food and fireworks (available on the TP). You can craft to rank 25 in each of the 8 disciplines — not very expensive and a good chunk of xp. You can do PvP and get leveling tomes (or WvW, although I don’t recommend that without traits).

Preorder New expansion and get lvl 80 boost

Keep logging in and use the Tomes of Knowledge

I level’d 4 80s before using my 80 boost. I’ve found this game one of the MOST FUN to level through AND quickest. Most of my guild have found it the same way, however there are others that feel the way you do not used to such a system.

Crafting, dailies, stories, exploring, there’s a ton of ways idk, I do get if you find that stuff boring you can just get bored with it all. An 80 boost would help haha.

Dymensity.2789:

What should I do?

Roll a Ranger

Do WvW if you bored of PvE content and also want to leveling
(WvW will give you tome of knowledge)

As for me when I first start playing, most of my leveling is by grinding world-bosses

For me its a combination of 2 things:

1) Not focusing on just 1 character. I made 4 characters on day 1, and another a few months later (I’m now up to 9 permanents and frequently make temporary characters too). When I logged in I’d play whichever I felt like playing that day and the different professions and the fact that they were all at different points made it varied enough that it didn’t get boring.

2) Don’t think about levelling. When I was below level 80 I rarely thought about what level I was or how long I had to go until the next one. I just focused on playing the game and then every so often I’d find I’d gained a level. (Before the level rewards I’d sometimes not even notice until I went to equip new drops and found I’d gone up 2-3 levels.)

Another thing that might help is to remember that you don’t need to stay in 1 map. Because of level scaling you can play in any map at or below your level and get good XP (and above your level if you can survive) and you start with 1 waypoint in each 1-15 map unlocked and will have discovered several more by level 40. So you can always switch to a different map for a change of scenery if you feel like it.

“How do you get to 80 without getting bored?”

Use the level 80 boost or Tomes of Knowledge.

Faaris.8013:

“How do you get to 80 without getting bored?”

Use the level 80 boost or Tomes of Knowledge.

This.

Beyond levelling my main to 80, I have never attempted to level a single alt to 80 because of remembering how tedious it was. In the future if I want to level an alt to 80 I can easily do so with my large stockpile of ToK or using the level 80 boost from this expansion preorder.

Dymensity.2789:

What should I do?

Play something else.

Since you own HoT, you ve probably have a boost to 80.
Otger than that personal story and pvp(you have full specs in pvp) and use tomes

mbhalo.1547:

Dymensity.2789:

What should I do?

Play something else.

He’s kinda right. No offense, but if hearts and story in classic is boring you then, maybe this isn’t the game for you.

WvW and PvP aren’t that great.
And while the meta in Hot+ maps are more enjoyable it’s not THAT much different.

Change games.

You have to enjoy at least a few of the many paths the game offers you to level up. If you are getting bored, you simply are not interested in any of them.

Listen to yourself, and act accordingly.

Wade.2597:

Change games.

You have to enjoy at least a few of the many paths the game offers you to level up. If you are getting bored, you simply are not interested in any of them.

Listen to yourself, and act accordingly.

Exactly. Why force yourself to play something you are bored with.

I think it depends on why you’re bored.

If it’s the game as a whole – if hearts and events are boring to you then yeah, it could be that this isn’t the right game (because it’s not that different at level 80).

But if it’s because you’re focusing on the XP and see everything you do simply as a means to an end, you’re ignoring the dialogue and the scene and what you’re actually doing and instead seeing it as simply so much XP per minute, then a change of perspective could be good.

If you’ve been looking at the same snow and rocks (or grass and rocks, or swamp or whatever) and killing the same enemies for slightly different reasons for what feels like ages then going to another map could help.

If you’re bored with using the same 5 weapon skills and the same utility and elite skills then mixing them up a bit of changing character could help.

There’s also the option of taking a break from the game to play something else, or do something totally different and coming back to it later.

Giving up on the game completely just because it’s boring at the moment seems very drastic to me.

Have to agree with some comments… If you are bored then maybe. But If you want to stay. The easiest way I’ve found to level quickly is do map completion starting with cities (Lion’s Arch has portal to all) then low level areas progressing upwards. You should be level 80 around 53% world map completion. A level 80 fighting in level 50 areas. Start at the top of the following list and work your way down. There is ALOT of content that is not combat related. GW and GW2 are very rich in story development.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Zone

Dymensity.2789:

Just as the title says,I’ve had HoT for a year,and I still couldn’t crack the level 40 barrier.I either find myself really bored,running around and doing hearts and quicktime events,either I get dead bored of my class and switch to another,and so on.The thing is,I really like GW2,I’d love to get to the endgame,but I can’t pull myself through the grind.

What should I do?

DON’T DO HEARTS DON’T DO HEARTS DON’T DO HEARTS DON’T DO HEARTS DON’T DO HEARTS DON’T DO HEARTS DON’T DO HEARTS DON’T DO HEARTS

Seriously, kitten hearts, the most tedious thing in the game. Unbelievably ANet introduced !#*!# Daily Hearts in Living Story 3 but that’s a matter for a different post.

More seriously, all you have to do to level to 80 is:

1. Run around and collect every Waypoint and Hero Point on each map, ignore everything else. (though feel free to participate in Dynamic Events as you happen upon them, but only if they seem fun)
2. Do the Personal Story until it’s too high level for you, then do #1 until you level enough to continue the Personal Story.
3. Do every Story Dungeon as you reach the level for it (you’ll get a mail telling which dungeon when it unlocks for you).

That’s it. You’ll be 80 in no time with the least possible pain unless you use Tomes of Knowledge or a Level 80 Booster.

akenoyuki.8210:

Do WvW if you bored of PvE content and also want to leveling
(WvW will give you tome of knowledge)

As for me when I first start playing, most of my leveling is by grinding world-bosses

So if he’s bored with PvE content he should go get gang kitten d for a few hours, that’ll make him stick around!

I joined a wvw map, died 4 times, got nothing for it. That’s not fun and will only cause people to abandon the game.

Look at every single achievment tab. There are going to be things in there that you find fun. Also look at event timers for world bosses and the achievements that go with them.

There are also jumping puzzles, dungeons, activities (mini games), collections and random stuff to go after. There is PvP and WvW, crafting, Exploration with Vistas, hidden places. A lot of the achievements took me to cool places I never would have seen without doing them.

I also would have missed half the activities, and lots of mastery points in HOT without looking at those.

Basically, don’t GRIND, just do a little bit of everything and you won’t get bored.

You know what I find interesting about this topic?

Lots of posts contradict each other (e.g. we’ve got “focus on map completion” immediately above “Don’t do hearts!”) but none of them is wrong.

Almost everything in this game gives you XP. Some things don’t give it directly – in particular WvW and PvP – but they give Tomes of Knowledge which each give you 1 level, but you’d have a hard time finding activities to focus on which won’t help you level at all. I think the only time that’s possible is if you only ever logged in for Wintersday and only did the mini-games that are part of the festival.

So you can actually do whatever you want, and skip whatever you don’t want to do. (With a few exceptions, for example you can’t level exclusively by doing dungeons because you have to be level 30 to start the first one, but from then on you could.)

I never even entered WvW until my first character was level 80. Another character I leveled exclusively in WvW. Another I got to level 80 just using Tomes of Knowledge (that was an exception for me, but I needed a new level 80 at short notice). Normally I do a mix of map completion, events, story and crafting because that’s the mix I enjoy.

So maybe the best approach is to try everything and find out which parts of the game you enjoy most, then focus on that.

WVW for tomes, I found that to be the most fun and you also level your WVW level and get proofs of heroics you can use towards Hero Points.

If you are bored you don’t have enough aggro.

Granted there are spots where getting enough aggro is difficult. You should avoid those spots. Even boring PvE trash mobs become interesting if you can get three or more on you. I suggest soloing group events.

As a long time player, Started in GW1 and had GW2 the day it came out, I find that a goal of some kind to work towards helps me from getting bored. Crafting Legendary and Ascendant armor and weapons is always a challenge. (The amount of wood/Mithril need for The HMS Divinity is just staggering!) Then there is always WvW / PvP and Fractals when that gets old.