Guild Wars 2

I’m level 7 Human Elementalist. I need a training place. I hate training with the level 7 river drakes so don’t say that. Make sure it is not too far away from the humans starting place.

If I were in that situation I would kill the skales under the bridge just outside of divinity’s reach. Anything less than or euqal to your actual level but not more than 30 below is fine. The skales drop both vials of blood and eggs. So that is exp and gold.

There isn’t really any need to go after ever increasing level mobs in GW2 unlike some other games. There have been people who leveled to somewhere in the 60s just in the starting instance.

could go to any other starting place, you don’t have to limit yourself to that area
I agree though the human area doesn’t seem particularly well designed, it’s hard to level organically there

How to get to other race’s starting place?

The free way is to click the PvP crossed swords in the upper left of your screen. Pick Go to the Mists. That ports you to the sPvP lobby. Look ahead to your left, there is another portal. That takes you to Lion’s Arch. Run forward over the bridge to the set of 5 portals on a little island to the left. Each of those leads to another racial city, and when you exit the city you are in the starting zone.

I’d recommend the Charr starting area as an alternative to the Human one, but be advised their city is a nightmare to navigate. You want to get to the east edge of it for the gate out to the starter lands.

Also note that killing creatures is NOT the way to level. You’ll never get anywhere. Instead, look for hearts and do the things they want you to do. Run around and find waypoints and vistas and points of interest. Get gathering tools and gather all the wood, metal, and plants you can (remember to deposit collectibles from the gear at your inventory upper right to clear bags). Follow the lead to your personal story. Possibly pick up some crafting and do that once you have gathered enough mats. Key point for crafting: Don’t just make a pile of one thing once you learn how. You get the most boost from discovering new things to make.

If you do all those things you will level lightning fast. Killing creatures is something you do incidentally, not as the main focus.

Thanks, @Donari. But how to craft? lol. I don’t know what materials to get and how =P

Crafting, the gist:

Chop trees down, mine ore nodes, gather plants. You will need tools for this (buy at a vendor near the city bank and equip them, they show in the lower right of the character panel below accessories). There is no competition for nodes, each one is harvestable by everyone around.

Learn a craft by talking to the crafter. They will tell you what things you can learn to make; if it sounds useful to your profession, go for it. You can learn all crafts on one character, but only have 2 active at a time and it does cost some money to switch.

Stand at a crafting table, try to have the crafting vendor also in reach so you can have the vendor and table windows open at the same time. In the craft window upper left there is a choice of things. First one for discovery, second one for crafting known things, third thing to see your bank (you can use the bank at any crafting station even if you don’t know that craft, btw).

Refinement is how you process mats. Ore into bars, wood into planks, etc. Discovery means dragging items from your inventory window on the left to the slots on the right. If you get enough items that work together, it prompts you to learn the recipe.

There are crafting guides to do it at max efficiency for leveling but I vastly prefer noodling around on my own as I get the mats. I did cave in and use guides to find what foods I was missing once I got Cooking 400, since figuring out the missing thing I need is a jar of poultry stock isn’t exactly intuitive or easy to find out without random luck.

Every mat you need except for account bound foods from karma vendors is available on the TP. That gets pricey though. Do it in batches as you have the mats and you’ll not get there as fast but the journey will be more fun imo.

Just to chime in… I’m a newb myself but I play a human and started crafting with leather. It seems like the mats drop a lot early on from killing mobs, salvaging items I didn’t need that don’t sell for much. Once I got started I leveled pretty quick. It seemed to be the easiest craft to start with.

If you don’t have one you can get salvage kits from vendors and then double click it then click on the items you want to salvage. Some drops will say they are salvage items and you can salvage non soul bound weapons and such. For example if you get a leather boot drop and don’t need it or it isn’t worth selling you can salvage it for leather. In my opinion the experience value from crafting is often more valuable than selling it for say 25 copper at the TP or less to a vendor.

Discovery took me a bit to figure out but then I learned if I made both parts for say, gloves and then made insignias for the buff then dropped all three into the discovery panel I could make the buffed gloves and so forth.

You can find craft trainers in Claypool in Queensland map. I’m sure there are others near by but that was the easiest to find for me and you should be able to get there at level 7 okay.

Well that’s all I know for now, just wanted to share my thoughts.