Guild Wars 2

New to the game and wondered what happens to your personal story progress and exploring in general if you use your Level-80 Boost permanently?
Am I free to go back to where I was before the boost and continue?
I realise my level will be reduced in some areas but that’s fine.

You can do the story any time, assuming you are high enough level. I often wait until level 80 to do more than level 10 story.

I want to explore 100% of all the areas and do all the hearts.
If I’m L80 and go back to low level areas will I have all my L80 skills?

Yes, just reduced stats to match the area’s level.

As already mentioned whatever you set in traits and skills will remain in lower levels. I actually don’t even do my story till I am at least level 60, mainly because by the time you get to orr in the story you are just a few levels under 80 or actually 80.
With the 80 booster it doesn’t affect anything other then your personal level and what will be unlocked for your char, trait and hp wise. You will just find that if you equip your char for 80 that a lot of the items you get in the story as a reward will be useless to you. But most you can sell, or salvage, and the others can be put in the mystic toilet.

Iman Oldie.6457:

I want to explore 100% of all the areas and do all the hearts.
If I’m L80 and go back to low level areas will I have all my L80 skills?

Again, I stick with my argument that this would be reliant on intuition. To the poster who called me out as being ‘horrid’ and unhelpful, well tell me why that is. This is discounting his OP where he uses the keyword more then once. A simple google search for ‘levels gw2’ or ’ leveling gw2’ leads to this informative page:

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Dynamic_level_adjustment

The page literally answers all his questions. Common intuition with quote above.. how do so many ppl have world completion on multiple alts? Would it be prudent to waste so much time clearing all the low lvl zones when u are the same lvl for the map, given the distance between them? This would also apply to all same-lvl zones that are specific to each race.. should it be that hard to traverse them?

There are many ppl that level to 80 without completing majority of hearts or other poi’s in the world. Some power lvl or farm some content, others use tomes of knowledge or lvl 80 scrolls. Why would it be offered if it precluded a chance at world completion?

Similar deal with personal story.. direct quote from wiki,

…personal storyline, that players may follow at their own leisure.

Same deal with the renown hearts as he was indirectly asking abt..

Progress on the heart can be started or stopped at any time.

Granted this last one was a bit vague, so perhaps if he led with this last question it would be acceptable and I would be fine with it, since I remember how WoW was.. but that was not his main concern even, he never stated it was either. His main issue was with what happens when he uses lvl 80 boost and what happens to his personal story, how lvl scaling works and can he go back to low lvl zones to explore. Like I said most of this explained with simple google search for the keyword he was concerned about.

I’m also fairly new to the game. I waited until I got my first character to L80, and then used my L80 boost on a second character – that worked REAL well for me…