Guild Wars 2

I had thought that they had made a change so characters of any level could enjoy all the maps. With up leveling and down leveling, how ever today when I tried to play with guild mates I was not up leveled at all.

Am I miss understanding what was said?

“Hello, I’m Isaiah Cartwright, the lead game designer for Guild Wars 2. I’d like to talk today about some changes we made to our dynamic leveling system, which allows players to enjoy the content on any map at any level.”

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“The goal is to more accurately reflect the attributes you should have at that level for a similarly geared character. While this will make some areas harder, our goal is to make all areas of Guild Wars 2 exciting and fun for players of any level. We also want players of all levels to feel like their time is well spent and rewarding in any map they go to.”

Not sure how, since Any map any level is well pretty obvious and yet not working.

I’m not sure where you got the idea they added uplevelling to the open world. Up levelling only applies to WvW and certain areas during special events (like Southsun Cove during the Lost Shores event).

Yes you misunderstood. For a starting character the game is really straight forward as any game. You can’t simply run to the cursed shores from Sheamore and do endgame stuff. Like in any game you have to work hard to get there. However, if someone who did it comes to sheamore he/she will still be better but will still find it challenging.

You must have played other mmo’s to see what the issue is. Have you ever killed a rabbit or a rat in this game? Well in most games, if a level 80 goes to a starterzone he/she can kill anything on the map like a rabbit with one shot (and get no xp or drop either). This game is designed i nsuch a way that if your guildmates come to your area, even when they are 75 levels higher then you, they can and will die too and struggle with the content just like you.

You are however not being upleveled (aside 4 places).

The 5 places where you will be upleveled are:
a: sPvP-maps (this is the only place where you also get different armor, all the traits, and skills and different weapons, in the other 3 places, you still have lower armor rating and weapons and not all the traits)

b: World versus World.

c: Fractals of the mists

d: Festival-maps (not currently active, but at festivals like halloween and wintersday on the festival maps you where upscaled).

So if you are up-leveled in FOTM, what is the lowest supported level? I assume you cant be a level 1 and start FOTM right away…

Labyrinth.7201:

So if you are up-leveled in FOTM, what is the lowest supported level? I assume you cant be a level 1 and start FOTM right away…

Getting out of the starting instance without leveling to level 2 is actually a bit of a challenge. :p

A reasonable starting level would be 30, same as the recommended level for the lowest level dungeon story mode.

It’s impossible to get to Fractals at level 2.

I experimented recently with the human starting instance – ran straight to the keep, hung around close enough to go through the doors when they opened but didn’t attack anything, only got hit twice and came out of it with no XP. The reward was exactly enough to bump me up to level 2. I assume it’s designed that way on purpose.

So yes, in theory you could start Fractals at level 2, but I think you’d have a hard time finding a team because they’re unlikely to want someone who has no traits, no utility skills and barely any weapon skills unlocked.

Ok cool. Me and my wife just hit 50 yesterday and we have only completed AC and CM story modes. Might think about doing FOTM soon.

Thanks gang,
Was just disappointing when I got my lvl 60 their but it was ok I just switched characters. Just wish they would have used better language instead of any map any level.

Labyrinth.7201:

Ok cool. Me and my wife just hit 50 yesterday and we have only completed AC and CM story modes. Might think about doing FOTM soon.

50 should be fine. Did it with a bunch of 30s and possibly a 20something a while back. Knowing about each fractal’s various gimmick makes a much bigger difference.