Guild Wars 2

From my first week of playing, I’ve gotten used to the leveling system of the game. It seems most of the leveling is done from “Hearts” and “Events”. My wife is also playing with me and during our heart quests, we noticed that the heart objectives are not shared. I have to kill/gather my objectives separately than her, unless we both attack the same mob. I tend to run around and gather mobs to finish my quests quicker, and she is newer to the MMO exp, so she attacks things as she sees them. I also have a few friends that are going to start playing with us in the near future. Would it be easier to level up solo/groups of 2 instead of leveling together as a large group? I know later when we start doing dungeons/fractals it will change, but how about the leveling up part?
Thanks!

Hearts are a good thing to do to clear an area and to give you a good idea of where to go in the zone, but they’re not the best source of experience. Events are better, exploring isn’t shabby either. Hearts are also one of the few things that’s only tracked for the individual, most things are shared.

So I’d say it works either way, although a larger group will be able to take down veterans/champions that turn up around you as events, without having to gather allies from all over the map. That could let you get more events done. Plus, more people will kill more things, but as long as you all get a chance to hit stuff you all get exp. It’s really up to how it works for you though.

I’d say finish hearts and areas up to about lvl 30. After that dynamic events and dungeons are you best bet for leveling (dungeons give you that nice gold too). Small to medium sized groups are my favorite for dynamic events, to make sure you get enough hits on all those bad guys so you get some exp for kills.

I had a group of 7-8 friends that all got on to play alts on one day of the week. We ran around doing hearts and events and what not. Some people did advance through hearts faster than others, but when someone finished the heart, they would help the others by killing things in the area or gathering materials just for the minute or so it took the slower person to complete the heart. This game is ten times more fun running around PvE with a group of people.

@Curuniel – I understand the large scale groups to take out events and such, but it seems most of the major events are flooded with players from the map anyway.

@SlimGenre – I know that dungeons are the main portion of leveling once you hit 30+. Like most games, dungeons are the way to go unless you like the story line and questing.

@Ilithis – That is the whole reason I got into GW. I like the fact that a lot of the game is based on playing coop instead of solo. I left SWTOR/WoW because of that.

The only thing I don’t really like is that after I have finished my hearts/vista/skill ups, (too low to start the others) I have to wonder around for events, gathering materials, or just grind out on mobs in the area.

Labyrinth.7201:

@Curuniel – I understand the large scale groups to take out events and such, but it seems most of the major events are flooded with players from the map anyway.

@SlimGenre – I know that dungeons are the main portion of leveling once you hit 30+. Like most games, dungeons are the way to go unless you like the story line and questing.

@Ilithis – That is the whole reason I got into GW. I like the fact that a lot of the game is based on playing coop instead of solo. I left SWTOR/WoW because of that.

The only thing I don’t really like is that after I have finished my hearts/vista/skill ups, (too low to start the others) I have to wonder around for events, gathering materials, or just grind out on mobs in the area.

A suggestion would be to complete the other zones that are similar in level. There are 5 zones that are level 1-15. The zones are pretty unique and you can get to any of them from the get-go.

More people around for events means more mobs spawn means more loot.

Awesome.6120:

More people around for events means more mobs spawn means more loot.

means more exp and generally, more fun! =D