Guild Wars 2

I have rejoined after more than 1 and a half years and I see that EOTM doesnt give levels anymore and nobody does Dungeons as well. I have returned with 2 friends (they are new players) And would love to have a guide on leveling and farming gold. All 3 of us do not have Heart of thorns. please do keep in mind.

Thanks in advance

If you want to do dungeons, open your own Group and list it on the LfG.

Exploring the world gets you to max lvl pretty fast.

For Gold run Silverwastes and/or Fractals. I think there is also a reward for running 8 dungeons paths per day.

Explore and complete maps, kill all enemies, do events, harvest/log everything, raise dead NPC’s and players …. pretty much everything gives XP.
As for gold – double check what things are selling for on the trading post before salvaging or selling to a regular merchant. And that includes white and blue things. I have seen things that sell to a merch for 20 copper sell for 5 silver on the TP. Do that often enough and you can make quite a bit, I do.

To make map completion even more fun, check the sticky above. Though that does assume lots of gliding mastery. Still it offers a really good route through every map and the gliding part is just to shave seconds off your time.

Just curious, what’s holding you back from getting HoT? If price is an issue check out the current list of official retailers and its possible to save up to 30% this way so it’s helpful to know that. In regards to lvling and dungeons, use any tomes for lvling that you might have lying around or run some easy dungeons for fast exp. It isn’t exactly accurate to say no one does dungeons anymore, it’s just that time/profit investment with troublesome paths such as those in Arah are just not even remotely worth it with people who have access to HoT content currently. For example running a single Arah path would take roughly half an hour and in that same time participating in chest farm in AB would require next to no effort and reward you with a minimum of ~15g in that duration assuming you know what you are doing. However, there are still people willing to run the easier and shorter paths such as AC and CoF (path 1), I know that I would probably be willing to join for them if I had a good group. From what I am aware of, 2nd year gifts should come with some lvl20 scrolls and a few exp boosters. If all else fails, just be aware that there is such a thing as an insta-80 scroll only catch is that it does require you to have HoT beforehand.

In regards to farming gold, best advice I can give you is to keep tabs on currencies you have saved up in both your account-wide bank and wallet. Laurels, mystic coins, spirit shards, globs of dark matter, fractal mist shards, dungeon tokens etc. — all of these can be converted to gold with a modicum of effort and knowledge. The conversion rate from dungeon tokens to gold is roughly ~1.5g per 100 tokens at a minimum, though it does have some strict requirements in that regard (a combination of random luck and time investment honestly). Let me know if you have any questions.