Guild Wars 2

I got two of my 80s through doing the mindless Champion slaughterfest that was Edge of the Mists, but after popping in several times after a 2-year absence and never finding a commander or even much of a soul running around the battlefields, I suppose that method won’t work anymore. What are people doing now to power through their levels? Methods not involving PvP would be preferred, as I’m not great at it and it makes me anxious.

If you can wait 10 more weeks, the lab farm during Halloween will get you levels fast.

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Khisanth.2948:

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OP: EOTM is still considered one of the best ways. Personally, I’ve never run it. Couple of suggestions though: 1. Get the guild hall experience booster from the your guild’s GH tavern. That’s an extra 10% for everything you do. 2: Run some sort of food. Bowl of candy corn custard is available at level 10 and that’s another 15% experience from killing stuff. 3. If you’ve got any experience boosters, use them. 4. Map complete the cities – LA, DR, Rata Sum, The Grove, Hoelbrek, and Black Citadel will get you 5-7 levels at least.

Khisanth.2948:

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Gonna assume you’re talking about burning through Tomes of Knowledge – how do you get them, aside from the occasional daily login reward?

Kaltyn of Torbins Deep.2946:

Khisanth.2948:

I double click then I double click some more …

ROFLMAO

OP: EOTM is still considered one of the best ways. Personally, I’ve never run it. Couple of suggestions though: 1. Get the guild hall experience booster from the your guild’s GH tavern. That’s an extra 10% for everything you do. 2: Run some sort of food. Bowl of candy corn custard is available at level 10 and that’s another 15% experience from killing stuff. 3. If you’ve got any experience boosters, use them. 4. Map complete the cities – LA, DR, Rata Sum, The Grove, Hoelbrek, and Black Citadel will get you 5-7 levels at least.

EotM hasn’t been an XP farm since they removed XP from WvW quite some time ago.

Tomes of knowledge are a common drop from the wvw reward track/participation award. Idk if you get that in eotm or not but in regular wvw maps it works out quite nicely. If wvw makes you anxious then aside from crafting idk. Sorry if that’s not very helpful. ^^;;

Kako.1930:

Tomes of knowledge are a common drop from the wvw reward track/participation award. Idk if you get that in eotm or not but in regular wvw maps it works out quite nicely. If wvw makes you anxious then aside from crafting idk. Sorry if that’s not very helpful. ^^;;

I don’t think I’ve really delved into standard WvW, if it drops books like candy then I might be interested. What exactly do you do? I imagine it’s nothing like EotM.

Kaltyn of Torbins Deep.2946:

Khisanth.2948:

I double click then I double click some more …

ROFLMAO

OP: EOTM is still considered one of the best ways. Personally, I’ve never run it. Couple of suggestions though: 1. Get the guild hall experience booster from the your guild’s GH tavern. That’s an extra 10% for everything you do. 2: Run some sort of food. Bowl of candy corn custard is available at level 10 and that’s another 15% experience from killing stuff. 3. If you’ve got any experience boosters, use them. 4. Map complete the cities – LA, DR, Rata Sum, The Grove, Hoelbrek, and Black Citadel will get you 5-7 levels at least.

Lv40 scroll + tomes

You zerg or you roam in wvw. If you zerg, you’ll have to have a build that synergizes others in your zerg . Current meta comp is 2 guardis for stab 1 rev for resist 1 necro for boon removal 1 healer ele and 1 war, and the other classes just tail and get used as cannon fodder.

Roaming gives you more freedom with your build as you basically just have to have a build good enough to survive npcs to cap camps, and sentries, while at the same time able to handle the occasional player or 20 that you’ll run into. PVE BUILDS WILL NOT WORK. (Exception being if you have god-like skills.)

Side note progress will be slow depending on both you and your server. Also WvW is the best place to farm transmutation shards thanks to the pip system. ( I get around 20-30 of them over the course of a week for doing random things.)

Sephylon.4938:

You zerg or you roam in wvw. If you zerg, you’ll have to have a build that synergizes others in your zerg . Current meta comp is 2 guardis for stab 1 rev for resist 1 necro for boon removal 1 healer ele and 1 war, and the other classes just tail and get used as cannon fodder.

Roaming gives you more freedom with your build as you basically just have to have a build good enough to survive npcs to cap camps, and sentries, while at the same time able to handle the occasional player or 20 that you’ll run into. PVE BUILDS WILL NOT WORK. (Exception being if you have god-like skills.)

Side note progress will be slow depending on both you and your server. Also WvW is the best place to farm transmutation shards thanks to the pip system. ( I get around 20-30 of them over the course of a week for doing random things.)

Any suggestions for a Ranger build? He’s level like, 68 or so.

I’d suggest bringing it up to 80 then maxing out druid 1st. Ranger as a core class isn’t much of a threat when compared to druid due to how annoying ancient seeds can be coupled with their increased suitability brought on by the access to ca form, which brings with it a full condi clear, decent healing bursts, additional cc, and additional access to stealth. In addition to these, they get access to staff which brings with it a new mobility skill.

Sephylon.4938:

I’d suggest bringing it up to 80 then maxing out druid 1st. Ranger as a core class isn’t much of a threat when compared to druid due to how annoying ancient seeds can be coupled with their increased suitability brought on by the access to ca form, which brings with it a full condi clear, decent healing bursts, additional cc, and additional access to stealth. In addition to these, they get access to staff which brings with it a new mobility skill.

I mean, that’s the whole idea of this thread – to bring him to 80 as fast as possible. Won’t need to powerlevel if he’s already 80. :P

Just do hearts and personal story. Check the dungeon lfg now and then, or start your own. Use any boosters you have available, guild, exp, etc.

Sephylon.4938:

Just do hearts and personal story. Check the dungeon lfg now and then, or start your own. Use any boosters you have available, guild, exp, etc.

Having done that for three characters (and getting bored of it partway through), I was hoping there’d be a faster way for the fourth, but I guess if that’s how it is, that’s how it is.

Well, there’s always buying Heart of Thorns and/or Path of Fire and using the L80 Boost.

Welcome return, and good luck.