Guild Wars 2

Maybe it’s time to get a few free accounts (definitely not for trolling opposing servers).

So here are the two questions:

1. What’s the quickest way to get to 60? (For those who want to enter WvW as soon as possible.)
2. What’s the least effort way (AFK as much as possible) to get to 60? (For those who have less active play time and want to do other stuff (play other games, watch TV, homework, etc.) while leveling.

Crafting is the quickest, besides tomes, ofc.

If you are allowed to go to the Edge of the Mists i would level there. If not, well then PvE i would guess, public events, hearts etc. If you can afford a few gems you could buy XP boosters in the gem store.

I have never heard of afk leveling so i don´t know where you could do that.

Yeah I think EoTM. Who wants to sit and craft. And if everyone crafted what would that do to the markets anyway? Much more fun to Ktrain through EoTM and be with other people and getting loot. No loot in crafting.

yey free trolling and spying on ennemy servers… what a joke.
Things are becoming worse and worse for wvw.

I’d suggest to lvl up with craft. But then you don t get access to the market so happy farming before crafting. I also guess you ll not have access to EoTM until lvl 60.

The Lazy Way.
1-20 In PvE because they made the leveling on those levels pretty fast.
Then Only login for Daily Reward.
You get 16 Tomes a Month so in 3month you have your lvl 68.
I say 3 months because day 27(gives 4 Tomes)&28 (gives 6tomes if you choose that option). And your also will have get laurels wich you could use to get those Crafting starter kits. to level yourself by crafting aswell.

Quickest way?
Ask the guy who got lvl 80 before the official release date. Just because of the 3 days headstart.(its possible to have a lvl 80 in 72hours).

ZhouFusion.1826:

The Lazy Way.
1-20 In PvE because they made the leveling on those levels pretty fast.
Then Only login for Daily Reward.
You get 16 Tomes a Month so in 3month you have your lvl 68.
I say 3 months because day 27(gives 4 Tomes)&28 (gives 6tomes if you choose that option). And your also will have get laurels wich you could use to get those Crafting starter kits. to level yourself by crafting aswell.

Free accounts have no login rewards.

I have found that map running – ignore the hearts – is one of the faster ways in PvE. Everything is relatively fast except for the hearts, and doing a few events as you pass them will give you extra XP and the occasional heart. However, you are not going to be allowed into Lion’s Arch until level 35, so that cuts down on the tactic to run all of the 1-15 areas and capitols before moving on to the higher level areas.

Why are people saying run EotM? Did I miss a message that said EotM is not WvW and therefore you can get in before level 60? If so, that would be great, but I have a character that levels in EotM and it seems like you still need to go into PvE in order to get enough skill points.

Ideas like Tomes won’t fly as they are account bound so you are not going to get them from your paid account and as has been pointed out, you don’t get login rewards.

Crafting is definitely possible, as you can send gold from your other account. But if this is your only account, this is not a viable method. You going to get some XP, but not level to 60 that way.

Just doing yellow hearts combined with dynamic events makes you level relatively quick and easy. And don’t skip on personal story either, it gives you decent experience in between.

the starting wp is open on all starter areas so theres no need to go to lions arch, run the world bosses in starting areas, fire ele > jungle wurm > behemoth > maw, its good xp especially maw

MinerBob.5312:

Crafting is definitely possible, as you can send gold from your other account.

Can a free account accept gold in the mail? If so, looks like crafting is the quickest way to go. Anyone seeing big influx of trolls yet?

Crafting or pvp assuming you can’t go into EOTM.

PvP is the fastest. Followed by EOTM’ing and simply running through random places in the open world— do events that overlap with hearts for double credit and never do any hearts that require doing anything but killing stuff. I often also do the first part of the personal story just to grab the key and it grants nice experience while being really easy anyways.

I dislike crafting to level as it is pricey on a new account and also rather tedious running around to get stuff and look up lists. Though if you must, go to rata sum and not some place awful like Lion’s Arch.

Can f2p accounts go into EOTM before lvl 60?

https://help.guildwars2.com/entries/95982157-Account-types-Free-Core-HoT

It doesn’t seem like EOTM is an option til 60, and you can’t recieve items in mail nor can you access any guild banks. Funny enough, you can’t go to LA until 35…?

um, you can receive items in mail, not sure on gold though as I didn’t try it but I definitely received the armor and weapon set I sent myself.

Lvl to 80 pls befor enter

This whole Free Account thing will destroy the WvW Population balance massively if the free accounts count into the active WvW Players there will be a lot of manipulation.

Haralin.1473:

This whole Free Account thing will destroy the WvW Population balance massively if the free accounts count into the active WvW Players there will be a lot of manipulation.

Given that the free accounts will require level 60 before they can enter WvW, how many people are going to spend the time to level accounts just for manipulating population calculations?

smithkt.8062:

Given that the free accounts will require level 60 before they can enter WvW, how many people are going to spend the time to level accounts just for manipulating population calculations?

Given that players have spend money to make alternate accounts just for this type of play. It wouldn’t surprise me people would make free accounts to hinder other server’s performance. The real question is how many will pop up and how much will they actually affect the end result of WvW

1) Join a havoc in EOTM and grind there
2) Crafting (cooking is cheaper and will net fast exp)
3) If you’re not a vet player then you may have skipped out on the insta 20 tomes but you can pvp starting at level 1 and you earn tomes as well as pve exp (not as much, but enough)

avenger.9186:

um, you can receive items in mail, not sure on gold though as I didn’t try it but I definitely received the armor and weapon set I sent myself.

So you can still receive but not send?

That’s not so hot then.

I made a free account to check out other tiers. But then realized that its just not worth it to have to level to 60. Man its painful.

Plus I have no money to craft buy crafting mats. I don’t like crafting anyway.

And the Writs and Tomes are account bound.

Definitely not worth it.

Pink Ninja Man.4375:

smithkt.8062:

Given that the free accounts will require level 60 before they can enter WvW, how many people are going to spend the time to level accounts just for manipulating population calculations?

Given that players have spend money to make alternate accounts just for this type of play. It wouldn’t surprise me people would make free accounts to hinder other server’s performance. The real question is how many will pop up and how much will they actually affect the end result of WvW

With restricted access to many things, I think it will be very painful to level an alt to 60 just for the goal of trying to manipulate WvW pop calculations. Now, consider that a great many would have to be willing to do the same. With the prior $10 sales, you could immediately access WvW. No effort. That’s the key.

Easiet Way: (assuming you play already since 2012 and are no new player)

Lvl 20 = Use one Instant Level Up Scroll from a Birthday of your Charas
Lvl 21-60 = Use Instant level 1 scrolsl that you get from PvP rewards constantly while you play PvP filling up your reward tracks meanwhile too

40 scrolls from pvp are quickly done, you get reward tracks full, and you work at the same time also on lots of achievements and is alot more fun, that to zerg around in Eotm in endless circles, unless its karma and badges of honor what you want, then go for EotM

You get multiple instant level up scrols per track, like 3 or 4
plus you can also boost your reward trakc progression significantly when using those new hero boosters or exp booster, that give you 50% more reward trakc progression, use that at days where special pvp events are and you get an extra 15% on top
That way is making reward tracks complete quickly done, especialyl when you have a winning streak naturally

But what I ask myself now? Why 60? Was this a typo and you meant 80?
And in general I wouldn’t advide people to level overall in WvW, its slow and boring.
Level via PvP/PvE is faster and more fun and also more rewarding

ArchonWing.9480:

avenger.9186:

um, you can receive items in mail, not sure on gold though as I didn’t try it but I definitely received the armor and weapon set I sent myself.

So you can still receive but not send?

That’s not so hot then.

I send a friend of mine (who’s trying out the game on a free account) 2 gold to fund her characters, to make it less of a hassle, and she got it. I don’t know if she could send anything back though. Maybe only if the free account is on the paid account’s friend list? Whispers are limited like that, so maybe mail is too.

avenger.9186:

um, you can receive items in mail, not sure on gold though as I didn’t try it but I definitely received the armor and weapon set I sent myself.

Can send, to a free account, gold and items, however a free account cannot do the same. Also, you can buy and sell on TP from a limited selection list, those items are crafting mats, excluding the Rare, and some selected gear from each tier.

Honestly, doesn’t seem worth at all to play with free account if you already have the paid game. Unless you want try something different, but if so, keep in mind that whatever you get as loot/drop will pretty much only be available for your account, something like the betas items and you will see yourself selling stuff worth of 1g+ for merchant price.

You can not enter EotM, and for crafting you will need gold, if this is your first account then you will have to farm a lot of material or gold before you can craft. Doing pvp is a good option though because you get the level scrolls as reward.

On normal accounts i mostly make a new character within in a few days to lvl 80, i found it a bit more challanging to make it on a f2p account, and i did send gold from my main account to be able to craft. Also gearing is a bit anoying because you have only access to buy blue gear at the Trading Company, so you will have to rely on drops, or in my case i crafted gear on my main account and sent it over.

As for telling people to not join wvw until lvl 80 i am sorry but that is bs. I been leveling 36 characters on 3 accounts, one main, one in na and now one f2p, and i am getting half the levels inside of wvw without being any sort of rally bot, and consider i level and are instersted in xp i am always around the action. I mostly die last, but i also know how to avoid getting in to trouble so if i see a huge mega zerg fight coming up inside of SM i will port out of there to avoid rally people. Wvw are bleeding old players, we need new players so take it as it comes and be nice to them and make sure they will be stuck on wvw so we can grow the player base to be healthy again.

Trait, utility, and gear for speed (as much swiftness, leap, etc as possible). If invisibility is available to you, that too. Run from WP to WP without stopping. If you can handle an event on your path, go for it. Don’t forget to harvest nodes when possible. On maps with a higher level than your own, you will aggro everything in line of sight, so keep moving no matter what. If you die, return to last WP. Do your best to catch the WP’s nearest to map transition points and try to cut a path to each home city as soon as you can. After you do that for a little while, you can go back to some key events to run them normally. Don’t bother buying gear that doesn’t help your speed until you’re ready to start fighting. No more than once every ten levels.

There are afk ways, but I’m not sharing. When I see someone afk leeching XP off something I’m trying to run, I immediately kite the enemy to them and let the event fail.

Yeah honestly I dont believe this will have a negative effect on WvW as some are trying to claim. Let’s be real here; lvling without established toons is a PITA. The number of people who will actually go through this process just to troll will be low, not saying no-one will do it but this idea that everyone is going to bother lvling a second account to 60 just to mess with other servers is BS. Most internet trolls do not have this sort of dedication, if they can troll easily and without consequence sure they will do it, but when they have to put valuable time into something like leveling a free account most CBA.

Dr Gonzo.6259:

Yeah honestly I dont believe this will have a negative effect on WvW as some are trying to claim. Let’s be real here; lvling without established toons is a PITA. The number of people who will actually go through this process just to troll will be low, not saying no-one will do it but this idea that everyone is going to bother lvling a second account to 60 just to mess with other servers is BS. Most internet trolls do not have this sort of dedication, if they can troll easily and without consequence sure they will do it, but when they have to put valuable time into something like leveling a free account most CBA.

Just one consistent troll on a server can spoil the fun of a lot of people and cause them to log off for the night/week. And we’re certainly getting a lot more than that.

Pop a 20 or 30 scroll & tome your way up. Should take about 34 seconds.

New accounts don’t have tomes or scrolls and can’t get them from dailies.

smithkt.8062:

Haralin.1473:

This whole Free Account thing will destroy the WvW Population balance massively if the free accounts count into the active WvW Players there will be a lot of manipulation.

Given that the free accounts will require level 60 before they can enter WvW, how many people are going to spend the time to level accounts just for manipulating population calculations?

Tons will, in tier 1.

Tons already did, before the free accounts, but this will just enable even more of that to happen (assuming they can get onto the servers!).

Not that I’m against the free accounts – I’m all for anything that brings new players in.

I’m just against someone being able to bring several chars into the same WvW match, on different sides, simultaneously.

Dr Gonzo.6259:

Yeah honestly I dont believe this will have a negative effect on WvW as some are trying to claim. Let’s be real here; lvling without established toons is a PITA. The number of people who will actually go through this process just to troll will be low, not saying no-one will do it but this idea that everyone is going to bother lvling a second account to 60 just to mess with other servers is BS. Most internet trolls do not have this sort of dedication, if they can troll easily and without consequence sure they will do it, but when they have to put valuable time into something like leveling a free account most CBA.

It’s not just people trolling for laughs.

It’s people, who take WvW very seriously and who often play all 3 servers in a tier, trolling in order to control outcomes and keep their servers permanently in the tier.

Perhaps trolling is the wrong word, in this situation?

So, let’s call it what it is: match fixing.