Guild Wars 2

I’ve heard of people leveling all the way to 80 by WvWing and I was wondering if anyone reading has done so. I’d like to know how long it would take assuming the whole time was spent capping in a zerg.

the wvw tourney is a bad time to level a character as toast needs your firepower in that zerg and not your rally bot, that said, when the tourney is over you should be able to gain a couple levels an hour, more with a booster in place. BG,TC,JQ does karma trains every Friday for everyone to just earn some cash as the PPT is always decided by then. that’s the perfect time to break out your low levels.

Five characters leveled all the way to 80 solely in WvW, working on my 6th. If all you do is zerg, then it’s easy and fairly quick. Unfortunately, the latest patch turned the trait system into complete garbage, so your viability outside of a zerg is even more handicapped than it used to be. If you’re the type of player that prefers roaming and small group play, I’d recommend finding your levels elsewhere.

EotM.

Go, zerg and be fruitful.

I’ve leveled 4 of my 7 heroes in WvW. I normally go to lvl 30 in PvE, and then join WvW once i’ve unlocked all my skill slots.

You need to play very carefully, because an enemy will fart in your general direction and you will be downed.

you need to get used to dodging through zergs (space +v button at the same time)

re-gear with masterwork gear every 5-10 levels.

I’m leveling a character now that’s in the 50’s and finding it very difficult. As mentioned above, it appears with the trait updating, they forgot to adjust level scaling. Because even in the best gear you can get, on level, it doesn’t come close to what an average exotic level 80 has. Even with the full 2 points into toughness, toughness/vit earrings, and all stat runes in Rare armor (best available), I have less total armor than a fully glass specced 80 would have in exotic gear. The scaling is that poorly done now.

Edge of the mists is generally the place to go for leveling. The short matches and lack of organization brought by grouping servers means a lot of single-blob karma training goes on. You’ll also find the majority of your foes are uplevels that are there for the same reasons you are.

Keep your gear up to date, position yourself cautiously and you should do just fine. Gaining two levels an hour without any xp boosts seems to be a typical result (mileage will vary based on the other colors are up to.)

Renn.8241:

I was wondering if anyone reading has done so.

Yep,

Pre-EoTM a Mesmer and Elementalist to 80 in non-prime time hours
Post-EoTM a Guardian, Necro and Engie from 20 ( with the aniversary gift) to 80 in a ridicolous small amount of time only in EoTM eternal karma train.

arKRazor.8654:

Keep your gear up to date, position yourself cautiously and you should do just fine.

That’s in the rare cases that you find someone to fight with in EoTM, 95% of time is PvD

I leveled up 4 characters entirely in wvw. My fastest was in 5 days from level 20 to 80, playing only after work. And leveling up 3 crafting disciplines.

-Buy green items every 5 levels with toughness + vitality, runes, trinkets everything. Don’t bother about damage.

-Pick all the defensive utilities/traits.

-Use all the aeo skill you can for tagging enemies.

-USE FOOD! for experience and the food of damage reduction when you are CCed is awesome for leveling up.

I used to have 26/25k health with 3/3,5k armor depend the class in any level if i change my green armor every 5/10 levels and stacking vit+toughness.

DON’T BE A RALLY BOT! Build tanky as hell!