Guild Wars 2

So I decided to start fresh with a new ele. Besides the patronizing hand holding and level gating, my only problem is slow-ish leveling. At the moment, I’m just running around, doing events I come across and doing hearts. Is there a faster/less tedious way that doesn’t involve crafting(because I’m poor and would rather not spend the gold on a character I may end up deleting anyway if something else comes along)?

I don’t know what this: ‘level gating’ means. But I crank out levels in Edge of the Mists

Pros:
- Constantly fighting dumb PvE bosses. So you can practice changing attunements and using your spells over and over and over again. So when you hit 80 you have a good start.
- You level very, very fast if your train is on a roll.
- You get a ton of drops that you can salvage or sell. This allows you to stock up on mats and/or make gold
- Easy to blend in with the zerg and take no damage.
- Gain WvWvW rank very quickly. This will give you your applied buffs
- Can mindlessly participate (works best with dual monitors. Can watch a movie on the other monitor, half pay attention and rank up)

Cons:
- Becomes boring after a couple nights.

I’ve leveled 6x 80’s casually this way since EoTM release. All for WvWvW so I can rotate to the class that is currently the most OP.

You can also spice it up every day or every other day and do PvP. Do one track a night for the Tome of Knowledge then go out to EoTM after or vice versa. You can hit 80 in under 2 weeks playing a couple hours a day. Use any boosters you have. Also burn guild exp banners. Note that I haven’t found anything faster then EoTM other then crafting.

ionix.9054:

I don’t know what this: ‘level gating’ means. But I crank out levels in Edge of the Mists

Pros:
- Constantly fighting dumb PvE bosses. So you can practice changing attunements and using your spells over and over and over again. So when you hit 80 you have a good start.
- You level very, very fast if your train is on a roll.
- You get a ton of drops that you can salvage or sell. This allows you to stock up on mats and/or make gold
- Easy to blend in with the zerg and take no damage.
- Gain WvWvW rank very quickly. This will give you your applied buffs
- Can mindlessly participate (works best with dual monitors. Can watch a movie on the other monitor, half pay attention and rank up)

Cons:
- Becomes boring after a couple nights.

I’ve leveled 6x 80’s casually this way since EoTM release. All for WvWvW so I can rotate to the class that is currently the most OP.

You can also spice it up every day or every other day and do PvP. Do one track a night for the Tome of Knowledge then go out to EoTM after or vice versa. You can hit 80 in under 2 weeks playing a couple hours a day. Use any boosters you have. Also burn guild exp banners. Note that I haven’t found anything faster then EoTM other then crafting.

Cool, I’ll give it a shot. Just gotta hope I can keep up and not get oneshot lol. But by level gating, I mean the restrictions they have in place now. You don’t unlock certain weapon slots until certain levels so you can’t even use your 5 skills until level 10. Eles in particular get screwed by this because they don’t get access to Earth attunement until level 22. Utility skills are also unlocked at later levels now with elite skills being the final one unlocked at level 40.

ionix.9054:

You can hit 80 in under 2 weeks playing a couple hours a day.

Two weeks for 1-80 is quite long. I think you should be able to get 1-80 or close within 7-8 days by just doing world completion. But I think you would then be putting in approximately same hours as you would do in casual play for 2 weeks.

80 level up scrolls.

I just do Pvp until I have enough tomes. lol

Necrotize.2974:

ionix.9054:

I don’t know what this: ‘level gating’ means. But I crank out levels in Edge of the Mists

Pros:
- Constantly fighting dumb PvE bosses. So you can practice changing attunements and using your spells over and over and over again. So when you hit 80 you have a good start.
- You level very, very fast if your train is on a roll.
- You get a ton of drops that you can salvage or sell. This allows you to stock up on mats and/or make gold
- Easy to blend in with the zerg and take no damage.
- Gain WvWvW rank very quickly. This will give you your applied buffs
- Can mindlessly participate (works best with dual monitors. Can watch a movie on the other monitor, half pay attention and rank up)

Cons:
- Becomes boring after a couple nights.

I’ve leveled 6x 80’s casually this way since EoTM release. All for WvWvW so I can rotate to the class that is currently the most OP.

You can also spice it up every day or every other day and do PvP. Do one track a night for the Tome of Knowledge then go out to EoTM after or vice versa. You can hit 80 in under 2 weeks playing a couple hours a day. Use any boosters you have. Also burn guild exp banners. Note that I haven’t found anything faster then EoTM other then crafting.

Cool, I’ll give it a shot. Just gotta hope I can keep up and not get oneshot lol. But by level gating, I mean the restrictions they have in place now. You don’t unlock certain weapon slots until certain levels so you can’t even use your 5 skills until level 10. Eles in particular get screwed by this because they don’t get access to Earth attunement until level 22. Utility skills are also unlocked at later levels now with elite skills being the final one unlocked at level 40.

I honestly hate to say this, but leveling up in EotM is the best choice. Snag a commander tag, learn the rotations, and if nobody is commanding, you can lead the charge.

1/2 of commanders there are up leveled lol.

Just curious about the EotM leveling tips since I personally have zero experience with WvW outside of some roaming when I’m bored. Do I just follow around the zerg and take keeps/camps and level from that or do I participate in the big fights that pop up? Because I was just following around commanders for a while and honestly the leveling didn’t seem that fast unless they literally just went camp to camp to keep, which they rarely did. They frequently stopped off at our own camps to resupply then headed back to repair stuff at our own bases. Am I supposed to do something else?

Edit: I feel stupid for just now realizing that EotM is different from regular WvW lol. Disregard.