Guild Wars 2

I’m a new player, have a warrior lvl 80 and started a Guardian, loving the mechanic. I’m level 17 atm.

Using:
Greatsword with minor sigil of bloodlust
Staff because of swiftness and might stack. There’s other way to increase movement speed?
All Power gear from the Karma vendor in WvW.
Food for +15% and +10% xp from kills.
– Rough of Sharpening Stone
– Bowl of Candy Corn Custard
Passive signets and virtues.

What you guys sugest to make leveling easier and faster?

I just got to 80 two days ago but I never used the staff… GS/Sword-Focus for me…
You can target a critter/mob away and teleport towards with Sword plus you have the GS leap plus you can slot Retreat. This is what I did…

play pvp, gather tomes of knowledge and scrolls and get your toon to 80 (including unlocking skills) with nothing more but a few clicks. this way you can skip all that open world pve and directly start with farming dungeons and stuff.
second possibility is to join the karmatrain in edge of the mists in order to level up as fast as possible.
at lvl 80 get berserker gear. you always want max dmg in pve anything else doesn’t matter.

Thanks for the answers and tips.

About the Tome of knowledge how can I get those from pvp?
Tell me more about this karmatrain in Edge of The Mists please.

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Thanks for the answers and tips.

About the Tome of knowledge how can I get those from pvp?
Tell me more about this karmatrain in Edge of The Mists please.

Tomes can be farmed from the PvP Reward track, its probably faster to do map completion than PvP though.

Karma train in EoTM is basically following the zerg whilst capping events then letting the other two teams take it back so you can re-cap. Each capture is an event thus gaining karma and xp, very quick and effective way to level.

Guardian leveling guide by Obal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBzRhmV16qY&feature=youtu.be

If you are PvE levelling the old-school way then I wouldn’t bother using the staff. I’d always run with GS/Hammer & S/F so that you can use more DPS burst on mobs. Guardian staff is really reserved for support roles or WvW zerg – doesn’t add all that more to soloing

Greatsword and Sword/Focus was the easiest for my when leveling due to the number of Blinds and the movement skills. Your mileage may vary.

Run Greatsword/Scepter/Focus and stack lots of power. So the gear would be power/precision and if for some reason you feel bad, take some power/vitality. The content is generally so trivial that you’ll just be using GS 95% of the tine and use scepter to range the last bits like champions or whatnot.

Use staff to leech off zerg events. That’s the only use until you reach level 80.

Skills: Retreat! (Swiftness and block), Bane Signet (damage), Save Yourselves! (overall buffs and stunbreak)
Traits: Get Superior Aria (so you may run faster with retreat and also pick up vigorous precision), Fiery Wrath, Unscathed Contender, and Two Handed Mastery, in that order. Fortunately, the first 3 are just adept level traits and easy to unlock.

Food— before level 30 it doesn’t matter what you use since the content is too easy and the bonuses too meager, so take the cheapest one so you can get 10 exp from kills (that’s any food). Roasted meaty sandwich for 20 power isn’t bad. At level 30, zucchini bread and then 40 just buy cheap regen food: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Food#Regeneration I wouldn’t spend more than 30c for any leveling food.

Utility Consumables generally suck at low levels, thus you’re pretty much only using them for the +exp bonus. I would use oil over stones until level 80 because those stones are just overpriced for the content

As you reach level 40, you will notice gear starts to get more expensive due to requiring more expensive materials to make. In these cases, I would suggest you enter world vs world and talk to the weaponsmith/armorsmith and try to buy some equipment with karma. Check every 10 levels or so, but don’t go too crazy.

Finally, salvage all white/blue/green items that aren’t leather and check trading post before you vendor something. In general, don’t vendor stuff unless you absolutely need money now. You usually can salvage materials that are worth a bit more than vendoring, plus it’s more time efficient.