Guild Wars 2

Looking to level a Necro as my clothie. (And mainly get an Artificer/Tailoring alt)

I didn’t see anything really on leveling right now after skimming this forum a bit. (Not to say there isn’t one, but most of the posts seem to be issues with the class. heh).

So as a baseline what are some things I might want to focus on to make leveling as painless as possible?

One tip I’ve tried to follow and have found quite nice:
You can take the portal from your capital city to Lion’s Arch, which in turn has portals to other cities. This way, if you find that new area is too hard to tackle, you can do lower level areas of other races. If you’re going for crafting as well, this can help you stack up on the mats more easily, which in turn means more experience.

If you find your survivability is good, you can tackle mobs with main-hand dagger (pretty nice damage output 1v1). If you’d prefer, you can also go for Minion Master focus.

From BWE times, I spent some of my time rolling around with bone fiend and once I hit 30, I replaced it with Flesh Golem. They do a good job in keeping enemy on them, so you don’t get hit, even without traiting for minions.

Another thing that I tried on my alternative char was tackling every event I came across (necro – the main – was focusing more on exploration), which boosted the experience gain a lot.

If you manage to find more people who are at around your level and intended on getting to 80 smoothly, that also helps. It can be a pain to synchronize, though, but in general, it’s more fun this way, too. :>

1. Don’t let yourself get stuck doing a hard heart. If it seems to be taking a long time or you can’t finish it. Just head to the next spot and swing back through later.
2. If your next zone is to high for you, Explorer and grab your Waypoints while gathering. You’d be surprised how much exp you get.
3. Always finish your dailies.
4. YouTube is your friend when it comes to Vistas.
5. Tailor and Jewelry

To continue where TooLateToTalk stopped
6) Events over hearts, always
7) Right now you can abuse the bots that often run around, by pulling a champion npc to them and letting them tank for you
8) Rez allies of justice, it gives more xp that killing stuff
9) While crafting focus on discovery (here for arteficer http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/10zg4y/potionmaking_how_to_level_artificer_1400/)
10) Dont bother with salvaging stuff till around level 60 unless its designed for salvage (as in the salvagable trophies or a item cheaper than the trophies), it aint worth it.

My contribution: spec for running away. Boost your Spectral Walk and Warhorn via traits. That way, you get permanent swift and tag as many POIs, vistas and waypoints as possible. They give you good exp for the amount of effort you put in.

try stay areas couple level higher than you. Makes game lot more interesting.
and eating cookings can help a lot in long run.

Find DE’s while exploring (gives a ton of xp), find the mob in the middle, start with blood is power, staff, hit #2/#3, swap, scepter #2, dagger #5, scepter 1 for 1 rotation, blood signet then epidemic.

RUN like a little girl screaming and wait till all mobs die, occasionally turning to throw down a scepter #2. Pop into DS and hit #4 for some added AoE dps.

COND DURATION. Huge, get hemophilia ASAP. Seriously it is the only trait that makes bleed builds for PvE work. Minion elite, and once you hit EPIDEMIC hit your elite pets skill too, watch a train of mobs fall flat on their booty.

Proceed to run.

That is how you pro level to 80.