Guild Wars 2

For those who have the scrolls and tomes, you could make a level 1 and, after the tutorial, level a character to level 80 in a matter of a minute or so of clicking.

So, for those of you who plan on playing revenant on day 1, and have the resources, will you stick to level 1 and do the patient leveling up, or will you go straight to level 80?

I’ll level the “hard” way.

It’s also quite possible revs have a new fast track leveling area for them only.

It would be very weird to introduce a new prof and expect people to do something that involves no lore like use tomes.

I too shall lvl the hard but normal way, I can wait to reach lvl 80

Vis Era – Ranger

I have the tomes to get to level 50 or so, but I am going to level the hard way and enjoy it.

No tomes, no boosts or transferred items, complete run through the personal story, Living world then expansion. Though probably not till the main missions of the expansion are completed on my main .

It’s a brand spanking new class; I’m not even going to use one of my birthday scrolls on the first one I make. Level by level, it’ll give me time to grow accustomed to the class.

(If I eventually make a second, it’d be months later, at least, and I’d know the class well enough that I could skip to 20. If I wanted to. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don’t.)

Considering how terrible the NPE is im going to be lvling using tomes and scrolls as much as possible. Unfortunately i dont have that many tomes so i will probably only get to about lvl 40.

You can learn a class fine at lvl 80. You just have to actually read and try out the skills. :P

lordkrall.7241:

I’ll level the “hard” way.

Same with any new class. Speed lvling will just ruin the new crisp playthrough.

I’m doing the same as Spoj. Straight to 80 and bypassing the horrible cluster___k that is the NPE. I have enough right now to get it to lvl 60. By the time the expansion drops, I’ll have enough to get it to 80.

Anyone know how much gold it takes to buy all the traits?

I’ve already got sets of zerker gear and trinkets in my bank, so I’ll tome level him. I’ll probably mess about in PvP with him for a few hours until I can play him to a good level with my team, then I’ll try him out in PvE probably.

At the moment (it is possible that more would be added with an expansion though) it costs 43 gold and 360 skill points to unlock all major traits.

I hate the trait grind, and NPE timegate. And i have 240 tomes… Asnwer is easy. I leveled 10x profession the ‘old way’. I don’t need to prove myself anyway anymore. I will however replay the story, and new area’s to practise, once i’m lvl 80.

Straight to 80. Unless they have some restriction that would not allow use of tomes / scrolls.

I will level to about 30 then scrolls to 60 finish the normal way of leveling. I have so many characters I know the boring sections of leveling.

People who speed level aren’t going to have as good a grip on the class, and especially not as good a grip on the more unusual skills.

I’m torn. If I go the slow way I won’t be able to use him/her to explore the new region… well, unless it has level 1 areas, heh

On the other hand, if I make a level 80, then I won’t have the joy of exploring the new class.

I could alternate between one of my current classes and the 1, I suppose.

Hm, side note, that’s interesting, if this is an entire new region IE ascalon, Kryta, etc, might it actually have low to high level zones? Obviously we don’t know, but it could offer us the chance of leveling new characters in the entire area.

Otherwise, separating action will have to be the way to go.

Then again, it will also let me explore my specializations of my other classes and still level up my revenant.

And since the only personal story I havent done is one of the sylvari ones, I suppose I can make a sylvari revenant. Let me kill a couple of birds with one stone there.

Windsagio.1340:

People who speed level aren’t going to have as good a grip on the class, and especially not as good a grip on the more unusual skills.

Bah. There’s time to learn that after level 80. I wouldn’t be oppose to leveling it normally, if I could level it like I leveled my other toons… Oh wait, I level’d 6 of my 8 toons though crafting then learned to play them at level 80 too… and even if I did want to level it the way I level’d my first one, I can’t… So I guess I am doing the normal-for-me way.

I’m leveling the normal way mostly. Saving up about 10-20 Tomes if the leveling gets really boring, but I want to actually know what I’m doing when I hit 80 (probably still won’t have a clue but at least I tried lol) so no level spam for me.
Revenant is going to be my new main anyway so I want a fun experience leveling it up.

tomes if I can, I have enough for level 80. Have 6 other 80 professions and am an avid wvw/pvper. Learning the class is just a couple hours of pvp and ill have learned the important aspects of the class

Windsagio.1340:

People who speed level aren’t going to have as good a grip on the class, and especially not as good a grip on the more unusual skills.

I think for people that are bad at the game sure, but that’s not really true. For PvP my buddies asked me to play necro so I created one for the first time and within around 3 hours I knew most/all of the rotations simply because the situational knowledge is already there. If you know the other classes learning a new one wont be a super struggle, although it will take a bit more longer with Revanant as no one has played one until the patch hits.

Probably a compromise… use one of my many level 20 tomes, and then more to get around 40 or 50. After that maybe the normal way and doing the PS… but to echo another poster, yeah, I have all classes at 80 that mostly levelled the hard way. I had a lot of fun exploring the world the first time around but just can’t really do it again.

Benjamin.8237:

Windsagio.1340:

People who speed level aren’t going to have as good a grip on the class, and especially not as good a grip on the more unusual skills.

I think for people that are bad at the game sure, but that’s not really true. For PvP my buddies asked me to play necro so I created one for the first time and within around 3 hours I knew most/all of the rotations simply because the situational knowledge is already there. If you know the other classes learning a new one wont be a super struggle, although it will take a bit more longer with Revanant as no one has played one until the patch hits.

It’s not that you won’t be able to play as well, it’s that you won’t understand the class as well.

Your understanding of a mesmer is entirely different before your traits and utilities come in, and you’re often going to make unusual skill and weapon choices in the process of leveling.

If you jump to 80, there’s skills you never learn (partially becauase you never need to), which is fine for performance, but your in-depth understanding suffers.

I know 80s who have very little idea what half hteir utilities and 2/3 of their traits do because they powerleveled and never needed to use them. This doesn’t hurt their performance, the known good rotations and skills are known, but it’s still to me a loss, especially when part of the joy is learning the new class.

Windsagio.1340:

People who speed level aren’t going to have as good a grip on the class, and especially not as good a grip on the more unusual skills.

I totally agree with this! When I use a thing to make a new character level 20 right away, I don’t know what I’m doing with the skills x_x

I’ll max it. #kthxbai

I’ll probably fastrack until 30 and do it old school from there. This will benefit both in terms of traits and possibly mastery points.

Whoever mentioned Revenant specific “fast” leveling area, that seems highly doubtful given what was said on stream.

I will used my tomes and the scroll to level my up HOWEVER I will be doing the story (I assuming you have to complete the main story first in order to played the exapansion?) and some map complection. I’m just making it easier for myself by maxing my Revenant to its fullest.

I’ll use the level 20 scroll but beside that, I will level it the real way, by actually playing the game.

I will level the normal way.

I would like to think people would level the regular way. It’s supposed to be a fun experience learning a new class. Admittedly, I will be using a boost to get to 20, THEN leveling.

not sure honestly….

for sure I’m gonna make use of “insta-lvl-20-scroll” but if I will get it to lvl 80 or not its totaly another stuff

I’ve a full set of Ascended Heavy Armor, Ascended items and 80 Tomes of Knowledge ready. I prepared it all just in case there was a Heavy armor class reveal. So glad it paid off, haha ;D

It depends on what else changes about the leveling system and areas.

If it stays the same and the same areas, then I may use a level 20 scroll to get a jump start on some things, but go normal from there.

I’ll probably use tomes till about 40-50. I don’t find there is much learning for me to do before those levels anymore. I will surely try all weapons and skill/trait/build combos (even sub-optimal ones, oh the horror) because I enjoy that sort of thing.

Windsagio.1340:

If you jump to 80, there’s skills you never learn (partially becauase you never need to), which is fine for performance, but your in-depth understanding suffers.

I know 80s who have very little idea what half hteir utilities and 2/3 of their traits do because they powerleveled and never needed to use them.

“Regular” leveling doesn’t make anyone “need” to learn all their class skills/trait combos. Powerleveling doesn’t make anyone unable to learn what all those skills and traits do.

“I know 80s who have very little idea what half their utilities and 2/3 of their traits do because they are lazy/don’t care/didn’t bother to learn” would be more accurate.

I will level the hard way I might use a birthday scroll but as some said earlier it would be fun to just level it from scratch without the scrolls since you will understand its skills better. The only thing I will use are the skillpoint scrolls to get the skills quicker but nothing else.

We don’t know yet of course, but I wouldn’t be surprised if new characters of this class are going to already have some kind of accelerated or different leveling to them. Perhaps at least a lengthier “private” leveling experience before entering the main world- similar to what WoW did with WotLK.

For anyone that isn’t aware, in that expansion Blizzard gave the new class a headstart by giving them a lengthy (and frankly awesome) personal story type experience, along with a number of perks. By the time you entered the main game world you were somewhere around 3/4 of the way to endgame content. (Not just levels, but several other grinds that you got alternatives to- WoW is way more grindy than GW2.)

The catch was you couldn’t just be a new player to skip over that stuff. You needed to have a class of a certain level first in order to create one of those characters, and you were limited in how many you could make.

Personally I found that the best introduction of a new class to an MMO I’ve yet experienced. I’m glad GW2 is definitively not a WoW clone, but that’s one area where I wouldn’t mind seeing a little imitation.

On a business side it makes sense too, because it would give an even bigger incentive to existing players to buy that extra slot right away.

That would be cool if they had there own story and starting area, like death knights

I’ll start from the beginning and learn the different aspects at my own pace then again I am a sucker for torture.

I have 12 lvl 80 characters so I will be using tomes and scrolls.

I won’t even be using my level 20 boost, simply because I want to try and have the experience of playing through the game the first time again.

It won’t be a day 1 revenant but when I build one, it will be the long way (still using lvl 20 scrolls to bypass the early levels that are the most boring for a veteran). It has been a very long time since I built an alt exploring and “questing”.

Morfedel.4165:

For those who have the scrolls and tomes, you could make a level 1 and, after the tutorial, level a character to level 80 in a matter of a minute or so of clicking.

After the tutorial?
Deluxe edition → bank access in the tutorial → instant lvl 80 → 1 shot tutorial boss

If it’s the same PS, I’ll likely actually use the lvl20 boost too, if it’s a new region or even an entirely different PS, gonna do it from scratch.

1-20 is ‘how to play the game’ anyways.

Assuming the upcoming details/price reveal convinces me to get the expansion, I’ll probably use at least a level 20 scroll. I can’t stand the NPE.

I only have enough tomes and such to reach around level 50 and plan to use them.

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

I’ll use the level 20 scroll but beside that, I will level it the real way, by actually playing the game.

Same for one I’m planning and the other will be going for the harder slog.

I’ve level the old fashioned way. You get a better grasp of your skills and abilities that way.

Instant 80 probably :p. Depends on how I feel at that moment. Ima need to get that GS on my necro main first.

Morfedel.4165:

So, for those of you who plan on playing revenant on day 1, and have the resources, will you stick to level 1 and do the patient leveling up, or will you go straight to level 80?

I am going to start with a level 20 scroll.
If the revenant has a own personal story, unfamiliar to me, I’m then going to start playing through it.
Play through the story available => use tomes to unlock it further => play through it and so on.

Windsagio.1340:

If it’s the same PS, I’ll likely actually use the lvl20 boost too, if it’s a new region or even an entirely different PS, gonna do it from scratch.

1-20 is ‘how to play the game’ anyways.

Personal story is tied with race not class, it will be the same story as always.

Letifer.4360:

Windsagio.1340:

If it’s the same PS, I’ll likely actually use the lvl20 boost too, if it’s a new region or even an entirely different PS, gonna do it from scratch.

1-20 is ‘how to play the game’ anyways.

Personal story is tied with race not class, it will be the same story as always.

I would agree with you, but it depends on how they want to handle “I became a revenant” since it’s absolutely and specifically mentioned that Rytlock is the first and his apothesis is much much after the normal PS.