Guild Wars 2

Level 13 and haven’t really spent any trait points yet.

Looking for a decent way to level. Any suggestions on weapons, armour and especially traits?

traits id say power line or crit line to start.

lots of people suggest S/P but i find the killing too slow, i went D/P, you dont get aoe, but that can be taken care of with shortbow imo.

i also went down crit line, cuz i like critting, and the damage seems to be quite nice.

Take power as your main stat, Power scales better than the other stats at low levels. Don’t take crit damage until you get to level 80, the increases are very low and wont help you out as much. When you get to wear two stat armor take power and vitality or power and toughness. When you get to 3 stat armor you can think about taking precision. Try and pick up some trinkets when you get to level 15-20 that boost power, as these provide a lot of stats. You can get cheap blue/green ones from the trading post, just make sure they’re the right level for your character.

In terms of traits, there aren’t that many adept trait that would be of much use to you, so I’d suggest either mug in the deadly arts trait line for an extra 100 power and a heal when you steal or thrill of the crime (trickery trait line) for the swiftness and fury.

Try out all your weapon combinations, pistol offhand is great though for the aoe blind field if you’re meleeing groups of mobs, and sword has the strongest auto attack plus it hits up to three enemies at a time.

Short bow is always worth having as your second weapon, if you get in trouble or low health it allows you to kite, evade, and still hit up to three enemies at once with the auto attack.

If you want to use or experiment with dagger offhand, put 10 points into shadow arts traitline for the infusion of shadow adept trait, as this lowers the cost of cloak and dagger from 6 initiative to 4.

Don’t worry about specialised builds too much until you get to level 60 when you can access the grandmaster traits.

Also, as soon as you get enough skill points, purchase the skill shadow refuge. ALWAYS have this on your skill bar when levelling, it’s invaluable for getting out of combat if you’re low on health, getting skill points or vistas without being harassed by enemies, helping you revive allies, or just running past packs of mobs when you can’t be bothered to fight.

Jakare nailed it.

Sword/Pistol is pretty mindless for leveling against melee mobs, just black powder and auto attack. Shortbow secondary for big events and for pulling.

Snag Shadow Refuge and Signet of Shadows asap, the stealth stacking and the +25% move speed make roaming around the maps much faster.