Guild Wars 2

So, I was playing today just lvling do hearts and what not. I was going to lvl 14. Right at the right side of the screen where the yellow xp bar I have so far goes to the next lvl for some odd and annoying reason it went back to the beginning of lvl 13. As if I was in lvl 12. Also, the crazy thing is that it happned again. Almost 15 minutes ago as I am writing this. I was doing WvW ( yes I was scaled to level 80), (btw I though it was just my imagination at first literally and just ignored it). I am now in lvl 15. And guess what, my xp bar was at the end of the screen just about to be lvl 16. When really I am not kidding it went back to the beginning of lvl 15. I am so kitten serious!

I even asked my guild through chat and they though I really was crazy. And I am not lying! Cause when it happened the second time and completely vertified that it was true I really got kitten at Arenanet for just this problem in general and because for some reason no one ever expierenced this. It really discourages my urge to play . Its like I have to redo my lvl twice so I can get to the next one.

Please help. -Thanks

Juvio Aegis , -Maguma, – Mesmer

Your level counter will update and increase by 1 before all the exp sparkles fill up the exp bar.

So technically there’s nothing wrong? Can you please explain what you just said.
I didn’t really understand it.

-Thanks in advanced.

What he’s saying is that your bar is kind of like this, say, when you’re close to leveling from 13 to 14:

13 [~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~------- ] 14

You complete a heart or a story mission or whatnot and get enough to level, and the numbers at the sides will update (13 becomes 14, 14 becomes 15) before the sparkly effects animate down to the bar and the bar extends. So it is possible that when you looked at your XP bar the numbers had already been updated, and you then watched the animation of the bar "growing" to the right before starting over on the left without maybe realizing that the numbers were 1 lower before.

First, it would update the numbers while your character had a flash of light around him/her and raised his/her weapon up:
13 [~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~------- ] 14

14 [~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~------- ] 15

Then, the effect on the bar would animate
14 [~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~-- ] 15

14 [~~-------------------------------------------------------------------------- ] 15

possibly making it look like you didn’t gain a level

I believe that’s the idea Jzaku is trying to get across (man I should’ve recorded video of leveling up to illustrate this better, I guess). Without seeing the situation first-hand, though, that’s just what it sounds like you are describing. I cannot claim that is 100% what is happening to you without seeing it myself.

For what it’s worth: I thought synk’s explanation & diagram was pretty good.