Guild Wars 2

Danikat.8537:

The important point here is that outside of the Personal Story GW2 doesn’t have quests.

There are renowned hearts (yellow heart symbol) which give you tasks to do in return for gold, karma and XP. You don’t need to talk to an NPC to start them, as soon as you’re in the area a pop-up on screen will tell you what to do. (You can also talk to the NPC for more information.)

But what you really want to be doing is Dynamic Events. These show up on screen and on the map in orange and they give more XP, more gold/loot and possibly more karma (I’ve never kept track of that). They function a lot like quests, but they start and continue whether you (or anyone else) are participating or not. You can drop in and out at any point and will be rewarded for your participation, so don’t worry if it’s already part way through. But do stick around or follow the NPCs afterwards because often there will be another one following it.

Also pretty much everything else gives XP too – exploring the map (including cities), gathering crafting materials, crafting. Killing random monsters too but you should never be at a point where your only option for XP is to kill random enemies and if you are doing that then you’re probably missing out on something better.

Is there any “sure way” to find dynamic events? Or are they COMPLETELY random? I’ve done one or two but never really understood how they came to be.

cpg.7140:

Go to the city connected to your starting zone. Take the purple asura gate to lions’ arch. take another asura gate (they’re all in one hub) to another city. From that city, go to the attached starting zone.

There are 5 starter zones, with level 1-15 content, one for each race. You can probably do fine just by exploring two of them and hopping back and forth to keep up with the content, but obviously you can go through all of them if you want.

We got to the other areas…We just don’t know where to go once there to start that area’s starting quests. Can’t find a person to talk to start the quests.

Hey guys, my friend an I are new to Guild Wars, and we’ve come to the point where we don’t lvl up anymore in our home area unless we grind for HOURS. Neither of us can go on to our personal stories unless we help each other.

We’re trying to do quests in another starting area. How do we start one? I can’t find any character to talk to in game that will prompt us to start them???