the problem is that I’m hoarder too
, but I have things in the bank that gives for example items for dungeons, and i don’t know which weapon is the best for me to choose so I just save the item in the bank, or i have a lot of XP Boost items. All my gold I think someone gave me long time ago, and I bought the bags for 13-15 gold each, I didn’t find regular 20 slolts bags I didn’t looked so well.
I’m exploring everything not just killing mobs, I just want to be sure that its good way to train too. And id there is any tips and recommended zones or something. by the way, how is the best way to earn gold if needed?
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CCAB is also level 45 food. >.>
Might be worth it if it’s cheap on the Trading Post by then, but sub-40, I’ll roll with a Loaf of Bread and Maintenance Oil.Especially since MF is a placebo~
Ha, I don’t know about placebo, but 18% isn’t a lot. Just remember that 10% gold find means it pays for itself if you can earn 6.5 silver / 45m from monster kills. (Or 8 silver/hour). And offers more experience.
But its only for killing mobs, if I eat some food and traveling the map to finish it to 100%, I’m not fighting 24/7, because I travel, do vistats, do POI’s and more.
So when its the best time to eat, and what is the best food I should buy concerning the money/xp I get from it, I mean not expensive food that gives bad xp boost.
Yes and there are additional ones there as well. Also additional hair colors. And the wiki says all that (just looked at the link). Just remember, there’s a tiny arrow next to the color selection to scroll to even more colors. Didn’t notice that with my first character and settled on a color I didn’t want.
I didnt find this information in the wiki… I don’t know where did you looked.
I can change my hair style to another from the beginning of the game? And it will cost me gems?
Lion’s Arch is not the zone that called Gandarren Fields with the asura gates to the main cities? And why you recommend me to explore this zone (Hearts of the Mists)?
And about crafting, I don’t want to craft right now because I don’t have lot of materials to level it well and fast, and don’t have the gold for it. So I think I will start at higher level.
And Lazuli, which character do you like the most? and why?
Lion’s Arch was the “main city” of the game. You can still see it on the map and go there, but it got destroyed by a villain and everything got evacuated to Gendarran Fields, in the Vigil Keep. So the Vigil Keep is the temporary “main place” now.
Waypointing costs gold, but if you go to Hearts of the Mist you will find a portal that takes you to the Vigil Keep for free. So you save on waypointing costs. C:
Lol OK
So I will play on my own for a while, learn the game and leveling.
For now, just exploring zones and do events and personal story and gather things and do that things for leveling? for now its the best for me? this is the way you guys leveled up? and there are specific zones I should explore or just what I want to? (I mean specific zones I should explore for things that will help me or something special), this is the way I should go right?
Lion’s Arch is not the zone that called Gandarren Fields with the asura gates to the main cities? And why you recommend me to explore this zone (Hearts of the Mists)?
And about crafting, I don’t want to craft right now because I don’t have lot of materials to level it well and fast, and don’t have the gold for it. So I think I will start at higher level.
And Lazuli, which character do you like the most? and why?
RavenClaw hope you start having more fun.
My first character was a ranger. Even though other weapons may give more damage and have better abilities I like playing with a longbow and a greatsword. They are fine for leveling up and exploring the zones. It is only if you start playing dungeons or small group missions that you need to consider how to best fit into a group. You should learn the skills for all your weapons and get comfortable using them. But you decide which weapons you like.
When you start a new hero and are in the starting zone for your race the first thing to do is buy a salvaging kit and gathering tools. Then talk to the nearest scout (marked with binoculars). They will show you the heart quests in order of difficulty. Go toward the first one gathering along the way, visiting POIs, viewing vistas, completing skill challenges and especially participating in any dynamic events (DEs). You get XP when the DE is successfully completed and it often contributes toward the nearest heart quest, which you will be getting XP for doing also. So you are “killing two birds with one stone”.
If you have completed the zone but are not ready for the next level zone for your race go to the starting area of another race. If in Queensdale go to Divinity’s Reach. Take the Asura gate for Lion’s Arch. Since LA was destroyed recently you will end up at the Vigil’s Keep in Gendarran Fields. From there take an Asura gate to another race’s city. From there find the Asura gate to their starting area. Complete it. And so on.
I got an Asura mesmer to level 80 by 100%ing Metrica Prov., Caledon Forest, Plains of Ashford, Queensdale, Lornar’s Pass, Gendarran Fields, Hoelbrak, Black Cidadel and Rata Sum. She participated in the Living Story in Lion’s Arch. Then reached level 80 about the time she 100%ed Frostgorge Sound. She got a few levels from crafting, a little from personal story, and some XP from doing dailies. None of my other heroes leveled this way.
My guardian started out at level 20 (from a scroll earned from achievement chests mainly earned by other of my characters). He got a lot of XP from personal story, participating in the toxic events and Lion’s Arch Living Story, 100%ing every city, Queensdale, Wayfarer Foothills, Snowden Drifts and Lornar’s Pass, plus crafting and dailies.
Each of my 7 level 80 characters have leveled up differently doing whatever I felt like doing at the time. My first four level 80’s I concentrated on getting to level 400 in all 8 crafting trades. So do what you feel like doing. You can read up to find out more efficient ways of doing stuff but you will learn as you spend more time.
For crafting: refine all you materials when you first start a new tier while you still get crafting XP for it. Then make the basic stuff you will need to finish the tier while you still get XP for it. But the most XP comes from discovering new recipes.
Use gems to buy slots in you pack and for expanding your bank. Craft or buy larger bags for you pack.
Good luck and have fun!
Thanks for helping! Don’t misunderstand me, I have fun when I’m playing and I’m enjoying the game, recently my friends come to play with me. i just wanted to be sure that I’m doing right, I have a problem with things that I do not doing them right and than I screw up (like less modern levels, you couldn’t change your trait points so if you did a mistake when you was a newbie, you screwed up).
And how did you get level 80 almost only doing the starting zones? Its faster to do more difficulty zones for more XP no?
And what is it this Lion’s Arch storyline?
Sorry if I’m writing wrong, English is not my basic language so I’m trying the best and maybe with all those questions and a little bit desperate I might present this as hopeless or not having fun while playing, so it’s just my writing and the lack of the ability of explaining myself.
Recently I convince my friends to play with me, one from my country and one friend that moved to Serbia and I saved contact with him – Gaming is the best thing to save good relationships with good friends
Hello guys, I have a Human Ranger level 4 and I’ve already did the heart missions to levels 1-6 in Queensdale and I can’t do the heart missions to level 7+ because its hard.
How can I level up from this point? how I should level up basically? just find new maps and doing heart missions? or there are some maps that I should level up there and not “find” by myself?
Can you please help me with this?And I’m fighting right now with 2 axes that I throw on enemies, I should buy a bow or something? when I will use a bow?
Thanks for helping, Tal
I too found this problem, in all starting areas… Unless you do the Storyline (which gives a lot of XP and I think is the main way they want you to discover the world and learn how to play your character at first) and explore and mess about in the area, there is a ‘gap’ in the levelling process and I always got stuck at a point where, the next area is took hard/high level and there isn’t much left to do in the region portion that is around the same level.
Making my next few characters, I did the Storyline more and did Hearts just on the side, instead of it being the main thing/only thing I was doing, and then I had no problem moving through the other parts of the starting region and on to the next territory.
I hope that helps others out too!
So what do you recommend me to do? Just do the storyline missions when I can and don’t wait with it? and continue exploring the areas in the map?
You have been in this situations that you have to move to another map of the same zone level and start it from the beginning to level up more and than go back and finish the first map you started? And you had only moved once or you had move to more maps to level up? or one map was just fine?
Did you gear up properly? Have you bought any trinkets?
I didn’t buy anything. The gear I’m useing is gear from beggining/drops or merchants that I bought, and my weapons is from merchant ir TP, for a low price of course.
Why? How my gear supposed to look like?
Maybe it will b easier if I just upload image with my gear and stats?
Okay thanks for the help guys, for now I choose the profession of Weaponsmith and Leatherworking.
Now I got in the game good sword so I decided to see how I play with it as a ranger, and I bought nice warhorn. You said that rangers here are better with swords/greatswords so I tried to play with both of them. I don’t know how it goes, I dont feel like this is the good way, you sure that I shouldn’t play with bows? It will not be better?
And now I’m just exploring maps and do the story missions, I asked a lot about the leveling because evey zone I get into, I can’t finishing it because I find myself weak and low level to the rest of the heart missions, and when I try to do them I fail because a lot of creatures attacking me and I’m dead very quickly.
I just dont understand why its like this, like Queensdale is zone to 1-17 but it gets me leveled only to 12 and I had to move to CaledonFOrest and finish it to level up to 15 and than just finish Queensdale, this is works like that or I do something wrong? I finished Caledon Forest and Queensdale and I get to level 16 only, after I’ve done everything almost, I’m trying to harvest and mining everything in my way.
This is how the game works? I’m in the good way?
By the way, my bank is full and I don’t know what to keep and what not, I saved all my collectibles and I do use Salvage Kit, but when I need to start doing crafting?
And I choose the Marksman trait, but I don’t know how to buy skill points and how to build my character trait. Help please?
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About crafting I don’t sure, I’m a human ranger which profession do you think I should take? and how I train those crafting effectively? Because I’m sure that I can’t train it effectively with items that I earn from drops and more. And which professions should I take? that will give me money/XP.. or something
Yes do Dungeons when you can.
For a Ranger crafting would be either Huntsman or Weaponsmith depending on what weapons you’re using and Leatherworker for armor.
Crafting is easy to level up. Each recipe tells you what you need to make the basic components (inscriptions and weapon parts) then you combine these in the discovery tab (there are 4 tabs when you open a crafting window. Discovery is the top one)
Yes, but I don’t think that I would crafting a lot and discover a lot and basically train it a lot to higher levels with items that I get from droping. I’m selling all my items that I get from drops, that should be the items for crafting so I don’t know what to do, because I think that those items don’t really level me up in crafting, its very low amount of them.
And all the players here told me to not useing bows, only greatswords/swords/axes/horns, so I will go on Weaponsmith.
You haven’t done the whole map. The hearts are a tiny part of the map. You need to fully explore, do events, gather materials from nodes, craft stuff, everything. The hearts are vestigial sign posts for people in need of classic quest hubs.
If you look at the daily achieves and try to do 5 of them (you can do less, or more), you get a good xp bump for each one plus more for finishing the 5th one. Even low characters can do them. I tend to do them on whatever alt I’m leveling and generally get a lot of a level in a few minutes thanks to those.
Killing mobs that aren’t part of an event or a heart is probably the slowest possible xp source out there, btw. Use them to skill up weapons or to earn credit for other things, but do not expect to see your xp progress just because you killed ten centaurs.
I know I don’t said I do this kind of thing. And when I said that I explore the map, I explore it by doing all the hearts, POI’s, SP & WP, and I did harvest/mine/gather everything in my way, probably not everything, but a lot. And I did this in those two maps that I explored.
So you say I’m in the good way? I should now go to Kassex Hills and explore it, and when I feel that I weak for the hearts just go to another map and start it and than came back? and just every zone that I move to I should explore to the end at least two maps? This is the fastest way to level to 80? and do dungeons in the way?
About crafting I don’t sure, I’m a human ranger which profession do you think I should take? and how I train those crafting effectively? Because I’m sure that I can’t train it effectively with items that I earn from drops and more. And which professions should I take? that will give me money/XP.. or something
In Ebonhawke, there are some missions (destroy Seperatist posters to the north, repair damaged turrets to the south) and dynamic events (herding cows), that do not require combat. Because you are in an area that is so much higher than your own, the rewards scale up, so if you can keep your wits about you and avoid combat (aka only do the tasks that do not require you to fight), you can get quite an XP boost.
Basically, stay in the city, and avoid confrontation. If a fight starts near you, get away from it
Okay I will try this, but how can I know which mission isn’t require combat? and I can’t stay in the city you know, I will have to go out..
Thanks for helpo man
Yeah, those are common white items, so it’s possible they aren’t even better than your current gear, but when you are so unlucky, you have the option to upgrade it in a cheap way.
Of course you can get gear from the TP too, but as i said, it’s cheaper. Don’t waste your money on crap. After you are level 80 and understand the game more and see the big picture, you can decide what to do with your gold. Until then i would just save my money. =]
Basically yes. Go around, do events, complete hearts, do story missions, complete every map. You can go back and do other starting zones too, whatever you like. Everything gives XP in this game. Literally. If there would be an option to fart, that would give XP too.
And seriously, gather everything. Gathering gives stupidly lot of XP and you can sell the materials. Oh and upgrade your gathering tools, higher level materials needs better tools obviously. But almost every merchant sells them.
Oh, and try to salvage everything you can’t use or sell for a good amount of coin.
Merchants sells them and the Basic salvage kit is enough for everything except for Rare and Exotic items.
Those are better to be salvaged with Master or Mystic salvage kit, if you can afford the later one.
Thanks for helping me so much man, I appreciate this..
I just don’t understand how I will “understand” more the game if all I do is just heart missions and exploring, except know where each zone is and which levels should I train there… Which professions do you recommend me to took? professions that gives money/important things to me.. and how to train this profession? (Example: Smiting, just mining ores and keep them and than just make Armour).
First of all, loot. If you are lucky enough, mobs can drop stuff for you. If not, change your gear at the Armorsmiths and Weaponsmiths at every 5-10 level.
Try to get gear with Power main stat. After a while gears will appear with 2 or even later with 3 stats, so you should go for Berserker gear with these stats:
Power
Precision (crit chance)
Critical damage (this will be renamed to Ferocity in the next patch)If you reached lvl80 and want to gear up yourself with Exotic (orange) gear, you can do a lot of stuff.
- The easiest way is to buy it from the Trading Post for gold, but it’s very unlikely you can afford it as a fresh lvl80.
- The second easiest is to run a few dungeons. As a ranger you will struggle to get in a party, since rangers have a really bad reputation to the overwhelming amount of bearbow players, but … The cool part is, that dungeons gives tokens, which can be used to buy exotic armors or weapons and they give a nice amount of gold each day. Just buy doing a few paths like AC1,2,3, CoF1&2 and maybe CoE1,2,3 it will net you ~13.5 gold + what you get from other loot and it can be done fast.
- The third way is to go in WvW and buy gear from Badge of honor. You get these from killing players, but i don’t know if you are interested in PvP in any form or not.
Any other question?
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I totally forgot about the best guide ever made about gearing …
http://dulfy.net/2012/10/03/gw2-endgame-gearing-guide/
Thanks for helpo man so I should buy gear with my money every 5-10 levels? and for now just explore maps by my level? this is the goal? to explore maps, doing heart missions and explore?
What is is a bearbow?
By the way, how I should train and level up? which method is the best? I will get lost if I will just “explore” the game and don’t explore specific maps, like starting with Queensdale and than move to another. This is how players get level 80? exploring maps? how should I begin?
Now I’m exploring the main cities of the races, after this I will do what GuzziHero told me to do.. I will try this.Using a bear and longbow, pew pew to a single target from a mile away with low damage and often knock it back to further screw up with your group.
Just … explore. The personal story already holds your hand where to go and maps have a minimum and maximum level, so you can get an idea when you can level there.
If you are close to or above max level, you can still get XP there, however it will be a tiny bit lower, than on the appropriate levels.
Zones are made for leveling, if you “outlevel” Queensdale, you can continue the leveling process in the surrounding areas.
Oh and one other thing …
Do what you enjoy most in leveling. Even if it’s efficient, not worth it if you are bored to death. Or roll an alt! It never hurts to try different classes early on.
Okay thanks! and what about my weapons and gear? how can I get good weapons and gear for leveling? and basically in which level should I buy? because I think that now my gear is fine, its a gear from drops/quests and I’’m only level 7.
So that is happening next? after I reach level 80? (Just curious
Didn’t read the thread, sorry if something got mentioned already.
1. Complete all hearts, gather everything, explore everything, do personal story missions (the green star thingy), do events. With these you can level up pretty quickly.
Personal story missions gives ~25% of your level worth of XP and events gives around ~7%, so it’s worth to do them.2. Don’t ever try to farm in Queensdale. While it’s a great method to level up and gives decent loot, it won’t teach you anything about the game. Go out in the open world and explore it. Trust me, it will be a great experience.
3. Don’t rush to lvl80. See above, explore.
4. Weapons. Ranger is ranger, not Hunter or Bowmaster or Ikillyoufromfar. Ranger. Police officer of nature, if you like. Or think about Aragorn.
Get a greatsword and a sword / warhorn set. GS will have a mobility skill, a block and a high damage, vulnerability stacking ability, while S/W will give you swiftness to run around faster and a lot of evades in combat. Well, the auto attack is clunky on sword, but you will get used to it.5. Get all the pets you should need. Here is a list where you can find all of them.
I suggest to get a Jaguar, Jungle stalker, River drake, Red moa and a Brown bear if you don’t have one. The two cat gives high damage, the drake is kinda tanky and has aoe, the moa can give Fury which will be useful later and the bear is the ultimate tanky pet, but try to avoid using it all the time.And watch this video. If you have any question, go on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oGtY69tcekedit:
About the weapons part. General rule in this game, that ranger damage is less than melee, with a very few exceptions. Also melee weapons cleaves 3 targets at the same time by default, so only by this fact it outdamages ranged anyway. Thirdly, skills that apply boons (buffs) have a small range so it’s really beneficial to stick together to you teammates which is easier in melee range again.
Don’t be a bearbow, please!
What is is a bearbow?
By the way, how I should train and level up? which method is the best? I will get lost if I will just “explore” the game and don’t explore specific maps, like starting with Queensdale and than move to another. This is how players get level 80? exploring maps? how should I begin?
Now I’m exploring the main cities of the races, after this I will do what GuzziHero told me to do.. I will try this.
Hello guys, I have a Human Ranger level 4 and I’ve already did the heart missions to levels 1-6 in Queensdale and I can’t do the heart missions to level 7+ because its hard.
How can I level up from this point? how I should level up basically? just find new maps and doing heart missions? or there are some maps that I should level up there and not “find” by myself?
Can you please help me with this?
And I’m fighting right now with 2 axes that I throw on enemies, I should buy a bow or something? when I will use a bow?
Thanks for helping, Tal