Guild Wars 2

The rates seem fine at low levels, but in the middle range they certainly make me think three times before porting anywhere.

I can actually understand the design to have some cost, otherwise you’d risk having 500 people porting around from event to event – making people at least evaluate and make decisions is a good thing in my view. And I don’t see it as a disincentive to explore – it just means you have to plan your exploration with some care unless you can buy your way through any problem.

But I do agree the prices probably need tweaking, particularly for levels 20-79 where income is still pretty low but WP costs are high. In other MMOs you could typically utilize the auction house structure to generate significant revenue to overcome basic travel related gold sinks, but at least so far that doesn’t appear to be the case in GW2.

I think I have 55 chests and 9 keys in the bank.

I would agree with others that the stuff that drops from the chests is largely underwhelming, and would just take up more bank space if I were to actually open more than the handful I have.

Love the game on the whole, but having opened a few, not excited about the chests.

As a few others have noted, level is a huge key here, and there are reported bugs around changing zones, logging, or even potentially using some waypoints. I know I was stuck at 22k for weeks even though I went 3 days without dying at one point for any/all of these bugged reasons.

Being conservative and just hoofing it out, I discovered that the level of zone really is key.

My first really focused attempt I was trying to do it in a starter zone and was on pace to do it in 8 hours or more using XP buffs (at 49% of the achievement I had completed 95% of the zone).

The next day I switched to Bloodtide Coast (45-55) on a lvl 44 toon, and got it in about 2.5 hours with occasional afks and without any xp food/buff, doing a few events and completing only about 30% of the zone.

So yes, it does seem to be bugged (at least compared to the other requirements which can be done across multiple toons at any point in the month), and it is pretty easy to ‘do it wrong’ (I certainly did).

But assuming you have a lvl 40+ toon, it can be done in one session, and it should be increasingly faster in higher zones.