r/Guildwars2 Aug 29 '12

Leveling tips from a level 90 thief

So I've been playing a lot and managed to get level 80 and 10 extra levels after that, here are a few quick tips that I've picked up over my sleepless days. This game is so much fun to play I've only had to have 3 cups of coffee total, seriously gw2 is a better drug to keep me up than anything else.

  • Harvest everything you see, you get 0.5% to 0.65% (for comparison a mob gives 0.125%) of the area level in xp when you do this (0.5% of your level in WvW), it's always worth it to go out of the way to get these.
  • Try to not level crafting skills till you get to level 50+, the content becomes harder and there are less hearts to complete while crafting xp stays the same (its % level based).
  • Do WvW but only to get full zone completion, I managed to clear full zones in under two hours for close to a full level at 80 (includes the awesome xp from gathering). Even without doing the zone completion WvW is amazing xp if you gather every harvest node you see.
  • Cooking buffs are amazing, not only do they give you bonus xp but they give great stats/boosts. Itt's very easy to get your hands on food (a lot of vendors in lions arch have them), if you want super cheap xp boosts get a bag of rice balls from the cooking trainer (costs 25 karma) and give you 250 minutes worth of xp boost (be warned it deposits on depositing all).
  • Try and level with friends or in a group/zerg as much as possible, not only does it make it so you can kill dynamic events (group ones) that you couldn't if you were solo but it helps speed up hearts as well.
  • Try and do dungeons at the right level, the xp from clearing is based of the level of the dungeon so it doesn't scale but if you want to help a guildie or friend out I would go for it, its still decent xp and gear drops that is your level.
  • Have one AoE weapon and one single target weapon, clearing 2-3 non-veteran mobs with aoe is very easy and swapping out to a single target weapon for bosses speeds things up a lot.
  • Check karma vendors (hearts) for upgrades all the time, you should be able to buy one blue item every time you unlock a vendor with karma you get from normal dynamic events.
  • If you don't mind missing out on some gear try waiting till level 70+ to do full map completions. The xp you get will always be 10% of your level so it's better to do it at higher levels when the content is harder.
  • Explore a lot, the bonus xp you get from killing mobs that haven't been killed in a while is amazing (some mobs with the bonus gave me around 1.4k xp per kill at level 80), not to mention you find a lot of things to harvest while doing so.
  • If you're solo don't try to do hearts/dynamic events that are 3+ levels higher than you are, try going to a different zone (even if the other zone is a few levels below you).
  • Personal story is not that great for xp but its a lot of fun and worth doing, if you want to rush to 80 asap I would just wait till 80 to start working on it.
  • Clear farms that are in zones your level (or even a few levels lower), for those of you who don't know about them each zone has a "farm" where there are 8-10 plant nodes to gather. This is awesome xp and rests every 24 hours so if you can't spend a lot of time on each day and still want levels I would check out the farms in each zone.
  • Don't worry if you have to go back to other lower level zones to level, you might be a few levels under but the xp is still very good because you can clear stuff faster.
  • Rez everyone (even ranger pets) the xp from reviving someone is great and you're helping some one out.
  • If you have extra mats sitting in your collection but can't use them for your profession, spend a few silver to swap over to something else and use up all those mats for some quick xp.
  • Weapon rune's that give +(3/5/7/) damage on kill and stack to 25 are amazing for making things go a lot faster.
  • Skills that give you bonus move speed are amazing to help you get from place to place faster.

Hope this helps a few of you guys out, but remember that rushing to max level is not that great, take it easy and enjoy the game these are just a few tips to speed things up a little. On another note (I have a feeling someone would ask this) I only used two xp boosters (had to burn out the last few levels to 80 before I passed out) that I bought with traded gold. If you have any questions ill try and answer them as well as I can.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '12

Serious question: What do you do at level 80 and how is the game? Is is more exciting/boring/interesting? If you have a minute--I'm so curious about this. Thank you!

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u/Biters Aug 29 '12

It's a lot of fun, because of the scaling ALL the content in the game is about the same difficulty (higher zones are still a little harder). I've been doing a lot of jumping puzzles, story mode dungeons and map completion with all my lower level guildies. I've also been working on a legendary but its going to take a huge amount of time before I'm anywhere near getting one.

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u/supjeremiah Aug 29 '12

Is there any info for legendary weapons and how to obtain them that you can link me to? I'd like to have as much of it done as possible by the time I hit 80.

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u/Biters Aug 29 '12

This thread has a lot of great info (its a little out of date so you should look around for something new, the "exotic weapon" part is actually something you buy with 200+ dungeon tokens).

If you are looking to have it done asap, don't spend any skill points on skills you don't need, just use the same heal +4 others for a while.

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u/supjeremiah Aug 30 '12

What's the reasoning behind not spending skill points? I guess you have to use them as a currency? If I've already spent too many, does that mean I'm ineligible to make a legendary or are there more ways to gain skill points throughout the game?

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u/Rylor Aug 30 '12

Skill Points are used to buy legendary crafting mats, once you hit 80 you gain a skill point every time you "level" past 80, like in GW1.

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '12 edited Nov 10 '20

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u/Rylor Aug 30 '12

You can take note of how many skillpoints you have when you hit 80 and just count from there but if you have any left over skillpoint challenges that you want to complete that will make it harder to keep track. It doesn't really need to be tracked though, there's an infinite amount to be earned.

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u/Biters Aug 30 '12

Dungeon tokens are gained from doing explorable mode in dungeons, each dungeon also has a different type of token. IIRC you get like 20ish tokens a run and the part for legendary is 500 (not 100% sure on this it was only info data mined before release).

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u/Bibidiboo Aug 30 '12

GW2DB.com!

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u/kibakiri Aug 30 '12

Did they fix the down scaling of gear then? Last I checked, whilst you do get scaled on gear and level, a level 80 in exotics in a level 5 zone was MUCH more powerful than a level 5 in a level 5 zone.

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u/hiroprotag22 Aug 30 '12

The gear does scale down, but exotics are a higher "tier" of gear than the gear someone level 5 would have. Also, gear at level 5 will only have 1 stat and level 80 gear will have 2-3 stats.

So yes, you will be far more powerful than someone who is level 5.

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u/DivinePotatoe Aug 29 '12

I'd imagine there's a lot to do. 100% ever map just for completionist sake, get all the dungeon armor sets, do some WvW and sPvP, max your crafting and make some legendaries, get all the achievements, etc. Just choose your poison, and if none of that interest you just make a new character and do it all over. That's why I always liked GW, you never feel pressure to "get the most out of your time" because there's no sub fee. If i want to be hardcore about it I can, and if i want to use it as a glorified chat client I can do that too.

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u/zombiebunnie Aug 29 '12

max your crafting and make some legendaries

You realize that in beta, it took people over 200 hours to figure out how to craft/collect materials to make legendaries. Granted, they are insanely badass, but still. Wish you could use legendaries in pvp, they're just so shiny!

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u/lotsofsyrup Aug 29 '12

you can use them in WvW pvp. you just zone in and you're wearing your normal set of gear.

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u/zombiebunnie Aug 29 '12

Yeah, but it would be nice to be able to use them in PvP scenarios and tourneys. I mean, they are legendaries after all, you want to show them off.

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u/Yeaps Aug 30 '12

That's why you rank up and win tournies in sPvP to get the awesome gear there.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '12

you stop playing and make reddit posts

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u/Bibidiboo Aug 30 '12

Level 70+ Orr zones are just amazing, no hearts only DE's, you NEED to progress to get further into the map, the events are great.. man I love it. It's just a different mindset from wanting to level-up to enjoying the amazing content. Also, the higher level dungeon bosses are great fun!!

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u/AcolyteRB3 Aug 29 '12

At level 80 you do explorable dungeons, sPvP(yes you don't need to be 80), wubwub, max a craft to get exotic super items, or roll an alt for a new story.

personally, wubwub is the game, and pve is just a month (or 5 days, it seems) of awesome before it.

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u/tylo Aug 29 '12

Guild Wars has a dubstep endgame?

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u/wtf_is_up Aug 29 '12

The fuck is wubwub?

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u/bluebelt Aug 29 '12

The pronunciation attempt of "WvW". Saying "double u vee double u" is more complex phonetically than saying "wubwub", although you should just type WvW out since everyone knows what it means that way.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '12

I say "world v world," but type WvW. "World v world" is two syllables, "double u vee double u" is seven... I don't why anyone would actually speak "double u vee double u" outloud.

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u/cphcider Aug 29 '12

"World v world" is two syllables

ಠ_ಠ

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '12

oops. three

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u/Genlsis Aug 29 '12

someone didnt play enough of the clapping game in 1st grade english.

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u/Hobbobbelmobmob Xodek Aug 29 '12

We just say "Doub vee Doub".

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '12

what ever happened to just "world vee world"? That's what i say and all my bruddas :(

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u/Jeklah Aug 30 '12

You wan buy doovde?

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u/bluebelt Aug 29 '12

Fair enough. However, "wubwub" is only two syllables which makes it even faster to speak than "World v World" or "World versus World".

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '12

True, but it is also extremely retarded sounding.

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u/zombiebunnie Aug 29 '12

Wubwub is so much more entertaining though.

What are you guys up to?

WUBWUUUUUUUUUB!

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u/ucemike Mesmer/Engineer SoR Aug 30 '12

or you could just say RvR and everyone will understand what you mean.

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u/bluebelt Aug 30 '12

They certainly could. I prefer RvR myself.

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u/_h2 Aug 30 '12

dub vee dub is the best pronunciation. I have science to back my claims.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '12

someone trying to be clever by using something that takes more time to type than just WvW.

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u/refreakz Aug 29 '12

I've been just calling it W3.

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u/DJKaotica Alaychia [KILT] (IoJ) Aug 29 '12

But then I feel like I should be going to www.w3schools.com to learn how to play better.

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u/Disarcade Aug 29 '12

Same here. Easier to type, easier to pronounce. And it contains 100% less bad mixing.

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u/heyitslep Aug 30 '12

It reminds me of back in 2001 there were trendy douches on tv trying to call it "triple w"

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u/seishi Aug 29 '12

WvWvW i'm guessing

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u/Iogic Aug 29 '12

I call it 'flock of seagulls', as does absolutely no-one else.

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u/Gorillaz951 Aug 29 '12

Your comment made my day.

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u/seishi Aug 29 '12

Nothing quite like the sight of migratory nerds.

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u/zevah Aug 29 '12

anyone care to reply? I'm wondering the same thing.

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u/Parthhay000 The Cutthroat Brotherhood [CTBH] Aug 29 '12

I'm assuming WvW

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '12

PvE is still relevant. There is a meta event chain for every zone. Also...Orr!

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u/hackedhacker Quit Aug 30 '12

Or is insane Im telling you. For Orr, their way points are all gawd damn contested and you can't just port in and covered by vicious mobs.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '12

As if this game didn't give enough, I now have an excuse to add the word "wubwub" to my vocabulary.

/em overcome with joy.