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[Sisho]

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[Wayfarer]

I'd like to second the part about exploration in point 6 above.

Don't just do the "heart" events and assume you have covered the content. There are other events and interesting mini-bosses in various nooks, crannies, and caves all around the zones. At least make sure you seek out each point of interest along the way if you're looking for exp & fun.

[Fatalis]

Also if possible try and fully complete a zone, I.E all hearts, skill points, points of interest, etc.

When you do that, you'll get a special mail that contains a green item and some other stuff.

[Dracut]

Great post. Thanks for putting it together

[Beetle]

Also if possible try and fully complete a zone, I.E all hearts, skill points, points of interest, etc.

When you do that, you'll get a special mail that contains a green item and some other stuff.

I did not know that, awesome! And I agree with once you complete an area that you should try to complete other races starting areas as well.

[Sisho]

Yeah I knew that completing the zone gave you a nice little bonus of items and a little cash but I didn't think it gave any bonus experience so I didn't bother listing that under the exploration one. Some of the zones in the beta were not working correctly unfortunately and you could not even reach a couple of the points of interest and/or skill point challenges.

[Orz]

I'll be honest, what is the point in the title when 1) is "go back and repeat Dynamic Events".

[Sisho]

Yeah I know it says repeat them. The point in the entire post is a lot of options to level. None of these are required, therefore you do not have to repeat content. Besides, with dynamic events you may have stumbled in half way through a dynamic event chain, or missed what came after the first one, then it is beneficial to repeat them, as you get to do stuff you didn't do before.

[ItsGoTime]

I'll be honest, what is the point in the title when 1) is "go back and repeat Dynamic Events".

Heh,

Busted

[Orz]

Heh,

Busted

Add to the conversation or don't post. It is in our rules.

Same with you Sisho.

I'd suggest you re-title your post to something that better reflects what you are getting at (e.g. "The many ways to level in GW2"). I do agree completing all the content is a smart thing to do.

[Zoaea]

I found Exploring your races main city at about the time you go there for your first home instance story can get you a whole level and a half. I explored my Norn's city at about lv3, and by the time I unlocked most of the points of interest I was halfway to lv5. Then when I went out to complete the heart events I was able to do the lv 7 ones sooner than on a second toon I made where I skipped the exploration.

It is not time wasted either as you need your way point later on, might as well get them while you benefit from it! (Also one of the areas gave you a speed buff that made exploring the city faster, idk if it is present in all the race cities but for Norn I think it was the leopard building that had the npc with the buff).

Add to the conversation or don't post. It is in our rules.

Same with you Sisho.

I'd suggest you re-title your post to something that better reflects what you are getting at (e.g. "The many ways to level in GW2"). I do agree completing all the content is a smart thing to do.

You could re-title the post or you could change #1 into looking for dynamic events you missed (and there for not repeating content). I found a lot of events I missed when I went back through an area a second time.

[Max B]

You could re-title the post or you could change #1 into looking for dynamic events you missed (and there for not repeating content). I found a lot of events I missed when I went back through an area a second time.

Also doing the same dynamic event that you either failed or succeeded the previous time will unlock new ones. E.g. I was in the human starting area and we were supposed to stop the bandits from poisoning the water supply. On Sat. when I was there we succeed and then had to drive back the rest of the bandits. On Sunday when I was there with a friend, we failed because it was just him and me, so then we had to kill a bunch of ooze and take it to some dude to make a antidote or something. Same thing, different outcome, same xp for leveling.

Also if you have a friend and they are doing their personal story, even if you are both human but he is regal and you are a street rat, you will do different content if you go with him into his instances. So different content more xp.

[Sisho]

Also doing the same dynamic event that you either failed or succeeded the previous time will unlock new ones. E.g. I was in the human starting area and we were supposed to stop the bandits from poisoning the water supply. On Sat. when I was there we succeed and then had to drive back the rest of the bandits. On Sunday when I was there with a friend, we failed because it was just him and me, so then we had to kill a bunch of ooze and take it to some dude to make a antidote or something. Same thing, different outcome, same xp for leveling.

Yeah, I had already had that in the description under the first option, but apparently even if you are going to get something new out of it people don't seem to care. Personally I will go back and do a dynamic event over again, especially if I failed it. I failed 3 or 4 events over the weekend, mainly because people weren't participating as much as they should have, so later I would wait for them to start again, or if they were the ones where another faction took over the base I would start trying to take it back. Also if I knew from videos I had watched of Dynamic Events that they DE was a chain event I would go do the first one even if I had already so I could do the rest.

[Max B]

Yeah, I had already had that in the description under the first option, but apparently even if you are going to get something new out of it people don't seem to care. Personally I will go back and do a dynamic event over again, especially if I failed it. I failed 3 or 4 events over the weekend, mainly because people weren't participating as much as they should have, so later I would wait for them to start again, or if they were the ones where another faction took over the base I would start trying to take it back. Also if I knew from videos I had watched of Dynamic Events that they DE was a chain event I would go do the first one even if I had already so I could do the rest.

I guess I missed that when I was reading. But then I suppose you could come to a place where you are telling the other people.. hey let this event not succeed so I can see the other content and they might not like that.

[Sisho]

Yeah it all really depends on the time of day and such, doing some events by yourself almost guarantees failure I've noticed. There are literally some events that are impossible to solo, no matter how good you are, so they are doomed to fail. I've noticed that those events are usually labeled appropriately as (Group) events, so if you are stupid enough to try to solo them then well, yeah XD

In my experience getting to level 29 though, I've noticed most of the standard events are soloable, so you can do a lot to advance them on your own, and if you really want to see the bad outcomes, just get on in the middle of the night in a higher level area or something. Heck even today playing the stress test I was in the Charr 15-25 Diessa Plateau area and doing an event and was by myself. I failed it because it was simply too difficult to pull off alone because the NPCs on it are next to useless. The event I am speaking of is the one where the Charr lead a warband against the Flame Legion's main headquarters and you have to capture two points. Almost impossible by yourself, but like 10 people ended up showing up towards the end of it, it failed because it was already too late, and then we ended up going back one step in the event and doing them over and then making the charge again and succeeding. I feel like this is one area where repeating a Dynamic Event is fun as hell. I got to see something new out of it, and I got a couple levels out of it all.

[Orz]

I noticed the Charr area has some of the most unsolable content so far and every time the survey comes up, I state as much. I actually like that it requires people to work together, even though they aren't in the same group.

[Sisho]

You know, now that I stop and think about it I have to agree with that. I played a Charr the majority of the time we've had to play, and I took him to all the other 1-15 areas, and to the Charr and Norn 15-25 areas. In none of the other areas could I not solo just about everything. The only thing in Wayfarer Hills (Norn 1-15 area) I don't think I could solo is that event chain that leads up to the northern section of the area to destroy the towers and such up there. I do highly agree that it is a lot of fun to have to group up with random people, it fosters more cooperative than competitive gameplay which is something I really respect Arenanet for pulling off with this game. I never, ever feel the need to compete with fellow players in PvE, never feel the need to rush to kill my mob because I'm worried someone will gank the kill, or the need to get to a crafting node before someone else because they will get it. Arenanet have done amazingly well with this aspect of the game, even going so far as to just give people experience for reviving allies. I did notice that there were no less than 4 or 5 events in the Charr area that were almost completely unsoloable, including the raid on the Fire Legion headquarters and the crypts where you have to try to get to Duke Barridin when the ghosts have it claimed. The latter event I found to be ridiculously hard, and takes a minimum of like 4 or 5 skilled players, which I think is pretty cool, but sucks big time if you want that skill point down there and are alone, which I was the first time I tried to get there lol.

[Deft]

You know, now that I stop and think about it I have to agree with that. I played a Charr the majority of the time we've had to play, and I took him to all the other 1-15 areas, and to the Charr and Norn 15-25 areas. In none of the other areas could I not solo just about everything. The only thing in Wayfarer Hills (Norn 1-15 area) I don't think I could solo is that event chain that leads up to the northern section of the area to destroy the towers and such up there. I do highly agree that it is a lot of fun to have to group up with random people, it fosters more cooperative than competitive gameplay which is something I really respect Arenanet for pulling off with this game. I never, ever feel the need to compete with fellow players in PvE, never feel the need to rush to kill my mob because I'm worried someone will gank the kill, or the need to get to a crafting node before someone else because they will get it. Arenanet have done amazingly well with this aspect of the game, even going so far as to just give people experience for reviving allies. I did notice that there were no less than 4 or 5 events in the Charr area that were almost completely unsoloable, including the raid on the Fire Legion headquarters and the crypts where you have to try to get to Duke Barridin when the ghosts have it claimed. The latter event I found to be ridiculously hard, and takes a minimum of like 4 or 5 skilled players, which I think is pretty cool, but sucks big time if you want that skill point down there and are alone, which I was the first time I tried to get there lol.

Don't forget the dreaded flame legion shaman. LOL.

[Sisho]

Don't forget the dreaded flame legion shaman. LOL.

Oh god don't even get me started on that one lol. I really really hope they tune the balance on that one. It is really a disadvantage to come at him with like 20 people because then he one hits anybody who he targets. The best party for him I've noticed is having around 4-5 people which makes him tough, but beatable and you don't go down the instant he targets you. I do hope they iron out small balance issues like that, which I imagine they will have by the next BWE since things like that are pretty easy fixes. I did that event 3 times, twice on my Elementalist and once on my Warrior. Let me say it was no cake walk at all lol, and on my Warrior I really had to stay on my toes to avoid going down, and it was quite difficult with the number of people there.