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Guild Wars 2 Launch Date announced: August 28th, 2012

I'm working tonight, also... Damnit!

I... I think I'll pass out. This is the biggest withdrawal effect I ever had for a game.
 
Looking forward to getting another hit of GW2 in tonite. Ill prob end up rushing home from work for it.

Now to decide what to roll up..
 
What's the most 'efficient' way to level in Guild Wars 2? It seems like if you work through a starter area, you wouldn't have enough experience to work into the next "area" since the starter areas are 1-15, so you'd need to go into another starting area to continue, correct?

Or am I just missing something?
 
foladar said:
What's the most 'efficient' way to level in Guild Wars 2? It seems like if you work through a starter area, you wouldn't have enough experience to work into the next "area" since the starter areas are 1-15, so you'd need to go into another starting area to continue, correct?

Or am I just missing something?
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I noticed this also. I did literally everything in a zone, every waypoint, heart, point of interest, vista, skill point challenge, and every dynamic event I saw (some I did 3 or 4 times) and I still ended up level 13. It seems like you have to do the personal story, PvP, or just go to a different zone of the same level.
 
foladar said:
What's the most 'efficient' way to level in Guild Wars 2? It seems like if you work through a starter area, you wouldn't have enough experience to work into the next "area" since the starter areas are 1-15, so you'd need to go into another starting area to continue, correct?

Or am I just missing something?
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I've never had that problem but making sure your gathering and hitting all the exploring points is important to keeping up your experience. The dynamic event model sometimes makes the experience vary from person to person because players running through the same area face different volumes of events.
 
Furrysparks said:
I noticed this also. I did literally everything in a zone, every waypoint, heart, point of interest, vista, skill point challenge, and every dynamic event I saw (some I did 3 or 4 times) and I still ended up level 13. It seems like you have to do the personal story, PvP, or just go to a different zone of the same level.
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yeah, I had the same experience. Crafting gives you a ton of xp as well as completing the personal story missions, it seems. That was in the Norn starting zone btw.
 
Furrysparks said:
I noticed this also. I did literally everything in a zone, every waypoint, heart, point of interest, vista, skill point challenge, and every dynamic event I saw (some I did 3 or 4 times) and I still ended up level 13. It seems like you have to do the personal story, PvP, or just go to a different zone of the same level.
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Yeah, I was trying to do every single thing in a zone, which included doing some hearts multiple times. I guess crafting is going to be needed to supplement, since I couldn't continue my personal story since I was too low of level at the time.

Is there somewhere that ranks out the starting areas? I went Norn and it seemed pretty good.
 
Hey guys, does anyone here know where the local professional trainers are located in the Norn starting area? Couldn't find it for my Norn Engineer who hit level 11. When I made my Human Guardian during BWE3 I was able to find the trainer easily in the human starting area.
 
Jaleel said:
Hey guys, does anyone here know where the local professional trainers are located in the Norn starting area? Couldn't find it for my Norn Engineer who hit level 11. When I made my Human Guardian during BWE3 I was able to find the trainer easily in the human starting area.
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there's a small camp in the forest to the South of their starting location with with all the trainers. Just follow the road
 
foladar said:
What's the most 'efficient' way to level in Guild Wars 2? It seems like if you work through a starter area, you wouldn't have enough experience to work into the next "area" since the starter areas are 1-15, so you'd need to go into another starting area to continue, correct?

Or am I just missing something?
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Best advice I can give you is to slow down. It may seem silly but the slower you play in a sense the more XP you gain. Keep your eyes and ears open at all times, pay attention to what the NPCs in the world are doing/saying. Often times these are parts of a story leading into more events. Don't finish an event and run off, pay attention to what is going on, ALWAYS follow NPCs because they can start more events or even turn into merchants that sell exclusive items. Gather everything, every node is about 2-3 mob kills worth of XP for pressing F. Use the stuff you gather for Crafting, every crafting profession you get to 400 is 10 character levels. There's I believe 3 Personal Story missions per 10 levels, the 10/20/30 etc mark are major chain branches. Personal Story gives large amounts of XP. WvW is another way to gain XP. Skill Challenges, PoIs, Wayppints, Vistas. Don't be afraid to get out there and explore, you'll find stuff off the beaten path, the game rewards you for exploring, go jump into a lake and see what you find. Also, the longer a mob is alive the more bonus XP they give, so killing old mobs can give you something like 5 mob kills in one. Then at around 30 you start jumping into dungeons which are another source of XP. Reviving players and NPCs are another source of XP. Then you have Hearts as another source of XP too, then there's map completions. Honestly outside of sPvP, everything you do gives you XP. Not one of my characters has been anywhere close to being under-leveled and I don't even do the Personal Story stuff.
 
about 3 hours to go!

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Jira said:
Best advice I can give you is to slow down. It may seem silly but the slower you play in a sense the more XP you gain. Keep your eyes and ears open at all times, pay attention to what the NPCs in the world are doing/saying. Often times these are parts of a story leading into more events. Don't finish an event and run off, pay attention to what is going on, ALWAYS follow NPCs because they can start more events or even turn into merchants that sell exclusive items. Gather everything, every node is about 2-3 mob kills worth of XP for pressing F. Use the stuff you gather for Crafting, every crafting profession you get to 400 is 10 character levels. There's I believe 3 Personal Story missions per 10 levels, the 10/20/30 etc mark are major chain branches. Personal Story gives large amounts of XP. WvW is another way to gain XP. Skill Challenges, PoIs, Wayppints, Vistas. Don't be afraid to get out there and explore, you'll find stuff off the beaten path, the game rewards you for exploring, go jump into a lake and see what you find. Also, the longer a mob is alive the more bonus XP they give, so killing old mobs can give you something like 5 mob kills in one. Then at around 30 you start jumping into dungeons which are another source of XP. Reviving players and NPCs are another source of XP. Then you have Hearts as another source of XP too, then there's map completions. Honestly outside of sPvP, everything you do gives you XP. Not one of my characters has been anywhere close to being under-leveled and I don't even do the Personal Story stuff.
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LISTEN to this.
 
Stress test is only for pre-purchase right? I can't participate since I preordered from Amazon. :(

I would have preordered from their site if they offered a regular boxed version.
 
thetrin said:
Stress test is only for pre-purchase right? I can't participate since I preordered from Amazon. :(

I would have preordered from their site if they offered a regular boxed version.
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Did you get a code when preordering from Amazon? If you preordered when they were giving out the codes, you can play. I did yesterday.
 
foladar said:
Did you get a code when preordering from Amazon? If you preordered when they were giving out the codes, you can play. I did yesterday.
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The facebook post said its for pre-PURCHASE players, not preorder players. That means only people who bought via guildwars2.com.

I played in the previous BWE.
 
Jira said:
Best advice I can give you is to slow down. It may seem silly but the slower you play in a sense the more XP you gain. Keep your eyes and ears open at all times, pay attention to what the NPCs in the world are doing/saying. Often times these are parts of a story leading into more events. Don't finish an event and run off, pay attention to what is going on, ALWAYS follow NPCs because they can start more events or even turn into merchants that sell exclusive items. Gather everything, every node is about 2-3 mob kills worth of XP for pressing F. Use the stuff you gather for Crafting, every crafting profession you get to 400 is 10 character levels. There's I believe 3 Personal Story missions per 10 levels, the 10/20/30 etc mark are major chain branches. Personal Story gives large amounts of XP. WvW is another way to gain XP. Skill Challenges, PoIs, Wayppints, Vistas. Don't be afraid to get out there and explore, you'll find stuff off the beaten path, the game rewards you for exploring, go jump into a lake and see what you find. Also, the longer a mob is alive the more bonus XP they give, so killing old mobs can give you something like 5 mob kills in one. Then at around 30 you start jumping into dungeons which are another source of XP. Reviving players and NPCs are another source of XP. Then you have Hearts as another source of XP too, then there's map completions. Honestly outside of sPvP, everything you do gives you XP. Not one of my characters has been anywhere close to being under-leveled and I don't even do the Personal Story stuff.
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It's funny, because while this is magnificent advice in response to the question asked, if you just start from the second sentence it reads like a "Why Hawkian Fucking Loves This Game" rant. Specifically the bold in summary.

edit: The one thing I'd add it that you get legit XP (like, full levels' worth) from just exploring the damn cities. Such a nice touch.
 
thetrin said:
The facebook post said its for pre-PURCHASE players, not preorder players. That means only people who bought via guildwars2.com.

I played in the previous BWE.
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I played in the prior two stress tests and I also preordered, not pre-purchased, the boxed version from Amazon. I think if you have the code, you should be good to go. They're the same codes prepurchases got.
 
foladar said:
I played in the prior two stress tests and I also preordered, not pre-purchased, the boxed version from Amazon. I think if you have the code, you should be good to go. They're the same codes prepurchases got.
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The other stress tests weren't prepurchase only.

They highlighted it as a major point for this stress test, so I dunno.
 
thetrin said:
The other stress tests weren't prepurchase only.
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That's not what their Facebook says:
* Stress Tests are open to those who have PRE-PURCHASED the game.
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Try logging in, it'll work. There's no difference in the preorder codes from the box at Amazon and the digital prepurchase codes. Only difference is Amazon ran out of them for the pre-order boxed version, for obvious reasons.
 
thetrin said:
The facebook post said its for pre-PURCHASE players, not preorder players. That means only people who bought via guildwars2.com.

I played in the previous BWE.
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When you entered the code from amazon, it registers as a prepurchase.

People who prepurchased from arenanet were pissed off about it on the gw2 forum when retailers like amazon got all the perks they have.
 
tenchir said:
When you entered the code from amazon, it registers as a prepurchase.
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Oh okay. Then we're good to go!

Billiechu, Let's wreck some faces!

foladar said:
That's not what their Facebook says:


Try logging in, it'll work. There's no difference in the preorder codes from the box at Amazon and the digital prepurchase codes. Only difference is Amazon ran out of them for the pre-order boxed version, for obvious reasons.
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That's certainly good to know. I was all sad I wouldn't be able to play tonight.

Proof that Amazon is still fucking awesome.
 
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