Leveling Guide
This guide is to help show you different ways you can level, how to get some starter gear or just give you ideas if you have no idea what you're doing.
Adventure Guide
Set of new goals for level 1–79 characters to guide a player's journey while leveling up in Guild Wars 2. Listed on the right side of the UI along with your other objectives. Completing them will grant substantial experience rewards to leveling characters. Level 80 characters can complete tasks but will receive significantly reduced experience rewards.
The achievements for the Character Adventure Guide are character specific, not account based.
These achievements do not award any achievement points.
Level Up Rewards
Every time you reach a new level from 2 right until 80 you will receive a little arrow notification on the right side of your screen. These are called Level Up Rewards.
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Leather Bag (4 Slot)
Copper Logging Axe
Copper Harvesting Sickle
Copper Mining Pickion text goes here
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Crude Salvage Kit
Choice of: Copper Doubloon, Garnet Pebble or Malachite Pebble
Choice of: Pastel Lemon Dye, Rose Ice Dye or Olive Tint Dye
Choice of: Iron Ring(Condition, Power or Toughness)
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Choice of: Spear, Speargun or Trident
Choice of: Carrion Amulet, Hardy Amulet or Mighty Amulet
Backpack Straps of Prepration
Tiny Crafting Bag
Essence of Luck
Choice of: Spinel Nugget, Peridot Nugget or Lapis Nugget
Choice of: Sword, Staff, Rifle or Axe
Choice of: Bowl of Strawberry Apple Compote, Strawberry Ghost or Strawberry Tarton
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Choice of: Sword, Axe, Rifle or Focus
Unidentified Dye
Choice of: Journeyman Maintenance Oil, Journeyman Tuning Crystal or Simple Sharpening Stone
Choice of: Leg gear
Choice of: Strength Booster, Armor Booster or Speed Booster
Small Crafting Bag
Choice of: Coat
Basic Salvage Kit
Choice of: Rejuvenation Booster, Karma Booster or Speed Booster
Choice of: Gauntlets
Choice of: Gloves
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Light Crafting Bag
Choice of: Helm
Choice of: Hood
Choice of: Aquabreather
Strength Booster
Choice of: Darksteel Harvesting Sickle, Darksteel Logging Axe or Darksteel Mining Pick
Fine Salvage Kit
Choice of: Penetrating Amulet, Virulent Amulet or Powerful Amulet
Choice of: Penetrating Ring, Virulent Ring or Powerful Ring
Light Crafting Bag
Tailsman of Potency
Choice of: Greatsword, Sword, Pistol or Focus
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Choice of: Helm or Boots
Light Crafting Bag
Choice of: Coat
Choice of: Seal of the Solider, Seal of the Rabid or Seal of the Magi
Light Crafting Bag
Choice of: Seal of the Solider, Seal of the Rabid or Seal of the Magi
Choice of: Gauntlets, Gloves or Boots
WXP Mini-Booster
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Journeyman's Salvage Kit
Choice of: Seal of the Solider, Seal of the Rabid or Seal of the Magi
Choice of: Sword, Axe, Dagger or Pistol
Choice of: Superior Sigil of Life, Superior Sigil of Nullification or Superior Sigil of Frailty
Choice of: Gauntlets, Gloves, Mask or Pants
Medium Crafting Bag
Choice of: Superior Rune of the Flock, Superior Rune of Grenth or Superior Rune of Lyssa
Glob of Ectoplasm
Large Bag of Spirit Shards
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Choice of: Gauntlets, Legs, Mask or Gloves
Medium Crafting Bag
Choice of: Feast of Mushroom Pizzas, Tray of Cherry Almond Bars or Tray of Zucchini Bread
Choice of: Greaves, Coat, Shoulderguards or Boots
Choice of: Superior Rune of the Afflicted, Superior Rune of the Lich or Superior Rune of Balthazar
Large Crafting Bag
Empyreal Fragment
Dragonite Ore
Pile of Bloodstone Dust
Obsidian Shard
Huge Bag of Spirit Shards
Level Boosts
Level 80 Boost - rewarded to players upon purchasing one of the Guild Wars 2 expansions. You can also purchase from the Gemstore - Black Lion Instant Level 80 Ticket. This is obviously the easiest way to level, but heavily recommended that you avoid boosting your first character as you won't know anything about the game and what you should do next.
Using this on a character who is below level 80 will grant you an option to teleport to The Silverwastes. You can also undo the boost and use it again on another character/class if you don't like the class you were testing out.
Map Completion
Exploring the world and discovering new areas is the primary way to level early on. Completing hero challenges and hearts or uncovering vistas or waypoints will grant experience. Once completed, a blue bonus chest will be awarded to the player.
You can also speed up your leveling even more by activating one or more Experience Modifiers:
Food
Utilities - Example: Rough Sharpening Stone
Guild XP Gain
Guild Exp Banner
Upgrade gear often
Party up (LFG)
Dungeons
Dungeons are a useful resource for new players, as they can help teach you. Sadly, dungeons aren't as popular as they once were. Although they have recently made changes to make it easier for new players. Dungeons are also still a great way to get experience.
There are eight dungeons in total. You will unlock a new dungeon in each tier of your progression, and each dungeon has two modes - "Story" and "Explorable".
Ascalonian Catacombs
Caudecus's Manor
Twilight Arbor
Sorrow's Embrace
Citadel of Flame
Honor of the Waves
Crucible of Eternity
The Ruined City of Arah
Credit to Guild Wars 2 Wiki - Dungeons for the map
Tomes and Writs of Experience
Tomes and Writs can be obtained through many different methods in the game, primarily through sPvP and World vs World. Some can also be gained as part of the daily Login Reward systems.
A Tome of Knowledge will grant 100% of the difference between the players current level and the player's next level, while a Writ of Experience grants 5%. Trade in 20 writs to Miyani in Lion's Arch for a tome of Knowledge.
After level 80, they can be useful for gaining Spirit Shards, a valuable currency, or for leveling alts quickly - unless you really need the shards I would save them for quick alt leveling
Bonus Experience from Special Events
Special Events or Bonus events are events offering a bonus from Festivals. Such as killing mobs, doing the Wintersday Jumping Puzzle, or celebrating victories against the Elder Dragons.
Bonus Experience from Boosters
Black Lion Booster – 50%
Communal Boost Bonfire – 50%
Killstreak Experience Booster – 0-100% from Kills
Experience Booster – 50% + 100% from Kills
Birthday Booster – 100%
Celebration Booster – 100%
Winter’s Blessing – 10%
Lucky Draketail – 5%
Lucky Firecracker – 10%
A booster is a type of consumable that provides various effects, such as experience, increase in rewards or movement speed. Any remaining time of a booster effect remains on log out or character changing.
Bonus Experience on Kill
Your character gains experience when defeating an enemy, this is needed to level up your character. For Bonus XP, once an enemy spawns it will start increasing Bonus XP that will be awarded to players who defeat them.
Personal Story
If you are a fan of good lore and storytelling in games, you already have the incentive to complete your character's personal story; but if that wasn't enough, doing your personal story also gives you worthwhile gear, improvement of your skill as a player, and most importantly, experience.
Personal story has eight chapters, all divided. Each chapter unlocking ever 10 levels. Early chapters will be determined by the player’s choice of race, biography, and then later chapters being determined by choices made within the game.
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