Guild Wars 2 - 1-80 Leveling Guide! (how I do it)

[Music] hey guys and welcome back for another video today I'd like to talk to you guys about how to level up in this game and from a new player perspective now it's debatable if this guide is even really required or you might even ask yourself why would you even make a video like this considering well pretty much everything in Guild Wars 2 gives you some kind of experience and to that I would say you're 100% right but I feel like one of the shortcomings of Guild Wars 2 is that the game doesn't really give you a whole lot of direction now don't misinterpret what I'm saying here this is one of my favorite parts of Guild Wars 2 but from a new player perspective with literally no connection to the lore or the original game I can see how that lack of direction could be a little off-putting if you're used to it in other games also I should say that I might gloss over some aspects of the leveling process and that's because I've made a fair amount of videos covering a lot of this information in the past and this video will be a part of that playlist so if anything sounds a little crazy or like I just sort of glossed over something feel free to watch any of my earlier videos where I covered all of this in a bit more detail also as a bit of a side tip if you do not own Guild Wars 2 and you feel like you really like this game it might not be a bad idea to buy at least one of the expansions because this is going to unlock a daily log in reward that can make leveling a little bit easier now before we can actually get started on leveling you first need to create a character and play through the first bit of story Guild Wars 2 hands to you this is just one short instance with a boss fight at the end but the boss isn't very hard because well you only have one skill after defeating that boss you're going to be dumped out into the open world in a starting map based on the race that you chose now before going out into the land of Tyria to enjoy all of its splendors first quickly open your map and get a good idea of where you're at in the world once you have a good sense of where you're at go to the upper left-hand corner of this Green and towards the tail end of all the UI icons you should see some cross sorts clicking on those cross swords will bring up the PvP lobby UI and you want to enter PvP lobby once you load into the heart of the MIS or the PvP lobby again open your map and look for a purple portal that says it takes you to lions arch back in game navigate to that purple portal and head to Lions arch once you load in if it's your first time you'll see a cutscene but after that cutscene you should be able to walk around the city and all you really need to do here is grab one of the waypoints these appear as diamond shaped icons on your map and mini-map so just make sure that you stand close enough to one of them that it lights up blue and once you have that Waypoint you can open your map again take into account where lion's arch is actually located on the map so you can use that Waypoint to travel back here if need be and then navigate back to where you originally started I know this seems a bit strange but I'll cover why we did this later on now that we're back in our very first starting zone you can just start exploring the map basically you're just looking for any icon you can interact with on the map now obviously not every single icon does something so let me break this down real quick if you see a diamond that's a waypoint as we discussed before if you see a tiny square that's going to be a point of interest to red triangles is going to be a Vista an arrow pointing up is going to be a hero point and a yellow heart is a heart quest I've covered how to complete these in previous guides as well but just know that it's the collection of all of these activities per map that is known as map completion that means getting all the hearts all the vistas all the points of interests you get it on each and every map the act of completing a map is only gonna get you a little bit of experience and a chest that does scale to the map level that you're on but it's the act of completing all of these activities that give you the bulk of your experience in game additionally there are events or live quests as you would probably perceive them and those appear on the map in orange any time that you see an orange sir or an arrow that's orange pointing somewhere you should probably try to be involved because events typically give some of the best experience in-game not only that but for the heart quests in particular if you happen to find an event that spawns close enough to a heart the chances are pretty high that the enemies you're killing for that event will also count for a nearby heart also when she reached level 9 you're going to be given some gathering tools and you just need to equip those to begin gathering all of the nodes around the map each time you gather from a node you'll be allotted a small amount of experience but for the most part what we're trying to do here is just gather some mats in the early game so that we don't have to pay for as many later on when we use a little bit of crafting to help speed up this process just continue completing activities on that first starter map and eventually you should hit level 10 a level 10 your main story quests or as it's known in Guild Wars 2 the personal story becomes available and you should probably play the personal story simply because it's the main story of this game but also because it's a pretty good way to get a couple of quick levels and it breaks up the monotony of just clearing Maps over and over again every time you complete a personal story chapter you're bound to be rewarded with some gear upgrades especially for the earlier levels so it makes the most sense at least for me to complete these story steps the personal story becomes available every 10 levels from level 10 all the way to level 80 so for the most part you're gonna play some personal story every 10 levels and then return to map completion so four levels 11 through 20 you should start off with the personal story and then you can head back to the map you were originally completing or if you've already completed that map or you're simply just bored with your surroundings go ahead back to lion's arch at that Waypoint you unlocked back at the beginning of the video one of the many great features of lion's arch is a ring of portals in a place called coriolis Plaza and it's here that you can actually just use any of these portals to go to any of the starting zones simply just look outside of the portal at the race of the MPC standing outside and you should have a pretty good idea of where you're headed now your first stretch of personal story will take you to your own capital city but it's through this that you can actually unlock all the other capital cities as well the only reason I even bring this up is because capital cities are map completable as well all you have to do is run around and collect all of the points like you would in an open world map only there aren't even enemies to deal with so all you really have to do is just walk around and explore so for the rest of the levels required to get you to level 20 and your next personal story chapter I recommend just completing the capital cities and starter zones until you hit that level at level 20 you'll be able to resume that personal story so go ahead and knock out your story steps first and then you can either head back to those starter zones and capital cities or if you open your map you should see that maps that touch those starter cities are actually slightly higher level zones this isn't anything new for any kind of an MMO but just something I thought I'd point out for anybody who didn't immediately notice now it's here that I'll tell you a little nugget of information that might sway you one way or another as far as how you handle leveling at this point but if you happen to map complete to 100% every map in this game you'll be awarded with something called the gift of exploration and this is a crucial component for crafting the core tyria Legendary's later down the line this is the only way to get this item I'm just saying that that's a thing either way you want to handle it just make sure that you're continuing to complete either those earlier Maps or if you decide you'd like to move on to some of the more difficult content at least for your current level feel free to just complete any of these maps that you find to be interesting all the way up until level 30 at level 30 you again can knock out on a couple more chapters of your personal story and once you're done with that you might not be surprised at what I'm going to say right you can resume map completion or we do actually have a few options now that we're level 30 around level 25 and 30 you should have gotten a mail that tells you about dungeons now I will quickly tell you that dungeons are not nearly as supported as they used to be and players might not be playing these as frequently as they once were but if you click on those males they should show you on your map where to head to go ahead and get started with these if you've never done a dungeon before like you probably haven't you're going to first have to complete the story mode on any character that's never done it before it's only after you complete the story mode of each dungeon that the explorable paths will become available you want to have access to those explorable paths because that's where you'll actually get some dungeon tokens that you can use a little bit later on to unlock some gear or skins and they tend to be the most rewarding in terms of experience as well dungeons do have a bit of diminishing returns meaning that if you keep repeating them over and over again in the same day they won't be as rewarding as they first were so I recommend dungeons as they become available as a daily activity if you're still trying to get a boost to your level and just to clarify this means that you can run all of the individual explorable paths but not the same path over and over and over again or you will see some diminishing returns as an alternative or in addition to you could also level up a crafting profession in Guild Wars 2 gaining levels in your crafting profession also gains you experience for your character it's because of this that I recommend at least leveling cooking and I say cooking because it's almost always the cheapest one actually as of right now cooking only costs about 4 gold to max out now it'd be kind of crazy if I try to include a crafting guide inside of this guide so I'll just tell you what I typically do I go to a website called Guild Wars 2 crafts dotnet and here you can actually just select the crafting profession that you'd like to level and it'll tell you how much gold it costs to do that not only that but it'll give you a checklist of items that you'll need to purchase off the Trading Post and as prices fluctuate the site will update to always try and give you the cheapest method for getting that crafting profession all the way maxed out so for this guide I'm just gonna recommend that you use that site and level up cooking we choose cooking here because it is by far the cheapest way to get a crafting profession 100% maxed out and it doesn't really matter what your leveling up as long as you max it out so that you get the full benefit of all those extra character levels not only that but cooking will result in several foods that you can then consume for bonus xp bonus damage and overall just helps the leveling experience along once you've maxed out your cooking profession you should be a few levels higher than you once were and only four for gold now right now we're around level 40 or at least you will be soon after you complete some of those Maps but this is actually a good point to kind of stop talking about leveling and that's because well we've pretty much covered everything there is to know about at least the way I typically level my characters every 10 levels you can start with some personal story and then move on to map completion until dungeons become available you can start doing a couple of dungeons a day and then returning to map completion always making sure to complete events whenever you see them because they're going to give you the most bang for your buck and round and round we go all the way to level 80 if I had any additional advice it would be that if any time during your playing you think you have enough money to craft up a second crafting discipline definitely do so before you hit level 80 because I feel like those character levels go a little bit neglected if you don't and if you are gonna do that make sure to pick something that makes sense for your character in other words just make sure that your crafting discipline reflects the armor that you're currently wearing are the weapons that you typically use also while leveling be sure that you're spending all of the hero points that you've been obtaining for map completion so you can unlock new abilities and make yourself stronger as you play or you'll be at a disadvantage as you progress through the game there are times while playing where you might feel a little bit weaker than you'd like to be and I would actually suggest that you do not buy gear off of the Trading Post until you hit level 80 at the very least I say this because the personal story should be giving you plenty of gear to clear all of this content I've certainly never had any problems with it but I've a number of players cave and start upgrading trying to max out their potential every step of the way and you're just gonna start digging into money that you could be using for crafting or getting yourself some gear once you finally do hit 80 this guide is obviously not a as fast as possible guide but I will give you some tips if that's more or the kind of leveling experience you were hoping for firstly as I said before events events events definitely be completing events as often as humanly possible and again try to make sure those events are happening near a heart so that you can get bonus experience also as I said earlier there are ways to make this process a lot faster if you own the game I'm not suggesting that you buy it if you're still unsure but if you have a good feeling about Guild Wars 2 and you want to support the game or maybe one day play some of the expansions you'll also get access to a daily login rord literally all you have to do for this reward is login and the rewards are pretty worthwhile for starters you can get tomes of knowledge and if you don't know tomes of knowledge or just an item that you double-click and instantly level up additionally you will also get laurels which is just a currency that will help you gear your character at max level and you will periodically get yourself some boosters as well all of these things together is going to result in you leveling that much faster so just some things to keep in mind if speed is your priority again I would always recommend that you play through Guild Wars 2 your first time at your own pace if your pace is fast so be it but I recommend taking a little bit of time and enjoying the game because after all this is probably your first character and with that guys I'm gonna wrap this up but I just wanted to say that I hope this helps somebody out there leveling or learning how to play the game for the first time I know I went over some of this stuff a little quickly but that's just because there's a lot to cover and I've already covered a lot of this stuff in other videos that being said if at any time you felt like you just weren't following or you didn't really know what I was trying to say I'll be leaving links to Guild Wars 2 craft as well as some of the most notable beginner videos that I think play into this one but anyway as always thank you so much for watching and I'll see you in 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Length: 15min 38sec (938 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 10 2018