There are quite a few events, collections that require players to return to core maps (Eg. last year's return of Season 1), so max level players will also be hanging out A few months ago the leveling experience has been overhauled, and its extremely fast now, so even if you end up not meeting anyone you will be max level with a new character in While almost all of your time after 80 is spent in group play. Everything you do, below level 80, is just a boring, lonely, unsupported version of the game that teaches you nothing new after a couple of weeks. All the content in this game is tuned for level 80 players (even the "level 35" dungeons). At level 10 I think you get a free 10 hour mount and whats amazing about this, timed stuff or at least for mounts and exp boost I think, dont count down when logged out! Getting this mount enticed me to buy the full game not the latest Expansion as I wanted to play more before spending 60 bucks or what ever. for the pve missions the recommended number is 5, but most of the guild missions can be done solo (the ones that don't have a required amount of players). treks can be done with 1 or 2 people with enough map completion done, and bounties can be done if you call in some help from map chat. though, I'd say you'd need at least 1 level 80, because some of the treks go into Orr. also you might want The reason for that is when I get to the last tier of a skill, when I max the needed exp, if I don't have points to master it, that's fine; I'll just switch to another track. Max that. Switch to another track, max that. On and on. It feels like it takes longer to max stuff out (because it does), but I don't feel like I'm "wasting" my experience. Especially when the end of the base game comes with little content balanced specifically for level 80s (read: content that is not "low level but can be played without one-shotting everything due to downscaling of players"). 2: 3: Free-to-play players can only have 1 crew (crafting) skill per character. Preferred players get 2, and subscribers get the max of 3. Free-to-play and non-previously-subscribed preferred players can purchase additional crew skill slots at 420 CC per crew skill per character or 950 CC per crew skill for every character on the account, for a This has been discussed numerous times - basically, GW2 runs on an ancient DX9 engine that runs very poorly on modern hardware. You will get smooth framerate on empty maps but the second you step into any major city or an event with people tossing eyecancer mountskins and skills all-over the place, your FPS will nosedive to mid 20-30 range even on a prime rig you can buy nowadays. Summary. The Objective Scaling Rewards system will be released on February 14, 2023. The system is tied to the existing events and uses all the participation rules of that system. It’s only for attacking or defending the hard objectives of towers, keeps, and castles. The requirements to earn different tiers of rewards have changed. I mean, I have 6 characters all level 80 and only 1 of them has completed the personal story. If you paid for expansions, you get daily login rewards that include Tomes of Knowledge (1 Tome = 1 free level up). And doing WvW and PvP you earn even more tomes that'll add up pretty fast to level up your characters pretty quickly. jxMI0Wl.