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Mario 64 Master · May 20, 2005, 02:39 AM // 02:39

You're not missing out on anything if you have already played through the pve once. And for the people who don't care about the pve at all... what does it matter if they miss everything? All they want to do is get to level 20 as fast as possible so they can unlock some good skills and be competitive in pvp.

Anarchy 2k · May 20, 2005, 02:45 AM // 02:45

It was done by my Guildmate, LuLu. Level 1-20 in under 6 hours, (5 hours, 20 min to be exact.) We ran him through because it was his second character and it's pointless to spend 100'ish hours doing missions to ascend a second time just to unlock a decent pallet (40+ skills) for another dual class PvP character.

This story is indeed true, he actually ascended at lvl 3 by wand dancing with the mirror self and casting empathy.

Yes, you may not have those skills at ascension, but you can go back at lvl 20 and do all those quests oh so much faster. It's really time saving if you've already played through the game and explored all the areas/done all the missions/quests and don't want to do them ALL again while spending the time to upgrade at the citys, yada yada yada.

We're working on another project, which no doubt will shock and astound the community at how such a low level can get there. Hopefully you'll find out within the next couple weeks.

Shaubarak · May 20, 2005, 03:01 AM // 03:01

You don't even need to ascend, you can walk to beacon's perch and down through lornar's pass, and into the south shiverpeaks missions that you can complete to get to fire island. Could probably get there with a lvl 2/3...

Adaria · May 20, 2005, 03:02 AM // 03:02

I'm guessing it has something to do with going to Fissure of Woe or the Underworld, since after Ascension, that is all there is left as far as the 'veteran' areas are concerned...

Even if you've been through the game once, its ok to be babysat so to speak but to rush through that fast, what kind of appreciation for new classes do you get doing that? None, none whatsoever. You can gauge a classes strengths and weaknesses best by actually playing the character and levelling up, but then again there are those that don't care and are pure PvP, then fine, they can go make a PvP character and be level 20 right off the bat, earn the skills and runes in PvE with another character that they have to level up.

Personally, I hope the devs find a way to stop this sort of super-fast-leveling, sure its ok for secondary characters, but you cannot honestly sit here and say to everyone here that there are not first time players, that have friends who have ascended already, who just want to breeze through the game in a snap because they're used to having everything thanks to cheat codes or just used to having an upper hand at something...

Just an opinion as always, but bluntly true, because surely there IS one of those types out there...

Bast · May 20, 2005, 09:30 PM // 21:30

Why do you care what other people do? Play the game your way and leave them alone.

Mawgleah · May 20, 2005, 10:10 PM // 22:10

I'd have to agree with Bast. No one is forced to play with a low level player, so why would anyone care how someone got to a particular point in the game. I've gotten to Frost Gate trying to do all the quests and missions (the only quest I have right now is Althea's Ashes...don't know if I'll ever finish that one), but I'm one of those who enjoy the journey. There are probably those who, like my husband, aren't interested in the journey....just how fast they can get there. We don't all have to be the same or like the same things, but we should tolerate other's differences even if we don't agree with their way of thinking.

RonGyver · May 20, 2005, 11:16 PM // 23:16

my friends and I always do this for each other so we get the bette armor for our 3rd or 4th char's. We stil like to lvl on out own to see how the new char is so i dont see any harm in it if you have already lv'ed to 20 with your main, and its really non of my buisness how others play the game unless there in a party and they suck but thats a easy fix as well. Replace

RonGyver · May 20, 2005, 11:33 PM // 23:33

sorry for the spelling......to much coffee and a crappy keyboard

Aug 14, 2005, 06:49 PM // 18:49

thats true you need to worry about your self and your guild no one else

Tigris Of Gaul · Aug 14, 2005, 07:11 PM // 19:11

You can be level 1 far past Nolani Academy...

Probably level 1 at the Ring of Fire.

Kaylynn Of Ascalon · Aug 14, 2005, 07:27 PM // 19:27

Quote:

Originally Posted by PieXags

It may have been a bug, I had someone ask to join my party once, said they were lvl one in the info, so I rejected the invitation. Then I got a pm asking why I rejected, and they explained that they were lvl 12. When I accepted them into my party, turns out they were lvl 12 and it was just a bug.

its not a bug and never was a bug. what you saw was a char with a long name. when ever a char with a long name has a level of 10 or higher the second number usually goes missing. so you see a Level 2 in amoon, but in reality its a level 20 char with a name that takes up too much space. I have seen this many many times.

Dead Panda · Aug 14, 2005, 10:14 PM // 22:14

Quote:

Originally Posted by ZennZero

I have heard of a guy who hit the ascension quest and went from lvl 3 -> 20. Supposedly he had a high level friend carry him through and he just stayed out of the way. I heard this in-game though, so who knows how reliable it is.

I don't think it's possible. My ranger has about 90k of xp and she's only lvl 18.

Soiled Egg Roll · Aug 14, 2005, 10:25 PM // 22:25

They changed what ascension meant. Before, it would automatically make you level 20. Now it gives you 50k exp.

Age · Aug 14, 2005, 10:25 PM // 22:25

I have seen sreenshotof a level 1 R/Mes in the Daknors Forge arena with just the basic skills from pre.

The Great Al · Aug 14, 2005, 10:53 PM // 22:53

i was level 3 at droknars on my 2nd character

ManadartheHealer · Aug 14, 2005, 10:53 PM // 22:53

I saw a level 2 at Ring of Fire

varyag · Aug 14, 2005, 11:01 PM // 23:01

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bast

Why do you care what other people do? Play the game your way and leave them alone.

She considers it to be a duty of every person who purchases GuildWars to go through PvE with every new profession they want to explore. She expects and demands everyone to play the game Her way. She doesn't recognize that some people don't actualy like most of the missions and doesn't respect their opinion. She cannot accept the fact that some people find the missions poorly written and badly scripted - like some disney family movie that only small kids can watch.

What is worse - she cannot seem to combrehend that for some people GW isn't everything in life - and wasting time on skillgrind to prepare to enjoy GvG with friends is a horrible prospect!

Everyone must bow down to Gaile... err ...Adaria's playing style.

I have some news for your Adaria.

You are a Griefer.

Sagius Truthbarron · Aug 14, 2005, 11:02 PM // 23:02

Nobody else realises that his is a 2 month old thread that got ressurected?

Hardly any of these people still post on the forums O.o

P Shizzle · Aug 14, 2005, 11:11 PM // 23:11

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mercury Angel

It's completely feasible.
While I was level 20 before ascension anyway, even post ascension, I helped drag friends to different places quickly that they might not have managed alone.

Illusion of Haste + Mantra of Frost + Illusion of Weakness and I got us to Marhaan's Grotto through droves of those ice-element imps with little trouble at all. (poor little mesmer me, and I still managed it >.>)

Um.... Illusion of Weakness is 100% pointless you lose ABC health and you gain ABC health. It would make sence if you lose ABC health and you gain ABCD health but you lose and gain the same amount so its like nothing happened

Divinitys Creature · Aug 15, 2005, 02:51 AM // 02:51

I hate griefers, and making me do missions or making me wait ages for a faction update is a form of griefing.