Ok so i thought ur not suppose to grind?

ok so i just go talk to the sunspear people just loafing around the shrines? i was wondering y they just stand there looool And you never clicked them to find out?

The m0ar you know...

But yeah, pumping your Sunspear rank with bounties is a piece of cake.

So i've finally decided to create my character in nightfall and i get the Primary Quest "Honorable General" i need to either be Level 12 or First Spear Rank, now I'm Level 10 and did all the quests i have searched the entire map that im allowed to venture i cannot access the city of the first city (explorable area west of Jokanur Diggins) just the ground area before it which is swarming with level 15s, i cannot go to black tides or Beknur Harbor. i am sooo confused from what i understand you never need to grind in guild wars as long as you do most of the quests at least that's how it was in the first 2 games, do i really need to grind to level 12, or do some quests open at level 10 maybe i have searched all the towns but haven't ran the maps again at level 10 just between 8 and 10, thanks alot

-Outrageously Confused Just do some quests and always take the shrine bounties. It is kind of an annoyance, but ever since the title update missions and quests give you sunspear wich combined with the shrine bonuses, makes it quick and relatively painless to achieve the required rank. At least it's easier and much less mindnumbing now than it was before where all you had was going around chopping stuff.

It's all relative. Yes, u have to grind a little so that u can progress, but the amount of grind required is exponentially less than the lvl grind in other games; therefore in comparison to other games, it can be considered not grinding. Make sense? this is true with the exception that the game should not have you grind. as that was one of the key features of the game, where its a skill game not a level game. if it wasn't for the lv 15 killer beast thingy in the first city, you would be getting minimal exp to no exp at all, as level 5 and below i believe at level 10 would give you 0. while the level 6 exp reward divided by 4 would be something close to 8, when u need 7000 exp to level once ya it would prob take a good portion of the day, which i don't have time for, hence why i play this game and not wow (not putting it down or anything before someone flames me). and thanks all for the help i would be stuck grinding for like a week (as thats how much time i devote to GW) if it wasn't for the sunspear advice.