I thought this was a game for a casual player?

It takes forever to level! I'm at level 10 now. It took more than 4 hours to reach lvl10 from level9. Am I doing something wrong?

I try to do quests but I find they take a lot of time for such crummy reward (500 exp is nothing at after lvl 8).

SO, what can I do to level faster?

Try to have fun, leveling will come at it's own time. Are you playing to level to 20 as fast as you can? Is that fun to you?

If it is great, don't do quests or missions just go out and kill till you're hearts content. You'll level fast enough doing that.

wait, 4 hours to get halfway up the ladder in an RPG is too slow?

Level 10 in 4 hours is rreally fast.
Umm you do realize the level cap is 20 don't you? Your 1/2 way to the top!

Yeah, I should've mentioned it. My aim is to reach level 20 as fast as possible and then start unlocking spells for PvP. I'm enjoying the game so far. Been playing all day 27th and will do so for the rest of the week for my Spring break.

Your kidding about that right? Too slow?

Lol, my bad. I'm playing as I'm typing. It took 4 hours to reach level 10 from level 9.

Overall it took about 12-16 hours to reach level 9. So about 16-20 hours for level 10.

If you create a PvP character you will be instantly level 20.

The Missions give 1000 exp (plus an additional 1000 if you do the secondary.)
If you solo you don't share exp points.

Just how fast did you expect to level? Half way to 20 in 4 hours ...

There are only 20 levels you know and a lot of things to learn before you are ready to PvP with the "Big Boys".

lets partay up and casually kill monsters sometime . I'm not worried about the level at the moment, I'm just enjoying the scenery, and my pet kitty.

Stop doing quests and start doing missions. Missions will give you 1K XP for completion and a skill point (not that skill points are all that important anymore...) as well another 1K for completing the secondary mission as well as the XP for all the monsters you'll fight while running through the mission. The missions start with the Great Northern Wall which you can reach from Ascalon City.

Can you repeat same missions and get the 1000 exp reward?

you can do every mission and its 2ndary twice.

Really? I never thought about whether you could. You mean that you can only benefit from the XP twice, or that after doing both twice you can't do it? I guess I never tried doing them repeatedly with the same character.

So far I don't have any complaints about leveling being too slow, but the person who started this thread did not say it took him 4 hours to get to level 10, he said it took him 4 hours to get from level 9 to 10.

Again, I am not complaining that it is too slow.

I myself am only at level 5 as a mesmer and ahve probably been playing for about 15 hours now (not counting the other caracter I decided to trash).

I have not spent any attribute points yet though. Without experience in the game it is hard to know what to spend them on.


Poppinjay

Poppinjay! Spend your points, look at whatever skill(s) you are (or enjoy) using and boost that(those) attribute(s). Try to limit it to one or two attributes to boost at first (you'll have 25 points now, so that's a lvl 5 and a lvl 4, or some combination of lower ones...), but you'll find the game easier that way. You have refund points, so if you decide to change focus you just refund the attibutes back and spend the points differently. You earn more refund points all the time, takes 250 XP per refund point. Just spend them, if you don't like it try again! That's the beauty of this game, it isn't like those games where a bad choice early on kills your character - just equip a different skill and move your atributes.

True. You can't screw up in this game.

20 hours to level up to 10.... that is longer than most SP only games now a days. I believe one of the reviewers of another but not quite the same MMORPG said it took him 3 hours to get level 8 doing go hither quests. With a max of lvl 20, the pacing seems about right.

Missions drive the story, quests drives up profits and power. I would be afraid to complete things as quickly as possible because how long is it before an expansion will be released? I would hate to thing I would PvP for 3 months while awaiting new content.

As for a casual gamer game, try "Freespace". I play that while I am casually waiting for GW to update . If you pay more than $20 for a new release, don't expect it to be too casual.

I'm not so sure about this. When I went back to help out some people do the "Defend the Wall" and "Fort Ranik" missions, I got 0 (zero) XP for the main mission and the bonus missions. I am unaware of any limit on the number of times you can do the missions, but you only gain XP for the missions once.

Vai

I'm level 9.5 after 8 hours and 45 minutes. At least an hour or so was spent idle in towns and outposts. I feel as though I'm leveling at a decent rate.

Why do so many people fail to realize the entire purpose of Guild Wars. It is a strategic PVP game similar to chess and very similar to MTGO (Magic the Gathering Online). The whole PvE to level 20 thing is just to get you ready for the Guild Wars at that point. Although I do like the PvE element of this game, it really is just a means to an end.