Yeah mounts are such a quality of life improvement for core and heart of thorns maps. I know some people might be "purists" and don't like mounts for these "no mount maps", but I cannot just waste hours and hours on foot when there is a better way to do it. I did play before mounts were introduced and I did enjoy it (even though I did consider walking tedious many times), but mounts are one of the best things that happened to this game.

^ this

No mount in Heart of Thorns isn't really hard at all. If we are just talking about completing the story. I didn't even have access to the speed mushrooms at that time. Gliding (which you get in Heart of Thorns) is what will make it easier, although IT is a required skill for the expansion/map anyway.

@@pleinclosens8304 By this time I've beat Heart of Thorns story and 100% map completion with no mounts :) The glider was the main way to navigate, but now having gone back with a raptor it really trivializes a lot of the mob encounters since you can just zoom by.

Thanks 😊

I disagree about the mastery points. I just leveled up a toon and was able to get the mastery points that were "commune" as I was leveling. By the time I hit 80, I had all my core mastery lines done and had 120 extra points towards my chosen elite skill line.

I personally find exploring the world and jumping puzzles to get vistas a boring activity so mounts were an absolute must for me. I would've probably quit the game if I didn't have a raptor and springer in HoT maps because traversing these maps was a pain even with the mounts so can't imagine how much of a nightmare it would have been without a mount. But of course to each their own.

Yeah but some of us hate doing that stuff.. I played the core game at launch so I'm not really the target of this but you can get the mounts you don't have to use them....

to mmorpg veterans is true, not good idea early mount, but for the most people is most have it, because core game is slow, and you cant just spect someone new in the game engage with 2012 gameplay easly in 2022, it will fill slow for them imagine you invite a new player to a dungeon, you are mounted in your raptor but he is runing trying to catch you to the map you are moving for, finally the new player running arrives to the map of the dungeon he is looking for, now he enter with his core class, while you are in elite spec with good lvl 80 gear, cool maybe you have fun, maybe the new player have fun too, but you cant tell me if you are new you gonna feel slow and weak as f, whatching every dude flying and driving while you are running, this is just a push

At first viewing vistas is fun. But after a while it gets repetitive that's why some prefer mounts.

As a new player I don't want to run everywhere I boosted a character to 80 when I started, and then logged into a new character and leveled. I wouldn't have stick with the game had I been running on foot every where. I think the raptors should be moved to core tyria(on a heart quest) and free to all new players. Would help retain new players

this is what I did basically, Boosted from lvl 15 to 80 on my main FIRST character, and then started playing the story from there enjoying the game. got the raptor but def take the time to explore a bit and not blast right through zones

Not everybody is coming into GW2 with a background of raiding in other MMOs or playing challenging Souls-like games. A lot of people come into GW2 with a background of just playing games more casually, and so won't transition as easily into GW2's way of things, compared to those with the aforementioned backgrounds of raiding in other MMOs or playing challenging games. Not to mention that GW2's gameplay loop is very open ended, meaning that it's very likely that a newly boosted player will end up feeling lost once they're dumped into the open world at max level, without any idea of what they're meant to be doing.

That's the TLDR people!

You will earn hero points for the core class but not elite specializations

By just leveling to 80 normally you get enough hero points to unlock all core skills and traits. When you boost you still get the points you normally get from leveling to 80. For elite specs after 80 you need to earn 250 additional points from challenges on the map. If you level normally you'll be doing those in the core maps as you go and have extra points, but in both cases you'll still need to do the challenges on expansion maps. The expansion maps earn you 10 points per challenge and there are far more than enough points to unlock all 3 elite specs (1214 points total for 3 specs that cost 250 each)

*"Does boosting work towards map completion? Or are you pretty much the same completion progress as you would be on a level 1 unboosted?"* It doesn't give you any progress towards map completion, but it _does_ give you a headstart over an unboosted character, between: - A full set of level 80 exotic gear with celestial stats (celestial grants a minor amount of all stats in the game), with a predetermined set of upgrades and weapons based on your class. - Enough hero points to unlock your full core class. - A few waypoints in key areas in the base game for late game play. - A variety of utility items such as gathering tools, a mystic salvage kit, dye packs, boosters, a few teleport-to-friend items. - A flat 2 gold. *"Because if it’s the same I would think it would be better to do map completion on a max level character with max level gear and all skills/traits unlocked rather than doing map completion to level up and competing a large chunk of it on an underpowered and unfinished character."* All leveling maps are designed to be doable by characters within their respective level ranges, so as long as you're sticking to maps at or below your level, you'll be fine. Pretty much the only thing that a max level character will offer over a character being naturally leveled would be more damage, which won't necessarily translate to _significantly_ faster completion speeds for maps.

I thought about including crafting but this vid was intended for new players/accounts. Might be a bit much for n00bs

@@CommonTate Felt it was worth to add for noobs given fractal dailies if can handle t4 dailies is a good way to make gold coarse you have to use a lot to get at least one set of fractal armor. Made 4 legendries Pharus, Aurora, Ad inf and Vision. However my first year i made ascended armor and weapons and socket them with agony when heard fractals was a good way to farm gold. I couldnt of ever made a legendary without my old ascended some of which i still use lol. Map completion and getting to 80 is great however after 80 doesnt hurt to have a goal for at least one character to farm gold.

Nope

@@TheTaintedeclipse Thank you. Though I have to say it seems to defeat the point of leveling a character up to 80.

Ooh I had no idea about that! Thank you for sharing that, it's useful!

You do if you want to test elite specs

Holy wow thanks!!

His original point was that in the PVP lobby you have access to elite specs, which you do not get in the boost area. So you can play with all the elites, to see who you want to boost. 😎

You bring up some very good points. Have a thumbs up from me.

Except doing so also gives you an account wide boost to gold last I checked so it's worth doing, at least once.

there is 100% reason to do it 1: one share inventory is better then none 2: raptor now is unlock at lvl 10, he can help you to map core tyria, core tyria is slow and the most content is after lvl 80, so raptor will be used you like it or not 3: booster give you bags, very necesary in early game because of dungeons drops a lot of different gears 4: lvl 80 you can do the daily with another player, he can guide you easly because is the same daily he have 5: use the lvl 80 booster give you the freedom to play whatever you want, you want to skip core tyria? cool, you dont want to skip core tyria? cool, you can do story without having to wait for lvl up, nothing stop you from complete openworld map because you are 80, you can still doing it, you can do whatever dungeon you want if you friend wants to, you can play fractal t1 with friends if you want to, explore core tyria with a lvl 80 boosted character you can grave some heropoint and get elite spec in the process, you can do guild misions as long you open the maps, you want to lvl a character from 1 to 80? cool, while you are playing your boosted character you will recieve tome of knowledge anyways, there is not a single reason to not use your booster lvl to 80 is easy , there is no risk of loosing the booster because is just a experience shortcut

@@TheWolfLucifersAngel 1. There isn't even anything to put in there as a new player that's worth it yet, especially with no other characters. You're not sharing things you're gaining 1 slot and you have an empty bank starting out. The value of one inventory slot alone is very small. 2. Well first off that's more reason to not boost early? So you're kind of proving my point? So now people have less reason to boost since they don't need to boost for a mount, and the warnings about it not being needed are still relevant. A huge chunk of the game exists in core as well. 3. It gives 4x 15 slot bags... Those are less than 1g each or what's worth about 2 dailies... And you're fine using the free stuff you get as rewards and buying some (18 slots are not much more too and better), should learn to salvage and deal with gear early. 4. No, you can't. If you get ones that are far into expansion zones they become needlessly difficult to do, the HoT one today is tangled depths event completer for example... You do know that just saying what daily you have or looking at the wiki (which lists all options) works right? I could help/instruct a lower level player where to go and what to do without them needing to have all the same dailies... You get dailies designed for where you're at instead of stuff specifically in expansions that you have not done yet (and shouldn't do yet). 5. I think I already went over many reasons not to do this and why it was a bad idea. I'm obviously not going to stop anyone that still wants to boost, but they should know that it's a bad idea and I've seen *far* too many people boost and get lost with no idea what they are doing. Many just quit the game after that too,. Especially when they don't even bother to play the game normally or do story. "do story without having to wait for lvl up" True, though you gain levels from story and it's really not that much of a gap between chapters. You're going to new zones, exploring new things, actually doing core events and content, which is a big part of the game. And you're getting some easy levels between. While I do think the old system of spacing out the chapters was better for this, you can still go through 1-80 and all story pretty fast. "nothing stop you from complete openworld map because you are 80" Well nothing really stops you as a lower level, if all you wanted to do was map complete you'd get more exp than the zone levels if you did that everywhere. If you just focused on exploration you'd hit 80 far before you finished. I don't really see the point in this but it wouldn't be an issue, especially with a mount now. So no reason to boost. " you can play fractal t1" Well... you have no gear, gold, or elite spec and don't know how to play... That said, you can *already* do this since fractals boost you to 80 in them anyways. Still would not be a smart idea but nothing stopping you if you needed to rush fractals day 1 for some reason... No reason to boost. "explore core tyria with a lvl 80 boosted character you can grave some heropoint and get elite spec in the process" No, not only are there not enough points to fully unlock a spec (so you need to do expansion HPs anyways) but you can already do that without boosting. So again, no reason to boost here. "you can do guild misions" See that's another one that doesn't matter, even at very low levels you can get to the easy locations (bounty always has Trillia, Poobadoo, or Brekkabek and all 3 have easy access. Divinity > Fields of ruin directly, queen's dale > kessex, and the hardest option gendarran > harathi. Though, as you said, people now have mounts so that's not an issue, but also you only need one person with a turtle to teleport people to any waypoint on a map. As for all the other mission types, the guild portal will directly teleport you to the closest waypoint for all of the challenges, puzzles, and races, so only thing left is treks and that's just a matter of knowing where the easy ones are (often in cities). So again, no reason to boost, I say this as someone that's done weekly guild missions for years and we have many new players joining and doing them. "while you are playing your boosted character you will recieve tome of knowledge anyways" But.... not more of them. You get login rewards the same as you would if you didn't boost. Those don't suddenly go away. If you're planning to do core content and story (you should), then you're getting exp and exploration and you're gonna hit 80 pretty fast on that first character (even going slow is like 20-40hrs to do all story + level 80). And even then you can get a bunch of fast levels from crafting (cooking/jeweler re cheap) and that's 14-20+ levels right there. Then you have tomes for your next character or for things like key farming later. "lvl to 80 is easy" I agree, and players should do it once their first time around. It's important to actually learn the game and if you're doing story and exploration anyways no reason to have that exp not go to levels.

Don’t tell me you got the patience to lvl up each character you have ? I’ve been doing map completion on my 6 characters and I found it so annoying at a certain point. And I’m going to be doing it again for my guardian 😭. But I find this profession so fun to play

In guild wars 2 you only have to learn your class for endgame. The rest of the game can be completed spamming 1 in a zerg.