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"). Many players go their entire Guild Wars 2 careers and never craft anything! It is possible. You don’t HAVE to craft. But there are many reasons why you might want to: Easy way to level a character. You can craft dyes. For free accounts, this is the only reliable way to get new dyes. If you ever want one of those cool legendaries or a good set All characters adjusted automatically to level 80. Guild Wars 2 world vs. world battles consist of three entire servers fighting against each other in battles that last two weeks, and rage on maps Here’s the thing, most damage coming from enemy players is pretty powerful and can average 2-15k sustained damage per second depending on the how good these damage dealers are. for healers to deal with damage of that magnitude, requires more subtle understanding of negation which is what Nok Anon said: the closer players are together and the Players who bought Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns through the Black Lion Trading Post or our official website between July 31 and August 30, 2019, can request a refund in either cash or the equivalent value of gems. Mention the LFG tool to pop a listing and the group will fill up. You can even do that while on the same map while you do map completion for example. Tried it during the creation of this video. However, nobody showed up. I should encourage people to get a group together but not to wait around an hour or so. Here are the key tips for maximizing your karma gains: Participate in rewarding meta events, world bosses, fractals and easy dailies. Use karma boosts from food, utilities and guild banners to almost double rates. Convert karma into storable Obsidian Shards and Armor Boxes when your karma gets high. At the level 80, experience becomes an account-wide system shared by all maximum level characters, and is put towards training available Mastery tracks. The initial leveling up process serves as an extended tutorial of the game, and much of the endgame content is designed specifically for level 80 characters. Dynamic level adjustment Plus, you get multiple character slots, and leveling alts is pretty easy in gw2. Daily logins give you a bunch of 'tomes of knowledge' that are just free levels. So if you find you like both, level on one primarily, learn the mechanics for the other over a few levels and then pump the other up. 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. 0Cru.