by Janet Pieterse

Created on: September 17, 2008   Last Updated: March 24, 2010

It is possible to level really fast in Guild Wars. You can get a new character to level 20 in about five or six hours without using tomes or consets. This guide is for people who have created and played their first character, and done levelling as part of the learning process.  After that, most people want to get to level 20 as fast as possible. (Some players pay powerlevellers to do it for them.) It's also designed for people who actually want to play the profession and have some fun.

What you need is Factions and and organised approach. Eye of the North is helpful, but not essential.

When you start Factions, you can choose to do the basic training or skip it and go to the monastery immediately with Master Togo. Whichever option you choose, you will be level 2, with some basic skills, when you start the storyline. You will also get a starter quest from a Headmaster, which involves finding your first teacher somewhere out in Sunqua Valley.

On the way out, pick up the "Forming a Party" quest from Ludo, and invite at least one henchman into your party. If you're playing alone to get started, take three, including a healer. Ludo will be waiting for you outside the door and you can collect your 1,000 experience points (XP) quest reward for no effort whatsoever.

Follow the arrows and star on your compass or mini-map (press U to get a mini-map) to complete your starter quest. Do the quest the teacher gives you, to advance to level 3. Then take the second quest, to find a second teacher, and do that. Don't worry about fighting anything that doesn't attack you, unless you're particularly bloodthirsty or want to practice your new skills. When you find the second teacher, you will get another quest which you must do. The teacher will then send you back to Master Togo, who will offer you 7 quests at 50 XP each. These simply involve talking to the other headmasters about a secondary profession, take them all. Speak to each of the headmasters and take each of their quests. You don't have to equip the skills they offer, just choose one you like the look of and stick with that for the moment.

On the way out, pick up the quest from Neing the Tanner and do it first, to get a belt pouch and a good push to level 4. Then do each of the first secondary profession quests to end up well into level 6. You will need to equip the mesmer skills after locating Mei Ling to do the mesmer quest, which involves hex removal, unless you have a person with hex removal in your party.

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