by William Bentley

Created on: June 08, 2009   Last Updated: June 12, 2009

Guild Wars is one of the leading MMORPG titles on the market, and unlike many of its competitors, is completely free to pay after you have bought the game software itself. But this is not the only reason for its ever growing popularity. It is a vast and highly detailed environment, filled with all kinds of monsters to kill, quests to complete and treasure to collect.

After creating your first character, you will often have a far slower rate of leveling up, and this is expected, as it will take a while until you get used to the games mechanics. Besides if everybody just rushed through the early section of the game, you'd miss out on so much of the game that is designed with beginners in mind. However if you're on your 5th, 6th or even 8th character, the beginning sections of each campaign become a bit tedious, and so I am writing this guide to help people who don't want to have to continuously replay the same boring quests.

Each campaign differs greatly, and so it should only be expected that each one provides a different way to level up.

Prophecies: As it was the first Guild Wars title, the leveling process was intended to be slow, so that people would spend time exploring the environment, instead of powering through to the end of the game. If you don't have another campaign to travel to, many of the quests hardly seem worth doing, they offer pathetic experience, and take far too long to complete. In this campaign the fastest way to level up is by slaughtering the many and varied creatures to gain experience, or if you can afford it, hire a runner to take you as far into the game as possible, this way the quests actually give more than 250 experience.

Factions: Many people see this as the fastest campaign to level up in, and they're not far wrong, the quests in Factions offer ridiculous amounts of experience, especially when it comes to choosing your secondary profession, if you really want to level up fast, you can take on the quests for becoming each of the other professions, and it will give you almost 20,000 experience in around an hour and a half, once you've left the beginners island, many of the creatures you will come across have particular weaknesses that can be exploited, for example the Jade Brotherhood just outside of the marketplace can be blinded to reduce their effectiveness in combat, if you can take them down single-handedly, you will be rewarded with 200 experience each time, while doing this you may even find yourself receiving some rather

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