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 good item-drops.
Nightfall: The Sunspear bounties scattered around the areas double your experience earned for each kill, making it a particularly fast way to boost your level, however if you focus on using this to level up, you will quickly exceed the level limit to receive the bounties in the beginner areas, while being no further into the game, however its can be used to quickly get to level 10, which is where this campaign truly comes into its own.
Eye of the North: Only accessible after you reach level 10 and have reached a certain point in the campaign your character started in (Lions Arch for Prophecies, Kaineng Centre for Factions, or Kamadan for Nightfall (Which is why I prefer to start in this campaign). Eye of the North boosts your character to the equivalent of a level 20, meaning that you can take on most of what this harsh environment has to throw at you. What makes Eye of the North so efficient for power leveling is a simple repeatable quest, the Dwarven Boxing mini-game, taking only a couple of minutes to complete and gives 2500 experience, plus however much you get from killing things. Using this method you can gain anywhere up to 150,000 experience per hour, even more if you have experience boosting scrolls. This rapid rate of experience gain make this one of the most popular methods, along with harvesting elite skills, for gaining the survivor title, as even when your hp hits zero, you have 10 seconds to get back up again by mashing keys.
So there you have it, some of the most effective ways of boosting your level in Guild Wars. These are by no means gospel, and you should experiment with many different methods until you find the one that suits you best.