1. Experience boosters!!!! Love them, use them!!!! If you have a bunch of old boosters lying around, repackage them with boost enchantment powder into enchanted boosts. These let you pick which kind of booster you'd like to use. There are two kinds of xp booster: the old, cruddy kind that only gives +50% xp from kills, and the heroic one they added a little while back. The heroic boost gives +50% from all xp sources as well as a killstreak buff. If you use the CoF farm I mention below that killstreak is actually super good. These two boosters stack with each other, and the celebration/birthday booster further stacks with those. Additionally, if you have a pile of laurels in your wallet, you can buy boosters from the laurel guys functionally identical to the heroic xp booster (these stack with the old xp boost and the celebration boost but not the heroic one).
   
   
2. Tyrian masteries: If you're weird like me and like farming (rip Pavilion) the "CoF farm" that has been mentioned is insanely good xp. Grab 3 - 4 other people, head into CoF 1, and start mowing down the cats that spawn after the boulder hall. If you're using all of the above buffs, food, and a potion, they're worth nearly 2k xp per, and they spawn a dozen at a time. With everybody running around the braziers and barfing out AoE you get 100k xp every 10 - 15 seconds. To compare, a dungeon path gives 66k after the nerfs. Bring some friends and have a couple beers or smoke some weed, I actually had quite a bit of fun running around with Kes and Crono and Demaga flailing at cats. We maxed out all three Tyrian paths after... probably 10 hours total?
   
   
3. Tyrian masteries, again: You absolutely don't need to do the ridiculous stuff like buying all the cultural armor or owning all the fractal weapons (speaking of which fix my collection Anet argh). It takes 49 points to max out all the Tyrian lines, which sounds like a lot, but most of the veteran GW2 players in GOON logged in on launch day to 50+ points. Looking at it now, there are 61 points available in total, so even if you plan on maxing out all three lines there's wiggle room to pick and choose which ones you want to earn. If you have LS2 playing through the episodes gives a mastery point each, I think.
   
   
4. HoT masteries: Play the adventures!!! There are several in each of the first three zones and a bunch of them are really goddamn fun and pretty easy to get gold in. They reset daily, and the very first time you hit each respective rank (bronze, silver, gold) in each respective adventure you also get a huge xp bonus. Again, pop a heroic booster! That +50% makes a HUGE difference and the adventures are a great place to spend them. The wiki has all of their locations. Neither the wiki nor the in-game interface gives a very good explanation of what each adventure entails, so start it, run around a little to get a feel for what you're supposed to be doing, then give it a couple proper goes.

Harrow fucked around with this message at 17:09 on Oct 31, 2015

CLAM DOWN fucked around with this message at 21:59 on Oct 31, 2015