Ah yes… the gw2 mounts… handsome scale boy, bouncy boy, pancake boy, edgy boy and €xp€n$iv€ boy

I say extremely specific as in tailor-made to the particular problem of my second elementalist sitting pretty at level 40 for way too long, and wanting to finish leveling her fast so I can try weaver. I was pretty entertained by this style of grinding though lol so I’m sharing just for kicks

1. have a bunch of these hoarded:

you’re selecting the first(i think?) one on the list, an experience booster that lasts 20 minutes. and grab a bunch of some cheap food thing that also offers +10% exp from kills. I got these at meatoberfest in diessa plateau

2. have some beginner zones uncompleted… areas to explore, hearts to complete. 

3. get your armor as good and up to date as possible, and spec for power as much as you can. because the point of this is you HAVE TO KILL FAST, AND BULLETS TOO SLOW! I was on ele for this so I had no problem but do whatever you can to be able to kill things as fast as possible for your level. I just geared myself with a set of my race’s cultural gear when I started at lv 40, and again at 60, and that was enough to get me all the way through.

4. put on the mighty switch force OST. ~this step is ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL

5. pick a beginner zone, put on your exp booster and your nourishment meal and start combing across the countryside. the exp booster works up a stack of +10% exp every time you kill an enemy. it caps at 10, meaning your exp is doubled, so kill everything in sight to max out that stack. you kill one thing, you have 60 seconds to find and kill another thing to keep the boost maintained. focus on yellow-named creatures because they tend to rack up the most bonus exp. but anywhere sort of out of the way or places where people are unlikely to stop and cull the enemies is good; creatures gain bonus exp the longer they’re out in the world. also for this reason, if the game wants you to change maps, avoid it as long as possible; it resets your boost stack, and enemies in new maps haven’t had a chance to rack up bonus exp so it’ll slow you down considerably.

anyway work your way through RAZING THE COUNTRYSIDE in the general direction of some hearts, and new unexplored areas to get more easy exp. no need to linger in one area after you decimate all its wildlife once. If you happen upon hearts that require you to kill things to complete, do those, as well as any events you come across with lots of things to kill. Remember you need to kill something at least every 60 seconds to keep your boost. but really, the more the better. I eventually started hoping on my raptor mount and using its attack to enter combat, and for some enemies this just killed them outright in one hit and I was able to move on immediately. combine this with some music to get you pumped and you will soon slip into the zone….. the Murder zone.

I ended up leveling up once about every 15 minutes, which is about once per experience booster. your additional food only lasts 10min so remember to reapply it. I ended up making lv 80 in 2 nights of staying up late (I wasn’t gonna sleep anyway tbh)

here’s last night with timestamps:

advantages: requires little conscious thought! requires no cooperation or interaction with strangers! works at any time of day! yet another excuse to listen to the mighty switch force ost on repeat for 4 hours!

if the halloween event were out I probably would have been doing this in the labyrinth and it would have gone even faster, but. yeah