Experience

Experience

(also exp and XP) is rewarded for performing and completing different objectives in game. As you gain experience you gain levels, increasing your basic abilities.

Gaining experience

Experience is awarded for doing different things in game:

• Participating in a Dynamic or a Meta event
• Killing creatures
  • An exploration bonus is earned based on how long a creature has been alive in the world
• Progressing your personal storyline
• Participating in instanced dungeons
• Reviving players, pets and NPCs
• Completing the map, which includes:
  • renown hearts
  • skill challenges
  • points of interest
  • waypoints
  • vistas
• Completing achievements
• Gathering
• Crafting

Mechanics

Experience gains are based upon percentages of the amount of experience to level. For example, a level 16 player completing a level 16 event with a gold reward gives 616 XP out of the 8790 XP needed to reach level 17 or roughly 7%. Likewise, a level 26 player completing a level 26 event with a gold reward gives 1043 of the 14900 XP needed to reach 27 which is also 7%. Thus as long as you are playing content designed for your level, leveling will progress at a somewhat constant rate. However, this is modified for the first fifteen levels. The actual experience required is less than the amount used in equations, with the difference starting large and gradually decreasing until it is completely phased out after level 15. The effect is to produce the leveling curve as described in the ArenaNet blog.

Experience gained is modified by the difference in the content level and your character level. This modifier begins with a base of 50% and scales linearly as the difficulty decreases. For example, a level 50 character completing a level 25 event will receive 52500 * .07 * .75 = 2757 XP. This does mean a high level character will receive more experience for the same content as a low-level character, but the percentage of a level gained is higher for the lower level character. For example, a level 25 character completing the same event will receive 14100 * .07 = 987 XP. While this is almost one third that of the level 50 character, it is 7% towards the next level compared to the 5.25% the level 50 receives.

The following are percentages used for various activities. Area levels are not stated directly but can be determined by the creatures, hearts, and events in the area, or subtracting one from the player's dynamic level.

Activity	Percentage
Defeating foes
Standard	0.125% of the foe's level + bonus
Veteran (bronze frame) & Elite (silver frame)	0.25% of the foe's level + bonus
Champion (gold frame)	~0.45% of the foe's level + bonus[verification requested]
Completing instances
Storyline	27% of the storyline level
Dungeon (storyline)	70% of the character level
Dungeon (explorable)	70% of the character level
Dynamic events
Success (gold)	7% of the event level
Success (silver)	85% of the gold reward
Success (bronze)	75% of the gold reward
Failure	Half of event success
Map completion
Uncovering a new area	1% of the area level
Renown Heart	8% of the heart level
Skill Challenge	4% of the challenge level
Waypoint	2.5% of the area level
Point of Interest	1.5% of the area level
Vista	1.5% of the area level
City completion chest	10% of character level
Explorable completion chest	10% of zone's top level
Gathering
Harvesting	0.5% of the area level
Logging	0.15% of the area level per swing
Mining	0.15% of the area level per swing
Crafting
Crafting Level 1-100	1% of the character level
Crafting Level 101-200	2% of the character level
Crafting Level 201-300	3% of the character level
Crafting Level 301-400	4% of the character level
Achievements
Daily Achievement Tier	3% of the character level
Daily Achievement Chest	3% of the character level
Miscellaneous
Reviving a Player or NPC	0.25% of the area level

Leveling table

Guild Wars 2 Experience Graph

The following is the table of experience needed to level. At level 80, your character ceases to level but still gains skill points.

level		level		level		level		level		level		level		level
1	2000	11	5553	21	11400	31	19300	41	32700	51	55300	61	93500	71	158000
2	2110	12	6111	22	12100	32	20400	42	34500	52	58300	62	98500	72	167000
3	2379	13	6705	23	12700	33	21500	43	36300	53	61400	63	104000	73	176000
4	2674	14	7354	24	13400	34	22600	44	38300	54	64700	64	109000	74	185000
5	2999	15	8042	25	14100	35	23900	45	40300	55	68200	65	115000	75	195000
6	3343	16	8790	26	14900	36	25100	46	42500	56	71900	66	122000	76	205000
7	3719	17	9270	27	15700	37	26500	47	44800	57	75800	67	128000	77	217000
8	4129	18	9770	28	16500	38	27900	48	47200	58	79800	68	135000	78	228000
9	4567	19	10300	29	17400	39	29400	49	49800	59	84100	69	142000	79	241000
10	5044	20	10900	30	18300	40	31000	50	52500	60	88700	70	150000	80	254000

Total experience gain per level

level		level		level		level		level		level		level		level
1	2,000	11	38,517	21	127,159	31	281,559	41	542,559	51	984,059	61	1,730,459	71	2,992,359
2	4,110	12	44,628	22	139,259	32	301,959	42	577,059	52	1,042,359	62	1,828,959	72	3,159,359
3	6,489	13	51,333	23	151,959	33	323,459	43	613,359	53	1,103,759	63	1,933,359	73	3,335,359
4	9,163	14	58,687	24	165,359	34	346,059	44	651,659	54	1,168,459	64	2,042,359	74	3,520,359
5	12,162	15	66,729	25	179,459	35	369,959	45	691,959	55	1,236,659	65	2,157,359	75	3,715,359
6	15,505	16	75,519	26	194,359	36	395,059	46	734,459	56	1,308,559	66	2,279,359	76	3,920,359
7	19,224	17	84,789	27	210,059	37	421,559	47	779,259	57	1,384,359	67	2,407,359	77	4,137,359
8	23,353	18	94,559	28	226,559	38	449,459	48	826,459	58	1,464,159	68	2,542,359	78	4,365,359
9	27,920	19	104,859	29	243,959	39	478,859	49	876,259	59	1,548,259	69	2,684,359	79	4,606,359
10	32,964	20	115,759	30	262,259	40	509,859	50	928,759	60	1,636,959	70	2,834,359	80	4,860,359

When calculating experience rewards for the first fifteen levels, the following table is used instead:

level		level		level
1	4000	6	5200	11	6760
2	4220	7	5480	12	7130
3	4440	8	5780	13	7510
4	4680	9	6090	14	7920
5	4940	10	6420	15	8340