Boosters

[Grimlineman.6759]

What’s the best use for experience boosters? I know there is many types I kind of feel like they are away to take up bank space because that’s where mine sit.
 

But anyways  how and when do you use them? Leveling a new character? While crafting? Doing pvp? Mastery tracks?

I have a bunch of different types sitting in my bank from over the years and I want to know the optimal way to use them. Whenever I do use one I feel like I waste them.

 

also do you ever buy them off the gem store? If so when and why?  

[Harfang.1507]

Mine mostly gather dust. They are the dark matter of my bags. One clear exception though: WvW. I am a purely PvE player, but if one wants to make legendaries, one needs the WvW-exclusive Gift of Battle. It is worth stacking up as much XP boost as possible then.

[Farohna.6247]

WvW absolutely, make that reward track progress as quickly as possible lol.  PvE ones I use if I'm going to be out doing a lot of meta events and farming.  Really don't use them while leveling.

[aikatara.3462]

I have six years worth of boosters sitting in my bank LOL. I keep thinking "I'll use them for something important".   And then I forget them 😅. I found the ones that boost your crafting very useful for leveling the crafting disciplines. And the WvW ones (while doing the gift of battle as a purely PVE player 😄). Occasionally I use XP boosters while leveling.  I also like the karma boosters - provided I don't forget to bring them with me ;).

 

The one kind of booster I use constantly are the birthday celebration boosters (or whatever they are called), since I have so many of them (I have a lot of characters) and promised myself to keep using them from now on.  Nowadays whenever leveling gives me a booster I use it immediately. No reason to stack even more in the bank lol.

Edited September 8, 2021 by aikatara.3462

[ASP.8093]

I'd say either WvW or filling up Mastery tracks via open-world PvE (when you already have the Mastery points to unlock several tiers, but not the XP to progress the bar. Many of the good ones incorporate a killstreak bonus in addition to their flat bonus, so in that case big-group stuff like zerging or doing the map meta is ideal.

 

(N.B. For Masteries, the easy alternative is to do the relevant area's map completion with a second character.)

 

If you burn some crappy boosters while leveling, that's fine, but the game gives you tons of instant levels via Tomes and birthday Scrolls. I have literally 1000 levels worth of tomes just sitting in my bank.

Edited September 8, 2021 by ASP.8093

[Chrysaliss.8720]

I only ever used Crafting and Karma boosters. All other are pretty much useless imo.

[Danikat.8537]

I'm another one who is terrible at using boosters because I always think I should save them for when I really need them, and then they mostly just sit in my bank unused.

 

XP boosters I sometimes use on low level characters, but recently I've been using them in WvW because I want to make the legendary backpack and at some point the armour so I need to get my rank up (and get a bunch of other stuff). Karma boosters I use during Wintersday because there's a lot of activities which give lots of karma. Heroic boosters or item boosters I try to remember to use when doing meta events with lots of drops.

 

All the others I need to figure out a use for, because they just sit in my bank and some of them have been there for years.

[Ashantara.8731]

On 9/8/2021 at 2:22 AM, Grimlineman.6759 said:

What’s the best use for experience boosters?

 

Leveling new Masteries.