Thanks all for your help. Someone mentioned dungeons. I completely forgot about those so maybe I will go back and do some over and over again for a bit. Problem I find though is, I can't find many people doing them. When I did the first one I could, it took about 15-20 mins to get a group and then the sewer one I found a group but could never find a 4th and so I just stopped doing dungeons. I just started to try some pvp so that will help.Just re-reading some of this. Never found gw2 adjusted your levels in the pve side of the game. If I went into higher level area's mobs would kick my ass. In world vs world your level gets adjusted.
Thank you for this list. I didn't know about the black/white thing. That will help me a lotAfter "completing the main story" on my 1st character a Sorc, at 45, I made sure to try to stay as under level or on par with quest as I could be on my Nightblade. Think he ended up with maybe only having to do like 3 or 4 green quest. Stupid "School Daze" was the only grey one...took till level 49.
I know your problem is not being over level, but being under level, maybe these steps can help you find thing you might have missed, to help you catch back up.
1. Look at your achievements. Start from the starter zones and work your way up/through them until you catch up.
2. First I look at the quest section. Did you get the "questing ach." from each? As in doing X number of quest. If not, you got some xp. Grey quest still give XP upon completion. The mobs you fight may not, but the "doing" of each still helps in the end.
3. Look at your map, are there any icons that are still black? If they are not filled in white, that means that "area" still has something you can do there. Might be just exploration XP, a world boss, quest etc. Again, even if the world boss is grey, doing the activity of kill it should still give XP. Same goes for the anchors, make sure you do all of them.
4. Look for area of your map that look like focal areas, but do not have any icons. Buildings, rock formations, etc. There might be something that pops up. Somewhere you have not been yet.
An alternate method, travel from icon to icon one last time systematically. If something it out there, it should pop up while being near/close to some other area of focus.
5. This may help in finding more places. Use your achievement page and find all of the SkyShards. After I felt I was "done" in each zone as I leveled up, I made sure to knock out the shards before I left. By mid 30s I had more skill points than I felt like using. Still have like 10 laying around...
Worst case, through the skyshards, they will make you go through the public dungeons. Again, just like everything else, even if the dungeon is grey, "doing it" by killing the boss or bosses at least once will give you something.
6. Can always go to Cyrodiil. Can PvP for some xp. Do repeatable/daily quest there that always match your level.
7. I have been able to avoid this by doing the 1 - 6. Can always just grind somewhere.
Thanks all for your help. Someone mentioned dungeons. I completely forgot about those so maybe I will go back and do some over and over again for a bit. Problem I find though is, I can't find many people doing them. When I did the first one I could, it took about 15-20 mins to get a group and then the sewer one I found a group but could never find a 4th and so I just stopped doing dungeons. I just started to try some pvp so that will help.Just re-reading some of this. Never found gw2 adjusted your levels in the pve side of the game. If I went into higher level area's mobs would kick my ass. In world vs world your level gets adjusted.
What I meant for the GW2 comment was like let's say I was level 28 and I was in, I don't know what you call them zone or something. The next quests I could do were 5-8 lvls higher. I could stay and just keep doing the events over and over again which honestly already bored me, but someone told me I could go to one of the other starter areas (I think there are like 3 or 4?). I had to take one of those portals in that major city to one of those others. One was like in snow.
So I did and I noticed my level adjusted down to those. So even though I was level 28, going to a level 10 zone in another beginner area it dropped me to level 15 but each level I gained would reflect to my actual level. If that makes sense? Not sure if it still does that but it did. I think it had to be a level within a certain range though.
I know your level doesn't scale up. Just down.