GW has never really been about the levels like other MMOs though, especially when everything including PvP is scaled. It's really easy to powerlevel if you find the most optimal places to farm events in between your story quests.
I've seen a video test where the journalists said that you should do the story quests after being quite high lvl. That way you save yourself some frustration and can actually enjoy the story a bit easier since you can roll through them straight away w/o breaks to lvl up for the next chapter.
I am doing it that way and I think it's a nice tip.
Did one story quest with the actual suggested lvl and I had to die 4 times before I was able to bug the mobs and revive my npc-buddy so I could finish it.
Aunt Edith...
...forgot the screenshot in the screenshot thread.