What next? A mini guide for new players who just reached 80 and making the next decision

If a new player had played another MMO besides GW2 it's likely that MMO was level based. Train skill 1 to max, oh I will train skill 2 to max, oh now I will train skill 3.

Guild Wars 2 is not as intuitive. Once you hit level 80, there's not as many signs pointing you to the next "skill," so to speak. The signs I can think of are achievement points and mastery points. If they've trained from 1 - 80 the normal way the game probably would have pointed them in the direction of their AP and MP (achievement point and mastery points).

But here are some other goal ideas.

• Fashion skin hunting
• Working towards making a full home instance
• Working on getting all mounts
• Completing all story content
• Getting the commander tag
• Doing all dungeons/fractals/raids
• Learning to command all metas and hero point trains competently (commanders don't just magically know how to do this stuff - they had to start and stumble somewhere)
• Earning ranks in WVW and PVP
• Training all crafting disciplines to 500
• Going for a legendary*Completing the entire map
• Participating in all events at least once
• Training other accounts to max level
• Learning and understanding your rotations
• Completing all jumping puzzles which falls under achievement hunting, but because of the nature of it deserves its own category. Without a teleport!
• Title hunting
• World map completion on alts
• Doing all alternative versions of the personal story until you've exhausted every single possible option you can choose from
• Learning to solo things that were designed for a group
• Working towards certain in game exclusive rewards that can't be brought
• Finding locations to take good screenshots (timing, lighting and possibly good editing)
• Complete all bounties
• Getting the WVW mount
• etc

You will come up with more and more ideas on what to do the more you play.

Due to the sheer number of things that can be done. If I had no idea what to do I would choose the first one on a list I created, then do that goal either to completion or leave it because I realized another goal calls out to me more. I might even switch between more than one goal. Just as in many games you can switch between more than one skill!

The wiki is a really good source for achieving those goals due to the well-organized layout. But if stuck, questions can always be asked on the forums.

These goals can also be ideas for veterans who went on a hiatus.

I felt burned out and exhausted after reading your bucket-list! :anguished: =)

@GW Noob.6038 said:I felt burned out and exhausted after reading your bucket-list! :anguished: =)

Oh no! A lot of these things I'm not even going to try and go for.

Choosing the title you really want.