When You Hit Max Level In Guild Wars 2, Do This First!

After slogging through the entirety of 80 levels you are now left with what you should do first. In this example I cover what I would do first as a new player in Guild Wars 2. This somewhat side steps the story and focuses on account unlocks and other features as priority.

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Named Exotic Gear Link:

0:00 Intro
0:54 Step 1
2:04 Step 2
3:59 Step 3
6:01 Step 3 (Alternative)
7:20 Step 4
8:39 Step 5
10:57 Optional Convenience Tasks
13:55 Ways To Enjoy Guild Wars 2 More!

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[mattrodgers]

I'm late to the game here, but as someone who bowed out of GW2 back in HoT and came back with SotO, I 100% recommend the "jump straight to SoTO, do that story, unlock the Skyscale" approach. I don't feel like the spoilers included in SotO thus far are all that notable (certainly nothing worse than literally naming an expansion End of Dragons anyway), and the Skyscale is incredibly useful. This is especially true if you find the extreme verticality of HoT intimidating as the Skyscale gives you more grace than the glider alone will.

[omi_khan]

I JUST HIT MAX TODAY YOUR VIDEO IS A GODSEND LOVE YOU MAN

[HeyMyNameIsLukas]

Thank you, getting back into it after reaching lvl 80 six years ago! So this is super helpful, especially since it's sort of information overload

[jerodbjx]

I try to remember to like all of your videos. I want to see your channel grow. Your videos have been my guide to enjoying this game at a more casual pace while still meeting my personal goals. Happy New Years and I hope that your channel finds great success in 2024!!!

[beahwatson]

Hard agree on all of these, great video!

[khymaaren]

0:20 These are the most important two sentences in the video. That being said, I mostly agree with what's being said. Some notes:

Exotic gear is good for practically every activity in the game. Higher level Fractals is literally the only place where you need Ascended gear because of Agony Resistance that you can only put on Ascended or Legendary equipment.

The Jackal unlocks for 20 gold after you complete the heart task in that area on the day of purchasing the mount, it's only 30 gold if you don't do that. You save 10g by running around there on a rented Jackal for five minutes.


About gliding. Personally, I would go further with the mastery track and unlock Advanced Gliding, too, as that allows you to stay in air indefinitely, especially with updrafts around. At that point, only leaning forward (speed boost) will cost endurance, which will regenerate when gliding normally. This can get you pretty much everywhere until you get a flying mount, as unlocking those are much more involved than filling up an XP bar, even if it's millions of XP.

Hero points. There are enough of those across the Expansions that don't require you to fight anything that will get you to fully unlock your first Elite Spec, but that may require progressing some story to get access to certain maps. HoT maps have like 20 of those, and you can run to most of them with Glider Basics, for example. The fastest way, though, is indeed a HP train you can frequently find in LFG, usually starting in Heart of Thorns.

[J-Bae]

as somebody who just picked the game back up after briefly playing a few years ago, this helps a lot. Thanks.

[surrealneo]

Great info as always, thank you for your time and insight. I have been playing on and off for quite some time, honestly still way behind most others who've playing this long, took a long break right before the last major expansion due to some RL events needing my personal attention and just came back, lots to catch up on. Playing solo gets a little dry after awhile, need to socialize a bit more i guess, but I am enjoying the game, have all the expansions, and in a good guild CDG. :)

[SlaYR]

Like the video but I have few comments. Quick run down of my POV; I've recently comeback to GW2 (barely played since launch), I've just purchased the first 3 expansions. After levelin a fresh character from 1 to 80 (to put me on track story wise). I've barely hit the last regions that I was 80 and I had like 8 Gold. For gearing, visiting the Trading Post was kinda out of the question (aka too expensive). I've never heard of laurels (or didn't remember). As a new/returning player the amounts of currency is way overwhelming.

[AlphariousXX]

Great content man. Just started playing this game for 1st time. Experienced wow player. This game is by far the best mmo ive played. Will be scouring your content man thanks, much appreciated

[CassandrasBox]

Thanks for this video :)
I totally agree ... but I would do gliding first! Simple gliding, no masteries, they can wait until you have the mounts. You don´t need to do anything but once enter an EoD map and it is unlocked. You do not need to be level 80, you can do it at the very beginning and than forget about it. I was teleported to the chest at the end of the kaineng jumping puzzle and I didn´t even realize I had unlocked it ... but it helped me a LOT!

[wyldenfyre]

An excellent summary - thank you - should be invaluable for newer players !

[OTVMovies]

My priority list was
1 build
2 gear
3 first chapter in POF for raptor
4 first chapter in HOT for glider
5 pac commander mastery for auto loot.

Steps 3-5 make everything so much easier

[gabrielarauza]

Hey man just wanted to say thanks for the amazing videos I'm new to gw2 and your videos have been so helpful!!! Keep up the good work man!!

[kikirimpiwify]

Started a few days ago and just hit lvl 80 omg they video is awesome thank you very much please keep it up specially these beginner friendly guides 😂🎉

[Knittingsteve]

Great Video! always enjoy your content! Another thing I love about the Griffon (and maybe skyscale, don't have it yet) is that you can mount in air, kind of like gliding you can free fall and mount at the last moment.

[AddyVillimey]

Checked out your video to see if you recomend the same things to new players as i do and if there was something extra i could be teaching my guildies. This is really to the point and I agree with this list of things to do when starting out :) Thank you for a great video that i can now link to my friends that are new to the game <3

[ImperiumNox]

Wizzard's vault adds another option to gear for free ( you gotta do stuff to get the currency though). Each big reset (the one at 3 months or so) gives 3 ascended armor chests and 1 ascended weapon chest, as well as the legendary weapon starter kit. These make gearing faster and cheaper. Do keep in mind that legendary crafting takes a long time and not all beginners will do it. So, go for the free ascended and add in exotics to fill the gap until the next big reset on the vault. Leveling the crafting professions can be tedious and expensive, so the vault option can save a lot of gold. The cost for the ascended chests are: 400 astral coins for the armor, 600 for the weapon. Total cost 1800 astral coins over the course of 3 months and up.

[Anonymous-vwei]

(6:16) As a member of The Griffon Academy, you have hurt my feelings. I hope Willow will get the revenge in the name of the griffons! Great video btw :)

[RecklessFables]

I have something like 14 level 80 characters and still clicked the video.