WP: I'm going to assume you don't have any friends me: fair

"What do I do at level 80?" Me: Levelling five more alts to 80

Now the real endgame starts: Fashion Wars

For new people viewing this video for the first time, the Living World Season 1 has been reworked and released for free to all players, even on Free to Play accounts, so the part of this video that mentions that you can't play Season 1, is no longer correct. Other than that, Wooden Potatoes content is some of the best anywhere for GW2, so enjoy.

Amazing explanation that's gonna give the players such a boost to their experience. I have only one request, to add time tags for your videos. Will be so much easier to just go to the right time stamp one might need, if they choose to re-watch at a later date.

I left GW2 for like 3 years and now that I'm doing the story again i saw this name "WoodenPotatoes" and was like "oh hell ya I remember him". Glad to see your still around. You kept me playing GW2 far longer than I would have initially.

The short answer - So many things …. So many … things.

Phew! A tonne of subject material gets covered in this one. I'm trying to decide if I prefer this style or the previous one on picking a race right now, so any thoughts on that let me know. Oh, and I totally stand by saying players should skip season 2 and 3! You're asking way to much time and investment from relative casuals and noobs, for them to get all that gold / IRL money and all those gems so fast. Anyway, I hope you enjoy the work I put into the video. Have fun!

My god, thank you for just *explaining* how to get gear. Trying to find *anything* to help gear my thief after an 8 year break was like trying to get blood from a stone! Now I've got my Nika's armor and can just enjoy going through the Expansion storylines.

I can also recommend to anyone with a decent gear that hits 80 lvl to go and do beginning of the Path of Fire expansion to unlock the first mount. For me, having a mount made the overall experience of the game far far better than before. I cannot imagine me trying to run on foot through chak filled tunells in the Heart of thornes.

Honestly the mounts are amazing coming from other MMOs. The animations are fluid and gratifying and the movement *feels* very good. Personally I used the 80 boost and got the raptor before going back and leveling my first character and it made the game feel so much better. Running around on foot is okay for awhile, but doing things in the order vets did them isn't going to give the authentic experience that they had when the content was current. If a new player is stuck running around watching everyone else with their cool raptors and dragons, it feels like you're missing out and gives them more reason to quit. Watching everyone in 'trains' leave you behind on their mounts to get attacked by mobs and left in a place you can't navigate without mounts until you level your masteries isn't a fun experience, and it probably wasn't the one the vets had when doing HoT or base game content for the first time. It's frustrating to feel limited when everyone else isn't. Mounts are pretty much what kept me hooked on the game when starting because I could keep up with others. The controls and animations for them are truly a step up from what i expected from MMO's.

New player warning about buying ascended trinkets from the laurel vendors (From the GW2 Wiki)... With a few exceptions, all ascended trinkets are unique, meaning two identically-named trinkets cannot be equipped at the same time. However, for any given set of attributes there are usually multiple equivalent rings or accessories (with different names) that can be used together. Also, for the purposes of uniqueness, infused and attuned versions of rings count as different items, so if you accidentally buy two identical rings you can upgrade one of them to avoid this limitation.

I've been confused by other mmos at level cap but this game was on another level. If I had anything to critique about GW2 is they really need a better flow to end game. You can literally play 100s of hours and miss lots of basic stuff

As a former GW2 player coming back after many years of hiatus, I discovered that I remember absolutely nothing about how to play or where to go. So I have a level 80 character and no clue what to do with them. This video was exactly what I needed, thank you.

I usually follow random people in random maps until they’re like “what?”

Wow rather than a "what to do" this is almost a "gear and build" video ! Maybe not what people are expecting of such a title, but i agree it does help enjoying end-game !

"I'm hoping you didn't just use the level 80 boost without playing a core of the game" heh, you severely overestimate my intelligence....

As a player who has been playing this game casually since launch, there are tid-bits in here that even I found useful. Thanks for all your hard work wp!

Just came back to the game and realized I could of saved a lot of gold with my first level 80 lol but this will help with the new rev i'm leveling, here's hopping rev gets greatsword in EoD!

Bruh I love all the personal insight and detailed advice based on YOUR experience. It’s so down to earth and much easier to digest because of it. Wonderful guide. Thank-you.

The Shoulders of the Ebon Vanguard Choice Chest is a nice stat-selectable shoulder piece. It's quite cheap on the Trading Post much like the Ice Golem's Maw Box.

I just started game 2 weeks ago, I have 12 years WoW experience but your channel helped me tons to find outnin this game. I dinged 80 yesterday so this video will be a big help. Keep it up you're doing great job mate :)

10:54, neat fact, all those names for the armor are characters in Guild Wars 1

Just got back into the game after 9 + years and was SO lost. I bought the expansions because I know I want to commit and joined a helpful guild, but this video really set me straight for an authentic experience - thanks man!

I had 200 laurels in my bank without knowing what these were about, tyvm

I know wooden said the core story can be skipped, and it can. But for most new people I still recoomend you do it. It doesn't take that much time, it gives good experience, it makes people have specific objective while leveling up instead of just farming random mobs and it's going to make you not lost in the story. And in my opinion was a good story for what it is, to introduce your character to that world. It's basically world building. And even if you don't like the story it doesn't take that long to do it. I still liked it very much.

I remember when I first started playin this game, I had no idea the scope of things to do. Seriously there is a shit tons of different things to do and im still not bored.

I've watched this like 6 times since I've started playing a few months ago. Golden advice all around. You haven't led me wrong yet!

Good to see you're still on the ball for GW2. I followed your channel back in the day for content and tips & tricks, but had a massive burnout later. (stopped playing around 2017) I might get back into playing GW2 soon! Idk how you made it all this way, but kudos to you for continuing to dish out GW2 content to this day.

Returning veteran player here, and long time fan of WP. I appreciate the tone on this explanation, and found some useful information. As a veteran player, I can only remember some of what it was like when I started playing in 2012. It was a drastically different game than today, so none of what I experienced would be useful to new players today. I'm glad someone has taken the time to put out a fresh guide for new players. If "knowledge is power" then /wiki is the greatest source of power creep ever!! Cheers

As a returning GW2 player, this is the best video of its kind out there, well done mate

I think you specifically compiled this guide with me in mind. I am *exactly* the player you describe. Whilst I have been playing MMO's for over 20 years now I am brand new to GW2. So far I have been enjoying the experience greatly but it hasn't taken long for me to become aware of the depth & complexity of choices that will soon be facing me (especially with regard to gear) as I get to L80. This guide has been extremely helpful in that regard. Thank you very much 😊😊😊!

small addition regarding masteries: The Pact Commander Mastery line is probably one of the most important ones and should be prioritized in core, since Advanced Logistics in the end gives auto-loot.

Good to know all the actual stuff and be able to prioritize from this list. Great job

I look forward to more videos in this series. I played a bit around launch, but every time I try to get back into the game I feel overwhelmed and lost. I hope pointers like these will make it less intimidating to jump in again.

hit level 80 in gw2 and feeling overwhelmed? don't worry, here's an overwhelming list of things you can do.

As a returning player this was immensely helpful! The gearing guide from the wiki is just over the top. This makes a lot more sense. Thank you!

Great guide!, probably best one out there, for the type of players you perfectly described and I include myself, great work!

A small tip about that Dire armor that I wish I knew: toughness is how raiding determines tanking. So if you want to check out raiding, make sure you don’t bring that gear to dps or you will start to tank on accident 😛 That being said, knight and Dire was how I stayed in the game. The game was too tough for me until I started equipping those.

this is by far one of the best videos i seen, i have been playing for over 2 weeks and with no sense of direction, am all over the place. and some times confused. this helps a lot.

Concise and in-depth guide of anything you need to know about where to start when reaching endgame.

This is exactly what i needed! just bought the 2 expansions since i already fell in love with the free 2 play model of the game ^^

As a long time veteran, I actually found a lot of very helpful tips in this video for when I'm teaching new players. Considering all of my characters are at minimum in full ascended, I didn't realize that I didn't know the "ins and outs" of getting exotic armor. I had still been recommending the best way to get berserker's being in Or for Karma.

Excellent video. Thank you so much for the details. I played GW2 years ago and came back to it and was so lost. Now I understand the game much better.

Thanks for this video. I bought all the expansions and got the 80 boost with it.. Trying a thief(deadeye) for my first class and I am quite enjoying it. You are totally right about learning the game and playing through it. Even with the 80 boost I found myself going back and playing the game from the start(still on chapter 1). I did like being able to hop ahead chapters and get the mounts though, heh. The story is great and the world is so vast and scenic.. I am enjoying every bit of it. If anything, I'm sad I didn't start this game 10 years ago.

"Ascalon Catacombs is casual content that's not hard whatsoever" Me: joins "Instakicked for low achievement point count and not knowing speedrun routes"

Thank you for the video, it really helped me. I'm here mostly for the stories, but getting upgrades are worth the time.

Love this video series. As a subject suggestion : achievements, collections (I know you touched on these here a bit) and side stories. Loads of content in these but lots people have no idea it's there.

I think you forgot to mention that it's not necessary to go full set with one prefix. For example if Marauder is too hard to obtain, it's okay to mix Berserker and Valkyrie to achieve similar result. I know it sounds logical to most of us, but sometimes even the best minds overlook the simplest things.

Thanks for this guide:) started GW2 recently and the overwhelming is REAL! This video however, gave alot of hope for direction when eventually ima reach max level!

Very good video, helped a lot as a reference for a few friends who are just starting

This was an incredibly comprehensive guide!

Amazing video. Didn't expect you'd cover things i had always questioned.

Watching this as a vet with 4k hours it's really helpful because I can commit and repeat the things in this video to the newbies I frequently recruit. I never thought about getting my friend who wanted to play a healer the gear from AC, I took them to VB and we got bladed gear for Harrier! Ha... The free monk runes are icing on the cake.

Thank you. This was really helpful. Especially the part where you explained the gear and its stats.

Thanks so much for these vids it's really nice to have a recent source to go to with an Old game like gw2, I loved gw1 and played it to death but found 2 to be overwhelming and end up quitting, glad to come back to this

Wow, I learnt something new in that gear section regarding cheap exotics, and I’ve been playing for 7 years.

Holy crap this is the best GW2 beginner video out there. Fantastic job, I can tell I will be referencing this video quite a lot.

Best ever GW2 vid i have seen

These are massively beneficial to me! Thank you, keep them coming!

100% agree with telling new players to not even bother with the Living World releases. It's years past time these were included in the box price of the game. New players may be interested in a summary video series linking the personal story -> HoT -> PoF -> EoD. With the video filling in the gaps of LW S1,2,3,4, and 5.

This was a great video for me to find just when I finished the base story and was trying to decide whether to go into the expansions or LW1... You probably just saved me a lot of frustration 😂

WP, three more good stat selectable options on the TP - Ebon Vanguard shoulders, the Lucky backpieces and the Iron Legion weapons none of which are extremely expensive

Really like your delivery on this 💯

Extremely helpful, thank you! I took your advice on the named armor, rings and amulets!

Idk if this was covered but I'd like a rune guide and how to unlock their stats

Late to the party, & I'm planning ahead of time, Thankyou for this New to 80 guide, it is/will be very helpful. Your time & effort put into your video guides/builds are muchly Appreciated!💯 Liked & Subbed❤

The laurels for ascended trinkets. I know it was hinted at in the video that WVW has slightly different costs. A trinket may be 10 laurels cheaper in the place of 250 Badges of honor (wvw currency). Check you wallet, because even if you havent been to wvw yet, you may have got some from early achievment milestone chests. That should save you some laurels to put towards another trinket

What a marvelous video. I'm new on the game and saw a lot of videos and this is the most informative of them. Greetings from Brazil.

I knew it! I knew that those videos are worth even for a day one vet. Those Named Armor, had no idea about them. Gonna be helpful with the alts, thanks!

Best video in it's category yet! Thanks!

Unsurprisingly, this still holds up to this very day. Every player should see this atleast once.

Thanks for a guide, well put together. Good job

So useful and makes me wanna play even more. Thanks 👌🤌🏻

Hey WP, a friend just started GW2. One of his first question was about inventory managment - so how to get bigger bags, what to keep, what to sell, what to recycle, how to deposit, etc.

Thank you very much for this video!! I started playing last month with my gf and just reached lvl 80 and we were so confused and overwhelmed with all the things there are in the game :3

this is the exact question that pushed me away from GW2. But every once in a while I come back and learn that I can do a little more.

This was the best intro I’ve seen! Thank you

From a returning player (still noob) (literally returned yesterday) all these videos are super helpful! Many thanks!

Returning player here, haven't played since 2013. Extremely useful. Thanks for the vid :)

I used the 80 booster to get the mounts, I have other toons I level up. Finally got my griffon mount today. Used to play this when it was new, moved onto other games and now I am back and overwhelmed with things.

Thanks for the comprehensive and accessible guide

the question new players always ask me is "whats the fastest way to level?" But I tell them to just have fun! so my question is, what are some things to do while leveling?

Awesome gear guide. I just reached lvl 80 and I am having a blast. I'm glad I finally gave gw2 a chance

I had no idea about the existence of named armor or even that the bladed armor set was stat-selectable, good information.

This video and any more like it that you might make are of inestimable value. Great job and thank you.

Learning the superspeed flying mechanic of the Griffon mount to do acrobatic stunts is like playing a whole new game mode :D

Very informative. Hope this info is still valid after the new expansion dropped. Thanks for the helpful tips how to gear my character.

The only thing I wish is, GW2 had a class system like FF14. As in, you make your char, and you can swap classes mid game on the spot(barring instanced stuff or in combat etc.). Other than that, I just quit WoW and I'm gonna just dive into this with a fresh mind. Stuck choosing between Ele, Mes, Guard lol

Hey I'm going to try to come back to GW2 and all of this is very interesting and helpful. Thank you the content.

This is great news for a returning player. I stopped playing around the release of the first expansion, have a bunch of level 80s, and all have a mix of exotic and ascended gear. As much as the game has changed since I was away, it is amazing how much has stayed the same. GW2 is doing a lot of things right.

1- PoF(mounts, flying mounts cost a dece amount of gold and the quests are a PAIN, especially for the wyrm but a mastered raptor goes a long way, and the bunny is nough to give you verticality most of the time) 2- Setting up a farming routine, what you do first hour(fractal daily achievments, daily farming routes, can be puzzles or challenges as well). You need a decent gold generation if you want to do anything. A big part of the daily routine is understanding where you will get the most gold if you play for more than just doing the daily stuffs. It's something where you get better over time, there are farming events in the base game as well(the sand stuffs), but without a mount it won't feel that good and you can still farm dj but generally the best pve party specs are expansions related) 3- Getting fractal mastery then auto loot mastery, do whatever it takes to be up to date in mastery points to spend and do content that gives xp at first place) 4- Story content(LW3 > HoT/LW2), carefull there HoT content is a chore, doesn't feel good unless you are playing god tier builds that are not that good at zerging at first place like mirage mesmer. Ascended gear heavily recommended for HoT content. 5- Icebrood Saga 6- Improve step 2 by introducing thing you have unlocked with 3 -4-5 in your daily routine 7- Pick objectives, one step at a time. Anything in this game is related to achievments, most zones have their "unique" activities and unlock. Some are quite long but extremly rewarding, you can get legendary jewelries from living world content, wich is insane confort wise(bound to account ascended gear with swappeable stats), and stuffs that accelerate your general grind(there is a recycler in LW3 content if I recall that generates values from shitty almost no value items), there are legendary armor pieces through raid grind as well 8- Gain more and more achievments points to gain more and more, try getting into full ascended territory, include raids in your routine, maybe try pvp 9- Get lost and facepalm daily on the wiki, leave and uninstall after 15 days every 2 years and buy LW with hard cash

PERFECT assumption at the beginning lol, got me hooked perfectly

That’s what I love about the game. I can go MIA for ages, and still be viable when I log in again. Aside story… I like the advice for gear mentioned and agree with paying attention to build and gear sets. If you’ve played the game and got a bit of gold, it’s easy to get exotics from the TP

Minor pushpack on exotic vs ascended: the stat difference may be minor, but for power builds (i.e. in berserker gear that was recommended), the weapon slot gains a disproportionate amount of gain from the "base damage" value. I don't think this is a bad thing, newer players can be encouraged to level crafting, or to do content that tends to drop ascended weapon chests (fracs, teq and triple trouble!)

The first video I've "liked" in years. Good job 👍

Talking about Berserker's, Cleric's etc. I think it would be really interesting to have a video that will go through all (or at least major) stat combinations and give you some ideas what builds it would be used with. I think this would be immensely useful for new players, but even older players that don't think about buildcrafting too much will find it very interesting (e.g. me :D )

I haven't played for years and coming back is super overwhelming

16:00 As a returning Vet this was a super helpful tip. My Berserker armor was tough to use in some of the story quests solo and I would die fast so I was looking into making a Condi set. Now I know I can get a relatively cheap one off the MP, thanks!

I've played for 8 years with about 3 years of that actual play...this is what I did when I came back to the game I bought both expansions did mounts first then stories then got the living worlds. Good tips man. There is always crafting >:D tbh I like the lore videos cause the story is kinda old and feels empty now a days. If EoDs get Dx11 I hope they add plants! grass...make it less empty! Also you can mix and match armor sets, on my heal/cc tempest side I run Minstrel and Wanderers with a Trooper rune set and its very hard to die and you always have water element heals with Wash the pain away and Rebound. Tempest is a heal master if youre good at it.