GW2: What to do at 80,
*1. Grind Ectoplasms!
WHAT: You must have ectoplasms. Ghost Busters! These ectoplasms are invaluable.HOW: Forging items in the Mystic Forge, and breaking them down with Master’s Salvage Kits … or even by purchasing them with cold, hard coins. The formula is below.
#a. sell 1-80 blues and 1-69 greens/yellows/exotics for cash;
#b. combine 70-80 greens for yellows or extra greens to save to try again;
#c. break down ANY 70-80 yellows,
and
#d. sell 70-80 exotics that sell for above 25s. Under 25-silver tends to make them more worthwhile to break down.
WHY: Ectoplasms help create the creme de la creme of GW2 gear: crafted, exotic level 80 gear—the top-tier stuff in the game comparable to any other 80 exotic-tier item in the game — I.E.: the Draconic heavy armor set — that you can craft yourself or hire a friend or guildy to create for you. The best jewelry and trinkets, weapons, armor, and upgrade components CAN be crafted and DO compete with the best gear available. Ectoplasms, and these gear pieces also sell for a pretty copper (and by ‘copper’ I mean ‘oodles of gold’), once you’re exotic’d out.
*2. Craft Legendaries!
WHAT: Crafting legendaries (red-tier items).HOW: Buy or farm materials, particularly the 80 exotics, the fine materials, and base materials and farm karma. There are many guides available online. Browse around!
WHY: Looks and the right to brag, mostly. They’re only comparable to all other 80 exotics in terms of stats, so beware!
*3. Map Completion!
WHAT: Complete the map, zone by zone.HOW: Run around the map, complete every heart / POI / Waypoint / Vista and Skill Challenge in each zone. Even the PvP zone.
WHY: Not only does each zone of the map give a LOT of coin (10-50 silver per, depending on the level range), it also gives two items (typically rare or exotic) and zone-level material rewards in a stack of 40, plus one rare item that you can usually only get from story steps or the Black Lion Trader, as well as a chunk of story experience. 100% Map Completion is a large sum of coins, XP, exotic items and a crafting material for a LEGENDARY item.
*4. Farm!
WHAT: Farm! Just farm! Farming involves the repeated slaughtering of innocent monsters such as the level cave trolls in Frostgorge Sound, or whatever you can handle. You still get level 80 items (greens, blues, yellows…) and any level materials relevant to your farming zone of choice.HOW: You pretty much just go kill anything in the world endlessly. As much as you want; magic find and gold find gear like Omnomberry Bars] will improve your farm rate. Magic Find Boosters are also a boon if you think you’ll be at it for, say, 45-60+ minutes!
WHY: You gain coins, items of all varieties/levels and tiers, materials and experience out the wazoo. This can help you acquire etoplasms and cash.
*5. Grind for Karma!
WHAT: Karma! It’s Karma! You should know this by now…HOW: Karma Boosters and completing hearts and events in lower level zones, and repeatable events in Orr!
WHY: Karma Items from karma vendors, Legendary materials, and other goodies you can only get with karma!
*6. Acquire Skillpoints!
WHAT: Unlock skill points.HOW: Skill challenges on your map in zones, and XP post-80 goes towards a skill point anew.
WHY: Some legendary materials and other Mystic Forge items can be bought with skill points only.
*7. Grind for Gold & Gems!
WHAT: Gems can be used to buy things ONLY purchasable on the Black Lion Trading Company store.HOW: Commerce Panel (‘O’ key) -> Currency Exhange tab. Watch the exchange ratio like a hawk and strike when you can buy low and sell high. You can even get gold in a pinch by selling gems instead of buying them, however they were acquired.
WHY: You don’t ever have to spend a real dollar on gems on this game past the box fee if you do! You SHOULD. But you don’t HAVE to.
*8. Craft!
WHAT: Get one/both your primary and secondary crafting professions up to 400/400.HOW: Using materials from your 80 funds and farming, craft things you have and discover things you don’t. Crafting Boosters can help you or an alt plow through crafting and get a LOT of XP.
WHY: You can supply crafted goods like armor and weapons, boxes and trinkets, upgrade components and more — to yourself, your alts, your guildies, friends or.. even strangers!
*9. Achievement Points!
WHAT: Achievement Points are fun bragging rights.HOW: Hero Panel (‘H’ key) -> Achievements and start going down the list. Some are account-wide and others are class-specific or gameplay type-specific. Some are repeatable, too!
WHY: Tell your friends you’ve got the most achievements and points! They’re like Steam Achievements or Xbox Live Achievement Points. It also boosts influence for the guild you are representing at the time of the unlock!
BTW, I would recommend adding obtaining the commander titles for WvW so you can lead squads, helping to level up a guild for storage/buffs/area events (feast, banners), claiming keeps for your guild in WvW for the status, hunting down all of the puzzles in the game and getting the achievements for them. And since you have Orr and decent cash generation, play the trading post.
*10. World vs. World/sPvP!
WHAT: World vs. World does get marginally easier with higher-level gear, but it isn’t game-breaking. World versus World pops up from your ‘B’ key menu, and Structured PvP is accessed from your Hero panel (‘H’) key -> PvP tab -> “Go to the Heart of the Mists.” WvW has exquisite fine and crafting materials, PvE mobs to kill, players to fight against for the obvious added fun of player vs. player combat, structural damage and sieges, and guerrilla combat or mass warfare. The choice is yours! Structured PvP is fun and has unique rewards from Glory, which you can make great use of Glory/PvP Boosters, here. It also seperates your skills, gear and traits from WvW and PvE… it is its own game type! WvW even gives a lot of karma, and Badges of Honor (PvP currency).*11. Grind for Pact
(Vigil, Durmand Priory & Order of Whispers), Tier 1, 2 & 3 Cultural Gear!Cultural Armor & Weapons and Pact Armor & Weapons. You’ll need, in most cases, LOTS of gold. Some weapons can be bought with karma, but armor cannot… such is the price, as they are some of the coolest-looking items in the game and have 80 exotic stats for most of the items. It also gives you achievement points, one batch of points is given once for a single item from a race’s cultural armory (but only once, for example—get a sylvari shoulder, 5 achievement points for a piece of sylvari cultural. But you CANNOT unlock the Emperor’s New Wardrobe achievement with a full set of cultural gear from one race. It must be from all FIVE races.)
*12. Dungeon Exploration!
Dungeons have Story and Exploratory Modes. Some waypoints and Points of Interest are ONLY available in dungeons and their story or exploratory modes, and Exploratory Mode paths reward fantastic loot and tokens. Both modes have achievement points and XP (for skill points) rewarded en masse.Complete a Story Mode Dungeon, and/or go with friends who have completed Story Mode to run Exploratory Mode. Only one person has to complete Story Mode to unlock Exploratory Mode for all, but you must be at-level for Exploratory Mode regardless if your state of completion of its story (typically +5 to the story, as in Ascalanian Catacombs Story Mode is 30, while its exploratory mode is 35).
NOTE: Dungeon tokens can be used for rare, exotic armor and weapons you can transmute for appearance, or use for stats. Or both! Not to mention the XP (for skill points), item and currency rewards!
*13. Help People!
Helping people across the map and in WvW can net you karma, coins, XP, materials, a variety of items, notoriety (as in being known as a nice person!) Wander the maps. Run dungeons with guildies, friends and strangers. You can also get map completion done, earn currency and rewards, and more!*14. Work On an Alt!
WHAT: Level your >80 alternate characters for extra coins, Achievement Points, and even more. As for how, that should be obvious… I’d hope. How’d you get to 80 on THIS toon? This option gives you extra coins, Achievement Points, and materials and more!*15. Finish Your Personal Storyline!
Your personal story has an end to it. Wanna know a secret about the end of the storyline that you’ll wanna know before you run Arah?Your final story mission has you actually go to kill Zhaitan. You MUST get to this final story step before running Arah or you will have to run Arah Story Mode again to receive your final reward.
There are five or so level 80 story missions to proceed through as per normal.
The spoiler text I noted? It gives CRAZY GOOD rewards (typically). *BAGS MAY POTENTIALLY STILL BE BUGGED AT THE TIME BEING, but ANet is undoubtedly working on a fix as soon as possible.
*16. Roleplay!
WHAT: …role…play? You probably know what this is. ;PHOW: Act in-character in a roleplaying situation!
WHY: It’s fun! You don’t even have to be good at it—you just have to enjoy it!
*17. World Bosses
There are tougher things in the world than the champion mobs that can be taken down by a good group.*18. 20 Slot Bags
Are you a bad enough dude to pay 10+ gold in materials to get your space? Multiply it by 4! It’s no secret; storage on a single toon is expensive, and you’re not end-game until you’re swimming in space.*19. Commander Title
Being on the map makes you the star of the show, no matter where you go, because you are the kind of badkitten that accumulates 100 gold and windmill slams it into a vendor.*20. Boost your Magic Find!
You can buy Adventurer gear, but these are expensive and you get less of the other stats because the +MF is the primary attribute.The best is to get 6 runes to raise your MF to 60% passive. (you can still eath omnomberry bars on top of this)
You can do so be getting 5 Superior Runes of the Pirate and 1 Superior Rune of the Traveler (or vice versa).
However the Pirate runes are currently worth 50% of the Traveler runes so 5 Pirates is a much better idea.
*21. Exotic Up!
Every single item in your Hero Panel can be made exotic (with the exception of your backpiece, which only goes up to ‘Rare’ from the guild armorsmith vendor). Work towards a full set, or even TWO full sets, of exotic armor packed with Superior Runes; get some exotic trinkets with top-tier jewels, and get the best weapons to fill your weapon slots stacked with the hottest Superior Sigils.As you can see, the game is just as fresh and awesome as soon as you reach level cap and there’s more to do even over what I’ve just listed. There is a LOT to do—more than just this list of reasons! You could even hang out and chat—it’s a free to play MMO world with free reigns.
I don’t always powerlevel to endgame…
…but when I do, I make sure it’s in a game where there’s actually stuff to do.
Stay 80, my friends.
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I have been lvl 80 for two weeks and still find that when I log in I have multiple things to do. My biggest challenge is figuring out what I want to do that night. Found a fun guild so its a) hang out with guildies, b) finish another step in my personal story (nope have not finished it yet), c) go into WvW solo or with guild, d) finally do SPVP (nope have not had one match yet. have not had time), d) work on map completion of a zone, e) do a dungeon run, f) craft, g) and so on.
Endgame things:
LEVEL UP multiple characters (1 of each class/race)
WvWvW
sPvP/tPvP
FRACTALS!!!
Guild Missions
Legendary Weapons
Ascended Armor
Dungeon Weapons
Dungeon Armor
Exotic Weapons
Exotic Armour
Find your perfect build
Become a Polymock Master (pokemon in gw2)
COMPLETE Personal Story
COMPLETE All Dungeons
COMPLETE 100% World Exploration
COLLECT ALL Mini pets
COLLECT ALL Dyes
MAX OUT ALL Titles
MAX OUT ALL Achievements
MAX OUT ALL skills and utilities
MAX OUT ALL Guild upgrades
MAX OUT ALL classes (warrior, guardian etc.)
MAX OUT ALL crafting Professions
AND MOST OF ALL: Help other players and Guild members.
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80 Things to Do At Level 80
- Complete your personal story
- Defeat Zhaitan
- Unlock all available skills for your profession / race
- Raise your crafting disciplines to skill level 400
- Earn enough gold to purchase a racial armor set
- Earn enough karma to purchase an exotic armor set
- Play through all dungeons in story mode
- Complete all dungeons in explorable mode
- Complete all 33 possible explorable mode dungeon paths
- Earn enough dungeon tokens to purchase a set of armor
- Collect a set of armor from each dungeon in the game
- Start a petition to make the Undead Orrian Chicken a new necro minion
- Earn enough karma to purchase a racial weapon
- Craft an exotic weapon for your character
- Craft an exotic armor set for your character
- Purchase a Dragon’s Deep weapon
- Earn all possible PvE titles
- Experiment with new builds for your profession
- Discover all possible recipes for your crafting disciplines
- Master all crafting disciplines
- Experiment with the Mystic Forge
- Create a Mystic weapon in the Mystic Forge
- Craft a legendary weapon in the Mystic Forge
- Explore all areas in the game
- Find and use a vial of black dye
- Find a vial of black dye and give it to a friend
- Create or purchase a full set of 20 slot bags
- Give Logan a wedgie
- Participate in the Norn Keg Brawl
- Unlock all Keg Brawl achievements
- Create a new character to experience a different profession / race
- Participate in structured PvP
- Raise your sPvP rank
- Achieve the rank of Ascendant in sPvP
- Complete your favorite sPvP cosmetic armor set
- Collect new cosmetic weapon skins for sPvP
- Unlock all possible cosmetic weapon and armor skins in sPvP
- Earn all sPvP titles
- Find and complete all 31 jumping puzzles
- Complete the current Monthly achievements
- Help your guild earn influence to unlock additional perks
- Outrun a centaur
- Charm all possible pets as a Ranger
- Create an all-ranger guild called Team Rocket, lose constantly in sPvP
- Collect all 101 types of cooking materials
- Fill every collection slot in the bank with at least one item
- Participate in World versus World
- Help your world win in WvW
- Defeat enough enemy players in WvW to complete the medal
- Complete the awesome Yakslapper achievement in WvW
- Complete all WvW achievements
- Build and use all siege weapon types in WvW
- Earn all possible WvW Titles
- Play the organ in Caledon forest, and party with the Quaggan
- Earn enough gold to purchase a Commander Tome
- Visit the monument to Killeen and pay your respects
- Defeat the Shatterer
- Defeat the Claw of Jormag
- Defeat Tequatl the Sunless
- Add new friends to your friend’s list
- Organize an in-game event for your guild
- Complete every map in the game
- Participate in meta events
- Discover and participate in new dynamic events
- Collect stacks of butter and butter prank your friends
- Learn the ins and outs of the Trading Post
- Get rich selling Globs of Ectoplasm
- Buy a Box o’ Fun and throw a party in Lion’s Arch
- Complete an armor set for your character’s Order
- Read all of the books in Divinity's Reach
- Read the story of how Ebonhawke was founded
- Complete all possible weapon achievements for your character
- Defeat the Champion of Grenth and purchase the exotic armor set
- Write about your level 80 experience, have it published on GW2Hub
- Purchase a set of armor from the guild armorsmith
- Purchase a set of weapons from the guild weaponsmith
- Complete all Slayer achievements
- Complete the Lifetime Survivor achievement
- Go skydiving in Arah after defeating Zhaitan
- Have fun!
* Comments
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"If you're trying to grind, I hate to say this, but - You're playing the game wrong."
Sure that goes for levelling, but once you hit 80 and get 100% map completion, this is about all you can do. And explorables are not equivalent to raids, atleast not until they put worthwhile items to drop from bosses, right now, you run through picking up crap loot that you're either going to vendor or salvage to pick up your 20-30 tokens. Here is the grind, you need what, 8-10 runs of an instance to get a single piece of gear? 56 runs, if you do them 1 per day, more if you do multiple runs, to get a full set, including weapons..How is 56 runs of the same dungeon not a grind?
The lack of a skin locker (similar to the pvp one) is also disturbing, I do my 56 runs of COF and get my full set, then a month or 2 later I get bored of the exact same look, so I do my 56 runs of HoTW. Now I have 2 choices, transmute my hard-earned COF set to look like the HoTW set,loosing the skin, or go and farm/buy/make another full set of exotics to transmute while my COF set takes up 6-7 bank slots, just incase I feel like wearing it again.
Mid level content is great, but it is not a suitable substitute for proper endgame..simply because they aren't challenging. 60+ people hitting on a stationary boss is pathetic, and you can't say what people do in other MMOs, that after the initial rush the zerg will thin..because it won't, level 80s have nothing better to do, so they still come back and beat on the lvl50 bosses.
Don't get me wrong, the game is good, for me, it was perfect until about Orr(Which is why I'm going to give the game another couple of months while I level 1 from each race to 45 just to see all the beautifully crafted Personal Stories (Until it stops being about my character) but without structured content and a carrot at the end of the stick, the game will suffer for it.
Most MMOs have a gear progression required to attain the next phase to get the next level of gear. Since GW2 has the same gear available through all channels it means there is no real gear progression and everyone will have the same gear eventually doing what they want to do (wvwvw, farming gold, dungeons etc). This obviously does not include Ascended Gear through Fractals, or gear skins.
You imply it in a number of the points, but I am a recent 80 learning the game still and I had a hard time piecing this together even after reading your post. Once I got my first exotic piece, I realized that all exotics are the same (if the prefix is the same). At that point, it started to make sense the end game design here.
(Or If I am wrong, correct me since I am a new 80 and still learning)
Please take this as nothing more than constructive criticism. If people have concerns about lack of end game, it’s because there is. Much of what is listed here is either common sense, or it is indeed a grind. You can accomplish much of this here from any old MMORPG free or paid that you pick off the shelf or a website.
Keywords like Endgame are code-name for grind fests. Most MMOs out there are grind fests so this isn’t a knock on GW2 specifucally at all. I was a big GW1 fanboy, primarily for it’s PvP and primarily for RA/HA. In my opinion, GW1’s PvP was ground breaking, unmatched til this very day. GW2 sadly is a different story.
GW2 is BEAUTIFUL I am blown away by the graphics, however, there’s no soul to it, no purpose. What are you supposed to do after you “grind”, “farm”, “achieve” and “acquire” yourself all out?(these are your own words)
Here in GW2, its reasonably easy to get close to ‘max stats’ within a few hours of hitting 80. You wont quite have max stats, but you’ll be close enough to do most of the dungeons.
However, you’re still going to get one shot by abilities in those dungeons. Why? Because this is a skill based game. You need to dodge important abilities, combo with each other, use your heal at the right time etc.
Im level 80 all in rares, and working on exotics, and i went and ran AC with a bunch of my lower level mates, and it was tough, and i loved it.
Awesome topic and advices. I’ve been level 80 for like 10 days now and I was lucky enough to fill my Hero Tab with level 80 exotic gear
So now, I’m concentrated on crafting legendaries! More spesificially, my first legendary greatsword, which would be Sunrise!
My world completion is at 83% and I have two necessary crafting professions for Sunrise leveled up to 400, armorsmithing and weaponsmithing. I also have 200 skill points, you know for what haha
I’ll take this month exploring Tyria up to 100% and then…FARMING! I’ll farm for 150-200 golds and it will take a month I think, I must finish farming before my exams start
Magic Find:
You can buy Adventurer gear, but these are expensive and you get less of the other stats because the +MF is the primary attribute.The best is to get 6 runes to raise your MF to 60% passive. (you can still eath omnomberry bars on top of this)
You can do so be getting 5 Superior Runes of the Pirate and 1 Superior Rune of the Traveler (or vice versa).
However the Pirate runes are currently worth 50% of the Traveler runes so 5 Pirates is a much better idea.
about a year ago
Conclusion
There is so much stuff you could do at 80 that does not include grinding, it’s not even funny, but the OP barely takes “the FUN question” into consideration. This is not a guide for players who’ve just hit 80, it’s a guide for people that had 80 in their sights long before reaching it, and have just ran through the lower levels like they’re just “trash levels.”Explore, do the same stuff you’ve been skipping over on your route to 80. Just, play. There isn’t anything holding you back anymore, and in fact now that you don’t have to worry about outleveling your gear, it becomes so much less frustrating, less time-consuming. Sooner or later there will be the desire to look upon this list of “endgame items” and realize that there’s still more that could be done. That all comes, basically, after you’re done exploring, wide-eyed, wondering at all the sights.
You’re not committing yourself to a grind simply by hitting level 80, as this thread seems to be suggesting. I suggest you update this thread to be more friendly.
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