Guilded: Top Ten Things To Do After Level 80

Level 80 is the ultimate ding in Guild Wars 2. What's next? The hollow existential silence that reverberates after a Tibetan prayer bell? Or is this when the party starts? My Engineer just hit level 80 in the icy waters of Frostgorge Sound, which officially puts me into the endgame. Since I no longer have the convenient draw of the next level to pull me through buy Guild Wars 2 gold , why would I keep playing? Glad you asked. Here are the top 10 things I'm looking forward to doing after you're level 80.

Elite Skills

The benefits of leveling up don't end at 80! Hitting the level cap won't unlock all your skills. Fortunately, you're still earning experience points as you play. As you fight, explore, quest, and craft, you still fill that bar at the bottom of the screen. Each time it gets full, you earn another skill point. You'll need a bunch more of these to get your expensive elite skills, which are determined by your choice of class and race. For me to get an Engineer's mortar and a charr's bazooka, I've got about 40 faux levels to go. 

Get More Skill Points

I can also get skill points by doing the skill point challenges in the world, displayed on the map as chevrons. These are a bit like collectibles or hidden coins, but you have to work for them. They're guarded by bosses or jumping puzzles or even riddles. Open your map. Look at all those hollow chevrons waiting to be collected! Every one of them brings me that much closer to my mortar and bazooka.

Skill points are the currency that buys special items for the Mystic Forge.8) Spend Skill Points

Okay, so looking ahead into the future when I'm merrily mortaring and bazookaing my way through the world, I'm still not done with skill points. Skill points are the currency that buys special items for the Mystic Forge. You know the Mystic Forge, don't you? It's like a cross between a Horadric Cube, a lottery-ticket dispenser, and a treasure-eating trash compactor. It hates you. You throw perfectly good stuff into it and it usually spits out junk. Except for those rare times it spits out something useful. Which means you're foolish enough to keep throwing in perfectly good stuff. But the key to the Mystic Forge is the stuff you can buy from Miyani in Lion's Arch, and she'll only sell it for skill points.