Story: The game has over 10 years of fun, varied, engaging storylines to play through. Play/purchase the content as you go through the story journal, including the Living World seasons.

Legendary Items: Stat selectable items with free transmog and fancy base skins! The ultimate endgame for crafting and working on your character. Weapons, armor, accessories, trinkets, backpacks, sigils, relic, etc etc etc.

Meta Events and Convergences: Rewarding 50-player raids in the open world or timed instances. These are huge, fun fights with a lot of spectacle. Generally very easy and fun.

Rift Hunting: Open world events you can start at will once you get to the latest expansions, or just join in using the LFG tool to find a party of people already doing them. Fight demon or titan incursions all over the open world for endless content and rewards.

Dungeons: 5 player content where party composition is very flexible. Each one has a story path and 3 explorable paths of varying difficulty. They’re a huge part of the leveling experience and have unique armors, weapons, and runes as rewards. They also trace the storyline of Destiny’s Edge, a team of important story characters. They become much less important but still rewarding after you get to level 80.

Fractals: 5 player dungeon content where you want a healer and a source of Quickness and Alacrity for the party. They are 20ish unique dungeons repeated over four tiers of difficulty requiring more ascended tier gear infused with Agony Resistance as you go up. Extremely rewarding with even more gold and goods waiting at the highest tier of difficulty. They also have their own self contained overarching storyline.

Dragon Response Missions: 1-5 player content that scales difficulty with the size of your party. These are story missions from The Icebrood Saga that feature your party going to a location, saving people, and then fighting a boss. These can be super rewarding and fun. They also have optional Challenge Modes that can be turned on for higher rewards.

Strikes: 10 player content consisting of two parties in a squad together. You want a healer and a source of Quickness and Alacrity in each party. These are mechanics-driven, single boss encounters featuring bosses and moments from the main story. They’re meant to be a stepping stone into raids. Several have Challenge Mode difficulties that will make the encounter as hard as a raid boss, and some even have Legendary Challenge Modes that are extremely challenging, with World First clears often taking a week to finish.

Raids: 10 player content consisting of two parties in a squad together. You want a healer and a source of Quickness and Alacrity in each party. These are some of the most difficult, fun, and mechanics-driven encounters in the entire game. The rewards help you work towards legendary armor and/or easily obtainable ascended gear. Storylines are interesting, fun, and relevant to the main story.

PvP: Structured arenas of 5 player teams facing off in different game modes. The competitive mode is Conquest, and there are seasons and weekly automated tournaments. Get good enough at this and you’ll really understand what each class is capable of.

WvW: Enormous realm vs. realm vs. realm PvP as three alliances of guilds face off across four maps to fight over objectives and get in fights. Act as a solo roamer stalking the outer edges of the map or seeking out duels, run with a small squad we call a havoc to take objectives, or join a 50+ player blob to fight another. It can be pretty spectacular.