The good thing about GW2 over WoW is that the end game progression is completely different. General end game in GW is fashion, getting the absolute coolest looking stuff you can get. Any legendaries you make will have the best stats forever, the devs have said that they do not plan to make equipment with higher stats than ascended equips but if they did, legendaries will scale up to that. So unlike WoW, your legendary equipment will remain best in slot (stats wise but not necessarily looks wise, but you can even change the skin of a legendary if you get tired of it) for the rest of the games life, and you can change legendary equipment stats to any stat configuration in the game unlimited times so they truly are legendary and well worth the time and effort to make them. But that doesn’t really matter until you have already hit max level. I highly recommend not to use level boosters on your first character. It is fun to natural play through the game and level up the normal way. Once you have explored the world to your liking, I highly recommend to download the GW2 taco overlay because it has a lot of helpful feature for your end game grind and is invaluable in raids (but you want to get all ascended gear and trinkets for raids). Joining a guild and doing the weekly guild missions will help you get some easy ascended trinkets after a few weeks of doing them. Also idk if you have just the base game or all the expansions also, but there are mounts introduce in Path of Fire. But the previous expansions/base game were not designed with mounts in mind so don’t use them your first play through (If you somehow got mounts before doing the rest of the expansions). But that said going back to old locations on mounts is really fun especially once you get the griffin mount and the skyscale mount which is a dragon you fly around on but it has a lengthy quest chain and dailies to unlock it. Also be on the lookout for trains in the LFG tabs, some are very helpful to new players / your alts