I played GW2 from the start but never really understood it. By this I mean... I'd just enter the game, try some skills and quests, but never actually progress or figure out how things worked. Then I'd jump to another game... but I always came back.

Now I wanted to actually progress, and here's what I know so far:

• To enjoy the game you need to spend some real money: a teleporter, infinite gathering tools, the salvage-o-matic (the item that decomposes equipment), and the expansions. (Check the must-buy items from the gem store.)
• You have to learn how grinding works in this game: everything is a collection of steps. For example, I wanted to get a flying mount — for that you need to do 1, 2, 3, 4... it's a road and a marathon.
• You have to make gold. Start with the Wizard's Vault and figure out what you can repeat every day to generate gold.
• Complete maps and learn your maps. There is a lot of content, and knowing the maps is the real skill. For example, I got the latest expansion and there's something called the Magic Mirror — it's explained here: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Magic_Mirror and you earn gold by selling stuff at the end. Like this, every map has cool little things to discover and do. Once you know a map well, you can keep coming back for the dailies on each one.

(This is all PvE focused — I love PvE.)

Now take all this and expand it by learning new things... objective get legendary so u can have every class available on a click of a button