Guild Wars 2

About to hit 80 with my Thief. No idea what to do when I hit it. Any suggestions on how to get started on gearing my character?

Some background info:
-Never done a dungeon before
-400 LW / 400 JC
-First character (obviously)

I thought that maybe farming a dungeon is the ideal choice but I don’t know how viable it is or if it’s even worth doing considering I pre-planned level 80 Exotic gear (note: that i don’t have the money for).

Any constructive advice is more than welcomed. Thanks for your time

I wrote a fairly comprehensive endgame gearing guide you may find worth a read: http://dulfy.net/2012/10/03/gw2-endgame-gearing-guide/

I take my time, change my clothes to different outfits, dye my outfit in multiple colors, use weapons that I dont even like. I ENJOY my adventure. Look for somtehing to do. And if there is nothing, enjoy halloween. Else, do something that you like (that isn’t gw2) hehehe

dulfy.1493:

I wrote a fairly comprehensive endgame gearing guide you may find worth a read: http://dulfy.net/2012/10/03/gw2-endgame-gearing-guide/

Insanely helpful, thank you.

That did explain a lot to me however, I am still curious about a few other things like:
-Do all the dungeon-earned gear sets have the same stats? (Such as a CoF set1 having equal states to a CoE set1)
-How to start making profit to afford exotics, etc. (I assume farming.. lots).