Standart noob questions
Well first of all welcome to Fashion wars ;P
Now, to the subject in hand, you can pretty much unlock lots and lots of skins from everywhere, crafting, reward tracks in PvP and WvW, different map rewards/event rewards, there are some nice skins you can unlock with the dungeons currencies and the list just goes on… (I leave that to people more informative then me on specific details)
Keep in mind though, some of the skins you see are purchasable with gems
Hitting level 80 then congrtas! there are TON of things to do in guild wars.
firstly do you have exotic gear? if not i recommend working towards that goal, its pretty easy to get by and its the best thing you can use now hitting 80.
You can go and do main story, you can farm for making ascended gear(which stat wise is the best but also takes some time and effort to make) you can enjoy PvP/WvW, you can go farm dungeons for those currencies (that will help you unlock skins and get exotic items)
do you have HoT?
Ty for advices:) Yeah, I got HoT.
So… https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Equipment_acquisition_by_stats gives you the guide to how to acquire the wide variety of gear — there are many different ways.
There are two tiers of gear at 80 that matter:
Exotic gear is the basic stuff. That’s going to be more than sufficient to do almost everything in the game — literally the only thing that is mechanically impossible to do with it is higher tier fractals.
Many people start with the “karma” sets purchased from vendors in Orr for karma, but it’s not super-expensive on the trading post either; I usually expect around 10 to 12 gold to get a set if I want to save karma for something else.
The final tier of gear is ascended (and legendary, which is numerically identical to ascended). This is acquired through crafting, and will take some time to obtain. It’s a longer term goal, and absolutely isn’t required for almost anything.
It’s commonly desired, though, for higher end stuff; it’s between a five and ten percent boost over exotic in terms of numbers and all. So, raid groups often ask for it, even though it’s not an absolute requirement.
As noted, fractals are the only place ascended anything is required — and that’s because of the need for agony resistance (see the wiki, again) in the higher tiers. Tier one fractals, though, you don’t need a single piece of ascended.
Finally, the Heart of Maguma and the recent Living Story maps … are much more challenging than the core of the game. It won’t become trivial no matter what gear you have; I’m running around on a (naturally pretty robust) Necro, in full ascended gear, and if I don’t pay attention the enemy there can stomp me into the ground too.
Instead, it’s a matter of learning to play better: what to dodge, how to avoid the attacks, what the weaknesses of the enemies are. In time, it will certainly become easier, and I rarely worry now about things that I used to carefully sneak around because they would always wipe me … simply because I know which strategy to use to take them down, if I have to.