Guild Wars 2

You can start crafting. Crafting doesn’t require that much money, especially if you’re gathering all the materials you see out in the field. If you’re doing Tailoring and Jeweler (which are good choices, btw) Then you will have 0 use for gathered wood, allowing you to sell those and use the spare change from that to fund your other endevors.

Crafting is a bit complicated and confusing to newer players. The basic gist is: You use your known recipes to craft a bunch of ingredients, and then go to the “Discovery” tab to use those ingredients and make something you can use. For tailor that will be something along the line of “_ Lining, __ Padding, ____ Inscription” Whereas Jewelry uses “____ Setting, ____ chain/ring/hook, Gem.” Play around with it, it’s fun, and gives a ton of XP (Each crafting profession, if taken to the max 400 ranks, will give you 10 total levels worth of experience)

As for what else to do? Go exploring. Go back to your races starting area, and explore the entire map. Get all the Points of interest, all the waypoints and vistas. That will give you a bunch of experience and, if you get them all, a reward (Typically 3 transmutation stones, but you can also get a black lion key, both items you’d normally have to spend real money to obtain!) From that point, you could take an asura gate to lions arch, and explore that too!!! And then from lions arch, you can go to the capital of each other races capital, and explore those as well!!! There’s a lot of gorgeous things to see, fascinating lore, funny NPC dialog, etc. And, as I mentioned, exploring gives good XP as well. Such good XP, that if you explore all 6 cities (5 racial capitals, and lions arch) You’ll have accumulated 10 levels.

Your other options are to try out World Vs. World (It has it’s own menu, B to access it by default) It has it’s own tutorial when you first show up, so I’ll let it show you what to do. But it can be fun. Expect to be confused regularly.

You can also try sPvP (It has it’s own menu, located at the top. Crossed swords) But that won’t advance your character.

To elaborate on costs of crafting:

Jeweling requires no money to level at all.
Tailoring will require you to purchase thread and/or runes (thread for armors, runes for bags—thread is cheap).

There is no real cost for purchasing recipies (you pay karma for those, and even then you don’t need them until very high levels) or anything else. You can gather all the materials on your own, aside from the thread and runes mentioned above.

Here are some crafting guides for you:

http://www.guildwars2-crafting.com/

Cheers.

You can also jump into PVP and World versus World right from the get-go if you’re into that sort of thing.

And then there’s Keg Brawl in Hoelbrak, and hopefully more minigames in the future.

Don’t forget, with friends, you can really do any zone in the game you want. I’ve seen a level 36 elementalist in a group on Cursed Shore, doing events with the 80’s and having no trouble at all.

Nels the Cornwhisperer.8025:

Don’t forget, with friends, you can really do any zone in the game you want. I’ve seen a level 36 elementalist in a group on Cursed Shore, doing events with the 80’s and having no trouble at all.

Not to be a pessimist, but there is a good chance that was a botter. Not many level 36s will even know how to get to Orr unless it’s a second character. I see plenty of very low levels in Orr: most are armorless Rangers, have a Juvenile Brown Bear, and have names like Andrew C Brown or a bunch or letters. lol

Heh, this was back when Orr was full of people doing the event zerg, and I’m very sure it was a real person, we had a very interesting conversation, in which he explained how his friends had brought him here.

We also had a good chat about the old sidekicking system, and how awesome it was, even if it did mean you could skip content.

But, back on track, and to the Original Poster:

There really isn’t anything you can’t do, especially if you have friends. Continue doing hearts, even if you’re solo. Go PvP it up for a while. You’ll be less good in WvW, without all your traits, but if you stick with the zerg, you’ll do fine. As for leveling your crafts, it’s simple: Gather goods, and craft. For most things, you’ll need an inscription, and two components to discover a recipe. Simply do that over and over again, and you’re golden.

Thanks for all the feedback guys, looks like ill be crafting and doing some pvp now, along with quests.
My only problem now is i dont have any money to level my tailoring or jeweler, how should i go about making money to level them up?