Guild Wars 2

I played this game for about a month on release, and got distracted with other games at the time. Recently, I decided to return to the game, and I’m rolling/leveling a necromancer. For awhile, I wanted to be a powermancer (of what builds I saw.. Really hard to find a build guide post-patch, anymore), but looking at other necros in pvp and WvW, I’m not convinced I want to be a conditionmancer. Problem with that is my talents and gear so far have been for power, precision, and DS. My toon is only level 48, so it’s pretty much impossible for me at the moment, but I’ll slowly switch my gear and learn talents to go into ConD.
But anyways, my question is: Is there any really well-done Conditionmancer guides for newbies (Post-patch)? That tell you exactly what you need to watch for, and so forth? ConD looks confusing as hell, but I catch on quickly.
Also, seeing as how I’m technically new, I’m completely lost on this game. I get the basics of how I’m supposed to level and so forth, but the more advanced things I get lost on. I see terms like “kitten” and other acronyms that I have no idea what they mean. Is there a newbie guide out there for me?

Pretty much, I’m asking for any tips for a newbie to the game, and how to roll a Conditionmancer.

I don’t know if i can help you out, but i have a condition build guide post-patch for WvW. I don’t know if its meant to new players, that is a thing you’ll have see for yourself.

But for leveling, stick to power builds, they are way more effective for that.

Guide link: http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Necromancer_-_Signet_Roamer

I wouldn’t worry about your end-game build just yet. Leveling goes by pretty quickly, and personally, I think it’s annoying enough just remembering to keep up with getting new gear every few levels, so I don’t pay too much attention to the stats on my under-80 characters. It’s PvE, so pretty much anything can work (unless you want to do dungeons regularly), and you might as well play around with different traits/skills to see what you like. Metabattle has builds you can browse through, although it doesn’t always explain how to use them well. I’ve seen some pretty good tutorials on Youtube that go into detail about how a build/gear works, so I’m sure you can find something there. Both of them have pretty recent/updated builds as long as you pay attention to when it was posted or last updated.
I’ll add that a Minion Master build is incredibly fun and easy to play while leveling up, since your minions will frequently do the bulk of the work for you while you kite and let them take all the aggro, and you still get exp/loot from whatever unlucky thing they kill, even if you go afk while they do it. I used MM on my main until I got to 80 and, after deciding to run some dungeons for a while, realized how terrible my build was, then switched to a facetanking build and have been having loads of fun since.

Alternatively, you can ignore all that and go right into doing PvP if you’re interested, because there your PvE gear stats are meaningless and you can change them for free on a whim.

Finally, here’s some abbreviations: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Abbreviations
It doesn’t include all of the forum ones, but it’s a start. I’m still fairly new to the forums myself, but I’m pretty sure “kitten” is just a stand-in for an expletive of your choice.