Also, if you have friends on a specific server and can’t join them, you can get a free world transfer (infinite times) by deleting all your characters. You’ll still have things in your bank and will be able to access it from any world, so store anything that’s account bound in your bank before deleting.
Otherwise, just join any World (unless you care about WvW in which case research the rankings).
Since new accounts come with a Heroic Edition bonus, I will explain how that works, briefly.
You’ll get a box (I think) which will contain an armorset of your choice. Note that this armorset is purely aesthetic and the choices are locked by armor type (if you pick the Heavy version, you must wear Heavy armor to apply it). I highly suggest picking the one you think looks the best, as opposed to the one which you can use, as you can always make more characters.
If you like them all, you can purchase each of these skins for an additional $10 or ~136g (at current market value, which I don’t expect you to get anytime soon).
Keep in mind that these will unlock in your Wardrobe which means that, as long as you have Transmutation Charges, you can apply them to gear. These Charges can be obtained through PvP, Map Completion, opening Black Lion Chests (think Gacha Boxes), or the Gem Store (roughly 40c (CENTS, not copper) per Charge).
If you want skins that any character can use without using Transmutation Charges, Outfits are great because they can be applied to any character as many times as you want without any additional fee. They can’t mix and match, like armor, though.
Oh right, a few more things (guess this isn’t as short as I expected):
If you ever want to see what skills you can have/use, go to PvP. Note, this will not place you in PvP, but will put you in the Lobby Map where you have access to every skill and trait, bar a few (5 traits and 2 skills + Racial skills). You can then play around with everything.
You will need the weapons for your profession to be able to see what they can do, but there is a merchant that can sell them to you for relatively cheap.
Pick your Race and Profession (class) based on what interests you, not what’s good, overpowered, or needed. You might have a bit of trouble because Arenanet tends to do a good job making everything interesting. Note: Leveling up became a lot harder after April 15th because you no longer start gaining access to traits at level 10 (think Talent trees).
For your Character Creation choices (after you have finished customizing your character) the choices do not affect a lot. Other than your initial gear (or pet, for Rangers), the choices only affect the first part of the Personal Storyline. This means that after level 30 (maybe earlier, I forgot), your story will no longer revolve around those choices.
If you want to, feel free to add me ingame. I most likely won’t be on for another 6 hours or so, but I can respond faster and answer any questions you have.
I think there’s more I wanted to say but I’m about to go eat lunch.
If you’re trying to add me, you can do one of the following:
Press Y or type /invite followed by my name.
For my name type in “Esplen” or “Esplen.3940” both will add me.
