http://guildwars2hub.com/features/editorials/80-things-do-level-80

80 Things to Do At Level 80

1. Complete your personal story
2. Defeat Zhaitan
3. Unlock all available skills for your profession / race
4. Raise your crafting disciplines to skill level 400
5. Earn enough gold to purchase a racial armor set
6. Earn enough karma to purchase an exotic armor set
7. Play through all dungeons in story mode
8. Complete all dungeons in explorable mode
9. Complete all 33 possible explorable mode dungeon paths
10. Earn enough dungeon tokens to purchase a set of armor
11. Collect a set of armor from each dungeon in the game
12. Start a petition to make the Undead Orrian Chicken a new necro minion
13. Earn enough karma to purchase a racial weapon
14. Craft an exotic weapon for your character
15. Craft an exotic armor set for your character
16. Purchase a Dragon’s Deep weapon
17. Earn all possible PvE titles
18. Experiment with new builds for your profession
19. Discover all possible recipes for your crafting disciplines
20. Master all crafting disciplines
21. Experiment with the Mystic Forge
22. Create a Mystic weapon in the Mystic Forge
23. Craft a legendary weapon in the Mystic Forge
24. Explore all areas in the game
25. Find and use a vial of black dye
26. Find a vial of black dye and give it to a friend
27. Create or purchase a full set of 20 slot bags
28. Give Logan a wedgie
29. Participate in the Norn Keg Brawl
30. Unlock all Keg Brawl achievements
31. Create a new character to experience a different profession / race
32. Participate in structured PvP
33. Raise your sPvP rank
34. Achieve the rank of Ascendant in sPvP
35. Complete your favorite sPvP cosmetic armor set
36. Collect new cosmetic weapon skins for sPvP
37. Unlock all possible cosmetic weapon and armor skins in sPvP
38. Earn all sPvP titles
39. Find and complete all 31 jumping puzzles
40. Complete the current Monthly achievements
41. Help your guild earn influence to unlock additional perks
42. Outrun a centaur
43. Charm all possible pets as a Ranger
44. Create an all-ranger guild called Team Rocket, lose constantly in sPvP
45. Collect all 101 types of cooking materials
46. Fill every collection slot in the bank with at least one item
47. Participate in World versus World
48. Help your world win in WvW
49. Defeat enough enemy players in WvW to complete the medal
50. Complete the awesome Yakslapper achievement in WvW
51. Complete all WvW achievements
52. Build and use all siege weapon types in WvW
53. Earn all possible WvW Titles
54. Play the organ in Caledon forest, and party with the Quaggan
55. Earn enough gold to purchase a Commander Tome
56. Visit the monument to Killeen and pay your respects
57. Defeat the Shatterer
58. Defeat the Claw of Jormag
59. Defeat Tequatl the Sunless
60. Add new friends to your friend’s list
61. Organize an in-game event for your guild
62. Complete every map in the game
63. Participate in meta events
64. Discover and participate in new dynamic events
65. Collect stacks of butter and butter prank your friends
66. Learn the ins and outs of the Trading Post
67. Get rich selling Globs of Ectoplasm
68. Buy a Box o’ Fun and throw a party in Lion’s Arch
69. Complete an armor set for your character’s Order
70. Read all of the books in Divinity's Reach
71. Read the story of how Ebonhawke was founded
72. Complete all possible weapon achievements for your character
73. Defeat the Champion of Grenth and purchase the exotic armor set
74. Write about your level 80 experience, have it published on GW2Hub
75. Purchase a set of armor from the guild armorsmith
76. Purchase a set of weapons from the guild weaponsmith
77. Complete all Slayer achievements
78. Complete the Lifetime Survivor achievement
79. Go skydiving in Arah after defeating Zhaitan
80. Have fun!

So according to the "experts" this is the list of different and fun things you are supposed to be able to do at lv 80.

I love how the 90% of it is :

-Grind for Gear

-Grind for achievements

-Grind for collect random crap

-Spam dungeons like crazy

But hey, it´s GW2, that automatically makes it  non-grind and fun apparently, even though any other game would be burned to death if they presented such a list as "endgame content"

I like the game, i have bought gems two times already to support it, and i will keep getting the expansions and whatever they throw at us because i enjoy the game, but it came to a moment where anything gw2 does is automatically holy and fun for no other reason that it´s gw2

And this is why i hate this game´s fanbois much more than i do hate the haters, despite the fact i do enjoy the game myself.

This is getting ridiculous.

[mod edit]

Is one of the options spending the rest of your natural life getting a Legendary Weapon from the Infinite Forge thing? I didn't read all of them.

You can make a similar list for every mmorpg ever released and 90% of it will be some form of grinding too.

I think this was done to combat the "nothing to do at 80" folks not the "omg GW2 has totally different end-game" folks.

I think this proves there is plenty to do at 80, and anyone who ever thought GW2 would be some holy grail of different end-game play was fooling themselves.

It's just the entire game is pretty much what's on this list and most themepark MMOs you have to be 80 first and then the game changes, GW2 the game 1-79 is pretty much the same as the game at 80.

That's the difference, and is still not "unique" as most sandbox games are this way too (no "different' end-game at the top.)

You reallize that you're playing it wrong, right?

don'tbanme, don'tbanme, don'tbanme

[mod edit]

Originally posted by lizardbones

Is one of the options spending the rest of your natural life getting a Legendary Weapon from the Infinite Forge thing? I didn't read all of them.

Yes, alongside "prank your friends"  and "Make guild events" and other similar things that are apparently game content.

Like in UO, you know what I was doing before I was 7X GM?

The same stuff I was doing after I was 7X GM.

It is "different" than most other themepark MMOs in that sense, but not unique to GW2 and actually quite common in the sandbox sub-genre.

Again I think this list was put together to combat the "nothing to do at 80" crowd, not put together to tout how "revolutionary and different GW2 end-game is" because it's really not - it's just different then a lot of themepark MMOs.

---

Originally posted by IfrianMMO

---

Originally posted by lizardbones Is one of the options spending the rest of your natural life getting a Legendary Weapon from the Infinite Forge thing? I didn't read all of them.

---

Yes, alongside "prank your friends"  and "Make guild events" and other similar things that are apparently game content.

---

Originally posted by WhiteLantern

You reallize that you're playing it wrong, right?

 

Dude, you're having fun the wrong way!

Don't ban me either.

Also, special 81 for GW1 playwers- Jump.

I can do this kind of list too.

PONG ENDGAME:

- Hit the "ball" with your upper edge

-Hit the "ball" with your lower edge

- Hit the ball with your mid-section

-Make the "ball" go upwards

-Make the "ball" go downwards

-Make the ball bounce 4 times between the two sticks

- Collect all the differently colored pong sticks

-Beat your father 3 matches in a row

-Beat your mother 3 matches in a row

-Beat all your friends

-Make a pong fanclub

-Obtain 30 members for your pong fanclub

And i could do this for hours, and it is still all true.

Originally posted by BadSpock

Like in UO, you know what I was doing before I was 7X GM?

The same stuff I was doing after I was 7X GM.

It is "different" than most other themepark MMOs in that sense, but not unique to GW2 and actually quite common in the sandbox sub-genre.

Again I think this list was put together to combat the "nothing to do at 80" crowd, not put together to tout how "revolutionary and different GW2 end-game is" because it's really not - it's just different then a lot of themepark MMOs.

Macroing before 7X GM

Not macroing after 7X GM

GW2= Nothing like UO in any sense of the meaning.

I love when people try to use this as a defense... when the same list can be made for virtually every MMO out there. 

Guildwars 2 lacks 'end game' in terms of content specific for reaching the end. Its up to you if it matters or not, and it doesn't mean its a bad game just becuase it doesn't have some components. That being said, the list itself is quite silly as it makes itself sound as if its a vast list of things to do, when the list can be created easily on many other different games, and even expanded upon likely more (which to be fair to GW2, is in part due to having been out a bit longer). 

Either way, such a list is really a poor way to justify things to do at 80. 

Originally posted by f0dell54

Originally posted by BadSpock

Like in UO, you know what I was doing before I was 7X GM?

The same stuff I was doing after I was 7X GM.

It is "different" than most other themepark MMOs in that sense, but not unique to GW2 and actually quite common in the sandbox sub-genre.

Again I think this list was put together to combat the "nothing to do at 80" crowd, not put together to tout how "revolutionary and different GW2 end-game is" because it's really not - it's just different then a lot of themepark MMOs.

Macroing before 7X GM

Not macroing after 7X GM

GW2= Nothing like UO in any sense of the meaning.

Some of us actually didn't macro in UO. Some of us actually played and enjoyed the game.

And post Trammel/Felucca split UO pre-LBR is more similar in design philosophy and "feel" to GW2 than GW2 is similar to any EQ/WoW/Post-Wow themepark.

But that's off topic.

The list is dumb - but I believe was just made to show the obvious logical flaws in the "there is nothing to do at 80" comments we keep seeing.

No, there is no raiding and gear treadmill, but there is plenty to do at 80.

Ya'll need to lighten up!

I don't know where you saw/heard that everything GW2 does is automatically holy and fun for no other reason that it´s gw2, but that's just plain false. It's not because it's GW2 but more because it's Anet and they know how to make good games. The game is fun and challenging, sure there's still some kind of grind, but at least it's not as bad as other MMO's where you need to grind for everything and the grind will usually take a lot longer in other games too.

Welcome to the world of MMO's where every single MMO will always have some form of "grind" so that people don't loose interest too soon.

Originally posted by BadSpock

You can make a similar list for every mmorpg ever released and 90% of it will be some form of grinding too.

I think this was done to combat the "nothing to do at 80" folks not the "omg GW2 has totally different end-game" folks.

I think this proves there is plenty to do at 80, and anyone who ever thought GW2 would be some holy grail of different end-game play was fooling themselves.

It's just the entire game is pretty much what's on this list and most themepark MMOs you have to be 80 first and then the game changes, GW2 the game 1-79 is pretty much the same as the game at 80.

That's the difference, and is still not "unique" as most sandbox games are this way too (no "different' end-game at the top.)

 

Maybe I'm saying the same thing but I think the difference for me is not in what you have to do but how it isn't all  linked together. Maybe linked isn't quite right for most MMOs I feel I"m funneled to one piece of content. For me I don't have to grind the best PvE gear to PvP I can just PvP. I can access all the dungeons one is not linked to the other. There are more. So, when I log in my options are open. As a casual player that is infinitely more accessable then most MMOs. There certainly is grind but I can choose my grind and I'm not penalized for not choosing the "right" grind. 

[mod edit]