Create a character and join the PvP lobby. youll have access to all skills and a couple of golems to test things. Create your character, complete the tutorial and then go in the PvP lobby (the incon with 2 sword on the top left corner), you'll be max level and will be able to test all your skills and weapons on Golems (they act as dummies) or
That isn't to say rushing to max level, which is 80, is advised in Guild Wars 2. Unless that's your idea of fun or you're on your second character, rushing to 80 makes you miss some of what the 1% of the character level Per Crafting Level (126-250) 2% of the character level Per Crafting Level (251-375) 3% of the character level Per Crafting Level (376-500) 4% of the character level Miscellaneous Reviving a Player or NPC: 0.25% of the area level Writ of Experience: 5% of the character level Writ of Tyrian Mastery: 10% of the character The boosters only help selling the expansions, but not binding the players in the long term. On the one side is ANet selling them with the expansions and more in the gemshop, on the other hand is the player-base (regular players, guides, content-creators) who highly recommend to ignore the boosters for the known reasons. At max-level, there are two tiers of end-game gear: first are exotics, which you should be able to mostly buy a set of by the time you hit 80, that's what most lvl 80 content is balanced around; then there's ascended/legendary gear which has ~5-10% higher stats than exotic and requires significant amounts of material from all tiers, it's Gw2crafts.net is perfect for finding the best way to level a craft in Guild Wars 2, from Leatherworking to Artificing. It uses a script that analyzes trade market prices to find the fastest and cheapest way to level a craft. As such it’s constantly updating to reflect the current state of the game.