Guild Wars 2 is all about building your character, unlocking the abilities you want, and creating the character you want to play as. To level your character up, you will have to use Hero Points
" HP meta" in places like Crystal desert / auric basin / verdant brink / dragon strand " are fast and easy ways to get quick hero points if you're short at level 80. As long as you have a Raptor and Springer it will help you keep up with the pace of the event. In some cases if you don't mesmers will offer teleports for those who need it.
It is before level 80(More specifically before level 45) is when choosing which utility skills and traits becomes important. Also, anyone who's worrying about min-maxing on their first character at level 11, is playing the wrong game. At level 1-45 is the best time to min-max. After that, OP can choose liberally on how he spend his hero points.
A lvl 80 boost gives you i believe Celestial gear which is kind of an all arounder and even meta on some professions, so you can continue with open world content as you like. And if your trait combination doesn't work, make another, you can "respec" any time out of combat, just swap traits in the hero panel.
80 Chak Hollow: None Exalted Overlook: 80 Tarir, the Forgotten City Glider Basics: Champion Tarnished Sage: 80 Tarir, the Forgotten City: None Mordrem Flower: 80 Eastwatch Bluff Bouncing Mushrooms: Notice to Trespassers: 80 Eastwatch Bluff: None Suspicious Orichalcum: 80 Arrowhead Vale: None Toxin-Cured Hog: 80 Westwatch Patch: None Young
Most hero points can be obtained without additional requirements, but several are locked behind specific masteries, which you can't get without completing the first story mission of the corresponding expansion. That said, you should easily be able to accrue enough points to unlock one or even two elite specs. Metallis.
By the time you hit level 80. You will have enough hero points to unlock everything available. So for now just put points into things that seem interesting/fun to you. You'll get it all once you hit 80. I should mention you wont have enough hero points to unlock your elite spec right when you hit 80 if you have heart of thorns.
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gw2 hero points after 80