136678-level-50-now-what

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			As the title says. I am a new level 50 spellslinger. Im not sure what I should be doing next or what to work on. What gear should I be reaching for? What dungeons  are available for me as a fresh 50?  do I just start running dungeons? What dungeons should I do first? What are elder gems for?? dailies? Its just so much stuff that hits you all at once at level 50 and I don't know where to start. I don't even know if there is a beginner set of level 50 gear, Im still in my leveling gear. I need some type of structure, a means o progression. Can someone please help me? What are the first things I should be doing as a new level 50? I really would prefer to work on my first level 50 gear set first.
			
				
	Edited October 4, 2015 by Uranus Uncensored	
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			Elder gems are used to buy a lot of things. Most notably they are one of the  various means of buying ability tier upgrades, and amps. Maxing out your amps and ability tier upgrades should be your second priority, after buying a genesis key (which will allow you to get attuned for raids). Running veteran dungeons, doing dailies in Crimson Badlands, Northern Wastes, and Star-comm Basin (all of which you can get to from Ilium), etc. all give you elder gems, money, and rep. You can also get amps/ability tier upgrades from doing bgs. Doing the elder gem weeklies, and shiphand dailies, etc. also help.
			
				
	Edited October 4, 2015 by Mental Surge	
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Same here, but after looking around for a couple days this is what I've gleamed:
1. A lot of content like dungeons is too harsh on you atm. Even adventures are pretty hard if you pug. I got one group that we were all new + inexperienced, no one dd what they were supposed to, and we disbanded after like 5 minutes from just being lost. I then got into another group with a 3 people who were raid guildies who carried. So don't rush into anything you're unfamiliar with, it will prob turn out badly unless you get lucky.
2. Contracts Contracts Contracts. If you join a guild or find friends you can hopefully find a group to do the 450 pts one. They eventually give epic armor which can get you geared, and at the very least they give glory points which can get you some ilvl 78 blues from the vet dungeon gear vendor. If you need gear to replace your questing gear to be able to do contracts, simply buy it with renown fromt he adventures vendor (but your quest gear should be fine for most of the contracts).
3. Reputation is a drag, but an important drag if you want cool crap. The epics at beloved rank don't really seem to justify the grind. Case in point blighthaven gives ilvl 70 gloves when I just got ilvl 80 gloves from t3 contract rewards. But I did want the strain costume, and eventually do want the strain dye. So I'm grinding blighthaven rep in my spare time.
4. At level 50 you don't have all your power (in fact you barely have any of it). You can still get amp and ability points from vendors. Like you get one of each for getting to max level of your path, each rep vendor at lvl 50 sells one, etc.Also if you were like me and thought of runecrafting as kind of like WoW enchanting, never seeing the need to add runes to your gear as you grinded since it'll just be replaced in two levels... well... now a lot of power comes from runes. So get ready for learning that system.	
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Elder gems are used to buy a lot of things. Most notably they are one of the  various means of buying ability tier upgrades, and amps. Maxing out your amps and ability tier upgrades should be your second priority, after buying a genesis key (which will allow you to get attuned for raids).
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Did we go back in time? :P
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I'd focus on the following:
Contracts, use these as a vehicle to do your other activities, the rewards are significant (gear + rune materials)
You can try queueing for Adventures before dungeons, as they are easier, but most people just queue dungeons because the rewards are better
Ability Points. You need 7 of these. You get 4 for "free", so do:
Guardians of the Grove rep (beloved)	Defile rep (beloved)	Complete all adventures on Gold (you will likely need to build these groups manually)	Path level 30
Earn Elder Gems (for the remaining Ability Points, and then AMPS. The max EGs is:140 from questing, dungeons etc.	40 from the weekly Elder gem Quest	10 from the OmniCore-1 solo dungeon (about 30-45 minutes)
Grind your 10 AMP points, "free" ones from rep (Crimson, NW, Star Com, Malgrave), Path level 15 and all Shiphands on Gold
Get a profession and make some gear, I believe the crafted stuff is pretty good
You maybe also ought to get yourself a guild as they will help significantly with all of this stuff. If you are in the EU, PM me and we can have a chat ;-)
			
				
	Edited October 4, 2015 by Rakaposhi	
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