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Orr karma vendors also sell armor and trinkets with Power/Toughness/Vitality stats.

As for the dungeon, to enter you have to have completed the story mode OR have someone in your party who has completed it and have that player enter the dungeon first.

Got started when a good friend on mine bought GW1: Prophecies and invited me to join and buy the game. So I did.
I played Prophecies for a fairly long time and enjoyed it thoroughly. But then, after leveling a few characters to 20 I got bored of it and switched to other MMOs. I probably wouldn't have gotten tired if I had the other two games but at that time I didn't feel like buying Factions and Nightfall.
While being on my "break" from GW1 I heard about GW2 and instantly became hooked on the idea of someday playing the game. Unfortunately it wasn't until a few years had passed would I get the opportunity to do so.
Six months before the release of GW2 I finally bought Factions, Nightfall and Eye of the North in hopes of getting those 30 Hall of Monuments points for the fancy item skins. So when the GW2 was released I had managed to get 22 points. At that point I pretty much switched to playing GW2. But hope remains that perhaps at some point I'll get my 30/50 (or maybe even 50/50) HoM score

But that's pretty much how I got started with Guild Wars. I've had a few breaks from GW2 but overall I enjoy the game

Finally got a good look for my warrior So it's time to show off.

Presenting Lieutenant Ripley

I'd go with :
Asura - Thief
Human - Mesmer
Charr - Warrior

I myself have both an asuran thief and a human mesmer and I think their animation and armors look real good. As for the charr warrior, I don't really like any armors on charr. But I think heavy armors look the best on them. Their animations are fierce and so would fit a warrior very well. Besides a Blood Legion charr warrior would be pretty awesome . Though a human thief and an asuran mesmer would look great as well I think.

Yes, you can transfer the skin off of any armor to another piece of armor using transmutation stones.

To transfer a skin to a lvl80 armor you need Fine Transmutation Stones.

And if you don't want to spend the full amount on a T2 armor set you could skip some parts. Like if you're not displaying helmets there's probably no point in you buying a T2 helm. Or skip boots or gloves or any other part which doesn't seem important to you.