guild-wars-2 – Locations and Level Requirements for All Dungeons in Guild Wars 2

For skill specific details this is fully covered at the Guild Wars 2 Wiki on the page Racial Skills. The summary from there says:

[Racial Skills] can be equipped on the five last slots of the skill bar, depending on their type. They may have various effects, such as condition removing or changing to a bear form, but they are all projected to be fairly weaker than their counterparts from professions that are specialized in similar skills. Each race has 6 skills. Racial skills will be available from the beginning of the PvE campaign

Skills in this portion of the bar are earned in a similar fashion as skills on the left. Experience and quest completion will unlock them. The first skill is usually granted soon after starting the game and is the top skill in each race from the list below.

As of pre-launch, these are the skills. Click on each race for full details on the skill and how it can be used:

Asura

Utility

• Pain Inverter
• Radiation Field
• Technobabble

Elite

• Summon 7-Series Golem
• Summon D-Series Golem
• Summon Power Suit

Sylvari

Healing

• Healing Seed

Utility

• Grasping Vines
• Seed Turret

Elite

• Summon Druid Spirit
• Summon Fern Mastiff
• Take Root

Norn

Utility

• Call Owl
• Call Wurm

Elite

• Become the Bear (Has Auxilary Sidebar)
• Become the Raven (Has Auxilary Sidebar)
• Become the Snow Leopard (Has Auxilary Sidebar)
• Become the Wolf (Has Auxilary Sidebar)

Charr

Utility

• Battle Roar
• Hidden Pistol
• Shrapnel Mine

Elite

• Artillery Barrage
• Charrzooka (Has Auxilary Sidebar)
• Warband Support

Human

Healing

• Prayer to Dwayna

Utility

• Prayer to Kormir
• Prayer to Lyssa

Elite

• Avatar of Melandru (Has Auxilary Sidebar)
• Hounds of Balthazar
• Reaper of Grenth

Take a look at the Wiki on the page Mystic Forge. It will tell you where the forge is, how it is used, and some predictable recipes. The forge lets you do two things. First you can create recipes to craft other items like consumables, weapons, or armor. Second, the forge can be used to create better crafting materials of one type higher.

The examples the wiki gives are as follows:

Common Crafting Material Promotion

Common crafting materials can be promoted to a small pile of higher tier materials with the following formula. The tier of dust needed is equivalent to the tier of the wanted product. So, if you are hoping to create Orichalcum, a tier 6 common material, you need to use Crystalline Dust, a tier 6 dust. If common crafting material B is one tier higher than common crafting material A, then:

10-50 Crafting Material B = 250 Common Crafting Material A (i.e. 250 Mithril Ores) + 1 Common Crafting Material B (i.e. 1 Orichalcum Ores) + 2-5 Dust A (i.e. 5 Pile of Crystalline Dust) + 5 Philosopher's stone

In that example: That recipe will produce 10-50 Orichalcum Ores

Armor boxes and armor satchels

Recipes can be created using the Mystic Forge. They will allow you to craft armor boxes and armor satchels, which will in turn give you every piece of an armor set.

Armor set recipe

Ingredients

5 Bottle of Elonian Wine

20 Arcane Crystal

50 Mystic Coin

1 Armor item

Mystic coins seem to be a common item needed for Food Trays, Weapons and Armor. Also look at this page for current recipe research.

You can see this in action with this video on how to make a Giant Chocolate Cake. Details are in the video summary.