Guild Wars 2

I started out playing a LOT of human alts. Within a couple weeks it was to the point where I knew what events were going to take place where and would hang around each heart area until I did them all. I’m a completionist, I guess. Doing this, as you can imagine, slooooooows things down but I like it. It doesn’t slow things down TOO much; I can usually see all the events for each area in what seems like 20-30 minutes. I say seems because I haven’t timed it, and it’s possible it’s just that my perception is skewed.

When I finally started a representative of the Superior Race last night, I very quickly ran into my first… hm, inconsistency? I had wiki’d the events in the starting area and knew that in Soren Daa there were 2 I wanted to see. I hung around. And hung around. And hung around some more, and then read Green Arrow Year One, and then played with emotes and lo! I got to compete with a couple of bookahs to subdue the golem rebellion for Grumm. I never saw the thieves.

So this leads to the question, as a total noob: Are the dynamic events triggered by population density and not scheduled like I thought, or do the first couple of events in the Asura starting area have a particularly long time between them? Or am I crazy even for an Asura?

If anyone else is curious:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/events/Events-bugged-or-removed-from-game/first#content

Sometimes there is a npc that requires you to activate the event chain; if you did not espy that npc and talk to them, you would never actually see the event until someone else does for you.