Guild Wars 2

First question: Why?

Second: Why do so few of the events in these zones work? Most of the NPCs are either stuck or no enemy NPCs are spawning.

I’ve been forced to go back to previous zones and do events there in order to gain XP. My personal story missions are two levels above my current level of 76. It doesn’t help that these “Orr” zones are virtually devoid of players too.

I believe the ‘no hearts’ thing is intentional. Those two zones run mainly on dynamic events, but especially considering we’re dealing with experience rewards and all that, they should really focus more on karma rewards than anything. That’s just me though.

Events give more experience from what I’ve seen. Stick to those, and you’ll be 80 in no time.

there were originally no heart tasks at all in closed beta aparantly, they were added in to give direction in the early game, but get phased out later so its all dynamic content.

There are no hearts because that is the way they were intended to be. Orr is supposed to be being invaded and the whole zone is supposed to a battlefield. Hearts would be static and Orr would lose the feeling of being invaded. As far the bugs it is clear that Arenanet has done little testing of the higher level zones and Orr would not be high up on their list of pirioties.

I guess it should be mentioned that the zones are not necessarily the last two, there is a 70-80 zone up north that has hearts, so from pure leveling standpoint it is not needed for one to ever go into a zone without hearts.

If you only go through the zones your story takes you to you won’t see all of it, you will probably have at least 2-3 zones you have not visited (may vary based on story choices but for me, I never went to the northern higher level areas as part of mine for example).