Guild Wars 2

So I’m curious about the present and future changes in Orr.
I haven’t gotten a chance to spend much time in Orr since the Flame/Frost update because I’ve been too busy frantically hopping around Wayfarer/Diessa anddd I’ve wasted enough silver on waypoints.

1) I know about the Lost Orrian Jewelry Boxes. Lol all I ever get are obsidian shards and unidentifiable objects. Any idea what the object is about? Do you guys just sell it? Or do you think it will become something of value?

2) Somewhere on these forums, a dev confirmed that there are two new waypoints in Orr. I can’t seem to find that thread again. Anyone have been there? Want to share where they are/ are they worth visiting/ anything of interest there?

3) Visual changes in Orr? I had guildmates comment that Orr, the sky in particularly, looks less “greasy”. Foh real? Anyone have observations on that? I’ve always really wanted to see some kind of indication of the cleansing of Orr.

Not sure how that would work. It’s just that Trahearne nonstops gushes about how awesome Orr was in its heyday, and it’d suck if Orr stays puke yellow for the rest of eternity. It’s too bad that alot of the most awesome/rewarding event chains in the game take place somewhere so nauseatingly ugly and plain.

Any other changes in Orr?

1. Uni objects are just vendor trash, sell it
2. there is a new WP in CS in south-eastern corner. If you had 100% map of this zone it should be visible on your map
3. No idea about the sky but some mobs had their sizes adjusted (like abdominations are really big now)

Other changes:
we had great drop rate of mats and bags in Orr (for a few hours) but ANet decided it was too good and nerfed it hard to the same poor level as it was before patch so expect to see loads of Porous Bones

Bartas.4908:

1. Uni objects are just vendor trash, sell it
2. there is a new WP in CS in south-eastern corner. If you had 100% map of this zone it should be visible on your map
3. No idea about the sky but some mobs had their sizes adjusted (like abdominations are really big now)

Other changes:
we had great drop rate of mats and bags in Orr (for a few hours) but ANet decided it was too good and nerfed it hard to the same poor level as it was before patch so expect to see loads of Porous Bones

Moldy bags didn’t change at all. It’s the t6 drop rate that fell. T5 went up.

I opened around 100 jewelry boxes – as well as vendor-junk items (which added up give a fairly decent way of getting gold from excess karma), there’s lodestones (depending on what you get, worth a lot more), a mini-pet (pretty much worthless and ugly), obsi-shards (great if you’re after legendary, mostly worthless otherwise) and transformation tonics (depending on personal preference – I find them useless).
So it’s mixed, but yes, there are good things available.