How to find my way around the world?
Well, pushing M opens your world map, which you can scroll around and then click on any waypoint to travel there.
Lion’s Arch, the central (and mostly destroyed) city, is around the middle of the map. You can get there via Asura Gate from any of the racial capitals, or by entering PvP or WvW and then immediately exiting via the Lion’s Arch Asura Gate right next to you once you arrive.
Lions arch has gates to every starter city. To get there go to your home city (it will cost a couple of copper to waypoint there and you can see it on your map when you expand it.
While in lions arch there are portals to WvW and sPvP if you cannot access them from the top of your screen.
Once you have the sPvP lobby open you can use this to travel from anywhere in the world for free to Lions Arch.
Lions arch has gates to every starter city. To get there go to your home city (it will cost a couple of copper to waypoint there and you can see it on your map when you expand it.
While in lions arch there are portals to WvW and sPvP if you cannot access them from the top of your screen.
Once you have the sPvP lobby open you can use this to travel from anywhere in the world for free to Lions Arch.
To elaborate a bit, if you go to Lion’s Arch (LA) then head to the south where a bunch of portals are, you will find WvW and a PvP portal. Going through once will unlock them for you and you can use them as a fast travel to LA from wherever you are.
The PvP area has a tutorial area the first time you go there. You can ignore that and head north, go up some stairs to a portal that takes you to the regular PvP area and the LA portal in there.
Down to a little more nitty-gritty…this site will help you find those missing POIs, vistas, etc to completely map out a zone