Straights of devastation!!
welcome to the country of zhaitan!
Once guesting is in, populations will congregate on certain worlds and make those zones easier to traverse again, solving both of your problems.
I quite like Orr tbh..it reminds me of what the Eastern Plaguelands used to be like in Vanilla WoW before they nerfed the game into the ground.
Its just endlessly frustrating that there never seems to be any players around in such an epic zone though. I wish they would incentivise it somehow..would be nice to take back some of those perma-contested waypoints lol.
Im relatively new to GW2 so i dont know if Orr once had a golden age a couple of months back and if they somehow ruined it. Ive heard its something to do with fractals but im still exploring all that so i dont actually know.
Either way,its certainly disappointing that the end-game zone is so empty whereas starter areas like Queensdale or Wayfarer Foothills always seem to be jammed.