Guild Wars 2

I read Destiny’s Edge before headstart so that when I started playing the game I would be a bit more immersed in the GW2 universe.
Currently I’m leveling a Human Elementalist (my main) and a Asura Guardian (my Jute gatherer). The personal storyline for my main started out slow and at times seemed impossible to finish.
Trying to do the personal story I’ve 100% explored 4 zones so far. During my time exploring I’ve hardly come across reference to the war with the Dragons. I’ve fought centuars, weird mer-creatures, the bloody barracudas, bears, ettins, etc. Basically the entire world of Tyria has been trying to kill me.
The only dragon spawn I’ve fought were the Risen. Seems that everybody is fighting everybody else while the Dragons and their minions are a distant thunder cloud. Seen and heard but not felt.
There are references to Dragons in the personal story once you get past the Circus quest.
Shouldn’t there be more of a tie in with the overall story? Shouldn’t there be more influence by the dragons? Shouldn’t we be friends with the centuars to fight the dragons instead of fighting each other?

“One doesn’t simply wake up and face a dragon.”

That’s probably a misquote from the Sylvari starting portion, but it pretty much explains the game as a whole. Yes, the dragons are important to the story, but at the point the your character starts at is in the middle of a period of disunity between the races, due to the mishap of Destiny’s Edge. As you play through your story, your choices are what start to pull them together and bring their attention to the dragons.

I fought a big nasty dragon! He was in a higher level zone and was shown to the whole world when the game play was first shown.

There definitely be dragons in this here game matey!