Guild Wars 2

Hello, I’m a fairly new player, been playing about a month. I have 5 characters all under level 30 because I’m just enjoying the differences in races, starter zones, personal storylines etc.

What I’ve noticed throughout each zone I’ve been to so far (probably 8 zones) is that there are portions of the map that are seemingly unused. There might be a swamp or some cool looking canyon that has no Heart quest, POI, viewpoint, or anything to do in it. I usually go explore the area anyways just to see it, but I run through it and that’s it, nothing to actually do there and no reason to stay.

I am wondering if these areas of zones are there for somebody’s personal storyline or what, but I sort of wish there was at least a point of interest in this unique piece of the map to check off. It seems like a lot of work has gone into the fantastic level design, and I love everything about the zones I’ve been through, so I kind of feel bad for the level designer who made a swamp that most people probably skip over because there is nothing directing players through it. Anybody else feel similar?

You probably haven’t been in that area when a dynamic event was going.

Some of them have fairly long cycles and can take hours to play out. Find the dynamic events, follow the chains – many culminate in epic Meta events and world bosses.

Go into them …

You never know what stuff you will find. This game has a truck-load of hidden stuff. All of it is cool content.

Explore, explore, explore.

Each map is incredibly detailed and has little to no “CTRL-V”. If you put a POI on every single town, village or unique structure, can you imagine how cluttered the map would be?

So basically, these parts of the zone ARE being used for something, it’s just likely between events? That is pretty much what I assumed, that or personal storyline missions, but I couldn’t imagine they’d include so much map for one specific character path, then do that for each path, makes no sense.

Is there ever anything going on in these areas besides events? Ever a hidden chest or some loot at the top of a tower you can jump up? I don’t mind exploring but doing unnecessary platforming isn’t really great for me so I don’t go out of my way to platform to the top of places just to see the view.