Guild Wars 2

So I started a new revenant with HOT that I have just purchased, and I cannot seem to find any gathering resources anywhere at all where previously, there was alot of them.

Is there something new that might cause this ? as in minimum lvl req for gathering ?

yeah it kinda sucks…having a story quest every 2 lvls or so had a great flow to it and kept things interesting, now it feels like a grind…
so every 10 lvls I get like, 5 story missions since they are not every 2 or 3 lvls anymore ?

So after the new content update, I was psyched to go use my flamethrower wielding lvl 51 engi and continue my story quest. My story quest required lvl 48 and i’m 51 ( I got a bit lazy ) but now…I can’t see where I am in the story progress. I remember I had to go back to talk to the Durman priory, but the objective disapeared, and there’s nothing on this next part in my journal, and I need to be lvl 60 for my next part… did I miss something or now I will never know what happened in this part of the story ?