Guild Wars 2

Maybe Anet was just going off historical weapon use. If you were in any of the ancient or medieval armies you wielded your shield in your left hand and your weapon in your right hand. If you were a samurai you wielded your katana in your right hand. Now there were historical accounts of warriors using weapons in there left hand, but this was very, very rare.

All of this reminds me of the tournament prediction rewards in the original Guild Wars. They had major problems getting the correct rewards to players back then and ended shutting down the rewards entirely. Hope they had learned from that time, but we will see.

When you have Quip equipped on a mesmer you do have an aura, you do have footsteps, the iDuelist do not change and the Magic Bullet skill does trigger the Quip’s animations and sound. Munkee is on the Yak’s Bend server and can be found between the Mystic Forge and the bank when he is in Lion’s Arch if you want to see it.

In response to the original poster, Anet uses alpha testers and their own employees to conduct tests. These tests include stress testing the servers, testing particular areas and dungeons and open world bug discovery.
During the alpha testing from April of last year to the release of the game Anet had about a thousand alpha testers. They maintained a separate forum for its testers which is similar to this forum and also a vent server. They expected the alpha testers to report any bugs or exploits and to give them feedback on anything. The main difference being an alpha tester is that you would have direct contact with Anet employees as you could talk to them on their vent server or group up with them in game.
During the main alpha testing period, Anet had two different servers for testing purposes. The main server was the beta servers which were accessible to the alpha testers 24/7 due to their login information, although it sent you to a different set of home worlds that the people who played beta could not access. The other server was a dungeon/area specific server. You entered a lobby when using this server which had equipment and leveling merchants similar to the heart of the mists. You then accessed a particular dungeon or area using one of the many asura gates that were in this lobby. The most important thing was to check out their testing schedule which is listed on the testing forums. Every day they had particular dungeons, areas and events that they wanted tested with feedback. Also every month there are a few hundred builds to this game and the monthly update you see is just one of the latest builds.
The current alpha testers mainly test new content and there are not as many of them as there was before the game’s release. If you want to become a tester, I would suggest looking out for the posts Anet puts out regarding the Testing Krewe. Also make friends with the Anet team as you can be sent personal invites to the testing.
I hope this gives you a general idea of the testing that Anet does with the help of their testers. Please realize that the testers and Anet’s employees is still well below one percent of the Guild Wars 2 population and that 2-3 of the large guilds on any server has more numbers than the testers.