History Headscratchers / GuildWars2

** The lowest-level zones also have consistent populations due to being easy places to get daily achievements. This has especially been the case since they updated the champion foe loot tables and inspired a huge wave of ZergRush farming. AbridgedArenaArray is in play here; either the absolute highest or lowest level zones will have the most activity. Everything in between is going to be a ghost town, even on the most populated servers.

** I blame the Holy Trinity. So popular in the MMO genre that people from these MMOs who gets GW2 expects it to use the Holy Trinity system unless they looked it up beforehand. While it's possible to admittedly heal and tank in-game, trying to do it 100% of the time will just get you killed (Just try to tank any bosses in the dungeons). Unfortunately though, there's people who wants ''Guardians'' to only heal and nothing else.

** There's some concentration of players in the WvW areas, or in Lion's Arch, but most folk tend to spend more time in higher-level zones like Frostgorge or the Orr zones -- you can level through the lower zones very fast, and the higher level zones tend to have better rewards.

* So anyways, I'm playing on a high population server and have a character in the 20s. I try to tackle some of these region-wide events and am disappointed to find like three or four people ''tops'' going after them. I try to do some of the local quests and find myself pretty much on my own for those. I walk into cities that're practically ghost towns. Where the hell ''is'' everyone? Am I just playing during off hours, or are they all clustered around the starting areas like ''CityOfHeroes''.

* Separatist Snipers deals more damage to moving targets. Why? Shouldn't it be still targets?

** Personally, I find the issue is not with the holy trinity, but with the lore of it. I see it as this: As Assassins became popular in Tyria, monks became in much worse shape, they were high priority targets and could be killed almost instantly. So they learned to fight in suits of heavy armour. The end result is the Guardian. They are your monk and they are badass. So remember, if you see anyone complain about the game lacking monks, let them know, the Guardians are the monks and they are badass.

** I blame the Holy Trinity. So popular in the MMO genre that people from these MMOs who gets GW2 expects it to use the Holy Trinity system unless they looked it up beforehand. While it's possible to admittedly heal and tank in-game, trying to do it 100% of the time will just get you killed (Just try to tank any bosses in the dungeons). Unfortunately though, there's people who wants ''Guardians'' to only heal and nothing else.

* Am I the only one who finds it weird that I can never go a day in Mapchat without hearing people saying "They should add a monk". Isn't one of the point of Guild Wars 2 being that there ''aren't'' any healers?! Especially since every other MMORPG with dedicated healing and support classes have problems with people constantly choosing DPS or Tank classes because guess what? Healing is boring.

** If you listen to the discussion, they actually mention that it's a RUINED fort. So most likely the foundation and much of the structure was already there, it's more the addition of Asura and Charr tech, and their own other additions to turn it once again functional.

* While walking through Fort Trinity, I suddenly realized something. How in the world did the Pact manage to build such an impressive structure ''in front of a Risen infested Orr?'' The builders wouldn't have the time or patience to build Fort Trinity when there's hordes of undeads right nearby, ready to kill them at any second. Maybe if Fort Trinity was actually built beforehand as pieces and then put together like a puzzle at Orr it would be more understandable, but nobody in the game indicates such a possibility.

* While walking through Fort Trinity, I suddenly realized something. How in the world did the Pact manage to build such an impressive structure ''in front of a Risen infested Orr?'' The builders wouldn't have the time or patience to build Fort Trinity when there's hordes of undeads right nearbym, ready to kill them at any second. Maybe if Fort Trinity was actually built beforehand as pieces and then put together like a puzzle at Orr it would be more understandable, but nobody in the game indicates such a possibility.

* While walking through Fort Trinity, I just realized something. How in the world did the Pact manage to build such an impressive structure ''in front of a Risen infested Orr?'' The builders wouldn't have the time or patience to build Fort Trinity when there's hordes of undeads right nearbym, ready to kill them at any second. Maybe if Fort Trinity was actually built beforehand as pieces and then put together like a puzzle at Orr it would be more understandable, but nobody in the game indicates such a possibility.

* Why can't human rangers start out with a Krytan Drakehound?

***** He's a giant feline SteveBlum. Are you going to argue with a giant feline Steve Blum? No? He gets a damned offhand pistol.

**** So he does. Why does he get to wield a pistol and my warrior doesn't?

*** He definitely does wield a pistol in his off-hand.

** I could have sworn that I saw him fighting with a pistol in the Ascalonian Catacombs.

** Basically, the minor races you can recruit are the ones that are not universally hostile, have some sort of unique trump to bring to the table, and have decent sized societies.

* Is there any particular reason why Rytlock chooses to handicap himself by fighting with only a single, onehanded sword? A very badass sword, I'll grant you, but would it kill them to give the man a shield or a warhorn?

** Basically, the minor races you can recruit are the ones that are not universally hostile, have some sort of unique trump to bring to the table, and have decent sized societies.

* I haven't gotten to the racial sympathy portion of the storyline yet, but I'm curious as to whether or not they give a reason why races such as Kodan, Centaur, and Jotun aren't available to rally?