Originally Posted by
Mad hat man
Guild Wars 2 got no quests.
There are no NPCs with exclamation (!) marks over them, you will basically walk around in the world, and these dynamic events appears. Dynamic events overwrite the whole quest system, so dynamic events will be your way of leveling in PvE content.
There are a lot of dynamic events, for example, you walk along the road, and you will see bandits attack this farmers field, destroying the melons or whatever he is grows. The farmer, or any other NPC, will shout at you, with real recorded voice acting that ''We need your help! The bandits are destroying my field! Please, help me!'' and the NPC will point at which direction the farm is at, so these ''quest givers'' will run up to you and seek your help.
Another kind of event is that centaur attack that's famous to explain. Basically, you will see a army of centaurs marching in the direction of a village, when they reach the village they will start to plunder, killing, setting it aflame and whatnot, NPCs will of course run up to you and scream for help. If you succeed in defending the town, the dynamic event will branch out, as in, small other dynamic events will appear around the map. For instance, a caravan will be escorted from the main city, to the village, in this caravan there's weapons, tools to build catapults and such things, if you succeed in escort the caravan, the village will be stronger, and there's so much more dynamic events going on because of that 1 big event started.
If you now fail to defend the village in the first place, the centaurs will hold it, for 10 minutes, 1 day, 3 months, until the players do something about it, and they will also start taking other villages nearby, and such.