By some reason my character and, well, everything, does not produce any shadows a lot of places in the world (new and old). Trying to do a lot of the jump puzzles to get the skyscale mount, but without any shadows in most of them it's not that much fun when missing a platform...
It seems the shadows from stuff (like myself) disappears if there's is a little shadow from something else like where I am now "Goemms lab" in Metrica Province. Any bush that gives a little shadow just makes my shadow "blend" with it I guess, its by no means shadowy here it's quite light. So if the area I'm in is not perfect sunny sands of the desert my shadow just poof.
Have tried different settings, dx11 on or off, graphics settings low to ultra on shadows and other stuff, nothing produces shadows or makes them more visible, just less grainy I guess from low to ultra. As said this makes the jumping puzzles a little difficult some places (even missing it in the jumping puzzle in the volcano... quite lighty there), and just looks strange.
I have no "addons" just plain gool old fashioned gw2.