Guild Wars 2 is betting on bite-sized raid encounters with End of Dragons

Perhaps more than ever, the pressure is on for ArenaNet to deliver with Guild Wars 2's next expansion, End of Dragons, due out next month. The ending of the game's last "Living World" season of story updates was maligned by the community for feeling too rushed—hurrying and sometimes discarding story beats that had been built up over the last couple of years.

There's a real need, then, for ArenaNet to show that the shift away from whatever the Icebrood Saga was originally intended to be was...