There are a lot of places ArenaNet could go for Guild Wars 2's next expansion. After all, the Elder Dragon saga has ended—and with it the ongoing story the game's been telling since it launched back in 2012. There's plenty of unrevealed landmass left on the world map. Who knows what new stories are out there? But in Secrets of the Obscure—which launches next week on August 22—players won't be exploring the land at all. Instead, we'll be moving on up, with two new locations set high in the skies above Tyria. This is an expansion based around the Wizard's Tower, the mysterious structure once found hovering high above a small village in Kessex Hills, now moved to a new location high above the ocean to the northwest of the Maguuma Wastes.
I recently got a chance to do a guided tour through the new maps of Guild Wars 2's fourth expansion, and check out some of the features it will bring. What I discovered was that, because this is an expansion set in the sky, it's also one that has been built around the game's best mount.
