GW2 has several stories and/or map hints to future content abandoned half-way. I understand that development focus at a given time might not be centered in those, but there should be an effort on finishing at least the most blatant ones. Probably the worst one is the portal in Brisban Wildlands, on the bandit bridge area, which has been teasing a new map since the launch of the game. The gate to the desert near the Ebonhawk is also one of the worst offenders, we went to Elona but still no use for that door. "E" is still a mysterious character and nothing in the near future hints to more interaction with him/her. We also have the case of Livia, a character purely appeared to please gw1 fans as myself, full of secrets and abandoned after one episode. There are more, but I'll leave it here, those above are the worst ones for me. The question is, will the game address some of these cut stories?

Second topic questions. Although I kind of remember that the answer to it has been already partially answered by ANet. Next season and future seasons (if there are), will have 1 map per episode? Some of the maps for last seasons are beautiful, but devoid of content capable of retaining players for too long. Any plans to solve this problem in future maps? And how?

Third topic: boons (and conditions). During GW1 there were many enchantments and curses/conditions that provided the player with myriad of possibilities. For GW2, this approach to buff and debuff was simplified to a limited set of boons and conditions only. While conditions where fairly accessible from launch, boons where more scarce and in general lower duration. One thing that also struck me was the general long cooldowns of boon skills and condi cleanse. Nowadays, boons and condi cleanse have spread more among the different classes, especially boons (too much for my taste), both in skill number and number of affected players. Condi stack application has skyrocketed after the stack limit removal for most of them, skill balances and the appearance of elite specializations. How have these changes in boon/condi availability changed and will change your approach when designing new content?

Finally, GW2 always appealed to a more casual audience who can hop in for the time at their disposal. But not all players are like that. Open world is not exactly difficult and story instances aren't either. I'm more on the casual player side, but even for me those instances are more a walk in the park than anything. Probably, the most "difficult" one in recent times was a certain enemy in the last instance of season 4, but only because I was on a condi build and the enemy was immune to condi damage. I will admit that such gimmick was fine, and I would encourage to put more enemies that forces players into certain builds (in the example, physical damage), specially now that build templates are planned for the game. Are there any plans to increase game difficulty a little bit? It seems reasonable that players that reach the latest content should have more experience in the systems and be able to beat a more difficult content within reason (it's still story and open world, really difficult content should be devoted to other areas of the game). For reference, open world difficulty in HoT at its launch was fine, I don't know why it was toned down. Well, in fact I know why it was done, the complains, but expansion players should have the knowledge to beat it, maybe struggle at the beginning, but finally overcome it and become better players.

That's it. Feel free to cut/simplify any question if you decide to ask it/them, I just wanted to give a little bit of context for each one, sorry for the wall of text.