Never earned a Skyscale? Secrets of the Obscure will let you more easily unlock the best way to travel.
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.
Both the Skyscale and the Griffon are also being updated to make use of both updrafts and leylines, letting you more easily move between the islands of Skywatch Archipelago, the expansion's first map. As I jump into a leyline, ArenaNet notes that, if you see an island in the distance, there will be a way to fly to it—suggesting there might be some interesting things to find in the more out-of-the-way sections of the map.
It's an activity that fits well into Guild Wars 2's open world design, where squads of players bouncing between repeatable events is the norm. It's not uncommon to visit a Path of Fire map and see a commander leading players between bounty events, or to wander into a Heart of Thorns zone in the middle of a big map-wide meta event. The key to rifts being successful as a sustainable activity will, as always, be the rewards.
The meta continues the expansion's utilisation of the Skyscale, with parts of it requiring the use of both the mount and its new aerial fireball attack. Fortunately the process of acquiring the Skyscale is being made much simpler—no longer tied to a lengthy quest chain requiring Season 4 of the Living World. Expansion owners will, by default, get access to the Skyscale while on Secrets of the Obscure maps.
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