I really get the feeling that some of the recent changes were made to set up coming elite specs. Like I said, the next elite spec for necromancer should be a bruiser like scrapper or daredevil are for their classes.Stability makes sense for a bruiser spec, protection does too. If the spec also gets additional self healing (life steal or anything), then even the new blood bank trait would make sense since it could have great synergy with a bruiser elite spec. I think it's far far too early to be making changes like that since the next Expac could still be very far off..Personally I don't expect it to come after Icebrood Saga or if it does then I expect a pretty heavy content drought between the final episode and the expansion.Even though i've not played the last 2 episodes I am pretty certain that so far Ice Brood Saga has done absolutely nothing to setup any Canthan storyline.Both Living World seasons 2 and 3 setup their expansions with a lot of build up content, so I expect the same will come for the next Xpack as well which is why I've got my money on another short living world season after Ice Brood Saga ends. I could be wrong though.. but I hope that's not the case, I believe we really do need this next expac to be huge or people are going to be disappointed and deterred from buying any more afterwards. Both HoT and PoF got a lot of criticism for their size and length.. and if we go to Cantha and only get 4-5 maps again and a story that can be rushed through in a day or two I expect people will once again feel like expansions in this game are just not worth it.3 expansions, 3 disappointments will be how they take it and they'll be done at that point. Next one needs to be huge, jam packed full of content and finally giving that big expansion experience that people have been craving since they first finished the personal story several years ago.Plus this is Cantha we're going to as well.. there is so much love and excitement for this region because of Guildwars 1.. for a good number of us old players this was our favourite location in Gw1.They have a lot of high expectations to hit because of that XDThen prepared to be disappointed? Kind of dumb to compare your entire original story play through experience to an expansion, which as the name states, builds off of the original game. Not to mention you could beat the original personal story just as fast, the only limiting factor was that you were low level and had to level up to progress it. Buying the expansions literally give you more of everything while also funding post release content in the form of living story, events and gemstore junk. Tbh sounds more like you just need to wait for GW3 to relive your "big expectations" of rediscovering a new world.