Guild Wars 2

Please forgive my ignorance on how expansions integrate with the first game (if they always work the same way). I didn’t play GW1.
Will HoT effectively be a bunch of new maps that you can move to from the existing maps? And therefore, move between with existing characters?
Or will it be a different environment (and different executable?) altogether, with characters that you cannot take into Kryta?
Or something else?

It will integrate with the existing game, characters, and maps. For example, you can take your current characters into the new zones just like you could any other map in Tyria. Also, your revenant will be able to access the same zones you have now.

I’m not a dev, but these things have already been confirmed several other places.

Once installed, you will access the content through your normal GW2 game.

thx Myrden. that in itself opens a lot more questions… such as how dailies will integrate, and more. But now I know there will be some level of integration, the rest is just gravy.