Guild Wars 2

I understand there’s gonna be a lot of disclosure about the new features following the announcement but here’s a couple questions I think could be easily answered.

1) Will Living Story have sequences only included in the new area or will it be still be based in the base game?

And more importantly: 2) As with GW1, does the expansion give us character slots?

Thanks guys.

After doing the pirate puzzle in Lion’s Arch, I was led to a weapons karma merchant. After previewing each one, I found that the pirate underwater weapons, for a time, was bugged so that the spear had a rifle skin, and the harpoon gun had a spear skin. I thought it was a joke, as if underwater pirates smacked people around with guns and shooting things out of a spear was a nod to Poseidon shooting things out of his trident. I found this hilarious and bought them strictly for the skin mixup. But it was fixed after a while. I don’t suppose there’s any way in the future for my warrior to Tsunami Slash with a gun and make shots with a spear, could I?