Quick question about GWEN

I read the player reports here and only see quests and explorable areas mentioned.
Arent there any missions in the expansion? What missions there are function more like quests. Unless I am wrong and i have done all three Norn "missions", you would never know you went into a mission unless someone told you you did. The only clue it was a mission was the ending where the flag comes up telling you, you got some exp.

I hope there are real missions, but i doubt there are.

Thanks for the help. Some more questions:

Are there rez shrines in these mission-like quests or not?
Are they interesting like some of the better missions or just same old hacking my way through an explorable area to deliver my FedEx package?
How do you know when to get a PUG and when to just breeze through it (no one really PUGs for explorable areas in my experience - and i wouldnt want to)?
Is it difficult? I recall seeing rez shrines in the things I am calling missions. I never did die, so I can not say if they work.

The things I am calling missions are typical type of quest/missions where you need to eleminate a certain number of groups, protect the thing, etc.

I havnt even seen people forming PUGs, I think I saw one person but they were trying to group up for a quest you can not complete in the preview weekend. Like I said I didnt die in any of these mission type things, so id say their relativly easy. I brought Dunkoro, Souske, and Koss for heros and misc henchmen.

The problem with these "missions" is that they dont function at all like what you would expect them too. They function like an uber quest. Think Land of Heros from Nightfall and you get the picture.