As a now-casual who played pretty hardcore 3 years ago when the game was first released, and not since in 2.5 years, it is very meh for me.
I already have every class to 80, map completion, story done, outfits unlocked, and a legendary.
Heart of the Thorns, as a stand-alone by itself, is very weak.
I completed the HoT story, did map completion, and ran into a brick wall. After grinding half of Maguuma masterys and participating in as much of the zones as I could, there isn't anything left to do. I have completely done Tyria, so that is causing some problems. My server might be, as well. My server does Verdant Brink all day, but only does the next zone during the daytime / prime time (the one with the exalted city), and doesn't do any of the other zones hardly at all. This reminds me of Cursed Shore when the original GW2 released
I personally haven't tried the raids because there wasn't enough to keep me onboard before they finally got around to releasing them, so take everything I'm saying with a grain of salt.
This post was edited by Mathemagician on Nov 29 2015 02:19pm