Been playing since the NA release, with few breaks of 2-3 months in between.
Game is still fun ... kinda zergy from time to time, but nothing to QQ much about ... just gotta go to the right places for the pvp. Speaking if which, pvp is balanced, but kind of on a rock / paper / sciser thing, u know.
Like for exemple, if you're an assassin and you run into a templar ... Yes, you MAY be able to kill him if you do like, the perfect combos, get the stuns on and if the templar doesnt know hoe to use his tools, but you're most likely dead. Same thing if a templar runs into a sorcerer that knows what he's doing ... the sorc has much better chances to kill the templar .... but if that same sorc runs into that previous sin, he'll be dead before even knowing it.
That beeing said, it's not THAT easy ... gear, skills and cooldowns comes into play. You gotta know when to use your shits if you wanna beat your opponent, have the right stigma build, and the right gear ... especially in group pvp. Your setup is very important, you need to bring classes that synergize well together.
Anyway. People complain that it'd a grind fest, they spend thousands of hours to get their gear, and blah blah blah ... BULLSHIT. You can achieve, especially with the ammount of events going on lately, very decent gear in not that much time invested. You just need to know what you're doing.