As someone who enjoyed the harder raid content of WoW and loves to PvP, GW2 might be better for me now more than it has ever before. I was never into dungeons or fractals (I only ever ran dungeons purely to farm tokens for certain skins I wanted), but I love Raids because of the precision they require.
For me, raids are just one feature away from being ideal for me: A better group finder / LFG tool. The LFG tool as it stands now isn't good enough for Raids.
Ranked PvP is great for me right now, except for balance being currently skewed (I can forgive this a bit due to HoT being a recent release, but Bunker Mesmers are a bit hilariously broken at the moment) and MMR manipulation being rampant at higher ranks. The easy solution seems to be to disallow a Ranked Group from queuing if there are any members with more than a 2 Division discrepancy. No Amber (Division 1) should be allowed to play group with a Ruby (Division 4) for a ranked match, or no Emerald (Division 2) should be allowed to group with a Diamond (Division 5), etc. It might mean terribly high queues at Diamond/Legendary, but it's necessary for the greater good.
I even love the idea of the Legendary Collections (minus the Ley-Line Spark gathering, which should be boosted), though I don't see Lump using any of the currently released new Legendaries at the moment, so I won't be working toward them quite yet. If they release something shiny and golden and compatible with Mesmers, though, I'm going full-steam ahead.
Scribing is probably HoT's biggest misfire, I would say - it needs a complete overhaul, but I'd settle for massive price reductions for at least all the <300 recipes. I don't mind professions being expensive when at the endgame, but getting there shouldn't equal the cost of entire legendary weapons. All basic, simple, and mid-tier furniture should be way way cheaper.
The Megaserver system also needs evolving for the way HoT meta events are now - working the LFG tool shouldn't be necessary to get into a good map every time you zone to VB or DS. Use a district dropdown menu (like town maps had in GW1) if necessary - at least that would be better than the current LFG system.
If you're not sure what build to use, some of the guard mains here can offer some advice or you can check out a meta build here: http://metabattle.com/ By no means do you HAVE to play the meta, but if you're unsure of what works it's a decent place to start. For open world PvE any of the "Dungeon" builds will work with some minor changes (most will take movement utilities to make traversing the world easier, etc). Switch it up for what works for you.
