Hey,
I'm a big fan of MMOs as most of you have heard.
I got GW2 a bit after its release. I was really fun. I was addicted for a bit.
The PVE questing was fun and interesting. the controls are responsive and animations are good. Great music.
The environment is beautiful and having dynamic events was pretty cool.. but after you figure out how they work its dispelled and kinda lame.
The character customization was better than Warcraft but hardly more than RIFT. but still pretty good over all. nothing compared to Phantasy star, AION, Final Fantasy 14 or any other asian MMO.
Dungeons were chaos. originally there was no queue instances but they added it now. even with the queue i find people come and go and abandon groups suddenly..charge in and run ahead and get killed by traps in the dungeon and wait for you to come and help them. they eventually completely die (as there are 2 stages to death, incapacitated, and fully dead)
then they have to run back to the group..often pulling a mob that was missed or getting stuck on traps and bitching at you like its your fault.
also if your new to a dungeon and ask them about it...they ignore you. generally in my exp.
The two stage death thing was a cool idea but i felt its more annoying than useful. especially in PVP.
i explained why for the PVE some trouble. the pvp is a problem because you have to jab them with a flag to down them or kill them all over again while they lay kinda incapacitated.
during the incapacitation if you kill someone your in combat with you resurrect.. so some classes who have a better spread seem to never die lol.
some classes have ranged AOE. as well as there are some odd imbalances in pvp. tho over all i find it enjoyable.
They advertised the game is an amazing experience that was never the same. I felt this wasn't true. to be fair i never maxed out any chars. but i got a lot into the 30s or 40s. and each character tho i intentionally made different choices ended up being the same quasi linear story.
in short my thoughts:
1. I think the game is worth it for the PvE quest lines. It's really enjoyable.
2. PvP is fun tho at times infuriating.
3. dungeons are troublesome. i found them the least satisfactory of all things in the game
Id recommend the game
I hope my comments help. anything else feel free to ask