[Amoena]

Meizicht, that's exactly how the game is for me too ^^! I haven't tried the active mod yet, and I'm not sure I will, but I have played TERA and if there was one thing I was impressed with (aside from my weird feelings staring at my childish bunny be-hind) was the active combat. As far as GW2 goes, I --love-- doing flips and backflips all over Cursed Shore >:D

As far as pick up groups go, I find that there are more nice people than there are nasty, but there are a few losers on there (of course that's to be expected). The other night I was in a dungeon run and we had trouble getting past this one part where like.. 50 mobs decide to come attack and never go back to their starting spots, and this girl is like "oh well i'm going out to a party, see ya" and leaves. We were at the last boss, too.
However, I was running this with people I knew: a friend from school, and two guys I met in another PUG the day before. We spent our free time after the failed dungeon run chasing eachother and the Charr making racist jokes at the humans v.v;; xD we had a blast at least :P!

The halloween event was -to die for- (heh heh). We three-manned the halloween dungeon, jumped up the clock tower jumping puzzle, and I spent way too much money on black lion keys >.>;; It was awesome, and I've never had such a fun time and have never been so immersed in gameplay/lore :O

Oh, I hate PVP too, but I -do- like wvwvw. The first time I did it (in september for the monthly), I absolutely hated it! I was cussing like a sailor (on leave). I skipped it in october and in november I tried it again with my friends and it was WAY more fun!! It's nice how they do wvwvw, like you can't hear people making fun of you when they kill you v.v (too many dodgeball horrors when I was a little loser in elementary school).