I'm trying to get my friends (about 8 of us) back to GW2 for EoD and realized that outside of the story missions themselves, there isn't any new group content we could work on as a team. We did low level fractals before the expansion, and it was okay, but any time you want to cycle a new person in you're back to square one due to Agony. Maybe if there were new fractals I could get them interested... but alas. I am SO SAD dungeons were utterly abandoned years ago. None of us have any interest in pugging strike missions. If the strikes could scale, it'd be perfect... but they don't. I know people have opinions on those who don't PUG, cool. I save the working with randoms for open world content (which apparently even that is an issue now lol). Trying to hype up the new EoD content and all I got is..... group fishing lol.
Beautiful areas, loved the story, but it's hard to draw tight knit groups back to this when there's not a whole lot of new group content. This isn't to detract from those wanting new raids, they should add new raids too. It's just weird to 100% abandon dungeons and standard group content.