It’s been a few weeks since I last ran through AC story mode. Ran through it last night with a three party members who had not done it before and had fun. I configured my Guardian to play more of a support role (Staff + Tome of Courage, et al) and would shift to DPS only when needed (e.g. to get that last 15% of health off of a boss). Mobs didn’t seem overpowered (keeping in mind this is the first dungeon story mode).
It was great fun.
Then in the final battle the servers lagged horribly (skills stuck trying to complete) and I went down twice as a result. I checked my connection during the lag and had no issues outside GW2 so I’m confident it was a server issue. It’s good to see progress, but hope the servers stabilize a bit more soon.