Guild Wars 2

I stopped playing a couple months after release due to a few annoying issues. Im just wondering if any of them have been improved.

1: Unable to play spvp with my girlfriend due to balancing switching us to opposite teams.

2: Downed state was just annoying to deal with , was it changed at all?

3: Dozens of players appearing out of nowhere in WvW, any improvement?

Also a few other questions. Were legendary weapon stats changed? They seem to match exotics now. Is there an up to date wiki page or something that will explain the steps to acquire these yet? Last time i played there was almost no information.

Any drastic changes in classes or balance PvP wise?

Can melee compete in both PvE and PvP?

Thanks for reading.

2: Downed state is still in, and will be untill the servers shutdown. Just my 2 cents.

3: Culling is being fixed, stealth consumable removed from wvw, and if you can´t see shadow refugees you´re just blind…that should cover all invisbility options for large amounts of people?

Legendaries will get bumped up to ascended once they release. They always were on par with exotics, i don´t know what you´re talking about there.
Recipes are all known and documented, and have been quite a while, you must´ve left rather early.

Pvp balance has had slight changes, nothing groundbreaking though.

Melee competes, always has(well, there was some trouble in betas), and will continue to do so.

Strang.8170:

3: Culling is being fixed, stealth consumable removed from wvw, and if you can´t see shadow refugees you´re just blind…that should cover all invisbility options for large amounts of people?

Legendaries will get bumped up to ascended once they release. They always were on par with exotics, i don´t know what you´re talking about there.
Recipes are all known and documented, and have been quite a while, you must´ve left rather early.

The players appearing from nowhere was not a skill, it was a slow rendering bug that caused entire armies to not render until they were on top of you.

I could have sworn legendary weapons were slightly better than exotics at one time, i guess i was drunk.

Legendaries got better stats than exotics for a few hours after the introduction of Ascended items. And were quickly corrected.

For WvW, people not rendering can still happen, but I think they made improvments.

Murderin.8269:

The players appearing from nowhere was not a skill, it was a slow rendering bug that caused entire armies to not render until they were on top of you.

I could have sworn legendary weapons were slightly better than exotics at one time, i guess i was drunk.

Culling is being fixed, i had to list all options for enemies appearing as i couldn´t have known which exactly was meant.
They did a test on workaround for culling this matchup, but it was rather disastrous, so they´re reverting it back. Luckily though it was just a quick test, so they are and have been working on a long term solution all this time. Personaly i´m anticipating major improvements in february along the content updates they´ve advertised to go live around that time.

Can anyone else answer the other questions?