Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire, or "Uh, I've been away for a year or more so now what?"

No need to worry there. A lot of the hero point fights in HoT have been nerfed quite a bit. Most are soloable. Regardless, I’ve spent most of my play time for the last two days in the HoT zones and they’re still active enough. It’s not hard to find maps running the metas and I saw quite a few advertisements for hp trains.