Thread Necromancy!
I got this as a belated Christmas present about 2 weeks ago. I've had a lot of fun so far.
Actualy working 4 characters, though only 1 seriously at the moment.
A Warrior/Monk (Meloran Avenro, my primary), who is set to start the second mission.
A Mesmer/Elementalist, who needs to level up before she can do the first mission.
A Ranger, who I'm going to slowly try for the Defender of Asceleon title (Level 20 pre-searing).
An Elementalis (Who was going for the no death title but died at level 2, but I'll keep her around for a while).
I only have Prophecies:GOTY at the moment (btw, anyone else who has it, use the /bonus command, you get cool stuff), but that's been more than enough for me so far.
A friend got me into his guild. It's fairly small, but we're hoping to grow it.
I've paired up with my dad and a friend earlier, but they're way ahead of me (I'm level 12, they're not).
It's a lot of fun, and easy to just pick up and play for a short time if you just want to beat stuff up.
As for soloing and being overmatched, I found changing up skills helps for that. I was aiming to go sword warrior, but some of the axe skills are nice, and synergize well with most of the other skills I've aquired so far. I find I rarely use a monk skill, but that might change with me aquiring Restore Life.
I'm normaly not a big PvP fan, but it just seems like it would be a lot of fun in Guild Wars, so I'm looking forward to more of it (I got to try it onces in 2 Searings, and the time I tried, it was 4 humans vs 1 and 3 henchmen. We won 20-3.