Mediocre interest here.

If a friend or two continues into ARR, I probably will too. That will likely last at least a month, maybe two. Longer if I can enjoyably level a new character to multiple 50s. Wouldn't guess longer than six.

I'd like to be able to see some of the smoothness of UI and party-gathering in place. If the quests still have the occasional bit of dialogue worth reading, actually kind of stellar for an MMO, I might even enjoy the added quests once through.

Not to pull someone else's string, but I guess I too would have rather seen the original 1.0 goals far better pulled off under a rehauled framework. The only advantage I can presently see is that whatever's new, even if mediocre, has enough content to run through with some interest until that content's been seen once or twice. That said, I could use any MMO for that. I'll use ARR because it costs $5 less per month on Legacy, and because it has my 1.0 character.