I had gotten to the point where i was simply grinding for legendaries and my goodness does that take entirely too long.
Oh gosh, yes. I still don't have a legendary, although I've been working towards one.
I love the Halloween event with its brainless farming! It's so relaxing when you've been doing too much thinking ;-)
There's still plenty of players, but they are spread out across a LOT of maps I guess. Mostly, I find players in cities or when there's events going on, or in WvW.