I am one of those that normally do not care about a player home, but there were a few things about the Homestead in D:OS that made me want to come back every now and then. The fact that it was there where the backstory got unveiled was one of them. That you could travel there by portal without losing time in the game was another. Content-wise, there wasn't much of interest, though. And what was there was spread out too much over the different areas and took a lot of running around to get to. So I only ever talked once to each vendor. Would be much better to have them all appear on a central square, like a market place, to make access to them more convenient.

The thing is that I would enjoy a small-scale home much more than something grand that is not really fitting to the character I play. A smaller place is easier to fill with life too, has interesting bits in easy reach from each other and just feels more cozy. I have no idea in which form the Hall of Echoes will manifest itself, but I do hope that it is more condensed than the Homestead was, and on a single map instead of different areas connected by portals.