Red is worth a shot. It's funny how different the xp grind and item farming is from the Blue server. Some very popular camps on Blue are rarely occupied on Red, either due to the items stats being less useful on Red, or due to the difficulty to hold the camp due to PVP.
What's cool about Red is that at level 60, you still have lots of things left to accomplish for your toon. Even if you don't actively PVP (ie search it out), you can still be a target for PVP. There is a lot of worn gear, clickies, and consumables that can help you survive. You may raid because you want great gear that you can't get from solo or single grouping - but the gear serves a purpose besides simply killing the same dragon with slightly better stats next week. The gear makes you more robust in PVP, better able to defend your camp or deal with PVP that you encounter.
The blue equivalent, for me, is lvl 60 toons that do "solo artist challenges." That's a real reason to get certain gear, consumables, and clickies that the average blue player doesn't experience. On Red, you learn early on the value of pumices and how to stack your buffs, and how buff stacking works on other players and mobs. You start to really think about your encounters.
The bonus for those who enjoy PVE challenges (like me) is that the Red population is lower, so it is far easier to get access to those mobs to practice - solo, duo, whatever. My high 40s xp group took down tranix because he was just up and we were alone in the zone. The downside (if you can call it that) is that you can't recharge or use some of the clickies like puppet strings, bladestoppers, and soulfires which trivialize so many of the solo artist challenges.
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