Warhammer Online private server (Return of Reckoning)

[Val the Moofia Boss]

The PvP is basically WoW's battlegrounds, just more balanced. I much prefer Guild Wars in a lot of ways, but it's fun enough.

What do you like about Guild Wars 1's PvP?

 

[Lacrymas]

What do you like about Guild Wars 1's PvP?

It's much more balanced for one because GW was conceptualized as a PvP game from the start (and because they decoupled PvE and PvP balance from one another). There are no classes which feel like easy mode or classes which feel impotent unless played perfectly (WoW is especially guilty of this). The combat itself is much more robust and less floaty in GW compared to both WH Online and WoW. It's much more clear what is happening and to whom in GW. The build variety is staggering. There isn't a loot treadmill, which equalizes the playing field in that regard. The interplay and systems in GW are much more complex even though you only have 8 skills at a time. All in all, I think Guild Wars is a much more mature and focused game, even if they kind of muddied the waters a bit as the expansions came out.

Don't get me wrong, GW does have its problems, but the grievous ones are more theoretical than actual because they stopped developing it before they became a thing. Which is too bad because all of them had solutions and there is no other game like GW in existence. GW is still being played though, and has a healthy if small population, so that's one good news.