For having played both game:
1. Guild Wars PVP requires skills in order to be "Good".
2. Guild Wars is F2P
3. Guild Wars Titles were worthy and could make famous.
4. There was more action in major cities else than WTS/WTB "X" for Golds or LFG. People were actually trading items for items. (It's not a major point, but I actually liked this)
5. Guild Wars was hard. Back in Prophecies time (without Heroes and stuff) the game was hard to finish and the newbs weren't getting far in the game. I still think Guild Wars is harder than WoW. In WoW, you clear every new content within a week.
6. More diversity in PvP.
Well the list could go on... To be honest, I think WoW is a better game and I actually played a lot more than Guild Wars. The reason is that I like to play MMOs to level my character and build his armor. WoW excels in these aspects while Guild Wars is more focused on Titles, Weapons/Armor look over Weapon/Armor's stats because the stats aren't THAT important. Guild Wars' focus is on how you character is known on the realm, how famous and good he is and how rich he is (that you can tell by his gear) and its focus is also on farming which is cool, but it takes a way too big place in the game. And well, the level Cap is 20 so you don't have a lot of leveling. I also played AION which I thought was a REALLY good game. I mean, the game was hard, you couldn't reach level cap within a week or 2, in order to be descent you need to be Rich and really skilled. PvP is exciting and hard. The problem with AION is that it is not as easy to get in as the other 2 games. You need to invest hundred hours in a single character to really learn it and reach a decent level to really start enjoying the game. But I still think it's a good middle between both games.
To finish my thoughts, I think Guild Wars 2 will be a blast. It will keep every good aspect of Guild Wars and will take a lot of WoW into it. I don't want to say that it will crush WoW because I'm not a total WoW hater, but it will surely be very popular since it is still so far Free 2 Play. Thats all in my opinion by the way. I seriously can't wait for Guild Wars 2.
ABRed
Blizzcon streams of WoW arena were up yesterday; if you think those matches didn't require any skill/vast communication you're delusional. Also, if you didn't clear all the hard modes like Alganon/Yog 0/ICC hard modes before the massive dmg buffs then you have nothing to complain about in terms of difficulty. You probably even didn't get very far in terms of rating in WoW.
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