World of Warcraft vs Guild Wars

Dont forget, anet guys made wow also.
And in gw we have thousands skillls in wow we have ~500

Err, correct me if I'm wrong, but none of the people who work for Anet had anything to do with WoW. They were on board during WC3, as I recall, but not during WoW.

Don't forget to factor in the skills in Guild Wars that are duplicates and the skills that are very undesirable.

There are over 1130 skills and only 30 of them are duplicates of existing skills.
Regardless of how many are not desirable, at least the option is there to play around with them.
Once I got into the higher levels in WoW and EQ2 and constantly kept tossing over in my mind whether I should just start a new character, because I was getting quite bored of using the same skills every day.
My PVE mesmer, that I use in PVP too often, has learned close to 400 skills by now. His build is rarely the same from one day to the next. He's schizo. I would never think of shelving him like I did my Warlock and Priest in WoW or my Inquisitor and Dirge in EQ2. There is just too much to play around with.

I don't like the fact that there is no class depth in WoW. Every class uses the exact same skills within that class, and the talent spec is likely to be very similar. Too same-y.

At least GW gives you a choice of secondary to differentiate your character from others.

You are so wrong. Sure Guild Wars has a ton of garbage skills out there but they only limit you to eight skills because they fail at proper skill balancing. It is an easy way out. Wow on the other hand entitles you to a tremendous amount of skills and you can also alter those by respeccing.

The staff at Anet think introducing extremely overpowered skills at each expansion is something players want. Sure that is fine to the PvE player and of course that in turn draws sales but the PvP player becomes frustrated because Anet is terrible at skill balancing.

I was in a top 25 guild guild back in the day and have since left to play wow as well as my guildies have and it is so much better than Guild Wars. GW tries so hard to be like WOW with each major update but the problem is they lost a lot of fan base already and their lies, pvp representation (is there any?) and lack of skill balancing will not bring me back to it or others I have talked to.

This do not pay to play. I would actually prefer to pay to play considering majority of GW are kids. WoW players seem to be a lot more mature and respectable.

Have a problem with something in the game? No problem, I submitted a ticket in game and had a response within seconds. A GM spoke with me hands on and helped me, I was floored how quick it was. Have a problem with GW? Email them and hope for a reply in the next couple days...

Jeff Strain was originally team lead for WoW. Mike O'Brien was team lead for WC3. They talked to each other and realised they both wanted something inbetween. Guild Wars was born. At least, that's what I remember reading.

sure gw has many garbage skills, but most of them are usable for builds

and 8 slot is because its easier to balance and require some more logic (i understad u dont like it) and all build wont be the same

Most, as in greater than 50%? (i.e. more than 500)

What game are you playing?

Sometimes i wonder what WoW forums talk about couse we GW players find it amusing to argue what is better and in rweturn Get WoW posters in here to convert GW's into WoW's Just make a forum about whast batter i bet there alot of trash talkers from both sides instead of arguing give pros of GW and cons of GW and let him go to WoW forum and get Pros abnd Cons of the WoW there by the way any 1 of you know WoW forum i wana visit to confirm my findings any 1 i will gladly give you example of what they talk about GW there k

If you Love WoW go tlak there why talk here i believe this is GW SO we talk about GW couse i can find lots of Trash on WoW but do i say it nope its GW

There was a thread here a while ago where Zinger made a thread in the WoW forums linking to an article that said Guild Wars was the superior game. Here's the link.

Its not that i agrre to that GW>WoW or WoW>GW its just the pooint why come here and litteralyTRY TO CONVERT GW players to play WoW its semmse like a desperate meashure or a punny try and kill of GW playerbase just for the sole reason to look good ibn their own eyes as they have acomplished somehtign big and important i have noticed that lot of poelpe try and make either games look bad Im just sayen like talk sht about the game on its forums is just disrespectfull

Erm... cos some people play both, and can offer an opinion to the OP who was asking for advice on which to choose?

Both games have pros and cons. I play both, and like both, but don't have endgame experience in WoW as yet, so I haven't offered an opinion as there are others who can do so better.




Lol... Zinger's armoury page crashed my browser.

I've been reading that forum thread.
And there was made a statement.
By the player who goes with the name Morithain (Second page)
And i think that that is the most stupid thing i ever heard.
Thats so child behavior.
I think that he is one of those WoW fanboys who play on mom/dad wallet.

Yeah 'cus it's a forum, and sometimes people get angry. People also like to troll.

that was interesting. All the things we complain about(limited char growth, no auction house) were brought up.

That said, it was pretty much a mirror image of this thread. A bunch of initial defenses, a few defenders of GW, and a few comments of reasoning peppered in between endless flames.

Glad to know all gamers are consistent.:P

1400 hours worth of guild wars over 26 months, 500 hours of WoW across a pair of 50's both Horde side and Alliance.

WoW is the best MMORPG on the market.

Guild Wars is the greatest MMORPG alternative on the market.

If you are willing to pay 50 cents a night for a few hours of fun in a persistent-world MMO go for it. But when you get tired, burned out or poor there is always Guild Wars as a go-to game.

People who say that you cannot compare these games have no idea what they are talking about.

For rating and judging the whole game? No.