To be honest the pvp in this game doesn't even come close to the smoothness of wow.
Yes SW:TOR is more balanced but it also feels like pvp at 80 percent speed instead of 100, they also need to fix all the bugs with casting a ability without actually seeing your character cast, pressing your knockback three times without it doing anything and the horrible long GCD (Global cooldown) whats up with that.
The people who say you need to compare SW:TOR pvp with wow 2004, seriously you are that stupid?
TOR had all those years to look at: WOW, RIFT, AION and still they ****ed it up badly, compared to those MMO's the smoothness TOR doesn't come close.
It is the same as saying the new Medal of Honor is so much better then COD4, which doesn't make any sense.