Best MMO PvP you ever played?

Best or fun?
SWG was fun, but the best had to be either guild wars or WoW.
SWTOR is now my favorite as soon as the game starts using illum

1. SWTOR - Best PvP mini-games (warzones, battlegrounds, constructs, w/e you wanna call 'em) by far, gets the whole community involved instead of bracketing out and having horrid wait times or needing to have cross-server matches. I absolutely love Huttball - By far the best PvP mini-game I have played in an MMO-style game. World PvP specifically in Ilum & Tatooine need to be a bit more rewarding, but the game is fresh - you must give a seedling time to root itself in the ground and bloom into a beautiful flower.

2. MxO (pre-SOE) - The ability to run by a hardline and completely switch specs to ANY spec in the entire game was great feeling especially for a game based in the world of the Matrix. SOE ruined the game though by making attributes affect which tree you can be effective in.

3. Rift - My experience in Rift was very brief, but I did like the PvP in this game - The tree system was amazing - especially since there was an extra tree that was specifically designed for PvP and you could add it to any other two trees available to your class. Also, there was a pretty awesome item from one of the PvP rep vendors that was better than anything I had gotten so far in PvE - which I think is the way it should be. PvE gets you the best PvE gear in all but one or two slots, and make it where you have to PvP at least a little bit to have the absolute best gear. That's not necessarily how it was in Rift, but at least at the point where I was, that's what it felt like.

4. WoW (pre-BC) - Pre-resilience this game's PvP was fun, although the way they did the PvP titles seemed a bit too grindy. Resilience, however, ruined this game's PvP for me. Sure, it allowed PvP'ers to trump PvE'ers.. but I prefer a system where PvE'ing + PvP'ing will allow you to have the most success in both PvE & PvP - having the two segregated doesn't do it for me. Though I can respect that some people like it separated and I'll just stick more to PvE than PvP if that's the case. What would have been awesome is if resilience only gave you a benefit in arenas and (when it came out) rated BG's, but not normal BG's. There needs to be an outlet where PvE'ers can PvP without being required to grind PvP gear (and don't get me wrong - I PvP'd plenty in BG's in PvE gear - and I enjoyed the challenge, but I think there should be a hardcore PvP arena/battleground system and a general PvP arena/battleground system where your top tier PvE guys will be the most likely to succeed. - And the most hardcore players will succeed in both.)

So far I'd say Tier 1 WAR PvP was the best I've played.

SWTOR is not as good at T1 WAR, but better than T3-4 WAR.

It's somewhere around T2 WAR.

Battleground Europe some years ago with thousand players online in battles..great time
World of Warcraft (Vanilla) did quit with the first expansion packs, didnt like it.
Shadowbane had great and pure world pvp, people could build own castles and conquer enemy ones...great concept and not so dull like the new mmorpgs.
Planetside was nice for a while

The best mmo pvp was focused on skill and not just gear..

1) SWG (had some amazingly epic battles... and a system that actually relied on skill)
2) DAoC (bomb groups hiding inside one player lolol)
3) toss up... Silkroad Online was actually amazing at like lvl 60+, UO, AC, GW

The best pvp games were focused on gear, and it they were it was easily attainable.

Great pvp comes from taking out the necessity, leaving only players who WANT to fight, not HAVE to for some gear.

+1

But that's all that game had.

UO. Hands down. CC was a very rare thing and instead of classes you had skill points and could spend them any way you wanted on any skill you wanted. Paladin ninja? Go for it. Want to be a mace swinging Necro? BONZAI! Only thing was you had 700 skill points and that was it. You literally traded survivabilty for offense and vice versa. NO INSTANCES EITHER! Just 1 big persitant, dangerous world. Hasn't been matched to this day.

I actually liked Warhammer Online. And I was an assault specced Shadow Warrior.

The zerging was pretty stupid, but small group fights were fun. I had some of my best times roaming the RvR lakes looking for a fight.

I miss my shadow warrior...

On so many levels, this. Thank you for typing this so I did not have to. Best gaming memories I have.

I had the most fun with Warhammer PVP and Guild Wars GvG.

Also AoC's gankfest pvp servers were fun at times, and the sieges when they worked.