Best MMO PvP you ever played?

1. WoW: TBC ; not counting S1
2. WoW: WotLK ; Not counting S5
3. Everything else was quite miserable

Basing off class balance and rated options.

Best Instanced:
WoW the Burning Crusade (Arenas, especially the high 3v3 and 5v5 brackets)

Best World PvP:
Old School WoW (Vanilla)

WoW,

War Inc,

Swtor.

Not this game.

DAoC
WoW TBC arena season 2 and 3
RYL for first couple of months before stupid changes
Diablo II
EvE Online

Best - Hands down, without question DAOC. This was the best PvP experience I have ever had.


Worse - WoW - OMG the PvP in this game is horrible - fact.

Best: WoW- Arenas and RBGs

Worst: TOR by far

all you people saying WoW, make me sad at the state of gamers and games today...

I played DAoC for 3+ years, it was my first MMO and blew me away and nothing has even come close since...I played GW and WoW after that, GW was good for small teamed matches but ultimately had no long term appeal for me, I played it for over a year.

WoW I played for a total of 8 months (starting at release), after 3 months I was bored with the gameplay, way too easy on the PvE side of things and the PvP was a non-existent meaningless joke, after 5 months PvP out in the world had picked up slightly (but was still a joke, it was more just something to distract from questing, held no meaning and was more often frustrating because the only implication it had was delaying questing) and they made promises of improving PvP so I stuck around. 3 months later I cancelled forever (gave the account to my sister and her hubby). The instanced PvP they implemented was a horrid clusterfruck...did the developers not play GW, how did they not improve on that system and make a worse system that was basically the same? You people who loved WoW arenas must have never played GW either, and those who even mention WoW open world PvP need to play some DAoC...just go play it.

then...DOMINUS...will hopefully be better than DAoC.

Cant tell if serious

Star Trek Online (space, not lol ground)

Now don't get me wrong, Cryptic is definitely the worst MMO company ever. They've been ruining PvP balance in their games by going towards pay-2-win, and they're only focused on doing the least amount of work possible while squeezing their customers wallets as hard as they can.

But the core gameplay in STO is so much better for PvP than anything before it. The third dimension adds a need for spatial awareness and positioning that is not present in any other MMO. Healing from a top tier team can be quite powerful, which requires immaculate timing between CC and burst damage dealers to break through. There is far more variety in spec, gear, and class than in many other games. It's almost entirely arena based as well.

As much as Cryptic gets things wrong, they got the core mechanics for PvP right. I just wish I could get the same gameplay from a better developer like Bioware.