Played WoW after SWTOR: My Reactions

I'll put it in this example, wow is an evil ex, tempts you back then beats you up. Breaks all your stuff and makes everything you previously worked for worthless. Sits over you and forces you to work to get as good as you previously were whilst taking your money off you. After a while you get sick of hiding in dark corners and being shuttled off to work with random people you have never seen before until one day /SNAP.

You run away and feel free you go into a refugee where wow cannot get you. But wow is jealous and sends people out to provoke you and tempt you, tells you that you will never have it as good as when you were with your ex, that your ex deserves a second chance and if you say antyhing bad about your ex they scream at you and try to make you feel bad for leaving him and how it is your fault that things didnt work out.

Dark chillin stuff

No, no no no. Tera was the most Crappy game i ever have played, every thing looks bad, The swords is big as a car. Ive have no problem with anime, but no, its to much .in.my.opinion.

the boring part couldn't be you nope not at all.... you expecting a new game to be so much more than say a game that was worse than this one when released but has had 7 years to to fix things right?

get a clue people.... swtor and WoW are not the same... sure the style is the same.. but the games are two totally different games. you want to compare it to WoW.. but yet you refuse to look at the time when WoW was less than a year old and struggling and to see what features it had.

Someone above mention slow leveling... Umm it wasn't until WoW was almost 4 years old before they revamp thier quest experience.. to make questing faster. before that it took you months to make level cap because you had to run all over for just one quest. On top of that.... you didn't have the choice to fly to the point you needed via public trasportation.. you had to fly in hops which you had to chose every sinlge time you landed. Epic riding cost way more than a weeks worth of dailies (which didn't exist then) so the average joe was stuck with the beginning riding skill at level cap.

Just a few examples.... so you can stop comparing now.. because i have just showed that swtor is not doing too bad for just starting.. cause atleast they are listening and trying to put in the systems the majority is asking for.

I wold not say "only". The game I left had one of the best combat mechanics in current use. While the genaric attack pattern was the same (dependent on which weapon type/s you were using) but the active positioning required. There were no melee attacks that required you to stand still while you activated them. And honestly I can't thi I of a single spell that required you to stay stationary for the finger wiggler types. While the content got stale after 6 years the active combat system to this day still remains my favorite. DDO. Dungeons and Dragons online.

Do NOT play Tera when its released. Unless you like the eastern minded grindfest that is. Not even the graphics was anything to get hysterical about. Nah, stick to swtor as its only getting better and better.

Tera released its headstart this weekend just gone. So far i aint seen swtor emptiying though have you.

Speak for yourself!

I dislike action orientated combat in my MMOs (as in dodging and skill targetting other than tabbing). I much prefer relying on character build, decent movement and correct rotations over the gimmick of dodging attacks. I find traditional MMO combat relaxing and yet tactical, whereas playing Tera or even GW2 and AoC I personally find jarring.
I end up hunkered down over my keyboard, with my nose pressed against the screen. And not because it's any harder (because frankly it's easier once you learn ways to effectively exploit the combat system) but because it requires a higher level of concentration which I don't want from my time in MMOs. I'm not saying choice is bad, but don't for one second think that action orientated MMO combat is going to become the norm.

As for SWtoR sadly I was disappointed with it too. I resubbed this week, played for an hour or so and couldn't bring myself to carry on. Can't quite put my finger on why, I just don't enjoy it as an MMO and have never really liked heavily voiced single player RPGs (which SWtoR is for me right now). Going to return in a year or so and hope that this great foundation has evolved into a great MMO too!

EDIT:
Forgot to say that I recently picked up WoW again (I also play Rift and LotRO) and I actually enjoy the core MMO elements (grouping, combat and general things to do to advance your toon) more than in SWtoR. I also much prefer the PvP in WoW. It's odd, I like LotRO for the world and the Warden class is fantastic (plus I'm a leader in a 5 year old kin there, best people in any online game ever by far), I like Rift for the toon creation and fiddling (and the gfx), and I enjoy WoW for the PvP tournaments. SWtoR just doesn't offer anything more in MMO terms for me.

yeah, I read up on Tera and well, I guess its ok if you like mouse targetting twitch game play.

For as often as it annoys me, I still prefer the TAB targetting that EQ brought into the fold and everyone else just copied. When ever I try to target via mouse I feel all tied up and what not.

I am not my character and my character is not me so my character should not be limited to reflex based targetting/combat. Might work for the 20 and under crowd but at 46, my dexterity is not what it once was.

TOR far from perfect but ill take its combat and game play over the article I read and video I watched of Tera in action.

But here the thing I dont get. If you are that in love with Tera and plan to move. Why are you on the TOR boards trying to convince others to leave with you? Are Tera projected population so low you need to actively try and grab players from other games? GW2 players to be, been doing the same junk for the last 18 months as well.

If you are leaving to a different game, then leave.
If you are staying and want to see changes to TOR, then by all means tell EAoware what you want to see changed (but talking about a game thats not released yet not a credible solution).

I have 4 months on my account left so ill play the 4 months and tell EAoware what I want changed and done to allow me to resub after those 4 months.
Telling them Im leaving to a different game is meaningless and serves no usefull purpose.

If you love Tera that much, dont let the door hit yas you know where on your way out. You should be playing the game you love with the people that love the same game. Coming to the TOR forums to say Tera doing everything right is meaningless troll fodder!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP4i4R0susw

Oh boy if this doesn't sell it I don't know what would!

On a serious note, why would I ever give up shooting lightning from my fingertips and using a lightsaber for this drivel.

It's pretty sad that on ''TOR vs WoW'' topic, a lot of people ''answer'' by, uh, praising TERA.

Back on topic, I have a WoW and a ToR account. I would switch to TOR only....

Issue is, I play for MMOs for, you know, group stuff. And it's very worrying that it take me more time to find a group and do a flahspoint on a healer than it take me time to complete a raid as dps

My last wed night :

WoW : Logged on my Warlock Nûriel, queued for LFR : Queue popped after 12 minutes, took 58 minutes to complet (Logged at 7 PM East)

ToR : Logged at 8:30 PM East, 90 people in fleet. Took me 36 minutes to find a group, 15 minutes to get the group to gether at the instance, and 45 minutes to clear CWG.

Hate me, throw me rocks, but LFD and LFR are brilliant ideas.