To those leaving SWTOR...

...for Guild Wars 2.

What does that have, that SWTOR does not?

This is a serious question, so i would like to know why and what your new game has that this game does not.

I am not leaving Tor for gw2, , nothing special on the pve front, a couple of nice twists, but overall pve not that much different from what see everyday,
PVP the world vs world will be what sets gw2 apart.
And the biggest thing that gw2 has or has not depends on how you look at that glass, no sub, gw2 is built around MT's and if they stay true to their word nothing but fluff items.
Plus gw has a huge follwing, I played gw1 some but it never took hold of me, I am sure at some point I wil llook at gw2 again, but won't be leaving any game to play it as my only game, just not enough depth for me.

I will be leaving swtor for GW2 and here is why

GW2 Features:
1. Expansive Achievement system with rewards
2. Fully fleshed out Guild system with guild rewards and achievements, guild emblems you can put on your armor, guild bank, etc... (guild halls to come shortly after release)
3. Dynamics Events that scale to the number of players participating in them. Events that span entire areas, events that actually change the game world around you
4. No traditional quests, "renown hearts" instead, gives you many different activities. Once I had to turn into a pig and dig up truffles, once I had to equip this bomb throwing contraption to knock things out of trees, no more just kill/gather quests like in TOR.
Combat:
5. No Trinity, you can just grab 4 players and do the dungeons, no more waiting 2 hours in a queue for a tank.
6. Different combat style. No more of the WoW/SWTOR just standing there and being beat on. Dodging, movement, ability combos, and skill are the name of the game.
Leveling:
7. No kill stealing, everyone that participates gets credit
8. Loot for everyone, you don't have to roll for loot against your friends, everyone gets their own assigned loot.
9. Flat leveling curve, each level after 30 takes as much experience as the previous, so you don't have levels that just drag on forever
10. Scaled zones. If you go back to a lower level zone you get down-scaled to the level of that zone so it is still a challenge. You also still get xp (slightly reduced, like 10%) and loot appropriate for your level. This has the effect that you always have MORE options with every level you gain on where to go next. In TOR if you are level 27 then you HAVE to level on tatooine, in GW2 there are over 10 places you could effectively level by the same time.
Exploration
11. Hidden puzzles all over the world, including complex jumping puzzles with cool rewards at the ends)
12. MASSIVE OPEN worlds. You never feel like you are on a path, you can literally go anywhere unlike the path planets of TOR
13. No long loading times. You can load into a zone in 10-15 seconds, not the 3-4 minutes it takes in TOR
PvP
14. WvWvW (Server vs Server v Server) MASSIVE PvP, fights of 100+ people, sieging castles, using siege weapons, defending keeps, guarding supply lines, best open world PvP i've ever played.
15. No Factions, so no faction imbalance.
16. Small scale PvP like Warzones in TOR, with multiple maps (Including an underwater one!)
17. PvP tournaments, with rewards
18. Fully ranked PvP system on release
19. Can PvP at level 2, as a full level 80 with full gear (that's right no gear grind, just skill)
20. Can still progress in PvP by earning better cosmetic looks for your gear

Well that's just a few of the reasons, but i'd say try and get a beta key and play this weekend (they are giving out like 500,000 of them)

That's nice

Absolutely nothing. I was far less than impressed with the beta.

You're right; it is nice. There are a great deal of things on that list that TOR could use and probably should've had well before launch. It doesn't cease to amaze me how many things TOR *could* have when it should amaze me at how many things TOR *does* have.

LULZ IT WUZ JUST A BETA! You're welcome.

Exploration
11. Hidden puzzles all over the world, including complex jumping puzzles with cool rewards at the ends)

I will be leaving swtor for GW2 and here is why

GW2 Features:
1. Expansive Achievement system with rewards
2. Fully fleshed out Guild system with guild rewards and achievements, guild emblems you can put on your armor, guild bank, etc... (guild halls to come shortly after release)
3. Dynamics Events that scale to the number of players participating in them. Events that span entire areas, events that actually change the game world around you
4. No traditional quests, "renown hearts" instead, gives you many different activities. Once I had to turn into a pig and dig up truffles, once I had to equip this bomb throwing contraption to knock things out of trees, no more just kill/gather quests like in TOR.
Combat:
5. No Trinity, you can just grab 4 players and do the dungeons, no more waiting 2 hours in a queue for a tank.
6. Different combat style. No more of the WoW/SWTOR just standing there and being beat on. Dodging, movement, ability combos, and skill are the name of the game.
Leveling:
7. No kill stealing, everyone that participates gets credit
8. Loot for everyone, you don't have to roll for loot against your friends, everyone gets their own assigned loot.
9. Flat leveling curve, each level after 30 takes as much experience as the previous, so you don't have levels that just drag on forever
10. Scaled zones. If you go back to a lower level zone you get down-scaled to the level of that zone so it is still a challenge. You also still get xp (slightly reduced, like 10%) and loot appropriate for your level. This has the effect that you always have MORE options with every level you gain on where to go next. In TOR if you are level 27 then you HAVE to level on tatooine, in GW2 there are over 10 places you could effectively level by the same time.
Exploration
11. Hidden puzzles all over the world, including complex jumping puzzles with cool rewards at the ends)
12. MASSIVE OPEN worlds. You never feel like you are on a path, you can literally go anywhere unlike the path planets of TOR
13. No long loading times. You can load into a zone in 10-15 seconds, not the 3-4 minutes it takes in TOR
PvP
14. WvWvW (Server vs Server v Server) MASSIVE PvP, fights of 100+ people, sieging castles, using siege weapons, defending keeps, guarding supply lines, best open world PvP i've ever played.
15. No Factions, so no faction imbalance.
16. Small scale PvP like Warzones in TOR, with multiple maps (Including an underwater one!)
17. PvP tournaments, with rewards
18. Fully ranked PvP system on release
19. Can PvP at level 2, as a full level 80 with full gear (that's right no gear grind, just skill)
20. Can still progress in PvP by earning better cosmetic looks for your gear

Well that's just a few of the reasons, but i'd say try and get a beta key and play this weekend (they are giving out like 500,000 of them)