Best MMO PvP you ever played?

UO pre Tram

1) Ultima Online

2) Lineage II

3) Wolverine

I like Rift PvP.

Once you overcome their "Prestige" ranks and actually fight in a balanced Warfront, the PvP is very intense. Good players can make or break a fight, not based on class imbalance but purely on skill.

The controls are fluid, there are counters for almost everything, if you spec your character right, everyone has a defined role and if played well can wreak havoc on the enemy.

Also adds variety to the mix, in some maps I play a ranged class, in others a stealth class, in still others I play a support healer. This forces you to learn the game from many different angles and gives you insight into the play style and requirements of each.

Being locked into one character with one set of commands, now seems a bit dull and tame by comparison. So this is my role...from now until forever, or until I can be bothered to reroll another character and level that character up.

It just doesn't offer the same involvement.

Too young to have played DAoC then? Clearly the best PVP ever.

WAR had potential, true. But it also had dev team after dev team full of idiots. The one thing we have to hope is that Mythic have learned being killed by someone where you have no chance to retaliate - WAR stealth class (I forget the name of it) until it was nerfed - or where you spend large parts of a fight not in control of your character or are unable to do anything - either through incessant CC or very poor combat mechanics - does not lend itself to a profitable business model.

Still, there can't be much Mythic influence in SWTOR, otherwise companions would be bugged to hell and be completely useless. Still, I kinda miss my white lion...

The servers are not down, game is still going strong infact they still do monthly updates.

This game has done a monthly update every single month for 12 years.

I would have said warhammer if it were not for the whole aoe bombing lag fest it was for a good amount of it's life. During the times where none aoe spamming style gameplay was possible it was the best, in fact right now the combat is great and the fact that it is one of the only games that has large groups of people whos only purpose is to run around open world and kill other large groups of people makes it the best pvp game on the market for me, despite what people like to say about it. I hope that swtor open pvp efforts manage something even remotely similar.

SWG Open World PvP between Anchorhead and Bestine was just EPIC.

I also enjoyed GvG ladder tournaments in GW.

Shadowbane, PERIOD.
The most hardcore, ruthless pvp mmo that ive ever found...

Sandbox world, City building, 48 classes, 16 species (Minos, birdmen, centaurs, etc) global FFA pvp model, no one and nothing was safe. Enemies? Dead, Allies? Killable? Clan? Ninja looters? Group members? All attackable and killable at any time, ALWAYS. Oh... and inventory looting...
When was the last time you played a "Theif" that could ACTUALLY STEAL EQUIPMENT FROM OTHER PLAYERS? Never, except for Shadowbane. Actual sieges where you MUST BUILD SIEGE ENGINES DAYS IN ADVANCE. God i miss that game...

SWG

It's even better than TOR, but this will suffice until the Post-Nge Emu comes out.

SWG PvP was fun.

But Shadowbane was intense. There was no "hang on, time-out". I need to sit out for a few mins and take a break.

In Shadowbane, your bind point could get camped! You were always flagged for PvP and you better have some friends, preferably a large guild or life was going to suck.

Thats why it was fun.