Best MMO PvP you ever played?

1-DAOC
2- SWG (for the sandbox factors)
3- EQ1 in the first 3 years.

Best pvp game all out - EVE - its simply incredibly.

Fantasy side - Warhammer - best pvp concept battleground wise - aslas bad endcontent
DAoC - great RvR and open pvp - 3 Realms, be it player or one AI side wich sides with the other weak realm = perfect concept for realm balancing
Ultima online

WoW never was and never will be a pvp game but i admit, i learned to love battlegrounds there. Reason: usually a chance encounter is very often (though not always) decided by the side with more people. taking this out as it is done in battlegrounds, the side with more skill wins (idealy -besides some class balancing issues)

DAOC---*pre trials of atlantis*

The game was built for PvP play. And I really miss the style chain combat mechanic of daoc, the "you land one hit then you can land the next and the next" It required skill and intelligence, and you had to pay attention to what was really happening because if you blocked you had a skill to use, if you parried you had a different one, evade had one, they block, parry or evade you had options too, so it cultured more intelligent play instead of the "spam" mentality of todays games.

DAoC
SWG - PreNGE/CU had a TKM+CM

One of the best concepts for open world pvp I've seen was in a f2p mmo, silkroad online. The game itself was bad, but the idea for that pvp was just epic.

Basically in order to make money one had to run caravans from one city to another. The further the destination is, the bigger the gap between buying and selling price of goods. There were 3 parties involved... the traders who were doing the caravan, hunters to protect them, and thieves who tried to steal it. Many times people organized trade runs, with dozens of caravan animals, lots of hunters and took off to another city. Of course all the thieves on the server were after them resulting in epic battles between the players. Unfortunately there was nothing else in the game worth doing, so it didn't last long for me, but still one of the best idea for pvp I've seen.

has anyone ever -played Knight online...


holy cow it was a grindy game, but had the best pvp i ever experienced.. everything was so well thought out and balanced..


toook so much skill in that game to pvp, with an implemented combo system, so even if a guy is max lvl and didn't kno what he was doing you could beat him easily.

and comboin was an art, not something you can learn right off the bat. some people couldn't even do it at all, and just plain sucked.

thanks mate

#1 Lineage (original) best pvp in gaming history
#2 Warhammer Online: Most balanced PvP new age game
#3 Havent Found a 3rd

StarWars is a super fun game for the story line and PvE aspect. But PvP needs a lot of work and fast before the game dies in its first month.

Vanilla/BC WoW world PvP (Blackrock Mountain & Sunwell Island, I miss thee)

Everquest 1 PvE

Waiting for EQ Next

I am glad I am not the only person who though PvP in AoC was terrible. Also I think though Rift PvP is similar to WoW, I never got into it, as a healer it didn't seem fun. More terrible PvP can be found in any hero game, Champions Online, CoX, and DC online ... all really bad.

In order of enjoyment:
1- UO like the first 3 months after release when you could loot player items from the corpses of the players you killed. You could also cut up their bodies and take things like their hearts, or ears as trophies. It really made you think twice about PvP and added an element of diplomacy forcing you to be social or die.
2- Warhammer, had the most enjoyable PvP leveling experience of any MMO I've have played.
3- Guild Wars, not much to say, I really loved the active playstyle of the Monk, I am said to hear they got rid of the healer role in GW2.
4- WoW, and I am bias here because I loved 2v2 arenas and not for the easy points but because it was something my wife and I could do together without having to rely on anyone else.
5- SWTOR, It's not as bad as I had original thought ... the PvP is actually growing on me, they just need to fix the ability delay because I am still experiencing it.
6- Aion, rifting in that game was a blast, other than that the rest of the pvp was terrible especially the abyss.

Honestly the best type of PvP is not in MMOs, its reflex based where you can dodge your opponents abilities and don't rely on RNG like in any FPS. But my favorite PvP is in Demon's Souls and Dark Souls ... I waiting for the next MMO from Blizzard, rumor has it, it will be played as such.