Are you guys elder testers and have you tested recently? They've done big changes to the combat and made it much quicker and responsive. And the PvE and PvP are completely different between WoW and WAR. The PvE and PQs are extremely fun. They aren't just grinding dungeons over and over, they are very scripted and are a blast with a bunch of people. The RvR is AMAZING. The huge battles and the endgame RvR is simply incredible. Plus the fact that you can get some of the best gear from RvRing and taking keeps/cities makes it great for me. I love PvE, but I've always been a big PvPer and this game does a great job of implementing it. The Scenerios (kind of like WoW BGs), are very fun and all of them are very different from eachother. And I believe there are 15 different ones you can play. But the open RvR is where it shines, going out and capturing keeps with siege weapons and a bunch of guildmates is really rewarding. Then the fact you can actually claim keeps for you guild and have your guild banner hang from them is really cool. The end cities are also very well done, they're HUGE and are very detailed. Being able to fight to one of these cities and capturing it is really exciting. They're doing a good job balancing all the classes, and it feels like every class can contribute. The tanks are great in PvP even if they're specced for damage mitigation. They can protect healers and also do decent enough DPS to burn people down.
The quests are mostly pretty quick and fun. There are no "kill 40 of these" type quests. They are all pretty quick and some are really funny also. And the best thing in an MMO in a while (I think) are the PQs. They're big public quests that anyone can jump in on and help out. At the end, it rates everyone based on their contribution and awards bags to the top people. The bags always have something you can use, they are based on your class. And they can include epics, blues, or greens. It depends on the difficulty of the PQ and the number of people participating. They're very scripted and are a lot of fun. There are 3 of them in each zone, 2 zone per tier, 4 tiers per racial pairing, and 3 racial pairings (High Elves vs Dark Elves, Chaos vs Empire, Greenskins vs Dwarfs). There is a ton of content, you could level from 1-40 in just your racial pairing without even stepping foot in the other 2. And there are tons of quests and PQ in each pairing.
I could go on and on, but there are big differences. The biggest is obviously the RvR which itself is big enough for me to move from AoC and WoW to WAR. I was always a big RvRer in DAoC, and this takes the great parts of that and makes it even better. The beginning of the game reminded me of WoW when I was first invited to the beta. But after awhile of playing, and learning everything about the game I felt like this was much different. At first I didn't like the game, but it quickly grew on me. And I immediately went out and preordered the CE.
I just realize I probably sound like I work for Mythic or am a huge fanboy/Warhammer fan. But honestly I know almost nothing about Warhammer, and went into the beta thinking it was going to be terrible. I heard bad things from other people, but like I said, I quickly changed my view of the game.
EDIT: I would also like to say that there are also PvP levels that you gain alongside your normal levels as well. The level cap is set at 40, but you can get up to level 80 in PvP. And they'll probably extend the cap at some point too, like they did in DAoC. So you're constantly progressing and making your character better after well after you hit the level cap. You gain new skill points, new gear, titles, and abilites from PvP ranks. There is always something to do.
This comment was edited on Aug 15, 18:19.