I’m new from ESO and I’ve decided to try out WoW so I can have something to compare ESO to so I don’t potentially miss out on one game being better than the other. Given that ESO is newer than WoW, I find many videos and reddit posts in favor of ESO over WoW, but not so much the inverse. What makes WoW better than ESO?
That is a hard question to reply to because it boils down to what qualities you hold important. I have very little experience with ESO myself so I don’t have alot of point of reference either. Also note both games play diffrently while being MMOs. I play between FF14 and WoW myself for example. Where FF14 has better tools for story telling and roleplay, WoW has much more expansive endgame content and to many better raid design.
It all kinda depends on what you want from your game, and it never hurts to at least try if doing so won’t hurt fiancially
I don’t know; I played The Elder Scrolls Online a little after if first came out a long time ago and I don’t remember it.
Who cares what others think? Judge for yourself.
Probably because you don’t have to maintain a dozen buffs on one bar while hitting your skills on another bar while having to weave(mash) your mouse button.
Also the fact that a bunch of class abilities are just inferior to more generic abilities creates an even bigger hamper on the class fantasy that they have in that game.
ESO has changed a little too much for its own good, everything from difficulty of content to gearing. WoW doesn’t change as frequently- but it changes enough that it’s been worse than ESO at plenty of stages in their respective life cycles. You just caught it at an upswing after about 5 years of bullscheisse and hemorrhaging players.
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Different games for different preferences.
ESO is much more about story, atmosphere, and the solo player experience. It has tons of solo players from the TES franchise games who don’t care about group content, competitiveness and so on. It also has a competitive community focused on trials and PvP, but the bulk of the ESO community is really the story solo crowd.
WoW also has both types of players, but WoW is designed primarily around the competitive group content players rather than the solo players, and is much more about gear, player power and instanced group content than story.
Combat is severely different between the two games. WoW is based on the old-skool tab target/global-cooldown system from the late 1990s period, but this has been tweaked a lot over the years to make it faster, more reactive, and more like quick-time combat in many ways, especially in the competitive group instanced content. At the same time, it isn’t action combat like ESO tries to be. ESO, for its part, has its own foibles in terms of its combat, like requiring animation canceling (initially an unintended exploit that the dev team decided to leave in the game), requiring constant weapon shifting and the like to maximize DPS, and in all the combat seems much more janky and jerky than it does in WoW – WoW is a very old game, but some things like animations, movement and combat are simply more fluid and smooth in WoW than in virtually any other MMO, even today.
Really, these are both fun games for people who prefer one style or the other, but they’re pretty different games. There are people who play both of them as well, looking to each for a different kind of fix (ESO for story and crafting and updated graphics and so on, WoW for instanced content, gear-chasing, raids). It really depends on what you’re looking for, but if you’re coming from ESO you shouldn’t expect WoW to be like ESO, because it’s very different.
Only you can determine that after playing both.
Sometimes, the game people play first will subjectively be better, since you are used to it. I keep trying to play SWTOR, and while I love the story and dialogue options, the gameplay feels like a bad WoW knockoff. I’ve also tried ESO, and the gameplay makes me miss WoW. I really would like to play the ESO story someday.
I was actually in a 3 year WoW hiatus up until a few months ago, and finally resubbed after playing the Palia alpha. It wasn’t that Palia was bad; all the games make me realize how good WoW is. Now that could all be due to me playing it first, but that’s another debate all together.
Side note: I haven’t tried Final Fantasy, but I have a feeling the same thing will happen to me. I’ll also probably never try it because I have invested too much into WoW since 2003 and I also don’t have enough free time to play 2 MMOs. I think I may just give up ever playing a different MMO until either WoW dies, moves to WoW 2, World of StarCraft is created, or some really awesome MMO pops up that can’t be missed (New World didn’t even spark a try from me).