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Guild Wars 2 heart of thorns or ESO Gold Edition
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Both on sale at the moment, I have not play ESO or try out new Heart of thrones expansion , which one should I get ? which one is more players running around in same area or in big town ? which one having better scenery just stop questing and sit back and look at . Which one is more fun ? thank you. I can only afford 1.
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Cant go wrong with either purchase, just get whichever game attracts you the most, then save some more cash and buy the other one later.
You can also wait for black friday next week, maybe you can get both of them for the same price you are willing to pay right now for one, who knows.
I am leaning towards HoT, even though the base game is something I consider better storywise.
I found GW2 overall more fun and there are more players overall.
I found ESO extremely boring so never got into it, if you really want a Skrim game get Skyrim or Oblivion both are significantly better and more fun.
I have a lot more time played in GW2, but barely 5 hours in ESO.
In ESO your build is 100% customizable. Every skill on your skillbar is there because you put it there (Like the original Guild Wars) and then you can even pick one of two versions of the skill once you are high enough level.
Maybe I would have enjoyed GW2 if I had tried it with someone else like I did with ESO, but overall ESO just seems to be a better game to me. They're both themeparky themeparks but ESO gave me more freedom to build my own character which is what ultimately ended in me... getting my character about halfway to max before returning to sandbox games.
GW2 class system is junk. GW1 class system was vastly superior.
In GW1, you could be a Necromancer (best necro for any MMO) with a huge horde of minions, but also be a monk that could heal
Or a ranger mesmer
Or a warrior necromancer (that was epic)
So many class combos, with SO many skills/spells in GW1, that make GW2 look like the developers were high off drugs when redesigning the GW1 class system.
And GW2 has the worst pet class I've ever played in an MMO (complete opposite of GW1). The necromancer is junk, tiny little army of minions (that is NOT a necromancer) and the pet AI is junk.
Get GW1 if you want a guild wars game, its vastly superior. Not even just the class system, GW1 is way more fun than GW2 is.
However, I'll disagree with Eldurian on ESO. I found ESO to be really boring. There is no progression. Before one tamriel, level one...I killed monsters in the same amount of hits as I did at level 20. No progression. One tamriel makes this even worse. Literally, at level 1 you'll kill monsters the same as at level 30 (which is how far I got).
Skyrim, Oblivion and Morrowind are vastly superior elder scrolls games. So I ended up doing another 100 hours of (modded) Skyrim, which is more than I got out of ESO in one playthrough lol. I have 1000s of hours playing modded Skyrim, way more worth the money than ESO ever could be.
But if you are trying to decide between the two, ESO is way better than GW2 is. That game is junk.
My Skyrim, Fallout 4, Starbound and WoW + other game mods at MODDB:
https://www.moddb.com/mods/skyrim-anime-overhaul
Both cost about same amount of money, though I think GW2 is more expensive.
ESO, you pay a single fee a month for all DLC+a resource bag without any weight/item limit.
In GW2, you have to pay a TON of money for immortal harvesting tools (required for a crafter/harvester), but you also have to pay a large amount of money to unlock all the story content.
I did the math some time back before one tamriel, and paying for ESO for 6 months (give or take a month) was actually cheaper than playing GW2 and needing to unlock and buy tons of stuff in their gem shop. Sure people might say its optional, but for a crafter/harvester/lore freak that wants to see all the story and just craft the rest of the time, GW2 is very expensive. To buy an immortal pickaxe (which harvests more than NPC bought pickaxes, and also doesn't break) cost 10 dollars I believe, maybe a little less.
Don't remember exact amount. No matter the exact cost, even if it was 3-5 dollars, it was pretty expensive for a single item. Maybe if it was 99 cents, but it definitely wasn't that cheap. Now imagine all harvest tools+story contnet+Hearts of thorn
ESO is a much better deal between the two. Get WAY more content in ESO for much cheaper than in GW2.
My Skyrim, Fallout 4, Starbound and WoW + other game mods at MODDB:
https://www.moddb.com/mods/skyrim-anime-overhaul
Probably not entirely your fault though because ESO sells the idea of "play how you want." What they don't tell you is that there are some ways to play and some skills to choose that are infinitely better than other choices.
To an experienced player what you're saying sounds like nonsense. I can kill much better and faster at level 10 compared to 1, at level 20 compared to 10, at 30 compared to 20... before and after One Tamriel. And I'm not particularly hard core nor elite... that's what all of us can do once you get the hang of what skills to use how and when.
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If GW2 offered a monthly fee like ESO, with some bonuses and SOME free gems (like ESO offers in their monthly fee). And all stories unlocked if you stay subbed. GW2 would be a lot closer to worth the price to ESO. As it is, its only worth playing GW2 100% free. GW2 really nickle and dimes their players sadly. And a monthly fee would fix a lot of that, but that won't ever happen.
ESO offers the most for actually paying for it. Tons and tons of content and things to do
GW2 actually offers more if you don't plan to buy anything at all.
But my own personal opinion. GW2 gets repetitive, and fast. It gets pretty boring, and only good for short play times. Doesn't help the necromancer sucks compared to the GW1 one, and GW1 class system is superior.
With that said, ESO without paying for it rather sucks too...you are gated out of a LOT of content in ESO. All the awesome DLCs you either have to buy the DLC (not worth it) or pay a monthly fee.
Both games focus pretty heavily on the cash shop, but at least ESO lets you pay a small fee to skip all that nickle and diming crap companies like to do. GW2 problem with the cash shop would be fixed if you could pay like you can in ESO.
Dunno why people think cash shops are worth the money, I see people spend more on DLC than they would spend years of playing in ESO if they just subbed instead. And GW2 is just as bad, but worse, cause with no option to skip the junk cash shop.
My Skyrim, Fallout 4, Starbound and WoW + other game mods at MODDB:
https://www.moddb.com/mods/skyrim-anime-overhaul
That's one of those games I enjoyed 90% because of who I was playing it with, and 10% because there was actually anything good about the game itself.
ESO is a far better MMORPG in everyway imo , Combat,LOre,Classes, Crafting,RvR ,Graphics etc...
But as has been pointed out you can try both for free and make up your mind ..
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