Me personally,

I feel like this game tried to 1 up GW2.
- Thing is GW2 WvW (Alliance vs Alliance) is WAY WAY WAYYYYYY better. That's because its actually competitive... TESO WvW is uncompetitive at all, just a 30 day and do it all over again... There is no TIERS like in GW2. Also, GW2 WvW population is a LOT bigger for a reason. Also, the actual fighting its zerg vs zerg yes but it does require skills. Also, more maps and as a newb you can still contribute... This game I find it hard to contribute besides healing. Also you can SEE your enemies easier, this game I'm like.... whose the enemy and whose my friend??? I know there might be mods, but just because they gave allows people to make mods doesn't mean the actual game developers themselves should ignore the issue. The only good thing I like is the sneak system and how you can ambush people and such, that's all I really like about this game. Since GW2 was the 1st to do WvW, it's going to be hard to knock it down and become better because the first thing people do is normally what they refer to as the norm, and TESO pretty much doing exactly what GW2 does except its adding scrolls for a little capture the flag.
- GW2 has a living story, this game I'm actually listening and taking my time... But the lore just bad, (outside main quest) feel like a waste of time but I'm trucking through it anyways. I really like the LS aspect in GW2.
- This game lacks arena style PvP, which GW2 offers... You know what, GW2 wanted to BEAT LoL by being a "#esports", but you know what, it didn't leech off of what LoL does (tower defense type deal)(TESO leeched off GW2 in my mind with WvW, feels very similar lol), but anyways GW2 went with a conquest type mode, and had a DOWNED state as well, and to be honest, its really enjoyable but what it lacks is a REAL leaderboard, REAL tournaments (IN GAME, 2 TEAM tourney IS NOT a TOURNAMENT!), and what it did in GW1, where the victors of the halls of heroes would get there name shown and make themselves feel awesome because of it. Now I think TESO kinda leeched off of that with so and so drop/taken/whatever the scroll. Even when your in PvE you see it type deal. But thing is, the scrolls aren't really that big of a deal, I don't know what they expect? To have the PvE;ers log into that server and try and prevent the scroll being taken??? Those servers don't even feel that big, and they seem like they always FULL lol. How do I get in and help if the server is full???
- The fighting in this game feels like traditional MMO, with a little GW2 feeling as in knockbacks and blowouts (well there's a few knockbacks in this game I noticed).
- This game I feel like when it was developing its PvP, it saw GW2 WvW system and was inspired by that. The original is always the best though, that's why I like GW2 better. This game PvP SHOULD be open world, its designed for OPEN world as in alliances start in there own little area.... However I feel like that since this game tried to take away some of the INNOVATIVENESS of GW2 like the WvW system and copy it and try and be better, that it ruined its PvP scene for how great it could've been. I mean, there is a PvE in this game and a PvP... You could've implemented PvP in the PvE aspect of the game, but did not.
- Another thing, the crown store, aka the gem store in GW2... GW2 has better selection of outfits, and a lot of them to be exact. This game I don't really care for ANYTHING in the crown store, very sad. In GW2, there is SOOOO MUCH I want to get, seriously. GW2 goes about it better too if you ask me, because you can buy gems with gold, TESO you cannot get crowns from gold. What it does is makes it so if people want the in game currency they just give it to the actual game, rather than to a 3rd party (plat seller what you call it in EQ terms). But yes, the outfits in GW2 are a lot better, sure they are all regular olden day time armor, but they have variety and different ones as well)

You know what, this game feels like a little like Dead of Alive too. Because they keep re-running the same armor modules, in DOA they got lazy and kept using the same skins. That's WHY DOA went out of business lol. Sure the daedric armor looks nice, but it gets old after a couple years of using the same module you know.
Keep using same armor modules, and in DOA they slacked and got rid of them, like DOA 2 there was like 8 different ones, now I think DOA 5 its like 4.... And they use the BAD modules and throw away the good ones... *shakes head* sad, just dumb, they dug there own grave... Feel like Dynasty Warriors did the same thing too, just thinking about the modules, they started slacking like after 4. They just throw out garbage and barely do updates and expect to remain the best. So sad, both WERE very good games.... Now you look at GW2... They didn't use the same modules, WAY different, even though I really miss A LOT of the GW1 skins, like 15k armor and such. But GW2 does a very good job of providing more outfits and such, only thing that game lacks is the characters don't seem to be the focus, it kinda feels like playing a Diablo game with character being seen so far away and not first person view, doesn't feel like a traditional MMO like Everquest, and this game.

Another thing, I feel this game is like SWTOR due to having all voice overs, this is the only other game I know of with all voice overs, and to be honest I don't think all voice overs is a good idea. Because I'd rather read the dialogue in 10 seconds imagining how they'd say it, over waiting ONE or TWO minutes for them to yap super slowly about something that isn't really important. Reading dialogue isn't a bad thing. I'm wondering how EQ Next is going to go about it, if they are smart they wont waste money on having everything voiced. SOOOOO much money sink in voiceovers I just don't get it, hire a bum and save lots of money, I don't understand how games like SWTOR spend soooo much money on that stuff, imagine this game did the same as well. SWTOR went F2P I think, it didn't have a brand to support it much like this game does, I think if this game wasn't an Elder Scrolls game, it would've went F2P too instead of B2P.

If this game wanted to be successful, it should have stuck with what made the other elder scrolls games innovated, and not try to leech off of games like SWTOR and GW2. Things that made other elder scrolls games fun was like giants tossing you 1000 ft in the air, ILLUSION traitline, as in calming NPCs, FURY as in making NPCs fight each other, and so on, I liked playing under ILLUSION traitline all I do is turn the NPC friends into the enemy or FURY the boss and watch all his friends try and kill him and time he dies theres 1 left and I kill last guy type of things. Things like jumping super high in the air ACROBATICS traitline and the jump increase spell. Also running so fast that your literally floating. All those FUNKY stuff is what made the elder scrolls fun and innovative, as well as killing NPCs and taking there home and such, KILLING guards too, just creating CHAOS! But nah it just feels like to me a SWTOR NPC talking wise, EQ2 quest wise, and a GW2 PvP wise. Nothing really stands out in this game besides being an Elder Scrolls. However it does have a lot of potential but people said it was buggy at launch, and it does feel pretty buggy as of now. The music while waiting for load, is choppy. Sometimes when I zone into a zone like the refuge, I'm stuck in the floor and have to wait 3 seconds for the game to take me out of the terrain and properly place me so I can move, these random crashes, oh and I wasn't able to zone into the refuge once and died by a guard because of it LOL. Things I do like about the game is the ROARRR after breaking stun, its just awesome, and I like doing draconic leap, and just those power up type moves that make you feel beastmode, pretty much only thing I like about the game. I just like to *** off the guard, let him fiery grip me and break stun ROARRR. LOL. That's pretty much it.
The dungeons, feels just like any other game, lil like GW2 since you have dodge roll (ANOTHER THING GW2 Innovated that this game tries to leech off of, but ya dodgeroll pretty nice thing) and it shows the enemy attacking you (there attack bubbles) and such, feels just like GW2. Dungeons just feel like EQ2 and lil GW2 mechanics. The Vet pledge sounds like some quest you do in EQ2, cant remember, never made it to endgame EQ2 but sounds just like same thing.

If this game wants to be innovative, implement grappling moves, aka wrestling moves. The next class should be a wrestler. Implement a brawler too. See another thing Elder Scrolls did good was hand to hand that was fun. Also the finishing moves, fun as well.... Yet this game has neither. But back to innovativeness, I don't know any MMORPG that is like this style that allows you to chokeslam, powerbomb, piledrive, suplex, moonsault, backbreaker, you get the point type moves. Where someone can hold you and destroy you, make you tap out and such.

If anything, I don't play sorcerer but seeing PvP videos of them, they seem very lame, its like a lightning on people and that's what kills em. What they should do is have them pick up people with there minds or lightning or something and SLAM them to the ground. Do the epic side effect noises and such too... On the same level as the ROARRR from stunbreak and the draconic leap type noise and what happens to enemy from pouncing on someone else.

Why am I playing? Because its an elder scrolls. I'm not too impressed but I'm trying my hardest to stay motivated, and I'm only lvl 19 so far. Also, that I'm waiting for EQ Next to come out, because I'm an EQ fan over the Elder Scrolls. EQ was my first game and like I said, its hard to beat your first, just like how Quake 1 was my first FPS game (all these other games are terrible shooters)