Top 5 Most PvP Intensive P2P MMORPGs
It seems like a lot of new games today have either very limited or no Player versus player (PvP) options, which can be quite frustrating for gamers who enjoy the thrill of fighting against other players. Unfortunately for PvP fans, the PvP doesn’t get much love in most mainstream games. Enormously popular titles like MapleStory and MegaTen don’t even have an ounce of PvP. Fortunately though, there are quite a bit of MMORPGs out there that still place a strong emphasis on PvP. The list below ranks the top 5 most PvP intensive Pay To Play MMORPGs available.
#1 Eve Online
Eve Online is hands down the most PvP intensive pay to play MMORPG out there. Players can literally attack each other anywhere in the game universe. The open PvP environment allows for pirating mining ships or even large scale 100 vs 100 guild battles. The best part about the game’s PvP is that destroyed ships drop their cargo, which is freely lootable. If you’re looking for a PvP focused game, Eve Online is where it’s at.
Warhammer was heavily advertised as both a WoW Killer and a PvP heavy MMO. One of these statements were true, and it wasn’t the first one. Like Eve Online, players of opposing factions can attack each other practically anywhere aside from the newbie zones. The game’s battlegrounds are also another area of the game where players can duke it out. The beauty of Warhammer Online’s PvP is that players gain XP for defeating opponents, which means theoretically, players can reach the maximum level without every fighting a monsters.
Even though World of Warcraft is the most ‘main stream’ MMORPG today, the game’s PvP servers are still quite PvP intensive. Another perk about playing WoW is that it’s extremely balanced, which is something I can’t say for many games. With an Open PvP environment, players can attack members of the opposing faction in nearly all areas of the game aside from the newbie zones. I recommend PvP fans play on heavily populated PvP servers for maximum PvP interaction.
#4 Guild Wars
Unlike any other MMORPG, Guild Wars can be a 100% PvP MMORPG, as players can create special ‘PvP characters’ which start at maximum level. That’s right, players can start off at maximum level with PvP characters. Instead of an open world PvP though, the PvP in guild wars centers around ‘ranked’ PvP matches in 1v1, 2v2, 3v3 and numerous other setups. With a dual classing system, similar to the system in Runes of Magic, the PvP in Guild Wars is quite exciting.
Dark Age of Camelot was designed to compete against Ultima Online and EverQuest, but in a unique way. The game was the first to introduce large ‘realm vs realm’ combat into the MMORPG genre. Choose one of the game’s three ‘realms’ and defeat your enemies in this epic PvP intensive MMORPG. My only real complaint with Dark of Camelot though is that the game’s population has declined significantly, so the game’s ‘ream vs realm’ battles may not be as epic as they used to be. Fun Fact: Warhammer Online was actually developed by many of the same people who worked on Dark Age of Camelot.
By, Jake Bismarck
February 3, 2010
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Age of Conan = #1
FOOLS
March 10, 2010
#1
ROFL age of conan pvp is pants, let me guess you have never played any of the above games?
April 11, 2010
#2
Nice list… but Lineage 2 has better pvp than WoW, but no free loot. Mortal Online, with free loot, sandbox, free open world and better, no boss respawn. I could say you need to kill 100 time a boss in WoW to get a rare loot, and in MO you need 100 players to kill the boss one time only. Could list some more… better than wow. The best game made by blizz is not WoW, (mainstream sucks). Diablo 2 is the best game (D3).
April 11, 2010
#3
By the way, Guild wars is a native PVP game(You can star pvp since the very first day withou killing a monster, same as MO). It only doesnt have the free loot system, and the exp gain in pvp (WAR) otherwise is better than any pvp out there inclusing EVE. Again wow is entertainmant for mainstream.
April 11, 2010
#4
Guild Wars is a native PVP game (like MO). No need to grind.
June 9, 2010
#5
Where is Knight Online ??? It must be the first!
June 22, 2010
#6
I’ve played all of those games, WoW, WAR, and DAoC for extended periods of time specifically, and I’ve got to say DAoC is number 1 for PvP. They did things w/ MMO’s that no other MMO has done since that were GOOD ideas. 3 factions, stat caps, mandatory and not trivial crafting, siege warfare that no other game has topped, 40 unique classes with unique armor and weapons for every class (and yes, I can argue specifically how each of these points relates to their RvR)… it’s too bad WAR’s still a work in progress. DAoC is very complete.
January 21, 2011
#7
it’s all true about DAoC … this game is still the best RvR / PvP game.
mutliple of the classes … balancing … open battles Realm vs Realm vs Realm … sieges … also 1vs1 PVP is great in there ….
i hope there will be some game with 3 realms (or more) with RvR
imo:
1. DAoC
2. Eve
3. Knight Online
4. Lineage 2
5. WAR
July 19, 2010
#8
I disagree with the one about WoW. It’s never really that balanced. It will always be rock/paper/scissors. The only way you could make it skill-based and balanced for pvp is if everyone was the same class or if you took CC out of the game. Otherwise it’s just a bunch of retards running around thinking that timing their CC means they’re really good at killing other people who then have no control of their characters. I still play WoW, but not for PVP anymore. It’s a joke. I have better games for my PVP.
November 25, 2010
#9
Agree with the disagree…WoW is far from balanced. The word ‘balanced’ should not be in the same sentence with WoW. Equal on the other hand…they’re closer to this. Blizzard seems to think that designing each class so that it can kill other classes they are creating class balance however, without character roles, with strengths and weaknesses (i.e. ranged class v. melee; durability v. dps) you can they will never be balanced.
July 24, 2010
#10
Guild Wars isn’t an MMO. I just quit WAR cuz they’re adding a “plague rat” spawn to the t2 and t3 RvR zones, that give tons of XP and RR. Where the fuck in Warhammer lore do Order and Destruction fight over who gets to grind monsters?
July 24, 2010
#11
Guild Wars is not an MMO. Guild Wars is an online RPG with a 3d virtual lobby. No game where you have 15 players on each side max is an MMORPG. There’s nothing massive about Guild Wars.
I’ve just quit Warhammer Online because they’re adding a “Plague Rat” spawn to t2 and t3 that gives you as much RR and XP as capturing both keeps and all the battlefield objective in the zone… and Order and Destruction are supposed to fight over it. It was just honestly the lamest thing I’ve ever heard. They’re bandaid solution to not having enough players in RvR is to add a PvE camp? Pathetic devs…
Why don’t they just make the RvR rewards worth it, like they did for scenarios. They’re liars, they sold me the game as a game focused on RvR. It’s not, it’s focused on arena e-sports just like WoW was.
August 2, 2010
#12
WAR is getting stupid, the population is declining. its so hard to get in a scenario in t1 and when you do its a bunch of perma trial accounts. i just go to t2 yesterday and have been queued for a scenario for about 5 hours. i would have to say eve in the most active pvp you can log in ANY TIME on any day and go to almost any place and find someone to kill… its very easy to find corps(guilds) who will help you start your char and explain the (at times VERY complicated) details of the game.
i played daoc for 6 years.. they were i believe the first game to introduce “reactionary” skills, as in if i block then i can use this skill chain or if you block i can use that chain. also the rvr in its hayday was EPIC!! i have a fully templated warden and it was sooo much fun to play…… it sucks that mythic has destroyed the game.. nobody plays anymore lol (as im posting this i checked the population and its 1375 worldwide… and only 1 cluster is up anymore)
August 20, 2010
#13
All those games are laughable for PvP with exception to Eve online. It has the best most realistic PvP system of any game currently out there. When someone can’t handle the heat in Eve they run to the other games. Those other games are sand boxes while Eve is a cage match.
“That which does not kill me had better run!”
October 14, 2010
#14
Eve is the only good pvp mmo that currently exists. everything else is a bunch of bullshit easy crap for all the retards to play.
this is my corp : eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/combat_record.php?type=corp&name=Obsidian+Cartel
i am running 3 accounts atm, but the one i have been pvping with most lately is baron. canock is not me
February 5, 2011
#15
Evan. 400+ kill in Eve with full corp ?
That’s a joke ?
I have alone over 4000+
The best pvp mmo was the Fung Wan Online but fortunatly their creator were Malaysians, and thier game shutted down in the 5th years.
The DaoC and Eve is good pvp mmo game, but PvP is weaker than FWO…
November 20, 2010
#16
You are all idiots. PvP isn’t even real gaming content, PvP is just letting everyone entertain each other, like retarded children in a bathtub. These developers are laughing like drains at all of you, they don’t need to create any proper scenarios or quests as long as the intensive care contingent of the gaming community continue to fight each other. So what do you do about it? Drop to your knees and worship the man, just like always. You all make it so easy for them, they just wind you up and let you go. Think you are elite? Get a life, you are just another cash shop sucker, your skill lies entirely in your wallet, or at least it did. NOW who has just been owned? Suckers.
November 20, 2010
#17
I can tell someone here plays only on PvE servers, because they can’t handle getting owned…..
January 25, 2011
#18
Sarky, only idiots believe that they know how to play a game because they can beat upon programmed NPCs… on the otherhand try using your skill against someone who can think and does not use programmed moves in a set pattern against you. I, myself, like to get the best of both worlds and I really like to display how well I know my character upon people that understand their characters…this is where mastery truly shines, but you would not know that… I am a fan of both (PVE and PVP) and this is why many games these days have multiplayer elements, you twit! Learn 2 Play and Quit Crying.
December 7, 2010
#19
if you haven’t played daoc then you haven’t pvp’d.
daoc should be #1. no other game has pvp like it i doubt one ever will.
this list is false
December 7, 2010
#20
Daoc has too low of a playerbase nowadays to have fun PvP. I played DaoC and the RvR was amazing. lvl 50 Sorc here. I had a lvl 50 character on the PvP server as well (back when it had a huge playerbase), and that was awesome too. The playerbase now is meh
December 7, 2010
#21
i agree, i stopped playing a long time ago. but its still rank 1 for pvp.
50 just about everythnig here.
January 2, 2011
#22
seriously? I have played nearly all of the games mentioned. By far the mosst PvP intensive game EVER is darkfall online. sandbox style, sieges, naval combat, guild cities w/ cannon and flame towers, and fully lootable characters! i miss it
January 18, 2011
#23
WoW isn’t all that mainstream, the PvP is great and balanced far better than Lineage or GW; But first and foremost WoW is a PvE heavy game sporting the most numerous most complex and most famous raid system ever created. On top of that, WoW is a lot easier to get int, random BGs Cross realm, random Arenas, Random dungeons. The only thing you have to set up on your own is a raid. Savage 2 should definitely be up there if GW is.
February 26, 2011
#24
“wow isnt all that mainstream” lol no need to keep reading the rest of the above post. WoW IS THE MAINSTREAM. WoW defines what “mainstream” means. Wow is the mainstream Juggernaut. Get a clue.
anyhow still wondering if there is open world pvp with a somewhat serious death penalty. EVE is to easy to “play it safe” although it is a slick game. In eve you can just hide out and have ZERO chance of getting killed. I like games with almost no safe zones, so the shit talkers have to shut up or die. Unfortunately games like that are rare. (if the death penalty isnt harsh they’ll still talk shit)
March 13, 2011
#25
omer dont you have any list for top 5 most pvp intensive FREE mmos ?
March 20, 2011
#26
Seriously guys, I can’t find a quality game to play for a year now after Warhammer ‘s fail. Tried Allods, Requiem and bunch of others. The most fun I had was in private Lineage 2 pvp servers years back.
It’s unbelievable that a few clever people can customize and make a game more fun than any of the originals yet companies like EA spend millions and millions of dollars for a single game yet still fail at delivering FUN!
I want quality and instant fun! Make me a game with great content and non-childish graphics which preferably isn’t based on a movie or cartoon. I’ll log on an hour or two a day and have fun every minute of it. Asking for so much?
My only hope is Guild Wars 2 for now but we’ll see. The other alternative could be a community driven project. If Remo and other MMO blog-stars could arrange it…
They can’t do it, revolution!
April 18, 2011
#27
Notice how RIFT isn’t even mentioned? Oh thats right, because its PVP is absolutely terrible.
May 5, 2011
#28
that or the majority of this posts comments are before Rift launched..lol
May 13, 2011
#29
Anyone that says EVE is not the best PVP oriented game out there hasnt been playin it. Dont judge it by trial only. Get into the huge alliances 2500+ members and then fight fleet battles, gang roams etc. Thats PVP. EVE is game where youll find the most mature people aswell i believe. I really cant imagine any other game hold 150 people on TS with their mouths shut, listening only to the commander and doin what he says.
May 19, 2011
#30
lolz..jin online # 1….
May 22, 2011
#31
Darkfall and EVE would be the best PvP games, WHY? because theres actual risk to pvping. Theres nothing like going on a small fleet roam in EVE finding a good Target then 2 Hostile targets show up, ur heart ends up beating out your chest it gets so intense and ur adrenaline starts pumping through you even just flying around in low-null keeps you on edge your always on the look out trying to save your asset from getting blown to shreds. WOW and WAR are just the same thing never played DAOC but i heard it one of the most balanced pvp games there has ever been. But it still cant hold up to EVE in any way what so ever. Anyone who says any different has never pvp’d in EVE its that simple.
May 28, 2011
#32
Lol, by the way, Aion pvp is 20000x better then WoW pvp,
June 1, 2011
#33
EvE haha, NO
Mature NO
it’s the typical grief warfare gank and blob gang.
Worst of all the game is changing to a disfunctional relic.
There are too many grandfathers in the game that control the income.
Acquiring skills in the game takes FOREVER only making it an investment.
Last Patch is still under repair (to add content…) while other mechanics are ignored. Future is probably F2P item mall. As already noted with avatar items, it will only get worse. Anyone that has played EvE knows CCP can’t be held to what they say..!
July 2, 2011
#34
DAoC
I’ve played others and I always go back to DAoC. They should put out a DAoC 2 if they are willing to make some changes to xrealmers and buffbots. Those two need to go.
July 3, 2011
#35
amen @ high heals
July 16, 2011
#36
lmao that’s a terrible list …..warhammer is complete garbage…WoW is garbage and ISN’T EVEN A PVP GAME–it’s a PVE game folks….GW1 is arena garbage imo…so i dont count that either…I’d put DAoC at the top when it comes to pvp intensive games…maybe followed by eve (only b/c of reviews, not from experience)
July 21, 2011
#37
DAOC-was and is the best ever PVP/RVR game-
EVE is very good but very hard too for new players
July 29, 2011
#38
The best mmorpg PVP is Darkfall Online.
July 31, 2011
#39
Since when has WoW OpenPVP? OpenPVP means every player can attack anyone else without any limit. Is that possible in WoW? Clearly no, you can only attack players of the other faction. It isn’t OpenPVP because some Zones are free for PVP.
July 31, 2011
#40
Lol! Since when is WoW OpebPVP? OpenPVP means every player can attach anyone else, without any limits. Is that possible in WoW? No, it isn’t, because you can only attack players of the other faction, but not from your own.
August 4, 2011
#41
@hellscream
lol nobody said u can openPVP in WoW
August 23, 2011
#42
Depends what you want out of an mmo pvp scenario I guess.
Eve is the only pvp based game I am aware of where when you die you lose your items and your, for want of a comparative phrase, body.
This makes pvp carry a true risk (and true adrenaline rush) rather than just being ridiculously safe like pvp in other mmo’s. Oh noes i died and have to run all that way to get my body back!
I wish there was a fantasy MMO based on eve’s pvp centric, player driven market model.
September 8, 2011
#43
wow suck ass others arent good pvp either guyz u should try Jade Dynasty best pvp game ucan pk any1 everywere
September 24, 2011
#44
I played DAoC for 4-5 years, then WoW, WAR, and now EVE.
DAoC = The first version of DAoC will always remain in my heart. RvR beautiful. Engaging, you feel really committed to fight for your realm.
Beautiful battles of armies composed of hundreds of people committed to win or defend castles. PvP 1 vs 1 or 1 vs 2 very fun.
Beginning classes respected the role. After the release of Atlantis, special items have bastardized the game. The warriors had too many skills and casters disproportionate magical spells. People are demoralized and migrated to other games.
Rating 10.
WoW PvP = nonsense. Rated 2.
WAR = I was hoping it was the heir of DAoC. Perhaps because even here the role of classes did not reflect reality. For me, the melee should do the melee and casters casters. Rated 4.
EVE = The war between the Alliance and Coorporations has done very well. It looks like a real war. Ships class balanced. In addition to be good at fighting, here there is espionage, politics, and you need to be very good in the industrial and trade activities.
And overall, the average age of players is very high (35-40 years). It’s only frustrating because when you lose a ship, you must work hard to be able to reconstruct or re-purchase one, removing a lot of time to pure PvP. Rating 8.
PS: I used an automatic translator. I apologize if there are errors.
October 17, 2011
#45
Irst you have to split this into open world and NON-open world. Open world is non-instanced, free realm wandering and control.
Nothing is close to DAoC in that regard. Come-and-go instances have killed open-world warfare and tactics (devs will pretend its “for the better” and “an evolution”; what it really is is “easier to program for and load balance”). It’s not an evolution of gaming strategy for players, its an evolution to make large server populations easier to balance and smooth out onto their server farms.
If you go to sleep with your realm controlling a fortress, and return the next evening and the same fortress is still under your realm’s control (unless someone actively took it away from your realm), THAT is open world.
December 1, 2011
#46
first of all i would like to say i never played daoc but here is my prospective on mmo pvp-wow pvp=bad bad mojo
eve=the most high paced adrenelin rushing pvp you will ever get, as there is much risk to the players-eg: the titans (most expensive ships available ingame) cost 80billion isk, if you pay real money and get a plex you can sell for 350 million-now do some maths-they send ships like that into battle. wow-no risk so no adrenelin rush. i cant say for the other mmo’s as i only have alot of experionce in eve but pure pvp is never quite as good as when hell is raining in eve
December 3, 2011
#47
um wow has E-SPORTS (torneys for real money), yes it is a pvp game, end.
December 9, 2011
#48
That’s your argument? There are online dice games agains other players for real money, but I wouldn’t call that PvP if they payed me.
No, WoW may have a PvP component, but I most defnitely would not call it a PvP game
January 9, 2012
#49
I personally think that Ultima Online was the MMO with the best PvP.. But I guess they are talking modern day MMORPGs, you can still play IPY2 which is the best server, its free and its old school, no mounts is the best thing about UO.. unfortunately Ultima is dead to me.. :’( I wish there was a well populated MMO with the same dynamics, skill system and such.. *sigh*
January 31, 2012
#50
You’re all on crack. The best PvP game ever made was Asheron’s Call namely AC DT (darktide). No zoning except dungeons, open PvP, no item mall, open loot, and best of all the outcome of a fight depends totally on the skill of the player.
At 12 years old the pvp still puts everything else to shame in my opinion. Every different part of the body can be hit by attacks high / medium / low for melee and missile. Mages are the dominant class and they aught to be considering they require a high level of skill that not even the greatest Eve, Wow, War, GW, DaoC player could ever amount to.
You tube it if you haven’t experienced Asheron’s Call Darktide. You owe it to yourself after subjecting yourselves to this awful editorial.
February 16, 2012
#51
“Another perk about playing WoW is that it’s extremely balanced,”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
February 26, 2012
#52
You want true pvp, back when it was in its prime, Ultima Online was the best pvp system before the world split. True pvp anyone can kill anyone, and loot everything on them. You resurect with nothing. Anything less is pathetic. Also asheron’s call did the same thing original. I agree many games can be fun, wow has its moments and was much more fun in the first two expansions and orginal version for pvp. But now its all so carebear its not worth it. My only hope right now rests with guild wars two.
February 26, 2012
#53
You want true pvp, back when it was in its prime, Ultima Online was the best pvp system before the world split. True pvp anyone can kill anyone, and loot everything on them. You resurect with nothing. Anything less is pathetic. Also asheron’s call did the same thing original. I agree many games can be fun, wow has its moments and was much more fun in the first two expansions and orginal version for pvp. But now its all so carebear its not worth it. My only hope right now rests with guild wars two.
March 25, 2012
#54
UO hands down pre trammel
April 29, 2012
#55
You’re all abunch of tools, wow is only considered “mainstream” because it is more popular than any of the other shit games you nabs argue about. You all brush wow off the table like it’s some shithole when the fact of the matter is, wow’s pvp is the best around right now. DAoC and UO and older games were fun back in the day sure but arenas and rated bg’s offer the best balanced competative atmosphere to pvp in today