You should have prefaced your response as "Fanboy to the rescue!". Though anyone reading your post, and its subsequent rants could tell that easily enough.
I wasn't bashing WildStar at all, nothing in my post was wrong in its description of WildStar, nor was I trying to sell GW2 as being a better game...that was just coming from your own prejudice against GW2 (a game which you seem to hate).
Leveling in WS is mostly questing via hubs in various areas, surprisingly similar to WoW, with dungeons (like WoW), and the ability to forgo questing / dungeons totally by leveling up via PvP. The Adventures (Story ones) you can run at 35+ sound great, much more developed than the later stages of GW2's Story quests. A big plus for WS are the Shiphand missions, and I hope there are more than 3-4 throughout the leveling experience.
Combat? It is nearly identical to GW2 in mechanics, except WildStar added in its telegraphs, which are overdone (imo). Both allow movement while attacking (though WS has stationary attacks, and GW2 has animation cycles).
You mentioned yourself that you 'preferred GW2 combat' and felt its questing was more fun. You then failed to mention half of the content of Wildstar including only referring to the leveling experience. I had not once made a single post prior to responding to yours so your ability to peg me as a fanboy is lacking. I even cited the -actual- specifoc strengths of the games you generically called 'excellent' at the end of my post; something you failed to do entirely.
So yes you -did- try to sell it as a better game. Perhaps that wasn't your intent but your personal opinions bled right through. Declaring you're not biased but then showing said bias through language structure, missing information, and offhand comments is par for the course. It's still an opinionated, contentless evaluation.
Adventures begin at 25. There you go again with the offhand comparisons "surprisingly similar to wow". Were you surprised when GW2 and TSW and SWTOR amd Warhammer Online and Age of Conam and Rift used a hub system. Of those games Rift and Swtor are far and away the closest matches to wow...Wildstar pulls elements of the now classic hub system and incorporates slightly smaller early zones and dynamic environments with some random events + path quests that involve everyone nearby not
just people in your group.
Combat is not identical. I am not saying this to personally insult you...but you have a limited concept of combat. Regardless of superficial mechanical control similarities the under the hood combat system is drastically different. Real teamplay exists as opposed to the under-implemented combo system. There are more abilities on your bar, they are infinitely more customizable with tiers/amps and you have more non LAS abilities to incorporate.
Even the mechanics are drastically different. You may not -like- telegraphs but that doesnt make them any less well developed and cleanly designed. I suppose what impresses me and I -am- a fanboy of was the flawless incorporation of league style skillshots into a 3rd person game. In fact the best true combat system comp is Smite from a mechanical pov.
Also w/regards to combat is art and color choices. They follow the blizzard policy of visibility over pizzazz; in a wild pvp 15 v 15 you can somehow still make out every telegraph even while they're overlapping in various places. Environments/spell effects -never- occlude your vision.
I'm sorry you feel the need to spread misinformation. It'd be a lot easier to take you seriously if you cited real objectove flaws. You know, "uninspired early game content", "poor repeat low level content, terrible alt game", "inflexible difficulty level, can skew too hard for mixed skill level groups", "high skill cap on class/character control due to mixed mechanics between old game types and new"
Instead you choose to express unsubstantiated inarticulate low detail opinions as facts.
