After 8 years of eq I had gotten tired of the waiting for group, and the length of raids
so i tried gw and loved no monthly fees and
with guild wars you could pve with henchies forming your own group, then they have added heroes and then M.O.X the gollem and this does tie into pvp as you could do gw pve earning your skills then going pvp
or starting from scratch pvp you can if I remember unlock all skills for $ and save time try reading
http://www.guildwars.com/competitive/ar ... efault.php from the earliest bottom to top
with gw it's all about the build but unlike some games you can re-do your attribute points as you like
if you started pve and you might want to try that route its fun I would suggest a monk warrior or warrior monk a fighter that heals or a healer that fights
you could probably find a cheaper price but
https://secure.ncsoft.com/cgi-bin/Store ... tem_id=109 at $49 for all 3 campaigns isnt bad with the no monthly fees
theres only 20 levels in gw but in the pve version to open all skills you might ding level 20 60 or 70 times
you could probably get to 20 pve in a month or insta create a pvp only char
since lotro is getting a little stale i should check out gw again the heroes really are fun as you can outfit them and set their attitude and if memory serves trigger their skills (they kinda stick together henchies or heroes _seemed_ to sometimes heal one of their number before ME (unforegiveable:)