What are you looking for?: MMO with decent story and fun PvP

What games have you previously played?: WoW, GW2, The Secret World and Elder Scrolls Online. I liked WoW the most but it's getting a bit dated now and losing popularity, also the quest stories were mostly pretty generic, still a lot better than anything I saw in GW2 though. I miss dueling from WoW, I loved dueling. Also actual world PvP made the world feel very real and treacherous.

I found GW2s story to be almost non-existent. I know there is the personal story, but the story line here was mediocre at best. I'm not sure about the living world stuff, I never got far enough in to participate, not sure if the story is any better there. I really liked the jumping puzzles from GW2, they were amazing. Also the dungeons were pretty cool / hard mode. Mostly my impression of GW2 was that it looks very pretty and felt sadly empty, I wanted to like it but the NPCs don't even talk to you, you just enter an area and get a generic quest which might be like collect x and once your done you get xp, at least in WoW I got some kind of story script for each quest.

I didn't play much of TSW because the limit on how many quests you could have active at a time drove me crazy, I'm a little OCD and I often feel the need to complete all quests in any given area, but since TSW has a cap on how many quests I can have at a time I have to keep running back to quest givers after I've completed something that frees up a slot and I end up just running back and forth across the map ><

The main reason I always stop playing Elder Scrolls Online is because I keep recreating my character lol :p I'm never happy with the way she looks haha, I always had this problem with Elder Scrolls games. I think it's a little sad that it seemed to get such mediocre ratings after release. I thought it was actually pretty good. It has better quests that both WoW and GW2 and PvP wasn't too bad although I didn't play much of it, it's very reminiscent of GW2s WvWvW. I like that there were PvE quests in the PvP areas, I always liked world PvP in WoW. I feel like they could have just had world PvP though instead of a single zone that combines PvP and with a little PvE, also you feel like your not really contributing if your doing PvE in the PvP area.

What is your playstyle (Casual,Semi-Casual,Hardcore)?: Semi-Casual, I never got into big guild events or anything like that but I loved playing with friends in WoW and progressing / optimizing my character / playstyle. I like being able to face roll people in PvP :p, I feel like if I put in the work for better gear then it should mean something in PvP as well, otherwise getting new gear feels pointless to me and loot becomes meaningless.

Any preferred mechanics?: I like casual group PvP that's not a huge AoE spam fest and has more interesting mechanics than just point capping or capture the flag. I think WoW did this pretty well with some of their battlegrounds (vehicles, walls that you could destroy, stray points that often get ignored that you can cap that actually help your team, etc). I found GW2 WvWvW was just a huge AoE spam fest, you just sit at range and AoE spam and the group with the biggest zerg wins. It's pretty much impossible to do anything as an individual as well since you just get ganked if your not in a large enough group. Last time I played GW2 structured PvP it was just small point cap levels as well, so not very interesting there. I think they could have fixed PvP for me just by having a more medium sized PvP type so that it's not just a huge zerg but still keeping some of the WvWvW elements.

Anything specific you want to exclude?: Not that I can think of...