Hey there Maya! Captain, good to see you! And all the other CoH refugees as well.
It's Elltenia from Virtue and the Legionnaire's!
So, when CoH was closed down, I had a lot of mixed feelings about it. But as I have said before, not going to blame ANet because NCsoft apparently didn't like Paragon Studios and City of Heroes. (Lets face it, that's what it sure looked like to me...)
So, I play Guild Wars 2, have 3 level 80's and am still playing it, working on a 4th now...
It's not perfect. And some of the things ANet is doing with it's Living Story baffle me (Why oh why do you keep making everything temporary??) but the game is beautiful. The combat is smooth. The character progression is fairly simple, yet is still deep enough (for me) to allow for some variety in builds.
One thing I do so terribly miss is the ICON from CoH... There are more armor combinations then you can really shake a stick at, but nothing even remotely close to what we had on CoH. What the game is missing is more normal looking 'town clothes'. You you start out with a set that you can customize the colors on, and you can buy more from the Trading Post, but that costs Gems...
And on the subject of Gems... This alternate currency seems like a money-grab by most people when I talk about it. Truth is, they are basically like Paragon Points in that you need them to buy new shinies (like the aforementioned town clothes...) and other neat stuff. And yes, you can pay real money to buy Gems...
A couple of things about this though...
Yes, you can pay with real money. And that's really the easiest (and quickest) way to get Gems. But, you can also trade in game gold for Gems. so if you never want to spend another dime on the game after you buy it, you don't have to. Mind you, gold doesn't just fall from the sky like Inf used to seemingly do... But really, it's not that terribly hard to get either
Also, there is nothing you can buy with Gems that will make you better in the game itself. Nothing will make you stronger, faster, tougher or really, make it a Pay2Win situation. The Gem Store is completely and totally optional, and you can never touch it at all, and still be just as effective as the guy who spent $100 there... (In fact, I'd say you might just be better off, because you are possibly a $100 richer then he is... >_>)
Like I said, the game is not perfect by any stretch of the imagination. But if I was looking for the perfect game, I'd never play any of them out there. The lack of the Holy Trinity is kind of a mixed blessing at times... Yes, its a different take on the tried and true (and some might say over-used) game mechanic in MMOs, but sometimes I feel that they neglected to really put anything in to replace it. Sometimes I /do/ miss the ability to run into a group of enemies, pull aggro and tank them all. You try that in GW2, and you'll quickly get pummeled into the ground... That being said, I have to admit that I love the feeling I get after taking on a bunch of enemies and coming out on top after a fierce fight!
Okay, this has rambled on more then I expected to. <_< Theres more I could say, but I didn't mean to give a full review of a game that a lot of people are probably familiar with by now...