The combat is worse, the atmosphere is worse, the classes are worse, the questing is worse. The only thing this game has going for it is voice acting that most people skip over. WoW has honed its game for nearly a decade and SW:TOR was launched like it's competing with vanilla WoW. Seriously, why play this game over the king of MMOs unless you're a hardcore Star Wars fanboy like most people still playing this game are.