Actually, WoW was NOTHING like GW2, until Legion hit Live, where Blizzard made the zones scaling to your level, and also where people could steal each others' kills, meaning that if you attacked something, and then someone else decided to attack the enemy the say you attack firsthand, they get a fraction of experience and loot. This is not the case in all other MMORPG's, so no...GW2 is not, and never was like WoW! WoW became more like a pay-to-play version of GW2!