In need of a good pve/pvp game

That pretty much sums it up.  Lately, I have been looking at a few of the newer ones to peak my pvp interests.  Coming from DAoC, I loved their system.  TOA ruined the game, then when they brought back non TOA servers gladly went back. While I was gone did SWG, what a joke and was in beta for COH. 

Of course Mythic had this bright idea to merge servers so ppl were all over the place spies were rampant when trying to take relics.  And then minotaurs came out it was fun but I was quite done with the whole thing.  Went to WOW, but alil to cartoonie for me. 

So I went back to COH thinking oh they have villains now so there must be good pvp.  I was so wrong the pvp/pve toons are quite different you have to have a build in mind and if your going to do one it almost sucks at the other and the zone defense is dam near nonexistent.  Out of the few that have my interest peaked is AOC, AION, and WAR in that order. 

Really hoping they can give me my fix of a challenge and not have me max a char just so that he/she is laughed at when I try and do battle with the enemy of my people/nation/species