Ah the world of PvP. For a lot of people there just isn’t anything better that that feeling you get after smashing some face and kicking some butt at the expense of the opposite faction. This is where the tension between Alliance and Horde is most seen in the game. But this is most seen in world PvP and in Battlegrounds. The Arena Tournament is a different brand of PvP and it’s really changed the game complete since it arrived. It’s turned PvP into something more competitive and isn’t just about the war between factions. Apparently it was also a …read more

I don’t participate in the Arena Tournament anymore and it’s been a really long time since I last joined a match. I know it’s not the best reason but the reason why I tried the tournament before was just to get some better gear to fill some holes I had for PvE. After all, PvP gear is decent for PvE until you can get better PvE gear.
Making season two gear available for honor back in the day just killed my desire to do any arena matches since I could just do battlegrounds for the gear I want. I really wanted …read more

One of the hardest, if not the hardest, tasks to do in World of Warcraft and any similar game is game balance. Not only do you have to balance between the many different classes and specs but also for PvE and PvP. This is probably why every patch, even if they make a change to balance something there seems to be another balancing problem that arises.
One of the newest changes made in the hope for more balance concerns the Replenishment effect in the Arena Tournament. Replenishment was changed through a hotfix so that it will only affect the player and …read more

Like I said before, I’m not really a big fan of PvP. That’s one of the main reasons why I decided to roll on a PvE server and stuck with it. I’m still open to doing the occasional world PvP and battlegrounds but only when I feel like it. For WoTLK, I haven’t felt like it even until now.
The past few days I’ve been wondering about a problem my mage has been having. He got flagged the other day and while I’m not totally sure how, it might have been when I dueled a friend. Anyway, for the past few …read more

The WoW Armory has been a valuable tool for all of us World of Warcraft players. It has something for everyone, whether you just want to take a peek at someone’s spec or looking at potential upgrades for a certain gear slot or even use the built in arena rating calculator. It has a lot of uses and it’s been known to keep improving as time passes by. Now is another one of those times with a new feature to help all you Arena nuts out there: Arena Records.
Every Arena team profile on the Armory (http://www.wowarmory.com) now includes Arena Records, …read more

There’s an outburst in the druid community now because the class is getting some nerfs in patch 3.1. One of them is the change to the feral talent Heart of the Wild where at max rank, the stamina bonus it gives will be reduced from a 20% increase to just a 10% increase. According to Ghostcrawler, this is part of their effort to make all tanks’ HP pools closer together but of course a nerf is a nerf and this sucks for bear tanks.
The next change is the one to the resto spell lifebloom, the resto druid’s best friend …read more

Patch 3.08 was a patch that was pretty victimized with bugs, as demonstrated on patch day a few days ago. Things were going wrong all over the place from npc’s not showing up to server crashes and the like. All this has led to the disabling of Wintergrasp (we hordies in my server are happily collecting our spirit shards from dungeons since we controlled it before it got disabled) and the Arena matches so that a fix could be sought.
Because of the extent of the problem in the arena, Kalgan has stated that they hope to rollback the arena …read more

I have to admit that I haven’t done any arena pvp in a very long time and now playing a restoration druid probably won’t make me do it anytime soon because of all the talk about death knights eating through our HoT’s. The latest announcement about a new matchmaking system for the arena tournament still looks really interesting even if I’m not really very familiar with exactly how it works.
WoW EU Blue poster Wryxian wrote the following on the subject:
With the release of patch 3.0.8 we have implemented a new matchmaking system for arenas that will improve the overall system …read more

In the latest PTR patch notes for patch 3.08, balance druids got the news that their talent Celestial Focus will no longer work with Starfall. As always you can see the latest PTR patch notes here.
I play a balance druid right now but only to get to 80 faster then I’ll be switching to Restoration. But I do know that that the stuns this talent brings can be pretty useful in PvP, especially with Starfall since you have so many stars amounting to potential stuns. I haven’t done any PvP on my druid and I don’t really intend to so …read more

First of all, I’d like to say that the Spirit of Competition event that will happen every two years is a great idea. Not only does it get players in the mood and the spirit of international competition but it’s also a cute way to get cool rewards. I do have one question though.
As I said earlier, the Spirit of Competition event is a great way to foster the competitive spirit in everyone, so that we can be somewhat involved in what the Olympics stands for. Aside from the love for competition, the Olympics is about the honor and the …read more