Very interesting tourney with RMP being the most common comp but not the winning comp. PHD looked pretty sick but incoming nerfs to hunter and death knight ought to change that.

Anyway, at this link you can see video of every single match and it’s quality too. The guys doing the play by play are only OK – they tell you where the focus is but the only individual moves they mention tend to be CC. But it’s still awesome (and addicting).

Scroll down to the bottom of the page I link to for links to the other 2 pages (finals on the third page). Finals were plate cleave (warrior, Death Knight, holy pally) vs. Enhancement shaman, hunter, pally. Pretty interesting comps. Then we saw a mirror with the shammy, hunter, pally comp.

I really find myself agreeing with a lot of what this guy has to say.

Arenas are a way for blizzard to avoid spending time and money programming for pvp.

Arenas run on class imbalances.

The WOW PVP community to unite and demand from Blizzard that they shift their focus away from arenas where they will never be able to properly balance small matches fairly amongst all classes. Rather their focus should be on large battlegrounds where the sheer number people and diversity of classes will take the spotlight off of glaring class imbalances that prevent skilled players for being successful in PVP because they are playing a class that happens to be weak against certain other classes.

We should be fighting the other faction, always.

Anyway go post on that thread!

Interesting thread here on the easiest class for an unskilled player to pvp with. Suggestions include death knight, ret pally, and arcane mage. Personally, I think the melee classes require decent reaction time as you chase people around, face the right direction, etc. A mage or similar can stand there and push buttons until melee gets in their face or they get crowd controlled.

People who play rogues must be feeling lucky because they are still OP – hard to understand how a class is consistently given such good damage and survivability. Ret pallies get lots of complaints. Death Knights also. With all three the thing is good damage and good survivability. This thread complains about all 3.

Notes to self:

1. Save up honor and marks for S2 weapon.
2. Save up arena points for S3 gear plus S4 hands and off-hand. I’d like more but who know if my arena ratings will be good enough for it. Rating requirements can be found on this rant.
3. Save up enchanting mats and pvp gems (those will be in high demand when people get their new gear).