Tuesday, September 8th, 2009 at
8:59 am
WoW PvP Guide Review: The PvP Bible
If you want to excel in PvP, this is the most important report you’ll ever read!
You may have heard of the latest WoW PvP guide called the PvP Bible. The guide is 242 pages of hardcore PvP information, tips, and strategies. There is no “filler” pages that are often found in similar guides. As I read through the PvP Bible guide, it was obvious a lot of research went into the making of it. Beginners to PvP will be introduced to everything they need to know to get good start in PvP, and Veterans will find the advanced strategies to PvP useful. It includes all 81 possibilities between the different classes for duals and over 50 different team strategies. Every battleground is covered in great detail as is every World PvP objective. Every class covered: Druid, Hunter, Mage, Paladin, Priest, Rogue, Shaman, Warlock, and Warrior Here’s exactly what PvP Bible is going to do for you: Read the rest of this entry
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009 at
10:10 pm
WoW PvP Guide for Season 5 – As Season 5 dawned on the World of Warcraft in December of last year, the game saw the first new season at a top level since the first season that launched after TBC and it was a bit of a mess to get started. That’s not to say that Blizzard dropped the ball anywhere with the launch. It was more a matter of players having to start from scratch, trying to figure out where to go with their gear, their character levels, their strategies and their class specs. It was all different and no one had been able to practice anything yet – after all, Arena rarely goes into beta or PTR and when it does it’s not very representative of entire Battlegroups. So, gear for Season 5 is just now settling down and players are getting prepped for Season 6 as they eyeball a brighter future for their characters that are not performing as well right now.
Where Players Started
To get started, players had to wear their PvE gear into the Arena. It was required because there was no beginner level PvP gear at Level 80 to choose from. You couldn’t wear your Season 4 gear in because it was from Level 70 and even crafted gear was not quite up to par for beginners in PvP. So there was a lot of mid-level dungeon gear in there.
As players continued to play and grind their honor, they could started getting the Savage Gladiator rare gear set that was available for honor points and emblems of heroism at Level 80 without having to play in the Arena. The next level of Gladiator Gear (there were three this time around) was made available through honor points, off of Archavon in Lake Wintergrasp and in the Arena.
The last level of gear, the Hateful Gladiator gear that caps out Season 5 sets was only available after you reached a 2150 (now 2050) arena rating. It can be had through Archavon on 25 man and through combos of Honor and Arena points and will take most of Season 5 to gather together.
The Best Sets
Almost two months into the season though, there is no consensus on the best gear for your needs in the arena and for a couple of good reasons. First of all, there is no use in getting resilience in Season 5 because it doesn’t cap out for maximum effectiveness so burst is the name of the game in the arena right now. Only top teams are even using healing strategies at the highest rating levels. So, prepare for Season 6, build your sets and be ready to start upgrading immediately when it goes live later this year.
Season 5 PvP has been a huge success thus far but only for those that adapt quickly and know what gear to have and when. Are you in the short list of top performers or are you languishing behind with your old gear. Check out this WoW PvP Guide today to learn how to improve your standings.
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009 at
4:13 am
Season 5 of the Arena has been dubbed all sorts of things already but more than anything else, it is an obvious testing ground for World of Warcraft PvP situations that cannot be hashed out very well in testing by Blizzard. For this reason, there are a number of constant and steady changes that are going through the game to help balance out classes and set up a more steady and confined competition.
What You Can Expect
To start with, things like Resilience have been tuned way down this time around in your gear so that you cannot possibly get enough resilience to have any effect on your performance – at least not in the same way that you did in the past. Most players need around 1200 Resilience at Level 80 to be effective in mitigating damage, while Season 5 gear caps out around 900 or so. This makes Season 5 more of a damage and burst focused season than any season since Season 1 up through about rankings of 2100 or more.
In addition, Season 5 gear now comes in one of three different tiers. Players can start getting PvP gear when they are running instances and picking up Emblems of Heroism. These can be turned in along with honor points for various pieces of gear that no longer require only Arena points. Additionally, the cap for buying high end PvP gear has been lowered to 2050 so that more players can more readily purchase top end gear before they hit 2100 in the arena (a spot that is hard to get to).
What Does it Take to Dominate?
So, what does it take to dominate you competition in Season 5 right now then? At the moment, the most dominant two classes are Retribution Paladins who can take damage forever and deal it out in nice bursts while healing through whatever damage they do actually take, and Death Knights who are generally too overpowered no matter how you look at things. In teams of 2 or 3, these two classes with a healer or a Mage are going to clean up. In 5 man play, the dominant factor is still going to be balance and planning but burst damage is much more effective right now than anything else so 3 person DPS teams are showing up more and more often.
However you play though, PvP right now is not what it will be in a few weeks or months. Practice what you can but prepare for major changes as Blizzard continues to hash it all out before Season 6 comes along.
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