Spooncraft

Eyonix posted earlier letting us know what the plan is for the Arena when patch 3.0.2 comes out. Basically the game is being dramatically changed when this patch goes live. Players are going to be thrown into complete chaos as they have to relearn their class. Obviously this isn’t fair for the last few weeks of Arena play where suddenly good compositions with what were once great builds might be blown out of the water.

We’ve revaluated certain aspects of how the arena system and current arena season will be affected during both the next content patch, and the launch of Wrath of the Lich King.

For starters, the current arena season will end in respect to the ladder upon the release of our next major patch. What this means is, we’ll be taking a snapshot of the current season’s ladder just before the realms are taken down for patch maintenance, and our normal process will commence to determine who is eligible for the end-of-season rewards.

Teams and ratings will not be wiped at that time, and will carry forward allowing players to earn points each week (and buy gear) until the launch of the expansion on November 13th. Almost immediately before Wrath of the Lich King releases, all arena teams as well as ratings will be wiped and arena charter NPCs disabled. (src)

So there you have it. If you want the armored netherdrake then by all means now is the crunch time to go all out for it, same for the title of Gladiator.

The new talent builds are going to be buffing many classes in different ways and the PVE & PVP game is going to be pretty skewed after Patch 3.0.2.