It is certainly our goal to make all classes competitive in Arenas. I think we have made improvements from BC. I don’t think we’re there yet. We are going to learn a lot when more players are at 80 and everyone starts to try out different strats and comps. I do feel pretty comfortable predicting [...]

Note: In the game’s current state it’s only viable to kill the leaders at level 80. Sorry for the confusion.
I’ve been meaning to write this for a little while as it’s one amazing achievement that I would love to complete. Every time I mount up on my Blizzcon Bear I get spammed with tells asking [...]

I recently had to give a crash course to a friend of mine on the Isle of Quel’danas and the Sunwell dailies. As typical of any PVP server, the sunwell isle is pretty much a major hotbed of world PVP where you play hide from the guards and stay away from the forest or beach. [...]

It’s a little early in the morning and I went to sleep late as hell last night. Been gearing up in a mighty powerful way for Blizzcon and getting the site prepared behind the scene for everything you’ll need. Expect these updates to roll through today.
But to get to the purpose of this post, Kalgan [...]

This has been a long time coming actually, why would we want to participate in the lake Wintergrasp Keep Siege (because that is EXACTLY what it is supposed to be when the bugs and crap are filtered out) other than the honor and arena point rewards?
Well there’s a raid boss that opens up for 4 [...]

Icecrown
It’s partially implemented. Work is still ongoing but we felt like it was stable enough to at least get some feedback.
Because it is not completely finished, you’ll want to adventure there at your own risk. Quests will have some bugs or be unfinished and it’s likely that creatures are either under-tuned or over-tuned. Also, rewards [...]

Lake wintergraps (as most of you know) is pretty much one of my main drives for the expansion pack. A player named Azurai in the Beta wrote a VERY good post with tons of feedback fully knowing that Wintergrasp is still in it’s infant stages for development. She got a reply from Blizzard not too [...]

BGs are some of the most fun I’ve taken part in while PVP-ing in the World of Warcraft. Oh sure people will wax poetic about the wonders of Tarren Mill and Southshore and world PVP, but honestly that fun ends after a few seconds. Now this sounds kind of crazy coming from me (being the [...]

A lot of people can say the same thing as me on this subject. Lake Wintergrasp and the revitalization of world PVP is a VERY BIG FUCKING DEAL in the coming expansion.
Already a lot of people are pretty much dismissing the entire project with worries and jaded cynicism that it’s going to be just like [...]

June’s month long poll is done. At 202 (million) votes we have the results. I’m happy to say that (by a small margin) World PVP took the 1st place as to what PVP changes people wanted most in Wrath of the Lich King.
Good news is that they’re getting their wish. With the introduction (and finally [...]

Tom Chilton (Kalgan) had an interview with PC Gamer where, get this, he revealed that spell-damage only type gear will get replaced by a new system in WotLK.
PC Gamer: What else is changing?
Kalgan: We’re also going to be doing away with spell-damage only type gear. We’ll be moving to a system that, as part of [...]

These are both great ideas; some actual motivation for engaging in world PVP aside from a small zone buff or some easily replaceable items. It’s a great idea and leads to MANY different scenarios when you can have a buff for your entire faction across all of Northrend. As well if the idea holds true [...]

For the uninitiated, Kre is an assassin. I mean a true blue certified hitman (hitwoman), it all started with this post on the General Forums that exploded into popularity and eventually the thread might break or fall into the abyss of archived threads. So to preserve such high levels of pure win, I’ll be asking [...]

I have to say that this is the most awesome idea I have seen in a long time. Being given the power to call out hits on NPCs is great. Let’s face it there are just some NPCs in the game that you would do anything to see lying in a pool of their own [...]

It sounds crazy and yet intriguing to me. I’ve said before, arenas in WoW are NOT real arenas. It’s some bastardized version of what a classic FFA arena was in ancient times. The concept of NPC combatants for practicing or even NPC combatants in general around the world would be great. How awesome would it [...]

I was (and still am) always a very big fan of PVP. It’s just something that always seemed exciting to me. Fighting an opponent that actually has a brain and emotion and can at time be totally unpredictable. PVP is a great way to learn the limitations and survivability of your class. I’m by no [...]

There seems to be a misconception on the TTR servers where players are assuming the purpose of the servers is strict PVP. I would imagine this idea is backed up by the fact that the entire game world is empty, barren, has no NPCs in it at all aside from the vendor NPCs located at [...]

We’ve spent over a year collecting screenshots of large-scale attacks on the major cities of World of Warcraft. We now present to you this special player-submitted screenshot gallery consisting of 102 screenshots.
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/pvp/worldpvp/cityattacks-gallery.html
We’re constantly on the lookout for eye-catching screenshots of World of Warcraft. Check our current collection topics and submit your screenshots here for [...]

There are some concerns about how Blizzards new entire PVP zone is going to work out, here’s a little blue tint to the discussion.
Q u o t e:
How is Lake Wintergrasp going to synergize with the amerna content though? Are the top-ranked arena teams going to have a reason to go into Lake Wintergrasp besides [...]

Numerous changes were made to the Alterac Valley Battleground on 2.4 and we would like to gather some feedback on these changes.
The AV battleground is currently available for players on the PTR. Please take the time to check it out and post any feedback about the changes here in this thread.
Any bugs that you encounter [...]

Actarius on the WoW General forums makes a valid argument. I’m born and bred from a PVP server and as much as I like the flat out chaos that can be any contested zone on my server, sometimes I just want the bullsh-t to stop for a few minutes.
Q u o t e:
im concerned about [...]

Players are obviously getting burned out on battlegrounds which is understandable. The idea of Lake Wintergrasp has the brats spouting stupidity about how it’s going to be a failure. I really wish these morons would just quit the game and leave the forums already if I wanted negativity and ignorance I’d watch Fox News.  Neth [...]

I reported a little while ago about the changes to drinking in Patch 2.4 and how the sole reason was to rebalance mana regen in arenas and the likes. It seems Blizzard got the point and dropped the whole charade. Yes it’s intended to stop cheap tactics in arenas, not a game wide nerf to [...]

This might be a mistake by Blizzard or a bug or it may be 100% legit and make it into the live 2.4; you can now que as a group in AV.
Right now with Stinkyque or other mods you can sometimes guarantee queuing as a group with your guild, which usually means an easy win [...]