Arena Tournament Update
Posted Apr 29th 2008 9:00AM by Amanda Dean
Filed under: Ranking, Events, Blizzard, PvP, Forums, Arena
At the completion of the first f four weeks in the qualifying period, the
$200,000 3v3 arena tournament is in full swing, and the field is heating up.
The leader board is now topped by teams around a 2,000 rating.
This slight drop in ratings indicates stiff competition among top contenders.
Slash Bark currently holds the top position with a 2,056.
Next comes
Rogue-Mage-Priest powerhouse
Let's Be Friends sporting a rating of 2,003.
Jacked as F, a team whose name
accurately describes the state of the
Arena Tournament Armory page, holds third place with a rating of 1,998.
At this point it's (almost) anybody's game.
That is, if the Armory is giving reliable information.
Bornakk recently provided some news on the official forums that may be of interest to Arena combatants. While not giving a release date for Patch 2.4.2, he indicated that the patch will affect the Tournament realms when it goes live. Buffs, nerfs and item changes may have an impact on composition and strategy. He also announced that there are currently no plans to add the Stormherald to the tournament server, as "We haven't added any items that require a profession to use them." (Unless you count Heavy Netherweave Banadages and ring enchantments.) He said that such items may be added in the future. Original poster, Zanyu of Malfurion, believes that adding this item would balance out the presence of Rogues and Warriors in the Tournament. I see it as very unlikely that a change would be made while the tournament is active.
Tags: Arena-tournament, Bornakk, Leaders, patch-2.4.2, RMP, Rogue-mage-priest, stormherald, Tournament, tournament-update
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4-29-2008 @ 9:48AM
Chais said...
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4-29-2008 @ 9:55AM
Ryan said...
I hope they add it, WoW PvP really needs more random stuns.
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4-29-2008 @ 10:01AM
Badger said...
Amanda: There's something about today's update that I don't quite understand.
At the beginning of the second paragraph, you stated: "While not giving a release date for Patch 2.4.2, [Bornakk] indicated that the patch will affect the Tournament realms when it goes live. Buffs, nerfs and item changes may have an impact on composition and strategy."
At the conclusion of the same paragraph, however, you noted: "I see it as very unlikely that a change would be made while the tournament is active."
Which is it? Will they issue patches and hotfixes that address class balance and combat issues while the Tournament is still raging on, or will they wait until after the conclusion of the Tournament to adjust classes, talents, spells, etc. ?
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4-29-2008 @ 10:22AM
Amanda Dean said...
They're two separate issues, sorry for being unclear. If patch 2.4.2 goes live during the tournament, it will affect the TR. Scare beast and all.
However, I don't believe that Blizz will make a change to the TR item list while the current qualifying round is active. Thus, no Stormherald.
4-29-2008 @ 10:34AM
Badger said...
Aaaah ... Okay, so there's a distinction between skills and items. I didn't pick up on that. Thanks for clarifying!
4-29-2008 @ 10:08AM
Amengeb said...
To hell with Blizzards ego stroking mini-game. Let it stay right where it is on a PTR style server and get it out of WORLD of WARcraft.
I miss the days of warlord/marshal teams. Take away the 4,827 different vanity titles from every little quest chain and make High Warlord and Grand Marshal be an impressive accomplishment and a feared sight.
This just proves Bliz can separate out arenas, but refuse to because it is where they, not the paying customer, want the game to end up.
I would gladly give back my S1 gear if they would give me back my rankings and gear from pre-SiFi TBC.
Well back to leveling my alt.
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4-29-2008 @ 10:12AM
Balasan said...
Grand Marshall and High Warlord have never been impressive titles. It's only obtainable by people who skip work or do not work at all, especially on a high pop server.
4-29-2008 @ 4:17PM
Dan said...
Judging by the number of comments the arena tournament stories generate, I'd think that the tournament is not generating the sort of response that blizzard had hoped for. It seems that most people either don't care, or think it's a great idea to move arena permanently to it's own realm and out of the live servers.
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4-29-2008 @ 9:10PM
Den said...
WoW insider is a very PVE/Soical/Off topic driven forum - most of the posts about PVP have very few comments. PVP has never been a big thing here :-/ (at least in my eyes). The sad part is that the PVP posts that do get comments are driven by PVEers complaining about Arena.
4-29-2008 @ 6:33PM
krat2 said...
I wonder if this is something of a preview of what people can expect when the season 4 rating requirements on items go live?
I'm operating on the assumption that many of the "lesser" teams (like mine) will see nothing but futility in Arena play, and will leave since there is little point in playing if there is no chance for reward. Over time, this will lead to only extremely competitive teams going at it -- the sort that we are likely seeing on the tournament realm. However, once only the toughest teams are left, even the "bottom feeders" will be threatening. In such a situation, as we are seeing on the tournament realm, few teams (if any) will be able to top 2,000 ratings.
I'm not on the tournament realm, but I think it will be an interesting test bed for Arenas. We'll see where team ratings end up, and see if that approximates what happens in the live realms.
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