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Destroying the Competition in PvP Season 5
By Kevin Carr | March 17, 2010
People are call Season 5 of the Arena by many names. However, the Arena is really nothing more than Blizzard’s testing ground for PvP situations that it can’t test elsewhere. Blizzard is constantly changing and tweaking the Arena to balance classes and help competition.
What Yo
This time around, the Resilience in your gear has been turned down so that it won’t have an effect on your perfromance – at least not like before. You’ll need about 1200 Resilience at Level 80 to do any mitigating damage, but in Season 5 your gear will cap out at about 900. Season 5 is more damage and burst oriented than any season since Season 1.
You can find Season 5 gear in one of three different tiers. After running some instances and picking up Emblems of Heroism, you start to get your PvP gear. You can turn these in with your honor points in order to get gear that doesn’t require Arena points. You’ll also find that the cap on high end PvP gear has been lowered to 2050. Now more people will have access to the gear before they hit 2100.
How to Dominate
In order to destroy your competition in Season 5, what will it take? Currently, there are two classes that reign supreme – Retribution Paladins and Death Knights. The Retribution Paladins are good because they can take a lot of damage and then deal it back in bursts whilst healing themselves. Death Knights, on the other hand, are simply overpowered. If you run both of those classes with a Mage or a healer, you can expect serious results in PvP. Planning and balance are important to winning any fight, be it 5 or 3 man play, but make sure you deal a lot of burst damage and use a DPS team to win.
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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