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 to Expect
Resilience has been turned down a lot and you’ll have a hard time getting enough resilience with your gear to have an effect on your performance. Typically, you’ll need about 1200 Resilience when you’re at level 80 if you want to be effective. The Season 5 gear cap, however, is around 900. Season 5 is more oriented towards doing damage and bursting than any of the seasons before it.
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?
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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