Season 5 of the Arena has been dubbed all sorts of things already but more than anything else, it is an obvious testing ground for PvP situations that cannot be hashed out very well in testing by Blizzard. For this reason, there are a number of constant and steady changes that are going through the game to help balance out classes and set up a more steady and confined competition.
What You Can Expect
To start with, things like Resilience have been tuned way down this time around in your gear so that you cannot possibly get enough resilience to have any effect on your performance – at least not in the same way that you did in the past. Most players need around 1200 Resilience at Level 80 to be effective in mitigating damage, while Season 5 gear caps out around 900 or so. This makes Season 5 more of a damage and burst focused season than any season since Season 1 up through about rankings of 2100 or more.
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?
So, what does it take to dominate you competition in Season 5 right now then? At the moment, the most dominant two classes are Retribution Paladins who can take damage forever and deal it out in nice bursts while healing through whatever damage they do actually take, and Death Knights who are generally too overpowered no matter how you look at things. In teams of 2 or 3, these two classes with a healer or a Mage are going to clean up. In 5 man play, the dominant factor is still going to be balance and planning but burst damage is much more effective right now than anything else so 3 person DPS teams are showing up more and more often.
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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