The Burning Crusade: Professional PvP (Arenas)

[sneek]

The expansion's looking to become a very interesting addition to the current world of warcraft.

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/threa ... 1#blizzard

In the above link to a post by Drysc you can read some more detailed about the Arena system.
Arena will replace the current "honor grind" and will be the only PvP method in acquiring gear that will be on-par with the best-of-the-best from PvE.

It'll allow creation of "team charters" for 2vs2, 3vs3, 4vs4 and 5vs5 teams.
Each charter has a maximum of twice the amount of player you'd have to field inside an arena.

So 4 teammembers to 10 teammembers. There'll be a seperate team channel (like /gu) to facilitate team communication throughout the world.

And it looks like they hit the nail on the head and adopted a lot of the current "5 vs 5 tournament" rules that players have designed.
No long cooldown abilities or items, no prebuffing and no consumables other then bandages.
No conjured items are taken into the arena as well. So no mage on your team implies no crystal water.

[Morlog]

Abilities/spells/items with cooldowns longer than 15 minutes cannot be used while in the arena.

meaning warriors shieldwall recklessness and retaliation cant think of any other challenging and fear shout is on 10 min i belive

warlock: soulstone

shaman: self ress

Druid: combatress

so what else is there that has a 15 min+ cooldown?

[sneek]

All engineering stuff is out of the window.
No rocket helm, no mind control cap (which has been nerfed considerably already) nor any explosives of any kind since those are consumables.

Looking to become very good imo!
Though I assume here that there'll be only one style of arena: deathmatch.

Plain old kill them before they kill you.

[zNow]

and thats just good imo, since its the only real pvp style.
no more "itaketheflagbeforeyoudo" or "icontrolmoreressourcesthanyoudo" ;

[Taurodomus]

And instead of honour points as rank reward you can exchange your points you receive frm the arena to EQ and more.

[Deadleg]

And instead of honour points as rank reward you can exchange your points you receive frm the arena to EQ and more.

and maybe exchange your points to get some young boys so Fenz will have a reason to get in there also!1!

[Skyly]

looks fucking sweet.. just what wow needed imo

[Lateralus]

This is EXACTLY what ive been wanting ever since WoW got its release! Fucking finally.. its going to be so sweet!!!!

[sneek]

More information and quotes/references concerning PvP in the Expansion.

Arenas will have varying geometry to play on.
Some may be simple columns, while others may involve more ramps or pathways or other more complex terrain.

The arenas also being about the size of Gurubashi, players won't have vast expanses with which to stay out of reach of a sword arm.

For the time being, consider it an outdoor arena.
There may be terrain that impedes using things such as travel forms and we may implement an indoor arena in the future, but outdoor-specific spells should be useable.

Honor will be obtained pretty much the same as it is now, only using a new system of how that honor translates into rewards.
Killing another player in a PvP environment, be it the battlegrounds, the arena, or in the world at large will provide honor points.
The arena point system will only apply to the ranked arena matches.
Participating in the arena will effectively provide points for two separate PvP reward systems.

So, in order to refill your stack of 5xCombat Mana Potion and 5xCombat Healing Potion you'll have to go and "grind" a little in PvP.

[Versus]

Or fight like real men and dont use potions!

[Jhorar]

Or fight like real men and dont use potions!

Huzzah!