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

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.

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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