When the Burning Crusade comes out this year there will come with it some very interesting and in my opinion much needed changes to the PvP system. I have always found PvP to be fun but the honor grind is what killed it for me. I simply couldn't find the time to level up at a reasonable pace, grind faction rep for groups like AD, Timbermaw and CC as well as grind for PvP rank and rep in order to get some of the tastier rewards. Something had to give and so I left PvP by the wayside but with the expansion all that changes.
Blizzard will be dispensing with the PvP rank ladder altogether and instead honor will no longer decay but will be useable like a form of currency to purchase PvP reward items. It's unknown at this time what kind of points cost different items will have but this will allow the more casual players (such as myself) the opportunity to get the high level stuff eventually without having to quit our day job and grind in BGs 18 hours a day for several months. It does away with the rank grind altogether which I think is going to help enhance everyone's enjoyment of the game because I don't know if you ever notice but every time a new person hits GM they disappear from the game for months simply because they're burned out. The current PvP system has come under heavy criticism because of the absolutely insane grin needed to achieve anything worthwhile. This new system sounds interesting and I think could put the fun back in PvP and get a lot more people back into it.
The other change, or addition I should say, that has me interested is the PvP Arena Teams. It will function very much like a guild in that you will have a charter you need to get signed and it will have it's own team chat channel much like gchat. The plan right now is for arenas that will support 2v2, 3v3 and 5v5 PvP play and the teams you form can be as large as 2x the arena you compete in. Hence a 5v5 team can have 10 players on it, 3v3 has 6 etc. The arena system will be similar to the current ladder system in that teams will compete each week, standings will be released and updated much like the current ladder and it will have rewards on par with even some of the most epic PvE items. This has a great deal of potential I think for adding some much needed excitement and an air of team play to PvP that you previously only saw with honor farm teams and PvP guilds but it will also allow those who are put off by the new honor system in the BGs to still play PvP hardcore.
I'm looking forward to this stuff in the expansion personally. I'm already excited about the cross-realm BGs in the hopes that I no longer have to bum around Azeroth for 3 hours waiting for AV or AB to come up and I think that with the changes coming in the expansion PvP will become a major factor in my gameplay. So now that I've finished gushing lol what do you guys think?
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