Arms Race

In season one, I polymorphed my way to Gladiator. Literally. I just cast polymorph and polymorph and polymorph, and the opposing paladin would cleanse and cleanse and cleanse. Polymorph cost me 150 mana and cleanse cost him 177 mana, I was winning the mana fight. I then figured out that I could cast rank 1 polymorph for 60 mana and the duration would be the same. I would save upwards of 5000 mana per fight. The opposing teams would make their players attack me, so I geared myself for maximum stamina. I geared myself to have around 12000 health. They could not kill me, but I would cast less polymorphs. They would get cleansed quickly. So I applied detect magic after each polymorph. The paladin would have to cleanse twice. The opposing team would send their pets on me, and my allies and I would kill the pets so I could cast polymorph. It was an arms race of strategy.


Back then, the concept of a 2345 team did not exist. We managed to hold the #1 5v5 spot with a Feral Druid in one of the first weeks of the arena premiere. If someone had told me in the beginning of season one that a viable strategy for a lot of teams would be to kill a warrior who charged ahead, I would have likely said “no, it would feed them rage, we need to wait to kill the priest”. Paladin Warrior dominated the 2v2 bracket. The 3v3 playoffs featured Paladin Warrior Mage mirrors. The game has changed since then. It’s changing. Veex, Valrath and Looped are currently dominating the Tournament with a double Warlock Druid combo. I haven’t seen this setup since season one. It’s an arms race in every aspect. It exists at 1200 rating, and at 2500 rating. The players at 2500 know a lot. The players at 1200 don’t. Are you behind?

In my PvP Blog, I will first focus on bringing everyone to the highest possible playing field in terms of preparation. In these opening sections you will learn that a lot to being a competent arena player has nothing to do with PvP. Those who take the steroids… I mean extra steps will succeed. Those who don’t will fall behind.

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