First of all, the arena.



This picture was taken with a lvl 13 draenei shaman. As you can see, you can join the practice arena at lvl 13. You cannot join the real one though. Don't know how high you got to be for that one, probably 30-40ish.


And here is a video of a draenei mount beeing ridden.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...91033103&hl=en


Might update with more fun stupid facts later.

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Well, you are!

Hahahaha, RT and AT. Hot.

Maybe you can just pug the practice arena?, which would be a nice feature for loners/killing time when your team is offline/getting in extra pvp-goodness without risking screwing up your rating or the ratio that your buddies need to get points that week/(if you can group-join practice as well) pvp-ing with people outside your team/auditioning people for your team?

That then raises the question of what you get from the practice arena, aside from just general time pvp'ing, I figure it's likely you get some sort of (small) flat arena point income from playing around in it (perhapse capp'd).

If I'm not mistaken they've stated that to do the ranked arenas you need to be level 70.

I believed that to be the case as well BEEF, cept i have no idea where i got that idea from.

The way they've been blindly ripping off the whole Guild Wars PvP system, you could easilly expect it to have random arenas too. I wouldn't be surprised if they suddenly annouce guild halls and guild battles for the incomming months after BC.

You definetly wouldn't get ranks or much arena points from random arenas. But it will prolly give you some honor.

Overall looking good until now. Can we expect WoW for WCG 2007? :p

I think he means the style of the arenas, not the actual match-making mechanic. From the screenshots of arenas that have been leaked and what's been said, it definitely feels fairly Guildwars-esque. Not that that's a bad thing, Guildwars was fairly fun with a group of friends.

Take a look at http://s102.photobucket.com/albums/m...stormarena.jpg

It's like a GW map with more visual details :P

The whole arena/reward/ranking system is exactly like in GW. As for the matchmaking system I could even argue that the guys at Blizzard who initially designed it already moved to arenasoft to develop GW. But from my experience I'd rather not discuss this issue on forums anymore :P

Not saying it's bad that they're ripping GW off. GW's PvP is light years ahead of WoW. Blizzard have done good in getting the best part of all good MMOs around and putting it all together in one game, they still didn't have much from GW but it looks like they finally noticed that they were losing too many PvPers to GW. And I'm glad they did. It might be a cheap strategy to rip everyone off instead of making anything original, but it has been working wonders and I personally don't care, I just wanna have a good fun game to play in my free time.

The only reason I still play WoW is because of RL friends who are way too carebeary to move to GW with me :P If they do succeed in making WoW PvP almost as good as GW's than I'd abandon GW for sure.

Do you really think there's any new ideas on the internet, son? :o

Sure there are! They're all hidden away in the basement of some vast corporate building, behind a locked door at the end of a long hallway labeled "Risky Business Ventures," right next to the locked door labeled "Tribes Sequel."

Along the way through this hallway are large green doors labeled "Sports Game 2007," "Sports Game 2008," "Battlefield Game 3000," "Unreal Tournament 2007 (Shiny New Engine Version)," and "Unreal Tournament 2008 (So-Shiny-That-Even-The-Trees-Glow Version)."

Or so I keep telling myself.