Destroying the Competition in PvP Season 5

For the most part, Season 5 of the Arena has been called many things, but it’s clearly how Blizzard intends to test PvP situations that it couldn’t otherwise test. It has seen many changes in the hope to balance classes and create better competition.

What to 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.

Season 5 gear also has three different tiers. You’ll start to get your PvP gear when you run instances and getting Emblems of Heroism. You can use these, along with your honor points, to purchase pieces of gear that don’t require only Arena points. Blizzard has lowered the cap for high end PvP gear to 2050, so more people have access to it before they hit 2100 in the arena.

Dominating in Season 5 PvP

So, what does it take to dominate you competition in Season 5 right now then? At the moment, the most dominant two classes are Retribution Paladins who can take damage forever and deal it out in nice bursts while healing through whatever damage they do actually take, and Death Knights who are generally too overpowered no matter how you look at things. In teams of 2 or 3, these two classes with a healer or a Mage are going to clean up. In 5 man play, the dominant factor is still going to be balance and planning but burst damage is much more effective right now than anything else so 3 person DPS teams are showing up more and more often.

Blizzard will always be tweaking how PvP works in WoW. Make sure you are ready for their changes and keep practicing so you can succeed when Season 6 rolls out.

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