There’s a strange thing happening in the wowosphere these days. Due to a couple of rants I wrote, and my admittedly vehement participation in certain welfare epics debates, I have apparently become some kind of advocate for the PvP viewpoint on arena reward distribution.
While I appreciate the additional readership this generates, I don’t want to set false expectations here. As a player, I’d qualify myself as “dedicated” at best. To a hardcore gamer, I’m casual as muck. I am not a particularly skilled PvPer as my arena partners and my rating can attest.
I only have opinions and a soapbox. If you are looking for specialized and serious PvP-specific opinion, commentary and advice, a few sites and blogs you should visit are:
- Out of Mana: Megan arenas and raids, with quite some success. If you are looking for solid, experience-backed arena advice, her blog is the place to visit
- Gameriot’s World of Ming: If you’re looking for commentary and analysis of what’s going on in the top ratings and arena as e-sports, this is definitely your starting place
- PVP Scene: You know of MMO Champion as one of the leading information and news resources pertaining to PvE? PvP Scene is its PvP sister site, by the same author. It should be on your reading list as well.
- Arena Junkies: A site contributed by reader Bubblez which I didn’t know of (which basically proves the point of this post), and from a quick glance at the forums, this may well be the arena’s Eltitist Jerks.
Edited to add Arena Junkies, thanks Bubblez
PvP Scene link has an extra /i on it.
Keen eyes, thanks a bunch
i think http://www.arenajunkies.com/ is probably best info source for arena advice.
Thanks for that. Added.
i’ve been following your pvp vs pve rants lately. it has been enjoyable. ive only just started to arena, and at the same time just really get into raiding 25 man content.
without retyping all thats been said, i just have to agree with every single one of your poits.
well stated and well written.
also, im adding you to my blogroll. i hadnt noticed you linked to me before, so thank you!
Its okay we know you are a giant PvP nut Gwaendar.
No point in being bashful about having a strong opinion. Its interesting to read Your Paladin macros are also awesome. 
To the point of this comment which makes no sense… You typoed an extra “o” into the url for Out of Mana.
Oh god, this is really getting embarassing.
I just think it’s funny that some Raiders came up with the catchy phrase “welfare epics” and that pvpers got upset about it, and raiders took it as a battle cry.
i think the game has reached a good balance when you have people yelling about OTHER people’s loot.
Raiding and PvP could almost be two different games. To me, it’s like people in EVE-Online complaining about the phat loot people get in Ragnaros.
Give it a rest for gods sake.
(ps good blog btw)
lol i meant ragnarok
wow-freudian slip
Actually the term seems to have been coined by Tigole, who is the lead dev for raiding content in WoW (and like Tobold I hope his boss gave him a lecture about not alienating the customer base).
At least these days we seem to have largely moved beyond the “it’s fine, l2p” stage
@Doomilias: Happy B’Day. And I suddenly noticed that you moved from hosted to self-hosted wordpress, too. Which explains why I hadn’t read anything new recently