~chron

Dresorull has posted patch notes for the upcoming changes in 3.1.2, there’s some minor rebalancing of priests and destruction warlocks.

Penance cooldown is going back up, maim is an actual stun (maybe?) and innervate is getting a pretty decent PvP buff. Most importantly from a rogue POV, they’re removing spammable blood boil!

I mentioned in my last post about paladin glyphs that using Glyph of Turn Evil was basically a metagame choice. Since then, I’ve seen maybe two death knights in arena, and not many more warlocks, so I think it’s time to retire it in favor of something more exciting.

So, as usual, it may be educational to see what everyone else is doing…

(Reckoning 2v2, top 200 teams)

Today I’m defining “holy paladins” as paladins who have holy shock and at least one point in unyielding faith which should hopefully narrow it down to PvP healing specs only. I’m not going to worry about deep prot healing specs, at least… not yet.

Here’s the same chart run against the infamous Bloodlust battlegroup:

Note that the top 200 teams actually goes right down to about 2k rating at the moment, so a lot of these people are probably not superstars.

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Interesting arena graph du jour; popular arena compositions on Reckoning! The first week of the season is over now but given that everyone started from zero this time around there’s probably a large number of people who still haven’t finished levelling their teams yet. It’s too early to really tell what’s going to dominate the season, and Blizzard have shown that they’re willing to tune as necessary. Nevertheless, some clear trends have already emerged:

Druid/Warrior making a comeback, believe it! Maybe all the AJ “season 3 was arena’s golden age” cyclone apologists will get what they’re after.

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Season 5 is starting to wind down so I thought I’d dig up the script I did for s4 title cutoffs to see where we’re at. ArenaJunkies has been updating their calculator pretty regularly, so let’s bust out the Google Chart madness and see exactly how sleepless the next few weeks are going to be!

So glad is around 2350 if things stay as they are. Anecdotally I’ve heard participation is down something like 60% over last season, which these figures seem to corroborate.

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Blizzard have introduced a new feature to the official Armory: arena records.

Basically if you go to any team page (Here’s my rogue’s current 2v2, for example) you get a couple of extra tabs along the top that let you see the match history and opponent history.

The Match history shows you a pretty fancy line graph of your rating and you can hover over individual nodes on the line to see information about each particular game. It has a decent set of filters down the bottom allowing you to set dates and rating cutoffs or to find individual teams, and it has a small graph below the main one that shows your rating change over a much larger timescale and allows you to select the display window for the main graph. Very slick!

It even shows you cool information about your rating delta for the window you have selected and your average rating change per game. If you click one of the games it takes you to a page with a detailed breakdown for that game with damage/healing done, fight map and length, rating changes, and all that good stuff.

Finally at the bottom you have a tabular view of your games which you can sort in various ways.

The Match History page shows you a tabular view of all the teams you’ve played against with their win/loss ratio and total rating delta vs that team.

This is an incredibly awesome feature and I’m looking forward to a lot more detailed and accurate arena statistics now that this information is publicly available – goodbye forever, Arena Historian!

You can have a look at the Arena Reports FAQ, the Opponent History FAQ, and the Match Report FAQ. The original blue post about it is here.

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