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2008 World of Warcraft Arena Tournament!!!
Another tournament has crept into the picture and most importantly, this one is from Blizzard itself. This 3v3 tournament open to anyone with a World of Warcraft account (plus $20 registration fee). Much like the 5v5 tournament from last year, the qualifying rounds will be online but this time on an event realm with premade characters. The top four teams in the two qualifiers will then go on to compete in a live regional event. Then the regional champions will face off in a global championship.

Total prize money is a cool $200,000, so Blizzard has both feet in this tournament. Definitely a step in the right direction. Full details here.

Resilience And Mana Drain
On a side note, new build is up on the PTR and one major change for PvP is that resilience now affects mana drain spells. The change is not yet in the patch notes, but shows up on the resilience tooltip. The amount of mana drain reduction is roughly 1% per 20 resilience. That amounts to a huge 20-25% reduction in mana drain effects for a well geared (400-500 resilience) arena player.

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5 Responses to “2008 Blizzard 3v3 Arena Tournament; PTR: Resilience And Mana Drain”

1. Voldorim Says:
   February 15th, 2008 at 4:50 am

   Would be good imo, it’s too much about burning and drinking in arena atm

2. akron330 Says:
   February 15th, 2008 at 9:53 am

   ouch, i dont know how my team will win any more

3. emjay Says:
   February 15th, 2008 at 10:15 am

   well warlock mana drain drains 300mana/tick right now on the ptr. with 400 resi you will lose 240mana/tick…. quite more then before…200mana/tick. this addition sounds great but well in the end drainer will be more powerful than before

4. Gumbot Says:
   February 15th, 2008 at 1:13 pm

   drain mana, it hasnt really been seen that much in s3 thanks to the soulsiphon nerf, demonic embrace nerf etc, making it what… like 30% less effective now its back to its original state, but warlocks are less tanky than they were s2 thanks to armor pen and spell pen so i dont think they will be as big as athreat they were in s2. Also i dont see this effecting 5v5 very much, as FG its better to just apply pressure, its simply more effective.

5. Un Says:
   February 17th, 2008 at 1:49 pm

   I can see where Blizz is coming from. By implementing this nerf, it eliminates classes in 2s (Paladins) wearing tier 6 in order to win the mana fight.

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