Ziss: Errelno has decided to share a very well written and detailed strategy to share with us about Warrior Holy Paladin vs Warrior Druid. He has also decided to become a regular writer here at PvP Source so expect this to be first of many to come great articles from him.

Warrior/Holy Paladin vs. Warrior/Restoration Druid

A match-up perceived by the public to be an easy counter, this is certainly not the reality against well played teams… Read More

Tags: Warrior · Paladin · 2v2 · Articles

Update: Zomgasm has just made a voice commentary video for PvP Source, featuring RMP mirror match. Check it out to your left under the videos section or just click here.

It’s time for weekend site update again. With the release of 2.4 patch info, we here at PvP Source have big plans as well for the coming weeks. To start off, Forums got another fun bonus, I’ll let the screen shot to the right speak for itself:

So how can you get this avatar for your existing forums account? Just follow the following 3 easy steps.

Step one: Click on the Profile link located in the top left Navigation box after you’re logged into the Forums.

Step two: Scroll down the profile page and fill in your Arena Information with your Realm and Character name.

Step three: Click Submit button at bottom of profile page. And you’re done! Enjoy your new forums avatar.
Note: This is an one time option, if you made a mistake or your character has changed name and/or server, please contact Ziss via forums PM to get it corrected.

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Looks like they are prepping for 2.4 on the test realm shortly… there’s been a flurry of blue posts with some actual 2.4 info. Big news of the day? The removal of diminishing returns from honor kills:

“We’ve reached a point where we’re now confident that applying diminishing returns to honor is no longer necessary, and we’re currently planning to remove it with the 2.4 patch.

With this change we’re including a few restrictions as well though: Players that have the resurrection sickness debuff will not be worth any honor, and if a player dies 50 times or more during a battleground they won’t be worth any honor for the remainder of that battle.” -Vaneck

It’s about time. Anything to relieve the honor grind is a welcome sight.

Also, some of the class changes that have been leaked by blue have PvP ramifications: priests will now be able to use Fear Ward while in Shadowform and shaman will get some Earth Shield relief as the Healing Grace talent will now grant 10/20/30% dispel resists.

More info to come as they release the full patch notes.

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In the “first step is admitting that you have a problem” category, Blizzard has finally announced that there are issues with /teamquit. Although now that personal ratings are involved, it has become a more sticky situation:

“An issue has been identified that is sometimes causing players to be removed from the wrong Arena Team when attempting to leave a different team (being removed from the 5v5 team when trying to leave the 2v2 team, for example).

As a direct result of this some players are inadvertently losing some of their personal rating.

We expect this issue to be resolved in an upcoming patch, but we regret to inform you that our support teams will be unable to reimburse any lost ratings during this time.” -Tharfor

BG9 5v5 Invitational Tournament
On the heels of their EU Cyclone Tournament, SK Gaming is now behind the newly announced Battlegroup 9 5v5 Invitational Tournament. Top teams such as CLC and Shuttlecocks have already committed.

This will be an 8 team double-elimination tournament, best of five games format. Seeds will be given out according to rank and rating of the current arena season and past accomplishments. Sign-ups begin today (Jan 31) and will end February 5th, brackets and teams will be announced by February 6th.

Although some may be miffed at the “BG9″, “8 team”, and “invitational” qualifiers to this tournament, it’s a good start. At the very least, we will get to see some high quality 5v5 matches. And hopefully this will just be a sign of things to come as tournaments should be open to more entrants/teams when tournament servers are finally available from Blizzard.

More details on the tournament here.

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As we continue to wait for new info about concerning 2.4 and class changes (it’s been a month, but who’s counting?), Nethaera has this to say:

“I think people would get tired of hearing “not today” and start asking “when?” Then I’d have to answer with “soon” and it would just go on from there.

Things are in the works, the cogs are moving, and we’ll get there” -Nethaera

Honor Gear and Season 4
Regarding arena gear purchasable with honor… when asked what will happen with Season 4, Drysc confirms that the S2 set will me moved to the honor vendor and the S1 set will be bumped off. Sniff, I’m gonna miss seeing those S1 shoulders around — especially when they were insanely huge on orcs.
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