World of Warcraft PvP Panel

This panel launched straight into it showing off the new arenas. There are two new arenas in Wrath of the Lich King both of which have some very different elements from the arenas we see at the moment. To begin with both have dynamic elements. The Ring of Valor will have four moving pillars which will block line of sight and can be stood on to get out of melee combat. There is also two fire strips which damage you breaking up the arena floor into three sections. The Dalaran Sewers also has dynamic element, a pillar of water in the centre of the arena. A few people expressed concern about these dynamic events when this was originally announced. However a lot of the concern related to the randomness of them triggering, which has been changed to a static timer. I think it will be interesting even if it is somewhat tricky. Dalaran Sewers had a couple of other points, it's really quite small and the majority of the arena is on a platform accessible from two points, that could make it tricky for melee who get knocked off. Additionally you can't mount in this arena, although you can use travel and ghost wolf form. Both of these arena are also interesting as they will force players out into the arena. The Ring of Valor, via the lift which drops the teams really close to each other and in the Dalaran Sewers if you try to stay in the starting pipes you will get knocked out on to the floor.

The coverage stopped right after the arenas section but Strand of the Ancients was discussed in the following short interview. In response to player feedback it will be a 15v15, as opposed to 10v10, battle field with an assault and defend scenario.

There was another later interview about PvP, Cory Stockton talked about the new content for PvP. Lake Wintergrasp will offer a raid instance for when you win the zone and the rewards have been improved from the BC world PvP rewards. The improved rewards and the raid instance are designed so that players will continue to return to Lake Wintergrasp. Rewards includes mounts, gems and items you can hand down to your alts. The raid boss will drop a piece from any of the armour sets excluding head and shoulder items. Lake Wintergrasp will also include NPC aspects similar to Alterac Valley and daily quests.