After a couple of weeks of the new season SK-gaming’s famous arena ranking page shows us how the new season is molding and forming. The results are disturbing and comforting at the same time. Let me explain myself…

What’s disturbing is that I don’t even know what season it is anymore, according to the statistics it feels like we’re back in Season 3-4 where PMR (Priest, Mage, Rogue), Priest/Rogue, and Warrior/Druid all reigned supreme. Don’t get me wrong, I prefer the new or rather *old* diversity over the joke that was Season 5 (DK/Paladin or fail) but it’s regretable how with just a few key class changes everything has turned upside down. Yet again Blizzard’s dream of “everyone being PvP viable” is thrown back into their face, this time with a nostalgic aftertaste to it.

The comforting part is with the return of the old-school comps a feeling of “everything is back to normal again” flows over me. All is zen once more in WoW PvP, ever since the cataclysmic asteroid that was the inclusion of Death Knights. What’s more despite the fact that the return of these old overpowered comps makes it even more difficult for alternative comps to rise up, the strategies to counter them are still similar to what they where before. So now, after finally having gotten used to having Death Knights into the mix we have to rethink our strategies back to 6 months ago where Druids would spam Cyclone while his Warrior Mortal Strike’s you in the face.

Speaking of Druid/Warrior, which I foresaw would make a comeback this season, here’s another chart of how the class representation has also taken a deep dive into retro-insanity.

It almost gives me a warm fuzzy feeling to see paladins and death knights fall back down and to my unexpected surprise Priests are the new arena champions. I only leveled a priest because I always wanted one, little did I know that my little twink project would become my main PvP monster today.

Currently I’m doing 2v2 as Disc with my Enhancement Shaman arena partner Luar. We finally hit 1500 and I bought some Deadly Shoulders. It’s an odd combo but we have high hopes to get into the 2k+ this season. That is unless we have no way to counter priest/rogues and druid/warriors in the upper brackets XD

Tags: Arena Season 6, Old School Arena, Overpowered Priests, Retro Arena, Return of PMR, SK-Gaming

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