MMORPG.com Word of Warcraft Correspondent Robert Duckworth recaps the sixth of the game's arena seasons.

Starting at the beginning: Season Five has just ended, patch 3.1 has hit the servers, and two classes are going wild. Warlocks have discovered how to two shot players and many quickly proceeded to enjoy themselves in the battlegrounds. Their fun was hot fixed in less than 24 hours. Retribution Paladins also came out of the gates roaring, and were subsequently tied back down with restraints before the week was out, though they continue to try and break free into OP'ness. Most Fury Warriors have already switched to Arms, and most DKs went deeper into Unholy due to the loss of shadowfrost spec. Feral Druids lament their bear form nerfs, and subsequently their survivability; while Disc Priests and Resto Druids looked hopefully in the opposite direction. DPS casters continue to cry about anything that is melee, especially Retribution and the Arms Warrior Juggernaut buff. It is a new season, Ring of Valor arena has been fixed and reopened, all ratings have been reset to 0 for the first time in arena's history, and many players are excited to see what the 3.1 changes bring.

Read the Season Six Recap

Just about every other word in that article was "nerf". 

Nice write up.  Makes me want to start playing again.

I jsut wanted to say that I Really liked the format and tone of this report.  Very well written.

it's articles like these that make me keep on comin back.

thanks!

zWolf.

I enjoyed reading the article.

However...

All I get from that article is nerfs, bugs, balance issues and people whining and running around like headless chickens trying to find what is now the best spec & combo for the time being.

Where is the fun in this everchanging game of rock-paper-scissor that you have little control over since it's all up to what Blizzard changes next? This is not even FotM, it's FotW! I guess the min/maxing combocrunching crowd love it... but personally, I think this is a stellar example of the whole arena concept being Blizzard's biggest blunder in WoW. It never should have been implemented.

Feel free to disagree (not that I care )...

i seriously doubt that blizzard will nerf the classes they need to nerf . i m sure you ll get some fanbois saying warcraft has an almost perfect pvp balance but if you ask most people in the game they ll tell you that the pvp side of warcraft is so broken in terms of the imbalances unless you play one of the pvp orientated classes ( meaning deathknights paladins and rogues ) that that side of the game is pretty much pointless playing espeacially in the arenas . which is essentially the reason i gave up wow after 4 years of playing intermitantly . i just dont have any faith in blizzards desire or capability to fix what is wrong anymore .

Originally posted by Faelan

I enjoyed reading the article.

However...

All I get from that article is nerfs, bugs, balance issues and people whining and running around like headless chickens trying to find what is now the best spec & combo for the time being.

Where is the fun in this everchanging game of rock-paper-scissor that you have little control over since it's all up to what Blizzard changes next? This is not even FotM, it's FotW! I guess the min/maxing combocrunching crowd love it... but personally, I think this is a stellar example of the whole arena concept being Blizzard's biggest blunder in WoW. It never should have been implemented.

Feel free to disagree (not that I care )...

totally agree