Pvp

At this weekend's North American Online Arena Qualifiers, deciding which arena teams would be heading to compete at BlizzCon, Senior PVP Designer Brian Holinka popped in between matches to talk about PVP in the upcoming Legion expansion.

Last week we got our first glimpse at WoW's upcoming seventh incarnation: Legion.

A couple of new complementary PVP mechanics are coming in patch 6.2.1 to hopefully alleviate some wait time issues with PVP in non-ranked battlegrounds and Ashran.

Tom Chilton announced an entirely new PVP system for World of Warcraft: Legion, which is entirely different than the current system of accumulating honor points (or conquest points) to buy gear with.

Long queue times have been a long-standing problem for PVP players, generally attributed to faction imbalance on servers and in Battlegroups.

This weekend features the Arena Skirmish bonus event, which is live July 10-13.

RNG stands for 'random number generator' and, in this case, it basically means random stats on gear.

PVP Season 17 — also known as Warlords Season 2 — begins tomorrow for NA and Oceanic servers, following the usual one week break after the end of the previous season.

At the present time, no official date has been given for the end of Season 16. However, between this announcement and today's reveal that future builds on the 6.2 PTR are going to be flagged as "release" versions, it seems to be a pretty good indicator that the launch of patch 6.2 is right around the corner.

If you've got a question you want answered live by senior game designer Brian Holinka, Thursday is the day for it!