Arena Pwnage – World Of Warcraft Arena Pwnage Guide

UPDATED 01/24/10

I wrote earlier that Arena Pwnage was an ambitious project with a lot of potential, but it remained to be seen whether they could deliver on their promises. Well, 2010 has come and the Arena Pwnage guys have delivered. Since my first review, they have added guides and videos for nearly every class (unfortunately, mages are still not represented, but they say a video & written guide are in the works). The videos are a great crash course in how to play arena and cover the fundamentals you’ll need to do well. Just add some real game-time experience and you’re on your way to racking up the arena points!

The guide is divided into a number of categories:

Advanced Tactics
Arena Fundamentals For the Beginner
Death Knight
Druid
General
Hunter
Paladin
Priest
Rogue
Shaman
Warlock
Warrior

All the sections have videos which cover everything needed for people new to arena play. They aim to give you solid introductions and the fundamentals of playing your respective classes. For what they cover, they do a good job, and you can tell that these were made by long-time arena experts (according to the founders, they all have 2400+ arena experience with arena master achievements).

I like the videos a lot — they’re direct and don’t waste your time. On the negative side, a couple videos have audio levels that are too quiet (I had to crank my speakers up on a couple vids). On the positive side, the videos are VERY thorough, giving you the fundamentals, optimum speccing and gearing recommendations, macros, and even actual arena fights with analysis, which I think are really helpful in putting together everything they talk about. I hope in the future they’ll do even more of these, maybe even breaking down the fights and discussing exactly what happens in detail (since arena battles are so fast-paced, sometimes it’s hard to keep track of everything that happens as it happens).

Their forum area is still new, so discussions are still developing, but you can tell that the site admins definitely intend for these to be good forums — right now they’re on it and are answering forum postings really quickly.

You can now feel safe in that Arena Pwnage is real and will not be vaporware. The founders have been making good on their promise to continue building out the site into a very valuable resource for arena combatants. It sounds like their goal is not only to have the video series, but to create a complete online arena-focused community with premium content. This is definitely ambitious, but if they can marshal the talent they promise, it should definitely be possible. Judging from the quality of what they’ve put up so far, I believe these guys will continue to produce high-quality content.

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