07/06 Announcing: Arena Season 2!

We are currently planning to end the first season and begin Arena Season 2 on June 13, 2007 to coincide with a small patch. Please be aware that this may change to a later date if the patch is not in fact ready by the 13th. We will keep everyone updated if this date does change; however, June 13 is the earliest date that the second season can be expected to begin.

After re-evaluating the arena season process and player feedback we will now be resetting all arena team ratings at the start of the new season. Players will still retain their arena points and teams with this reset. The team rating will simply be reset to the default 1500, allowing all teams to once again compete for top honour with a fresh start.

With the end of the first season players who have contributed to at least 20% of the games in the top teams from each battlegroup will receive their end-of-season rewards. These include Arena-specific titles that they can display proudly until the end of the new season, and for the best of the best, an Armoured Nether Drake. New high end epic Arena rewards will also be added to coincide with the start of the second Arena Season, as well as new epic honour rewards.

Edit: corrected date

07/06 Arena Season 2 delay

As we mentioned in our initial announcement of the second arena season, the start of the next season is planned to coincide with the release of a small patch. Due to additional development time and testing needed we will be delaying the scheduled release of the patch, and thus the start of Arena Season 2 by one week, until June 20, 2007. This current schedule is of course subject to change as well.

Also, don't forget that team ratings will be reset to the default 1500 with the start of the new season, allowing all teams to once again compete for top honors with a fresh start.

Q u o t e:
12th on the US servers and 13th on the Euro servers... right?

That should be correct. :)

07/06 Arena Season 2 delay

As we mentioned in our initial announcement of the second arena season, the start of the next season is planned to coincide with the release of a small patch. Due to additional development time and testing needed we will be delaying the scheduled release of the patch, and thus the start of Arena Season 2 by one week, until June 20, 2007. This current schedule is of course subject to change as well.

Also, don't forget that team ratings will be reset to the default 1500 with the start of the new season, allowing all teams to once again compete for top honors with a fresh start.