Good luck if you’re waiting to see if you made the glad/duelist/rival cut, especially those who stayed online pushing until the last minute.

Hopefully during the week Blizzard will release information about the upcoming gear – I’m interested to see whether the delay is down to a reworking of stats (emergency measure to increase mitigation, perhaps after watching the MLG final), or if the graphic designers have just been slacking with recolouring/sticking spikes onto the current gear. Hopefully it won’t be the latter, and all classes will see more benefit from running mostly PVP gear.

There still hasn’t been any news about upcoming WG gear, other than speculation that it’s probably about the time when new trinkets are added. Fingers crossed this will be the case; as a non-raider I’m getting a bit bored with using Darkmoon Card: Death for the 4th season in a row!

We are currently planning to end Arena Season 7 as early as January 19. At that point we will go through our normal process to determine who is eligible for the end-of-season rewards. This process should take approximately one week. It’s very important for players who feel that they may be eligible for the arena-specific titles and/or Relentless Gladiator’s Frostwyrm to refrain from transferring their character to another realm until after Arena Season 7 ends.

The following Arena Season will not begin for at least one week after the current season ends. During this time between seasons, all rated matches will be turned off and only skirmishes will be available. When Arena Season 8 begins, all team ratings, personal rating, and arena points will be wiped, but matchmaking rating and honor points will remain.

It will be interesting to see if the daily battleground quest still gives arena points during the week after the end of Season 7. Theoretically there’ll be at least 175 extra points available during the hiatus so if you’re still saving for gear and are a few points short on the 20th Jan, don’t waste them all on honor tokens