PvP Seasons, Base Resilience, and Max PvE Item Level updates in MoP Classic
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Greetings!
We’ve updated several PvP-focused elements of the upcoming Mists of Pandaria Classic experience, and we would like to share them below:
- During active Arena Seasons, the Conquest cap will go up every week for all characters. If a player does not reach the cap in a week, they will be able to catch up. This is a change we made in Cataclysm Classic, and we were pleased by the feedback.
- For example, if you create a new character and hit max level 4 weeks into the Arena Season, your available Conquest cap will be 4 times the weekly cap, and you can catch up to everyone else without being permanently behind.
- We are bringing back Gladiator and Rank One titles and rewards for 2v2s and 5v5s.
- We will have a flat cutoff instead of a percentage of players for Rank One and Gladiator slots.
- Having multiple alts in the Gladiator range no longer counts towards multiple slots when calculating the cutoff for that arena bracket size.
- For example, if you have 4 characters that are all Gladiator in 3s, you only count as one spot and all 4 of those characters get Gladiator rewards.
- Similarly, if you have 2 characters that are Gladiator in 2s, 2 characters that are Gladiators in 3s, and 4 characters that are Gladiator in 5s, you count as 1 character in 2s, 1 character in 3s, and 1 character in 5s for cutoffs. All of those characters get their Gladiator rewards.
- If you have 2 characters that are Gladiator in 3s, and one character that is not, you count as 1 slot in 3s, your 2 characters get Gladiator rewards, and your character that was not Gladiator does not get the rewards.
- Base Resilience is set to 62% Damage Reduction from players for the duration of Arena Season 12.
- Base Resilience is set to 40% for characters below level 90.
- Battle Fatigue is set to -30% Healing and Shielding for the duration of Arena Season 12.
- Note: We are aware that PvP Power has not been contributing towards Healing on the Beta, and that has been accounted for with the Battle Fatigue and Base Resilience numbers we have arrived at.
- There is now a maximum PvE-Item Level of 473 while inside of Arenas, Battlegrounds, and Rated Battlegrounds.
- If you are wearing a non-PvP item in an Arena, BG, or RBG that exceeds the 473 item level maximum, it will be set to item level 473 for that match.
- For clarity, PvP items like Conquest Weapons at item level 490 are NOT affected by this cap and retain their item level.
As always, thank you for all of your feedback!
– The WoW Classic Team
Source: PvP Seasons, Base Resilience, and Max PvE Item Level updates in MoP Classic, Author: Linxy, Posted: Tuesday, June 17th 2025, 8:24 pm - During active Arena Seasons, the Conquest cap will go up every week for all characters. If a player does not reach the cap in a week, they will be able to catch up. This is a change we made in Cataclysm Classic, and we were pleased by the feedback.
