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I disagree with this. While it is true that focusing on one class, especially as a more casual player, is better than rolling a new character every 10 seconds when it comes to success in rated environments, it is not mandatory at all. Though this example does not apply here: What if the class you played for 4 seasons suddenly gets a class change in the new expansion and you stop to like it? Should you keep playing it, because you are most familiar with it? I think not. In the end, it's important to have fun in PvP. Whether that fun constitutes liking the class and gameplay or climbing the

This is already off the front page of the general discussion forum, I doubt this will cause any harm, especially since half of the posts there try to be a voice of reason. As to the "viruses": There is a minuscule possibility that the ad agency serves virus infected ads, I can't and won't say it's 100% safe, but you still go outside your house even though you could be killed by a car or be robbed, right? Also let me be clear that this can happen with any site, not just Icy Veins. The server was likely not compromised, but I don't have access to it and Damien is at Blizzcon, so I can't be 10

The race change will be a minor improvement, like 2% to 3% DPS. I don't think your race is the first thing you have to fix. I play a Night Elf, for example, and can still do good damage.

Excellent remark, hadn't considered that.

Well, this assumes that an insignia was bought with the honor gear, which doesn't look like it according Welfarebob's armory. So that changes the gearing order. I'd just buy it with honor instead of crafting it, but the latter is fine as well. :)

I beg to differ on the gear priority in one point: The CC breaking insignia is the most important part of gear you can have as a PvP player (except as a human, they have their racial). Especially in arena, without an insignia, you are pretty much cat food for any semi-serious player. So buy an insignia with honor if you don't have one already, and use it (This will also allow you to break out of peeling situations, where a player in the arena hits you with a CC to reduce your pressure on the opponent). I can't give you class-specific advice, but you need to figure out how to use every spel

Perhaps there is a quest that has to be completed before the quest you want to do shows up?

I can really commend what Archimage and Hybrys said. If you want my perspective, check out the Keybindings section in our PvP interface guide. Most of the time you can switch between walking with WAD (or WQE) and holding the mouse to walk. This should give you ample opportunity to use your skills, even the ones that are hard to reach. And although this has been said probably a dozen times, I can never stress enough how important it is to stop walking backwards.

I am a bit worried about the WW self-heal in PvP, because Healing Spheres were a really good spell to get out some healing. It saved my ass more than a dozen times. Though we get Surging Mist, the fact that it is a cast makes it less viable than the original Healing Spheres. I am sure they will rebalance the self-heal, but at its current state, it seems weaker than in 5.4. At its 6.0 state, Ring of Peace is certainly weaker, especially combined with the DoT that is applied by Blackout Kick, which will instantly get the main target out of RoP's incapacitate. A Disarm/Silence is always bette

The problem is not the lack of promotion on the site. Most of our traffic comes from search engines, so the placement on the site does not matter as much as the SEO/page ranking. As I elaborated here, we believe that the amount of people interested in PvP does not justify writing guides (especially those that change with every patch). Our resources are limited, and I am mainly speaking about Damien and Vlad of course, so writing about other topics like Hearthstone, which we recently expanded to, is more profitable in terms of traffic than writing about PvP, because of higher demand. So do

Exactly. That is what I wrote as well, in a sense. :) And thanks for the feedback, Varkaaf!

2014 will be awesome.

Regarding PvP, you should go for a Mageblade (e.g. Grievous Gladiator's Mageblade) and an off hand weapon (e.g. Grievous Gladiator's Endgame), as you can throw more enchants on two items rather than one item (You should probably put Jade Spirit on the main hand and Intellect on the off hand). Frost was always an excellent spec for PvP and looking at the EU PvP leaderboards in 3v3 you can see that most, if not all mages in the top 100, play Frost, so I would go for that if you want to maximize your efficiency. Frost has a lot of great control abilities and is generally less squishy than a Fire

First of all, thanks for your efforts. This is a nice start, so I pinned this topic. Maybe a suggestion on the formatting; when we started thinking about our PvP guides, I posted this structure: The emphasis clearly lies on discussion. While it is important to point the reader in the right direction, obviously, I also believe that it is elementary that the reader understands why they are choosing that talent, or that glyph. Why one stat is more important than the other, or why an enchantment is more viable than another one. The structure above is only a suggestion though, so you do n

The amount of responses here surprised me a bit, but allow me to elaborate Damien's comment. Back in May of last year I emailed Icy Veins, because I thought the site was providing good PvE content and, being a PvP player at heart, I did not like the lack of good and detailed PvP guides on IV and especially in general. I originally intended to write a Windwalker Monk PvP guide, which is the class I played back then and would still play if I had not stopped playing WoW a few months ago. Instead of jumping at the class guides right away, we decided to write general PvP guides first and ba