Season Five, in my opinion, was absolutely terrible.
My two’s partner and I did not even participate in Season 5 because of how horrible its terribleness was. Of course, neither of us are necessarily hard core arena players, so watching our rating dwindle down to 1300 in the first ten games was disheartening, to say the least – considering that I was only in 4/5 Hateful from doing raiding and heroics and my partner was in mostly craftable gear, there was good reason as to why we lost. The problem is – we were roughly 5-5, and even lost points for winning. That’s no way to keep people happy and arena’ing.
So Ninja Panda was put on the back burner for a while. Until, of course, last night.
For those who don’t know, in Season 6 arena teams start out with 0 points total. However, until you get to a certain bracket, you don’t lose points for losing, and gain quite a few points for winning. In about an hour or two of arenas, my scrubby little team was at an 800 rating (which is where we called it for the night – at least until tonight). We were having such a good time – through wins and losses – that we didn’t even notice when we had played 50 games.
And so, thank you, Blizzard, for making PvP fun again. I wish I had a frost wyrm mount from Season 5, but hopefully I’ll be on the road to Gladiator this time around.
Sincerely,
Ninja Panda