#0 - Jan. 6, 2009, 7:10 p.m.
When Kalgan was the lead designer (in TBC) Arena was somewhat balanced and extremely fun to play, and I believe he did a very good job of fixing most classes throughout the expansion. Yeah, mace stuns were stupid, resto druids were ridiculously hard to kill, if not impossible and there were plenty of other imbalances. You could, however, do very well even with a somewhat weak class like a Hunter, or Paladin if you were really good at the game, and Paladins were very good in the first 2 seasons. Once again, even though some classes were quite weak, you could still do very well if you were actually skilled (which is what arena is all about, really). I do not recall arena being this ridiculous when it was released in TBC, and in fact it never was.
If you look at Arena right now, there are pages and pages of fixes that need to be applied to every single class to balance things out, and it doesn't seem like the dev. team will react fast enough to fix arena. Please, start seriously implementing some of the obvious fixes ASAP, or you will completely kill off the fun and competitive environment that is arena.
Nerf deadly brew, nerf poison app. rate, buff warriors, nerf dismantle, fix arcane, etc. You just can't give arena the same time window for fixes as with PvE (which is months to years).
EDIT: I did NOT say arena was balanced at 70, I said it was somewhat balanced, and most importantly gave room for a lot of skill. There's a difference.
