
The World of Warcraft patch 5.3 latest update on the PTR was marked as the release candidate. This patch is a “minor” content patch that will not bring a new raid, but will bring in an enormous amount of PVP changes.
Some of the things that stick out in my mind are:
- Base resilience is being changed from 40% to 65%
- Gear iLevel normalization – PVE items will be normalized down to iLevel 498 when used in instanced PVP
- Resilience mostly removed from gear
- PVP Power and Resilience nerfed 50% on gems
- Healing benefit from PVP power increased, while other things were decreased to bring about a similar leveling of healing
- PVP power will remain on PVP items to make them the more attractive option over PVE gear in PVP
- Conquest point “catch up” will be implemented, allowing new arena participants a change to catch up on their gear via a temporarily increased conquest point cap
- Random battlegrounds will require that you choose a role when queueing (heals vs. DPS)