Today, we’ve added a tabard to Wrath Classic for Deadly Gladiators. This will be only purchasable during Arena Season 5 (the now current season).
You’ll find it on all three of the expected vendors: Nargle Lashcord (Dalaran), Kezzik the Striker (Area 52), and Argex Irongut (Gadgetzan). It costs 550 Arena Points and requires an Arena Rating of 2300 in any Arena team-size bracket.
Spending the time to save arena points and get gear should be the norm, rating should only be used for titles and cosmetics and faster gear through more arena points per week.
That’s pretty cool. Seems like a decent incentive to get people more active in arenas. I’ve heard from a few different places that it’s lacking at the moment.
Edit: Let the record show that after 16 replies to the thread, I’m the only one to actually make a post on topic. Once again, I’m reminded why Blizzard representatives have been increasingly absent from places where they communicate with us, including and especially these forums.
Yeah add tabards instead of fixing the ever growing list of huge bugs in the game. add tabards instead of addressing the thousands of bots online every day nonstop in every aspect of the game. cool. thanks for the tabard for the .02% of people who get it
Lowering rating reqs will get more casual pvpers into arenas, having the desired effect of boosting arena participation. (Which I am assuming is the point of adding this tabard?)