Arena comparison tool
by Eliah Hecht 
Apr 6th 2007 at 4:27PM
I love nifty web tools. Andreas "bds" Thorstensson has created a page that lists the top-rated Arena teams in every bracket, worldwide (or filterable by region). This is nice, but the killer feature for me is the ability to show the top rated players in each class. Using this information, and since everything on this page links to the Armory, I can look into the top 5 players in each class, and see if any trends emerge as far as talent specs.- Warrior: Arms/Fury, with all five specced exactly or very close to 35/23/3
- Paladin: Holy, with four 41/20/0, one 37/24/0
- Hunter: All Marks, ranging from 42 to 50 in Marks with the rest in Survival
- Rogue: Finally, some variation. Everyone's got at least 25 points in Assassination, but which tree the rest of the points go in varies. Nobody's taken any of the 41-pointers.
- Priest: Four 28/33/0, one 14/0/47
- Shaman: Four 40/0/21, one 0/15/46 -- our first Korean top fiver (careful, the Korean armory loaded very slowly for me; spec mirrored here).
- Mage: Three 33/0/28, two heavy frost (10/0/51 and 4/12/45)
- Warlock: more variation. Three destro, one afflic, one demonology. Everyone has a 41-point talent except one of the destro locks.
- Druid: Everyone has most of their points in Resto, and everyone has at least 11 in Feral. Although three out of five have at least 41 in Resto, only one has Tree of Life.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
rogue Apr 6th 2007 5:00PM
Is this page not Firefox friendly? Nothing happens when I select from the drop down boxes.
Eliah Hecht Apr 6th 2007 5:08PM
Works in FF for me (on a Mac). There is a second of lag after picking something from the dropdowns while it loads data, but other than that, not sure where your problem is coming from.
bds Apr 6th 2007 5:11PM
Works fine for me in Firefox.
rogue Apr 6th 2007 5:18PM
Seems to be working now, weird.
Nifty find :)
Cosmina Apr 7th 2007 12:51AM
The mirror for the Korean Resto Shaman build is just a link the WoWhead talent calculator main page :(
deleted Apr 7th 2007 10:18AM
Interesting how most Hunters are MM. According to the very wise Damh (www.bigredkitty.com) He has proven that BM hunters can outdps a MM hunter (depending on the situation and gear of course). Im gonna try arena team with BM spec first see how it goes..Ive usually been top 5 in BG's with damage delt and HK's etc.
Excaliber Apr 7th 2007 10:21AM
what the heck my name is Excaliber not deleted >
Eliah Hecht Apr 7th 2007 3:23PM
Cosmina: woah, sorry about that. Fixed.