UPDATE: Blizzard poster Bornakk has posted the same information on the U.S. O-Boards and stated that Season 5 starts Tuesday, Dec. 16.
According to a post by Blizzard's Vaneck on the World of Warcraft European PvP forum, Arena Season 5 launches on Wednesday, Dec. 17 with some changes regarding how Arena or Honor items can be purchased.
Here's the start of the post, which begins with the blue Tier 1 set.
Tier 1 - Superior (blue) quality items:
鈥? No rating requirements
鈥? Costs Honor and Arena points
鈥? Equivalent to heroic dungeon items
Keep reading after the jump for the rest of the post, which contains Tier 2 and 3 set items and two tiers of Honor items that include the neck, ring, boots, belt, bracer, and trinket.
No tag for this post.With Arena Season 5 launching on December 17, we wanted to provide some helpful information. The method in which Arena or Honor items can be purchased will be slightly different then how it was before. For Arena items, there will be 3 tiers of purchasable set items that includes pieces for the Head, Shoulders, Chest, Gloves, and Legs as follows:
Tier 1 - Superior (blue) quality items:
鈥? No rating requirements
鈥? Costs Honor and Arena points
鈥? Equivalent to heroic dungeon items
Tier 2- Epic (purple) quality items:
鈥? Medium rating requirements
鈥? Costs Arena points
鈥? Equivalent to 10-person raid items
Tier 3 - Epic (purple) quality items:
鈥? High rating requirements
鈥? Costs Arena points
鈥? Equivalent to 25-person raid items
鈥? This tier will also contain Arena weapons
In addition, there will be two tiers of Honor items that includes pieces for the neck, ring, boots, belt, bracer, and trinket as follows:
Tier 1 鈥?Epic (purple) quality items:
鈥? Medium rating requirements
鈥? Costs Honor points
鈥? Equivalent to 10-person raid items
Tier 2 鈥?Epic (purple) quality items:
鈥? High rating requirements
鈥? Costs Honor points