Some PvE supporters in World of Warcraft are afraid that PvE will be neglected in favor of Arenas. Well, whether you’re one of those players, you can relax considering that’s not going to happen.

It’s understandable that that concern is going to arise one way or another considering all the attention PvP has been getting. To placate those who felt slighted by the situation, Blizzard’s Nethaera addressed these concerns and gave Blizzard’s official stance on the issue:

We are going to continue to develop both PvP and PvE substance. PvE isn’t being phased out for Arenas. These sorts of debates within PvP and PvE are inevitable given the nature of trying to balance two aspects of the game that some humans feel clash with each other.

Some society don’t care for PvP and some don’t care for PvE but the availability of both is still there for everyone. We try to cater gear for PvP or PvE as we feel is most favourable as well. While there are some pieces of gear that people may find in PvE encounters that are viable for PvP, we don’t want to manufacture it so that humans that don’t wish to PvE don’t have to do it in order to be competitive.

We want to continue to build it favourable for humans to do what they enjoy (either PvP or PvE) in order to get the gear they want/need to continue enjoying themselves and being competitive.

PvE will not be going away any instance soon. Raiding and adventuring will be still there for those who want to pursue that path. Still, it would be nice whether some of the more hardcore PvE players would explore other possibilities and try the Arena every once in a while.

Original post by Enrico S.