End of Arena Season 7 Announced

Blizzard announced today that they plan to end arena season 7 as early as January 19.

Now, I've barely given PVP a mention on this blog, but the end of an arena season has implications for PVE as well. A January 19 end to the current arena season (two weeks from today) would mean a January 26 start to the next. The start of the next arena season will also herald the arrival of Toravon the Ice Watcher in the new vacant wing north of Emalon's room in VoA.

This may also coincide with the opening of heroic Icecrown Citadel, as the start of season 7 and Koralon's arrival coincided with the opening of heroic ToC. That would mean 2 weeks per gate for the reset of ICC, however note that the 26th would then only be the first crack at the Lich King himself. ICC has only a single lockout with individual hard modes, not separate lockouts like ToC. So hard modes will technically be available the following week.