Arena should be with premade toons and a full range of gear to choose from. If they truly want skill vs skill take out the gear grind and leave that for PvE. I'd arena once in awhile out of boredom if I had gear, but I don't have enough time to play both aspects of the game so until PVP is worth doing fulltime or I don't have to grind for gear to do it well I won't bother (and haven't since S1 other than a few weeks here and there).Permanent arena tourny servers with different ruleset than regular servers. Have been saying it from day 1.
it took a little under 2 months to go from 3.1 ptr -> live
i'd expect roughly the same again.
If there truly is no trash at all, this might be the first pve I'd actually want to do.
I think killing off Anub'arak is worth the attention of the Argent Crusade.
Azjol-Nerub was merely a setback.
It would be nice if they threw in a twist later where there's a Nerubian city underneath the coliseum.