Dampening Changes & Shorter Arena Timers Coming to PvP for Mists of Pandaria Classic

Luxrah • Published June 21, 2025

As part of the changes that were recently announced for PvP in Mists of Pandaria Classic, Blizzard is making some adjustments to Dampening to account for the reintroduction of titles in 2v2 and 5v5 arenas.

Dampening will now start at 10% and increase by 6% per minute. It will kick in at 3 minutes for all arena sizes with the exception of 2v2 matches where a healer is present on both teams, in which case it will kick in immediately when the match begins.

In addition to these changes, the maximum game time has been lowered from 20 to 15 minutes.

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With the reintroduction to titles in 2s and 5s, we have made some adjustments to how Dampening works compared to the Original Mists of Pandaria.

Arena
- Dampening starts at 10% and increases by 6% per minute. (Note that this stacks with the ever present 30% healing reduction from Battle Fatigue).
- Dampening in 2s, 3s, and 5s now starts at 3 minutes.
- Dampening in 2s when there is a healer on both teams now starts immediately after the gates open.
- Maximum game time is now 15 minutes (was 20 minutes).