Betting in a PvP Arena?

[MongoJerry]

^^Precisely this. It baffles me that so many people are worried that PvM will take a hit when they try to balance PvP - it is all in their heads. Balancing skills in PvP is EASY TO do without it affecting PvM in the slightest. They were doing this back in the D1 days - spells in PvP were halved, but did their full damage still vs monsters, just as an example, resists not withstanding.

The difficulty with balancing for PvP and PvM at the same time is that the tendency during such balancing is to make every class exactly the same but just use different graphics. Every class has its snare, every class has its mobility skill, every class has its interrupt, every class has its crowd control ability, every class has its crowd control breaking skill, every class has its temporary immunity, etc. It's the only way to make sure that PvP is truly balanced. However, with PvM, you can make classes that are genuinely different from one another that can still succeed. Take pets oriented builds as examples (e.g Necromancer or Witch doctor). They can do very well in the PvM game but would be laughed out of the arena in PvP. If you don't worry about PvP balance, then that opens up the possibility for much more diversity among the classes.