A blue post in the official forums gave some details on how the arena points and ratings wipe will happen in regards to patch 3.0.2 and the release of WotLK. Seems you won’t have to dump your points before the next content patch, but instead will see them get wiped before the actual expansion release on Nov. 13th.
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