Re:Slightly misleading (Score 2, Informative)

You make it sound like the PvE game is completely disposable. To clarify, you still need to play through the normal game to unlock skills and items.

They added a priest of Balthazar (For the ignorant, he's the guy you visit to unlock stuff with those factions you get in PvP) in the random arenas, so nope, you don't need to PvE anymore to unlock stuff.