I found some really strange comps when i dipped down into the 1400's after freshly starting arenas. Those comps would tear my group up now, WAY worse than the s3/s4 guys do. (3 mages?? gg)

I have to fully recommend gearing up first. That means LOTS of battlegrounds. If you are unlucky like me and have 10-15 minute queue times, it sucks, and it sucks hard but that's the only way to get ready to move up. I noticed a huge difference getting the 4 piece set bonus on my main, in addition to pushing spell dmg up to 800 average across the board plus 300+ resil. You can't do that with a couple pieces of S2 here and non-pvp pieces there. I've got PLENTY of holes in my gear, but I've got the foundations to make it past 1600.

Armory links would be cool.

I'm actually a newb and I still use
/castrandom Lightning Bolt,Purge,Grounding Totem

I've bound purge and grounding totems to seperate keys so I can get in the habbit of using them, but the /castrandom macro has put my team up to a 1700+ rating so... :whistling: