Is it worth doing the 10 losses a week to get points these days?

[echo]

I have no pvp gear, I suck at pvp multiboxing - is it worth taking my team in the arena a few games a week? so far as best I killed 2 opponents, but lost 5-0 3 out of 5 games.

Last time I checked you can loose your 10 games by just not joining the arena. You queue up and don't hit accept. You still get points but don't have to step inside. Next week get yourself a new team. Granted you don't get a rating but you get the points for the lower unrated gear. You can even leave on toon in town to sign you up and your other toons can make there way somewhere else or do dailys.

Can anyone confirm if this is true? If so, that'd be awesome as all I care about is getting the points. Not having to waste the time by getting hit in the face sounds awesome.

[Tasty]

I have no pvp gear, I suck at pvp multiboxing - is it worth taking my team in the arena a few games a week? so far as best I killed 2 opponents, but lost 5-0 3 out of 5 games.

Last time I checked you can loose your 10 games by just not joining the arena. You queue up and don't hit accept. You still get points but don't have to step inside. Next week get yourself a new team. Granted you don't get a rating but you get the points for the lower unrated gear. You can even leave on toon in town to sign you up and your other toons can make there way somewhere else or do dailys.

Can anyone confirm if this is true? If so, that'd be awesome as all I care about is getting the points. Not having to waste the time by getting hit in the face sounds awesome.

Consider it confirmed.

Also fyi you can stay on 0 rating and still get your 250~ points a week so no need to make new teams.

[echo]

Tasty, you're my new hero. thank you for the confirmation!!!

[Perrigrin]

Well, my pally got into a 2v2 with a friend that actually win some games, so dont wanna drag him through 5v5 atm - Created a 3v3 for the shamans and actually won 2 games (against the same poor team lol) out of around 20 - Which is not bad with low gear and absolutely no pvp skills.

[Iceorbz]

I have been able to get to about 1150 running 3 shaman, its hard though. So many people have ulduar gear and im still rocking hateful =(.

Destruction locks hurt me pretty bad lol.

[Tasty]

I have no pvp gear, I suck at pvp multiboxing - is it worth taking my team in the arena a few games a week? so far as best I killed 2 opponents, but lost 5-0 3 out of 5 games.

Last time I checked you can loose your 10 games by just not joining the arena. You queue up and don't hit accept. You still get points but don't have to step inside. Next week get yourself a new team. Granted you don't get a rating but you get the points for the lower unrated gear. You can even leave on toon in town to sign you up and your other toons can make there way somewhere else or do dailys.

Can anyone confirm if this is true? If so, that'd be awesome as all I care about is getting the points. Not having to waste the time by getting hit in the face sounds awesome.

Consider it confirmed.

Also fyi you can stay on 0 rating and still get your 250~ points a week so no need to make new teams.

If I worked at Blizzard, I would consider this queue dodging.

I'm not sure if that's an offense in itself, but it sure doesn't look good. I remember there being a huge deal about queue dodging not too long ago.

If my memory serves me correctly, losing points for hiding was blizzards idea for punishing those trying to queuedodge/setup matches

Now if I worked at Blizzard I'd put doing that down as Non-participation

/shrug

[Wokomehee]

Nice thread =) I started doing 5v5 with my newly dinged shamans last week. I lost 9 and won 1 lol, but got my points so im happy. Its absolutley worth doing 10 games imo, u save some time there, much cheaper than to buy with honor alone.

I always enter tho, and i dont expect to win so i dont get disapointed or feel bad hehehe... i need practise, and maybe i will win some games later on, who knows

[Gares]

Just do it until your ready to start trying. Even with good gear I'm still hovering around 1300 and get the same points as if I lost all 10 for the week, so its worth it.

[Fef]

I got the full hateful set, and I'm happy to report that it [s]changed everything[/s] didn't change anything. I still lose all my games !

Once, only once, I had the impression I could have won : I took the Priest healer out, and then a Warlock, but by then all of my characters were basically almost dead. Still, I was quite proud. Then the match ended, and I saw 3 ou of 5 in the other team got the "step into the arena" (or something like that) achievement, meaning they were doing their very first game. Hehe, never mind ...

Anyway, the 10 games a week are quickly done, so I continue doing them just for honour.

The new gear does make a rather big difference in Battlegrounds, though. My team is Druid (healer/caster DPS) + 4 x Mark Hunter.

[Otlecs]

Last time I checked (and I asked a GM, in-game, around Christmas time), non-participation was against the rules and "actionable" (sic).

Is it "ok" now to just not go in when the arena pops up?