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

[asonimie]

Its perfectly legal lol. There is no longer any advantage to dodging Q pops, this issue is the reason they instituted the points penalty for not joining... hence - no more issue.

[HTeam]

Part of the non-participation problem was that teams were feeding themselves to other teams on purpose.

The queue dodging was also being done to avoid specific teams.

Both of these problems were generally seen at the gladiator level, not the 0-10 level.

[Nepida]

Play to win but don't be bothered by losses. The skills I gained doing lvl 70 arenas helped quite a bit while lvling if I were attacked.

[Tasty]

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?

I assume it is seeing as they put the point loss system in place (is it still in place?) though working on assumptions is a very BAD idea might pay for someone to check with CSF.

I think its fine (this is just my opinion) I myself don't play arena for arena itself I play to get gear so I can competitively PvP throughout azeroth. Why should I be forced to do something I don't like in order to do something I do like? There's also the fact that I'm always going to be one or two seasons behind everyone else in gear and I won't ever have PvP weapons. I dunno just some thoughts/ramblings of mine.

[Kruschpakx4]

what % of games must a toon participate in to get team points?

10 games a week for points, everyone should have 30% or more to get points
example 30 games a week, you need at least 10 of 30 to get points

[LokNarash]

Just a stupid question, since I don't understand the rating -> points system.

I've just lost 10 games last arena week and got 344 points. I want to gain another 344 points this week (if score 0:10). Do I have to create new 5v5 team or is it possible just keep the original team to get the 344 this week?

[Wokomehee]

No need to make new team, just make sure u get 10 games each week =)

[Ridere]

I've been frantically leveling up my warlock team, so I can enter in 5s as both my Shaman team and Warlock team when the new Arena season starts up. Not sure when it will, but people are saying maybe a few weeks after the 3.2 content patch, so here's hoping.

I want to gear them up that way.

[Teamshug]

You cant just loose 10 games a week... if you do you will never get a rank! (correct me if im wrong), i lost all my arena games so far, and i think i get 345 Ap's a week or so. the thing is my team has no ranking.. thus keeping me ouyt from buying ant gear that requires AP's/honor.

Im stuck with hand me down honor only deadly and rest hatefull gear. cause you can buy all hatefull gear with only honor and no rating requrement.



MY 2 CENT:P

[gitcho]

You cant just loose 10 games a week... if you do you will never get a rank! (correct me if im wrong), i lost all my arena games so far, and i think i get 345 Ap's a week or so. the thing is my team has no ranking.. thus keeping me ouyt from buying ant gear that requires AP's/honor.

<arena-noob>
I'm about to hit 80 on my 5 priests and am trying to understand the rating system ... everything I'm reading is telling me that I'm only able to get hateful and some deadly with no personal/team rating requirements.

Besides the few deadly pieces you can buy with honor, am I correct in that you have to actually *win* against the majority of <1350 teams to be able to wear any of the deadly set? (eg. [item=41933]Deadly Gladiator's Satin Mantle[/item]) ?

If so, what's the point of losing 10 games a week if everything you can buy with arena points requires a rating anyway?

</arena-noob>