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

[Perrigrin]

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.

[Perrigrin]

clarification, I 5 box arean by myself, 1 prot pally (mostly to draw fire) and 4 elemental shaman.

[defactoman]

If you can stand losing and not taking it too hard, it's worth it.

A head piece bought with Honor alone is 49,000 Honor
A head peice bought with Honor and Arena points is 12,000 honor and 350 arena points. You get about 340ish arena points a week, so you can see how it will accelerate the equipment you get.

[Perrigrin]

is 10 losses still the "magic" number to go for? Or can I do fewer/benefit from doing more?

[asonimie]

If you are ONLY losing, then do the minimum 10. You will receive basically the same amount of points per week until you break 1500+ team rating.

That being said, you're not losing anything by getting more practice either, so if you have any desire to improve, then get more practice... and maybe play a real comp. You're not going to fool anyone by "drawing fire" on your pally. Intelligent players will not waste dps on a dmg sponge.

[Fef]

If you can stand losing and not taking it too hard, it's worth it.

A head piece bought with Honor alone is 49,000 Honor
A head peice bought with Honor and Arena points is 12,000 honor and 350 arena points. You get about 340ish arena points a week, so you can see how it will accelerate the equipment you get.

WHAAAAAT ?????

That means the 18k-ish honnor points and 1376 arena points can already buy me something ? Silly me, I didn't even check, silly me.

Where am I to go to get these items ? I know nothing about PVP.

I confirm, losing 10 games a week grants 344 arena points. In my case, I don't even have time to take anything hard, my team dies that quickly. I try to fight, though, just out of respect for my opponents. I killed a grand total of ONE person in the arena in 5 weeks now. Hehe

[Negativ1337]

Dalaran in the sewers, theres a little staircase to a stand.

You should open up the first vendor closest to the wall (the one least cool looking).

Here you can buy everything

[Fef]

OMG, this HAteful Gladiator stuff is such a great upgrade to my level 78 blue gear ! And I can almost buy two pieces right now !

You made me very happy right now

[stoat]

As long as you don't have to wait too long for games to pop it's always worth it. Even after you get 5/5 hateful you can still turn in 100 arena points for 2k honor... if you get fast queues that's like 7k honor for 30-45 minutes of losing in 5s (also helps to not get 2k teams that try to pillar hump your 15k hp shamans all day). Probably a better return on time than a lot of bgs.

[Ualaa]

The evening before and the evening following maintenance, tons of people cram to get their games in.
You'll have amongst the largest pool to compete against, which theoretically means faster queues.

If you're losing and just want it over fast, go naked, mount up and run to the opposition.
Then dance with them until they kill you. If they won't attack, chain cast on their healer.

It's about the quick reward, to gear up faster, not about the win or loss.
Down the road, if you care, it will be about the wins, but not yet.