About to ding 80 - where do I get me gear?

[thedreameater]

Ran AV from 70 to 80, I'll ding Monday. I would like to start running instances, but I'm wearing quest greens from my mid 60s!!

Any suggestions?

[stoat]

AFK 10 arena games, use arena points + honor from running AV all week to start buying deadly pieces.
Run WG for marks, collect legs, chest, trinket, bracers, ring
Run gear quest lines in icecrown/storm peaks

[thedreameater]

Don't you have to win an arena to get initial points? If I went AFK for every match, I would have zero across the board, wouldn't I?

[Moorea]

you still get arena points even if you loose all your matches.

you should probably not do 80 bracket AV in 60s greens though, it's not fair to your team mates who have to carry you - have somewhat decent gear and participate; protect or take towers/bunkers, etc...

[gitcho]

AFK 10 arena games, use arena points + honor from running AV all week to start buying deadly pieces

all of the gear that you buy with arena points, requires a rating. I was told that if you never win a game, you'll never get beyond a ZERO rating, meaning doing arena is POINTLESS (because you'll never be able to use what you buy). Still haven't been able to get anyone who's actually done arena to confirm this.

[Deann]

You don't need points for Deadly.. Only for Furious/Relentless

[gitcho]

You don't need points for Deadly.. Only for Furious/Relentless

right - but correct me if i'm wrong, but there's NO point in losing 10 games a week like another thread suggested simply to get arena points to buy gear cheaper. You won't get the required rating to wear the gear you buy. And all gear that you buy arena points requires a rating.

I'm really quite surprised that everyone seems to think that by losing 10 games/week you'll magically get to 1500 rating - you have to WIN ... lots ...

I would so love to be wrong on this ...

[thedreameater]

sorry if I'm slow - are you saying I will get points if I never, ever, ever win an arena game and my score is ZERO?

Thanks

[Fat Tire]

right - but correct me if i'm wrong, but there's NO point in losing 10 games a week like another thread suggested simply to get arena points to buy gear cheaper. You won't get the required rating to wear the gear you buy. And all gear that you buy arena points requires a rating.

I'm really quite surprised that everyone seems to think that by losing 10 games/week you'll magically get to 1500 rating - you have to WIN ... lots ...

I would so love to be wrong on this ...

Well you could actually try? Learn,practice and get some experience, I mean if you going in to just lose anyway, why not try to win? You might surprise yourself. You dont start losing rating until 1100? Correct if I am wrong please. So just play you have nothing to lose up to 1100.

To the question above me. Yes even if you go 0-10 this week and have a 0 rating you will still earn 344 points for the week. You earn the same amount that a 1500 rating 5v5 would earn up to that rating it obliviously goes up higher once you pass 1500.

[stoat]

You get the same points at 0 that you do at 1500. Deadly gear requires no rating, and furious set gear requires fairly low rating. You can also turn in a week's worth of arena points (344) for 3.44 honor tokens worth 2k honor each - if for some reason you already have all the set gear. You don't even have to join the arena queue when it pops to get credit, just join and let it timeout (if you don't want to provide entertainment to the other team).