5v5 arena - no help

[stoat]

I generally don't stand around if I actually take the queue. My dk/shamans have weather themed names

[Meathead]

Hmm I could not get the name of them dam

[gitcho]

Finally found him! You can buy deadly gear with arena points + honor in the Dalaran sewers by talking to Zom Bocom <Apprentice Arena Vendor>. So losing arena games is good for deadly gear on the cheap.

Wowhead appears to have the correct prices for the gear, but still lists a rating requirement. I checked in-game and there is no rating requirement on the deadly stuff.

[daviddoran]

so how many points do you get from losing? 300? If so, awesome, almost makes me wish I hadn't spent so much honor on the honor only deadly gear... oh well, i would have been capped anyway... Do you get any honor from arena? or just the points? I guess either way, i have more AV in front of me. Ill be farming the brewfest boss for the stam trinkets, each shaman having one of those should help my survivability a lot, at least for now (my tank already has both so they would otherwise be wasted)

I did my 10 games today, I actually won one! I one shotted one of their paladin DPS, then made short work of the rest of em, got em down to one priest trying to kite and LOS me.... They did down one of my shaman, but I was able to get off a rez pretty quickly. I think they were more confused than anything else. same team later on figured me out and got me. 1/9 aint too bad considering my craptastic gear.

[Whowantstoknow]

344 Points

[daviddoran]

Thanks a bunch. should be pretty quick to get the pieces then, with way less time spent than just AV alone.

[Bettysue]

I got my self to 1000 rating pretty easily, even with quite a few losses you pretty much only move up in the lower ratings. I would have to lose nearly 40 games for every win to lose points. On sundays in ruin it seems like if you wait till later in the evening you get all the easy teams scrambling for their 10 games. My rule of thumb for meaningful progression while running without an assistant healer is if the queue is more than 5min drop it and run a different day.
In the arena, blow up the first target that can't go immune, 5v4 is easier. Think locks, hunters, shamans, and DKs. Dont hit warriors until you know they aren't gonna spell reflect. Mages will usually blow their block and give you 10 secs of free whacking on someone else the first time you throw flameshock on them. Not sure what the hell it is with priests but they seem to have a talent that makes them immune to being 1 shot, if they are healing just DoT them and purge off the buffs, it'll get them to refocus their attention.