Advice For A Care Bear wanting to test the waters?

[Ualaa]

Create an arena team immediately.
Play as few games as possible, where the team plays at least ten, and every toon plays at least 30% of the games.
The only objective here, is to be earning points; ten or twelve losses a week is just fine.
Even though you're only here for points now, observe how teams beat you.
Definitely try to win, and adapt a bit to each composition type that attacks you.
It will help out down the road, when you are trying to win with gearing done too.

The level 78 rare pvp set is worthwhile, for toons who are fresh to 80th.
Chances are it is a huge upgrade over quest rewards and drops.
However, for a team already at 80th for some time, especially with PvE gear, I'd pass.

I would spend most of my time in AV.
It is the best honor per hour of play time.
And honor is the limiting factor in how quickly gear comes.

Once you have near full honor gear, start to concentrate on arena's.
Experiment and see what works for you.

[Ridere]

And for what it's worth, there are a ton more arena teams playing on Monday. I used to get my arena losses on Wednesday (20 total, 10 per team), and it'd be an evening-long affair. I did my 20 losses on my two new 80's teams yesterday (Monday), and queues were no more than 3-5 minute wait times. I hammered out my losses very quickly.

Wintergrasp and AV are definitely good practice grounds for PVP, as you can kind of hide in the pack and work on things.

[Svpernova09]

And for what it's worth, there are a ton more arena teams playing on Monday. I used to get my arena losses on Wednesday (20 total, 10 per team), and it'd be an evening-long affair. I did my 20 losses on my two new 80's teams yesterday (Monday), and queues were no more than 3-5 minute wait times. I hammered out my losses very quickly.

Wintergrasp and AV are definitely good practice grounds for PVP, as you can kind of hide in the pack and work on things.

I've seen people here talk about easy / quick ques on Monday nights, I created a 3v3 and qued, and waited for 45 minutes before giving up and heading to WG. and this was at 10pm Server time, so I'll try to get my games in earlier.

[Iceorbz]

wow... no one plays 5's on my realm (1062 rating and im 222nd ranked). And I never wait for a que except for the 1 minute lol.