Questions from an Arena virgin

[Ualaa]

I'd look at Rated Battlegrounds, as a place for points too.

If you have no gear, and cannot beat semi-geared teams in 2's, 3's or 5's.
You might do better in 10's or 15's, where you're a percentage of the team instead of the whole team.

Either join when someone advertises in trade.
Or advertise yourself.



Another consideration, for 2's, 3's, 5's or Battlegrounds.
You don't necessarily need to queue with your entire team, if they're all undergeared you are a drain on the team... but if you run them in 3's with one toon at a time, that can get you the initial gearing you need to be more competitive.

However you get the points, get points every week.

[BrothelMeister]

Just keep trying the 5v5 queues, people are playing, it's just that they are only going to play when others play. If youre facing teh same teams, and not winning, stop, and try again in a few hours.

The fact that we as boxers have the ability to play whenever means that we will and can get more 5v5 practice than any of them, so we will be more attuned to the chaos than the opposing players.

As more people gear up, more people are going to try their hand at 5v5 so that they can get the achievements for rating in that bracket, so fear not, the queues will fill up eventually.

Monday night has had the best queues for me so far.

[Zappy]

I agree with Monday nights for best queues. I have been playing a few other times throughout the week here and there, and some of those repeat teams can be fun if the matches are close, as both myself and the opponents are formulating new strategies as we both know we'll likely see each other again. The fact that every week brings some new fresh 80s, I don't see 5s left to die, and hopefully it'll grow as the season progresses.

In Wrath, most of the enjoyment I had was gearing up the teams, playing competitively in arenas, some bgs, and some good world pvp here and there including WG, and soloing heroics.

With the current status, WG/TB and heroics are now longer part of that mix, so I'm left with long queue arenas, bgs and world pvp, unless I go back to solo.

Anyway, not to derail the original thread. IMO, if you're a fresh 80 team, I would encourage you to try 5s weekly even if you do get beat down only so you get the experience of playing it. For gearing your team, however, you'll likely find it faster and easier to run them either solo or rated bgs.