This is my 4th week in arenas now and I am finally seeing the light. My DKs and priest all have just shy of 3k resil now and the DKs buffed have 10k AP with 13% mastery. Most importantly I took the advice of everyone and grabbed 170 spell pen (WTB a 25SP/20Str purple gem :P).

My results this week are 6-1. Prior to that I had been losing approximately 75% of my games. Now this wasn't through cycling against the same nub team, I queued at several different times and got 20-50 points from each game. It feels like I have just broken through this threshold where my priest is tough enough that the other team can spend up to 30s trying to kill him whilst my DKs are relatively free to take them apart. By the time my priest dies (if he does) I still get 12s of spammed PoH to take out the 1-2 players that survived the initial onslaught.

So for those that are finding it a tough grind still, follow Ualaa's advice. Get all the crafted res gear to start with then grind BGs to get your honour gear. Go for 2 piece bonus initially for the 400 res. Do the Crucible of Carnage quest line to get the 333lvl weapons (not sure 346 lvl ones are worth it considering you will upgrade to 359 after 3 weeks). Beg, steal or borrow to get your conquest cap each week and then get your epic weps and you are home free.

Now just can't wait to see what 4.0.6 throws up in its final form and I am quite keen to try an unholy build as an alternative. Tbh the nerf to howling blast doesn't really seem to bad to me now though considering the buffs we got in return, but I am looking forward to playing a pet class again and if the anti-snare talent goes through untouched, I have to try it before it gets nerfed :P

Cheers