So I did my first arena

[aetherg]

In 2.4, there will be blue arena gear purchasable with revered rep from the different factions. It's still good to run BGs for those vindicator's pieces, but the blues should be a great way to get some resilience without spending a month getting /afk reported in AV.

[Jaws5]

Iknow your pain, I only run bgs, with my grp until they have full set of season 1. AV is best to run. managing ques is a little fun, but well worth it. I run 4 locks and shadow priest for pvp grp. also been running 3 mages 1 holy priest(spirt also) and prot war, they are only pve grp for heroics but lvling 4 cothies in tayloring is a pain. Gear from season 1 is great. Only problem you will have is WSG 30 tokens. You will have to run 1 or 2 in that game. holding 5 solts in a ten solt game is not good unless you are 69 in the 60-69 bracket. at 70 Wars, rogues, hunters, just tear you a new one. most of these get the season 1 weapons first and they hurt on cloth, leather, and mail. casters do not have much love until they have over 1k of addational damage and crit at 20-25 percent.

[Kyudo]

Snap

I did my 1st 10 arena games last week a few minutes after dinging 70. 0-10

Was fun though, and since it's been AV weekend I've now got 3 gladiator bits, so the HP is up to 8.3k and the resilience up to 131. For the 10 games tonight I'm hoping for at least 3 or 4 wins, I've noticed the difference even that little bit of resilience makes in recent BGs.

Besides, some Arena points are still better than none, and as the ratings go down, the opposition gets weaker, woot!

[unit187]

well I have made this 5v5 team to get some points. 260 or so pts is better then nothing

what do you guys think about getting for honor rings and some other jewelry over a1? and use points on armour

[Boylston]

Personally, I think Honor Points should go towards buying the Vindicator's stuff FIRST, and then maybe spending some points on Season 1 arena stuff. Even with a bad arena record, you can get the Vengeful gloves and farm a set of Vindicator's (3 armor pieces + amulet/ring) in just 3-4 weeks (weeks are for arena points mostly, Vindicator's you can get faster if you pour more time into it, obviously).

Buying season 1 arena gear just seems like a mistake if you can field your own 5v5 team and go 0-10 and STILL get arena points. If the rating gets too low and you still suck, just re-buy another fresh team...

[Ellay]

Heard a rumor on my vent last week someone from Europe grinded out 66,000 Honor in a 24 hour session of Alterac Valley pre-mades during the double honor weekend.

[Eteocles]

Heard a rumor on my vent last week someone from Europe grinded out 66,000 Honor in a 24 hour session of Alterac Valley pre-mades during the double honor weekend.

And people say we're the ones that need lives...lol

[aetherg]

According to MMO-Champion, in 2.4 you'll also be able to buy Veteran's gear with Badges of Justice. Even more reasons to figure out ways to improve your clear times on heroics

[Suvega]

Heard a rumor on my vent last week someone from Europe grinded out 66,000 Honor in a 24 hour session of Alterac Valley pre-mades during the double honor weekend.

Seems exagerated. On alli stormstrike we have instant queues, and my orgs last weekend were netting around 500 honor every 15 min + pvp kills.

Bonus honor would be 48k in 24 hours, thats alot of kills to get the other 18k :P

[Kyudo]

I got 16k in about 8 hours play on sunday, about 60% win rate.