My first day in the Arenas

[Lokked]

Eh don't worry. I fell down to the high 1200s, low 1300 before I figured out not to blow my load right at the beginning. The hardest and most critical part is deciding when to use your instant cast.

My biggest problem was, immediately after starting to cast my very first volley of Lightning Bolts on my first target, I would mash my macro for trinket, EM, NS, CL. At that point the target would either be behind me, delaying his destruction enough to get healed, or out of LOS, or Spell Reflecting, etc.

Just stay calm, choose your targets carefully, don't blow your instant cast unless you are VERY sure it will kill your opponent.

[twobztwop]

Yeah. The 1500's a brutal because of all the teams reforming and working up their rating to sell teams / spots I think. I'd say 60-70% of the teams I'd face in the 1500s would be nearly full vengeful and well coordinated. I was at 1350 this week and went 4-6 playing all 5x shamans. (the 6th loss was due to a totally stupid mistake on my part. I was really shooting for .500 for the week which I would have been pretty happy with even in the 1300s). I'm not even close to an expert in arenas, but so far what I've found in the last 4 weeks is it really takes practice multiboxing arenas to know wtf your doing. I'd say I screwed up somewhere in every single game I played and I'm just barely, ever so slightly, getting the hang of it.

Unless your buying a team/rating, don't worry about being in the 1300's. Personally, I think it's much more fun to win a few than to lose every single one each week while gearing up and learning strategy -- but that's just me. (what's the difference in arena pts between 1450-1500 and 1350? 35pts a week?)

Thanks again to ellay and boylston for their shaman strategy videos. they help... a lot.