Quote Originally Posted by 'Catamer',index.php?page=Thread&postID=62019#post6 2019
I got my shaman team to 70 and jumped right into the arena and was shocked at how bad I did. fighting teams with full s3 gear and you can hardly scratch them. 3 good hits and one player is only down 20%. I won 1 and lost 9 game in my first 10 games. I know my problem is I just need a lot better gear. I guess I'll have to get some non-arena pvp gear before I start to win. I haven't figured out how the points in arena are given, seems random to me.
You start with 1500 rating, winning or loosing alters that rating, eventually every reset (wednesday in EU) it will give you arena points if you have a team with 10 or more games played that previous week based on the rating you have at that time.

The higher rating the more points, there are calculators on the internet that will say how much points you get for the rating you're at.

And mhm, save first week as me then. Having the exact same problem, that I just can't hurt the first target hard enough to kill them quick, + I get raped within seconds after if I don't down two targets wuick enough.

I did better the second week with a full s3 geared healer backing me up, but still was genuinly tough.