Well, not for a while, but I still thought I'd ask before my group gets too high and I find out this is not viable.

I'm having plenty of fun on my normal chars with my RL friends on Icecrown. I have rolled a Holy Priest + 4x Afflication locks (all BEs) on Hakkar. I'm looking to make them primarily a BG group, but I need to get them geared. I realize the Arena System is generally how people do this is to engage in the legendary "lose 10 games a week" methodology. I have a few questions about this and whether or not it will really be practical for me. First, does this method actually result in people getting gear at season's end? I realize that you can buy the gear as soon as you have the arena currency for it (that is, if I'm thinking of this properly). Really, I just want to know how effective it is to do this overall. And furthermore, is there anything I need to do besides that?

I have not yet invested too much time into these characters, so I may just reroll them on my main realm (I've got plenty of room there) and see what happens. I'd rather have my ultra-powerful main characters funnel them things through the neutral AHs (unless this have been deemed exploit, I haven't kept abreast of this situation).

How well have people here been able to handle these sorts of things? And finally, I get the '10 games a week rule,' but would it benefit me to lose more games inside of a week than 10? I get the basic arena system concepts, but I have not had the time to work out the details myself.

Thanks.