[Arena] AFK'ing in Arena, allowed? expert opinion needed

[Codam]

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In less than an hour of web surfing I'll have gained 4043 arena points, as I do every week.

My question is; Is there anything at all wrong with this? edit for clarity: is this in any way a breach of the ToS or other statements Blizzard have made?

After taking my group into AV for the first time and getting totally owned last night, I'm starting to consider this option, but I just want to make sure this isn't viewed in the same way as BG afk'ing by blizzard.

Of course it seems like a completely different scenario, as noone else is being adversely affected by it. My concern was more that blizzard would see this as "not in the spirit of..." blah blah blah

I am not at all interested in PVP for PVP's sake, and I hate the fact that organised PVP is almost a requirement in order to gear up for PVE. I just want to get a few epic pieces of pvp gear in order to compliment my crafted tailoring items for my group, boost my stam a bit and move on.

[Moxy]

Why would you need to afk to do that?

At least lose as a player. Please don't reflect such laziness upon this community.

[beyond-tec]

afaik u get arena points for damage you've dealt and healing you've done.

so fighting will give you more arena points than just afk'ing

[Millz]

afaik u get arena points for damage you've dealt and healing you've done.

so fighting will give you more arena points than just afk'ing

You get arena points based off your team (and personal if its oer 150 lower than the team) rating.. Not off the damage and healing you do.

[Codam]

Why would you need to afk to do that?

At least lose as a player. Please don't reflect such laziness upon this community.

That's completely beside the point, the question was regarding the legality of it. I highly doubt I'm the first player you've come into contact with who has no respect or fondness whatsoever of the cesspit which is WoW's instanced PVP system. Nor will I be the last. I was also more than clear in my original post that this is not something that I have done (yet). Rather I was inquiring about info another member had previously posted.

To answer your question of why, so the matches would be over faster of course. So I can get back to playing the real game, the MMO I pay for. (ie: PVE and world PVP)

afaik u get arena points for damage you've dealt and healing you've done.

so fighting will give you more arena points than just afk'ing

Aha! a constructive reply

So I take that to mean you have abandoned your previous technique which I referred to? Thanks for the info.

Meh, screw it. I think I'd rather farm every normal instance over and over and get the best possible gear set of blues I can for each toon. Should be enough to get me started in heroics, and I need the rep anyhow. I'll leave CS-with-spells to the folks who enjoy that sort of thing.

[vudu]

If blizzard was completely okay with AFKing in the BGs/Arenas they never would have came up with the new report feature in BGs. To me that shows a clear stance on blizzards part...against AFKing. Will they perma ban your account for it? I doubt it - but it's more than definately against the rules.
And, honestly, whether it's against the rules or not, its against moral judgement and common sense. The teams you are going against want to play a game, they want to be challenged and feel the rush of victory, or learn from the shame of defeat. They don't want to wail on some pixels just standing there.
It doesn't make sense simply because you say your main focus is PvE. PvP gear isn't very good for PvE. It's better than random greens/blues, but if you spent a comparable amount of time in PvE as you will be spending AFKing PvP (and the lolamount of arena points you're going to get) you'd have a much better set of gear that is tuned to what you want to do.
I'd feel cheap getting something handed to me for doing nothing, anyway. What would be the point of getting the gear if I did NOTHING to earn it.

[Codam]

If blizzard was completely okay with AFKing in the BGs/Arenas they never would have came up with the new report feature in BGs. To me that shows a clear stance on blizzards part...against AFKing. Will they perma ban your account for it? I doubt it - but it's more than definately against the rules.

As you can see from my original post, I am fully aware that non-participation in BG's is not allowed. This however does not automatically apply by extension to arena. You seem to have missed the point of my question, so I'll phrase it a little more clearly (even though I'm fairly sure I wont be bothering to try this, as I now see that the couple of gear slots which I might want to populate with pvp gear are only available from honor and marks).

rephrased original questionBlizzard have stated that non-participation in battlegrounds is not allowed. Does this also apply to arenas?

The reason I put in the subject heading "expert opinion needed" was that I was hoping for a response from someone with enough knowledge of the rules to have a clear answer to this. I dont mean to be condescending but all of these "damages the community" or "how could you live with yourself" type of responses do not answer the question, and to be perfectly frank mean little or nothing to me.

[Drizzit]

I know where you are coming from Codam. I was thinking about doing the same thing when my guys get to 70. If you are always taking a loss you will be in the 1400 - 1300 rank range all the time (I would remake the team every other week so you get get better points if you just want to lose). People at the rank just care about the win more then the thrill i think. I have a 2v2 team and i am in the 1500 rank and all me and my teammate care about is the 10 wins a week. I would love to go against a team 10 times that are afk, that would make my wins and arena time so much faster. I don't think that the other team will report you for AFKing because they just got a free win. Unless you want to report yourself for afk.

This is my 2 cents so agree or disagree.

[Codam]

I guess the easiest way to get a clear answer is to either ask a GM or post on the WoW forums /shudder

Anyhow as stated, I made a mistake and thought I could get bracers and neck from arena. I was wrong and I'll just have to stick to instance gear or spen a weekend in BG's. Annoying that I was lvl 68 for the last AV call to arms.

[cepheus]

IF you dont mind me asking.. Whats really the point of afking in arenas? wouldnt you just lose faster if you just mount into the enemies and gather nice up right besides them for they to aoe you down?