S4 Launch, when to start playing arena?

[Kicksome]

I played tonight - it wasn't easy. We had several 2K rated teams that we played - but we also had some horrible teams. That being said - we managed to get a 1600 (after 26 games) rating so we could get our s4 chest at least. Now we need 1650 for the rings then 1700 for the helm!

[Boylston]

Bad idea in my BG tonight. 80% of the teams we faced were 1900+ in S3. We got a very small number of bad teams, which we handily killed, but our fresh 1500 rating plummeted to the low 1400s.

I'm still glad we played, it's a good preview of the opponents we'll be matched up against later in the season (hopefully).

[Evol]

Total luck of the draw last night on US Cyclone. Started out the night on my multi-boxing team and went 4-0 before stopping to buy pants. The teams we faced were fairly terrible in gear, composition, and play. I finally got my 4-piece bonus, so I'm excited to try again this week.

Then I switched to my well-geared solo players for 5v5, 3v3 and 2v2 action. Only managed to get to 1550 on one other character (warlock) after stringing some 3v3 wins together. My priest, which is by far my best character, couldn't break 1550 in over 2 hours of trying. Our 5v5 kept alternating between terrible teams and 2k+ triple melee teams (which gave us a 1900ish ceiling last season because we always lose against that make-up). I think we hit 1549 or 1548 like 3 times and eventually had to just call it a night.

[entoptic]

I took my 2 toons and hooked up with a geared out hunter for some trial and error.

It was all ERROR last night. We got rick rolled by everyone. All people were s3 geared out and we pretty much had no chance in hell at winning. My bum hurts.. it was that bad...

[Stabface]

Pretty tough yesterday for me as well, played on my alt and went 4-6 with S2/S3 rogue/druid 2v2 that hit ~1650 last season. Haven't tried any 5-boxing yet, will likely do something super late or super early this weekend to try and catch scrub teams and not go 0-10.

[yarr]

as mentioned above, hopefully after 2 or so weeks, it will be somewhat equalized so that most of the 2k+ teams are at least 1800. Hopefully.

[Bluepants]

Im actually glad i got to meet some good teams yesterday.
I feel the only reason we couldnt push it higher in S3 was because we couldnt meet enough high-rated teams.
We met the odd 2warlock-priest-rogue-druid team.... Win 3 the first time, and then get stomped for 25 points.

This season, we actually beat some S3 top 15 teams into the ground, leaving them 1 win(not us) and 4 losses (all us)
The 1 time we met a really good team in S3, we met the nr 3 team, an amazing T6 hunter made my life hell, but we managed to get 2killed, but the hunter could probably solo us...
Lost 0 points 3 times, almost getting them everytime ;)

Whether you start now, or you start later, your rating will climb eventually.. I just feel like getting a good start and the goal is to stay within the top 50 all season.
Need 1700 rating for my head, S2 shoulders need 17 more AB marks (HATE AB!)
But with the shoulders and head, ill be 1merc 2venge 2 brutal :thumbsup: now i dont even have the 4 set bonus.

I feel like this will be a great multiboxing season!

[Kicksome]

after 40 some games we still couldn't break 1650 - left it at 1625 on the 4x shaman 5v5 team. Really frustrating - but great experience. Highest team we played in over 40 games was 1701.