If you want to get good - you need to play about 100 games then play 100 more, then you can think about getting a good ranking. I don't care how geared you are - you need to learn to play the arena's and different team compositions first or you'll get rocked by any decent team. I have all 1000+ spell damage gear and 400+ resil on all my toons - almost as good as Ellay (he's got about 20 more spell damage on avg with each char than me) and I got rocked today because I hadn't played in 10 days and I was rusty. I had to calm myself down, get myself together, and start thinking about what to do vs. each team we played. We won the next 5 games and got back to 1700 rating - one game lasted 23 minutes. Ellay makes it look easy - but it sure as hell isn't. It takes a ton of practice and experience to know exactly what to do when.