SoG 5v5 Arena group

[Benevolion]

I've been thinkering with this for a while so I thought it's time to talk about it.
I still remember the TBC arena's it was fun, ok we did get our asses kicked but that made the times we actually won twice as much fun.
So does anyone want to start a new SoG Arena team?

This might be a problem with our busy raids going on now since we already have a couple of days filled (I think 4? monday: naxx / ulduar tuesday: Heroics thursday: naxx / ulduar and saturday Ulduar / naxx)

I'm just putting it out there to see if there is interest seeing we're already organising raids, hcs so why not some pvp ^^
there is some nice lewtz to be had! + p0wning ppl is fun too (specially when they are gnomes!  )

[TomTheWizard]

Count me in!

[Harnomy]

Wouldnt mind.

[Dar]

In too ^^ that makes 4 of us

[TomTheWizard]

Death knight-tastic!

[Dar]

We will need a propper tactic indeed, besides ventrilo talk. To avoid using our death grip close after eachother. Would be fun though, to toss a healer to all corners of the field

Also need to avoid Deathgripping a warrior. Mainly because in pvp warrior seem to have a reflect chance and reflecting Deathgrip is fun, but not what you want

[Benevolion]

lol nice :p
would  be cool to start it again^^
used to be fun so why not again ey ^^

[Dar]

i was wondering why you want a 5vs5 group btw. I would suggest making us a 3vs3. its always good to have more then 3 ppl in your arena group to make sure you have enough at all times.
Why 3vs3 instead of 5vs5? Because 5vs5 is by far the smallest playing pool. In other words, when playing 5vs5 and getting ganked all the time, the chance is way bigger to get ganked all over again the next match due to lack of opponents.

to Quote from Realm History's Arena breakdown:

world wide statistics

do you get my point?

Also, we dont want to get ganked right away, so its smart to have atleast 2 pieces of pvp gear, i think i have them on my DK. we need a bit of resillience

[TomTheWizard]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...... i'd love to give 5v5 a go, and until you break past 1500 rating you'd just get the same amount of points, because otherwise you'd get barely none with rating starting around 200. With 5v5 we'd get the most points each week, getting us to that shiny gear quicker!

(Also I currently have bits and bobs of pvp gear, so got a lowish amount of resil)

[Dar]

With an average of 10  5vs5 teams per battlegroup i still vote for 3vs3 (143 teams per battlegroup), but i will happely adapt if the rest votes for 5vs5

(btw: i dont really know how rating works, i'm just voting for diversity)

[TomTheWizard]

You have a team and personal rating, lets forget personal rating for now. At the end of every wow week (tuesday/going weds) you get arena points dependant on your team rating (if your in more than one team, the one with the highest rating is chosen). When you create a team it starts off at a very low rating (I don't think it's 0, might be 200), every match you win you get more rating, if you lose, you lose some rating but at low ratings you barely, or may not even lose rating so losing isn't much of an issue for quite some time as far as points go. To stop people getting about 50 points a week, until you reach 1500 rating you get your arena points as if you had 1500 rating. Aslong as the team plays 10 games a week and you are there for 30% you get points. So 10 games, be there for atleast 3 to get points.

So, if we want the most points possible, it's best to go 5v5, as 2v2 and 3v3 have penalties on arena points rewarded. And who knows, maybe those 10 5v5 teams will be crapper than us!

[Benevolion]

well i must admit i don't know that much about arena's - it was daffyd who led them last time (if i remember correctly) so any input is much apreciated ^^

so Dar thinks it's best to do 3v3s
and Gala want's 5v5s right?

what do the other ones think? - DO we actually HAVE 5 ppl?

[TomTheWizard]

We have 4, but roping in a 5th should be easy enough.

Edit: just to get exact numbers with arena points -
2v2:261

3v3:303

5v5:344

We could always do a 5v5 and 3v3 team, would just cost a bit more.