Arena Points?

[Inferna]

Does anyone know how many Arena points a victory or loss will give you? Or if there is more to it than that.

[Nitsujcm]

I do not know how it works exactly, but it isn't like a BG where you win a fight or make a kill and get x pionts. It is a rating based system. It is designed to reward the players that win on a consistant basis, not who play ungodly hours (ie highwarlords and GMs). So you have a better shot of moving up if you only play 10 games and win 8 than if you play 100 and win 80. Same odds, but less credit. I could be totally wrong, but thats what I have gathered.

[Inferna]

I looked into this a bit. You start off with a rating of 1500 if you lose or win your rating goes down or up respectively. You need to do a minimum of 10 games to qualify to be ranked and gain arena points for that week. Basically under 1500 rating you get those many arena points each week I believe, if you rating is >1500 it goes from a linear function to a logarithmic function instead, the formula is posted on the website.

You can be on a 2v2, 3v3, and 5v5 at the same time, but you only get points for the team with the highest rating. For a 2v2 team it cost 80 gp so its a initial start up fee of 40g per player and 10 matches thereafter a week to get 1 decent epic item every 2-3 weeks which seems like a pretty good deal to me. Since most epic items cost from 1875-3500 arena points.

So I am not sure how disbanding your team in the middle of the week to create a new one will work if you had a bad rating with the previous team and want to start all over again. But overall it seems like a great way to get some very nice epic items without having to raid which is very appealing to me and also you find out who is actually good in pvp rather than who just has the most time on there hands.

[Magikhat]

Bump, curious about this too. Im curious as too the rating vs arena rewards.

[Klataubarad]

Every win you get you will recieve points for it on Tuesday. Now how many points you will recieve (I dont have a clue as to exactly how many) is subject to your rating. For Example: a group with 50 wins for the week with a rating of 2000 will get substantialy more points that a group with 50 wins at a 1300 rating.

You will be paired with a group that is near your rating (we have battled the same exact group 3 times in a row and we were one time in arena battle #72 in 2v2) so the better and higher your rating the better oposition you face. I know this is not always the case because most of the time we gain/loose anywhere from 12 to 17 rating points per win/loss, we faced this Warlock/Priest combo and lost only 2 rating points, so im guessg they were in the 2000 elo rating, alot better than we were for sure. (this is like the Elo chess rating system...to better understand just Google>Chess/Elo) why we were paired with them I dont know. But on wow forum it states you will face oposition within the same rating.


Given my observations you will get rewarded for playing alot as well but the teams with a higher Elo rating will no doubt rack up on arena points alot faster.