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If you're honored with any of the Outland instance factions, they probably have a good starter piece of PvP gear for you that only costs a few gold. Beyond that depends on how much time you have to spend.

If you have the time, find a friend that just wants to farm some arena points and start a team. You'll likely be undergeared and lose a lot, but points will be forthcoming. In addition to that, do BGs to get some honor points for gear from there.

The thing about arenas, while they get you the best gear, you will not get it quickly without good gear already. So work on your gear from two fronts(10 games of Arena, and some BGs in your spare time). Plan out what pieces of arena gear you want first and fill in other slots with BG epics.

Additionally, I would suggest working on your reputation with two factions.

1)Either Aldor or Scryers. Your choice. This is for nice shoulder enchants.
2)Shattered Sun Offensive. For the nifty new helm enchant. You can do it via dailies and make a ton of gold in the process.


As you said:



To get THE SUIT, as it were, you have to have the gear to support getting it. Sure, you can get most of it without it, but it'll take forever and you'll always be missing two slots.

You can't go from complete crap to best of the best, WoW doesn't work that way. It's about a steady progression of gear until you reach the level you need. Every upgrade you get will be a step in that direction. Just as you can't go from 5 man blues to T6 epics, you can't go from just dinged gear to full Vengeful Gladiator's. You can get most of the way there without any other upgrades, but it's a very slow process. Unless you're winning a lot, more than 10 games a week will not benefit you and get you a higher rating in arenas(required for full vengeful and to get gear at a decent speed), and you won't be winning a lot until you get some gear under your belt.

So PvP. Do both arenas(10 games a week til you start winning more than you lose) and BGs. And have fun with it.

get full S3 Arena set. in a few months when you're finished with that, get the S4 set.

And what do you think you're doing in the Arenas and BGs?

generally, time in = reward gained.

you want that gladiator set that took me 4 months to get.
you want that merc set that took me another 4 months.
you want that veng set that im still grinding shoulders for.

the first 2 you can grind off in a couple weeks, the last one will be a 'freebie' when S4 comes out.

if you cant handle the grind of getting pwned in pvp, then go farm Hogger.



arena is fair shot. skill sucks + gear sucks = rating sucks.



nuff said.



if said newb destroys you...what does that make you? fyi, blink will get you out of that frost nova so you wont get crit in the face for 1.2k.

Also here is a point calculator for arena. And scraping the team is more for when you get around 1250 rating, really not worth it any more IMO. Only losing 4 games is a good start, should improve from there.

Do you not read my replies or something? It's quite possibly the longest post in this thread.

Yeah, When a new season starts up you can get chest, legs, hands, helm, shoulders, wep with arena points and feet, wrists, belt, ring, neck from BGs. That's basicly your "full" s3/s4 set.

The new blues are is a entry lvl set for the arena sets. Makes it a little eaiser for people that just hit 70 and/or PvE alot to get a starter pvp set without having to BG a crap ton like you used to have to do.





Yes, I did see your pretty post. But when the OP basiclly asks, "where do you get the PvP gear and what order do you do it in?" and you answer with, "You need to plan the order you get gear in" it just seems to me like the question wasnt answered. I can write a two thousand word essay on the migration patterns of birds, but it won't answer the question of why do they always crap on my car.

I'm a casual PVPer and have started working on getting the best items available to me from the BGs. I'm not a big fan of Arena yet love the idea of getting the old "latest" set from BG vendors when the new "latest" set becomes available with the new season.

As we can all spend our HP straight away since patch 2.4 I've concentrated on getting vindicator, this can be achieved quite quickly if you're determined enough.

Now I need a hug...