Arena.. Spec?Follow

Hi guys. I have a couple questions about my spec and what to do with upcoming arena points.
I play 2v2 only with a resto druid friend of mine, and we're both working on gear right now. I'm mutilate (I love the spec, but I think I would love ShS more if it was better than what I have right now with this combo.)

So, here are our armories. (Terrible rating is from bringing my scrub warrior in for a week and going 2-8 because of his gear problems).

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Cenarius&n=Kaistia
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Cenarius&n=Agrathane

Would anyone like to share some tips? I'm torn over whether to stay muti, spend 2283 points on the s2 mace, farm 18k honor for s1, or run kara for badges for more gear while waiting for Fool's Bane/Spiteblade to drop. My other choice is to spend the points on s3 pants (which could be the legs from Kara, which have 3 sockets and are almost on-par) or to get the s3 gloves... or head... or chest... or something.

My friend druid is slowly replacing his cloth sh*t, he almost has enough badges for kharmaa's shroud of hope and will be getting the s3 belt and gloves next.


So should I stay muti and spend points on leather gear, blow points on mace... or what? And any playing tips? We play mostly offensively- I open up, wait until i get to 70% then he pounces and pops out. (He needs to learn Travel Form a little better and start to do more NS>cyclone for offensive, but he's working on that.)




Edited, May 8th 2008 7:50pm by Danteter

Stop, stop, stooooop.

Proper builds are easy to get, so I won't discuss this.

Getting proper gear isn't rocket-science either, but you need some pointers since you're not in the right mood AT ALL.

Repeat afer me: I will not buy outdated gear, which means:
a) no S1 weapons through honor: if you want to purchase weapons through honor, wait a few weeks and get the S2 weapons when S4 is out,
a) no S3 gear with arena points: again, wait for the S4 stuff, it's only a few weeks away (max).

Only exception would be if you already have 75k honor and 100 marks of each. And still, in this situation I would focus on badges to get better stuff from sunwell. That's pretty much the situation I am in: I've got crappy S1 weapons, no sufficient rating to get the S4 weapons, so I'm getting the Sunwell weapons which are good.

And by the time S4 is out, I'll have 75k honor and pretty much 100 marks of each (on top of 3k arena points). Should get me some nice stuff and make me full S3/S4 and thus more or less on equal footing with average pvpers.

nostra

Edited, May 9th 2008 9:12am by nostraaa

True, but it seems he started pvping/doing arena not very long ago. So I guess that the neck, belt, trinket, and gloves of S4 are going to use a lot of what he's saved. Around 1k arena points and 40+k honor points.

He should get 150 badges to get a nice MH and OH from Sunwell.

With this stuff, he should be able to improve his rating and use the points saved in the meantime to acquire more stuff.

NOW, if he tells us he's got 5k arena points or 75k honor, it's another story. Sure, then he could afford to get better stuff right now. But I doubt it, I rather have the feeling that he was going to get (soon to be) outdated stuff because he was not aware that S4 would be out soon.

nostra

(This is Danteter on his other acct.)

Great, defaulted... and for what?


Anyway, got the 2v2 up to high 1500s now and snatched Fool's Bane (along with some PvE upgrades) on the rogue. I respecced 20/0/41 and I have yet to try arena again.

So, when is S4 coming out? Any estimates?

i've already got the s2 dagger with mongoose on it. I don't really pve as i'm only a few badges away from dory's embrace, too.

Also, my previous druid partner (sunwell gear gogo!) has taken up WoW again, and we're going to hit arena this weekend... We will see how it goes, i'm sure we will do great because we are good at working with eachother.