Blood Sport: Beginner’s guide to arena, Part VII

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Want to crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of their women? Blood Sport investigates the entirety of all-things arena for gladiators and challengers alike. C. Christian Moore, multiple rank 1 gladiator, examines the latest arena strategy, trends, compositions and more in WoW.com’s arena column.

Listening Music: 15 Step, by Radiohead. If you liked it, check out the full set — it’s nine tracks, and they don’t stick to just In Rainbows! Myxomatosis and Where I End and You Begin (a personal favorite) are included.

Last Week: Beginner’s guide to arena, part VI. A glossary of arena terms is important for any starting arena player. We went over some of the more interesting and often confusing terms PvPers like to use in casual conversation. Get acquainted with some gladiator jargon.

This Week: We’ll be discussing some helpful tips for finding arena partners. Everything from trade chat to recruitment forums and more. We’re gonna do this quasi-chronologically. You might shift around the order a bit, that’s cool.

1) Get as much PvP gear as possible.

Do Vault of Archavon 25-man and 10-man each week. Grind heroics for badges to buy PvP main pieces. Grind battlegrounds for off-set pieces. We talked about ways to gear up in Part I of our beginner’s guide series. Having a lot of PvP gear will help you to win games, which helps to get skilled PvPers to notice you.

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