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I think the largest misstep in arenas is lack of positiveness surrounding it. If you get into a game against a counter comp or some rank 1 team you're first thought always jumps too...well, we're boned.

I certainly have done this myself, first time we queued against Vanguard's 5s, I literally said over Skype, well we're !@#$ed guys. Match didn't last very long.

This kind of thinking doesn't just make losing more likely, but will almost always cost you the match. It is a bit of a self fulfilling prophecy at work, you believe you will lose and so you lose. This kind of thinking doesn't just affect you, but your team mates as well causing everyone performance suffer and most of the time ragequitting to ensues.

Be positive. Let your team mates hear it in your voice and see it in your actions, even if you are pitted against better arena comps or simply better players, the worst thing that can happen if you lose a game but remain positive is that you learn, you get better.

Another thing is to remain focused and reasonable with goals, when you play arenas you do it game by game, even if you are shooting for rank 1 you focus on each game and small rating gains. If you want to get 2200, don't make that your goal...Make 1750 your goal, then 2k, then 2100 then 2200.

Also a more practical piece of advice is know when to stop queuing, if you keep getting a team that you cannot beat no matter what, don't keep giving them free points. Take a break, eat a sandwich.

That is really the jest of this entire thread, unless any of my esteemed PvPers care to add?

Edit: Also wanted to add, if you are really serious about getting down and dirty in Arenas, Firstly, join CCPvP on Alliance side. Second, watch arena streams and pvp videos of your class, it can teach you some neat tricks.

Another thing is to remain focused and reasonable with goals, when you play arenas you do it game by game, even if you are shooting for rank 1 you focus on each game and small rating gains. If you want to get 2200, don't make that your goal...Make 1750 your goal, then 2k, then 2100 then 2200.

I agree 150% with this statement. I don't know how many people I've come across just in the last two seasons that go "omg this comp is OP as hell we're gonna get 2200 tonight"... then they play 10 games going 5-5, and fall apart because it wasn't what they expect. Their expectation and their failure to meet said expectations is what killed them.

Here is a personal example of overly ambitious expectations.

Relatively early in the season, a good friend of mine (his main is the warrior Cloud who is 2600 rated, and he also has a warlock who's been 2400+ several times) was playing his rogue and I was playing my lock. Another good friend of mine recently transferred his T2 geared, 2300+ resto shaman over. So we said why not play RLS? That comp is OP as !@#$, let's get some sweet 2k+ right now!

We played... and it was bad. Cloud hasn't played his rogue for more than 10 hours this entire expansion, my lock was a brand new 85, and our shaman just couldn't heal our fail to success. We made mistake after mistake after mistake... and were just playing poorly period. For my part I was freaking out as soon as there was one melee on me, I got interrupted every time, I failed to port to avoid death, etc. It was bad.

And we basically didn't play RLS again after that. Every time I propositioned I got told "you're just bad at warlock, go play your warrior" "I'll only play with you on your warrior or DK. Hey are you going to gear your pally for ret?"

Unreasonable expectations killed the team. And we're all decent players (I am the worst of the 3; highest I've been is 2100 on warrior and 2k on DK), playing obviously an extremely strong comp, but we were bad at the toons we were playing (except rsham of course) and ignored that factor.

Also a more practical piece of advice is know when to stop queuing, if you keep getting a team that you cannot beat no matter what, don't keep giving them free points. Take a break, eat a sandwich.

Yes. Queue hopping is essential when it comes to grinding rating. Big thing to avoid is triple DPS: unless you play a comp that can farm them down, avoid like the plague. Last thing you want is to make them feel like they can grind to a high rating playing that garbage mongoloid comp.

I think the largest misstep in arenas is lack of positiveness surrounding it. If you get into a game against a counter comp or some rank 1 team you're first thought always jumps too...well, we're boned.

I certainly have done this myself, first time we queued against Vanguard's 5s, I literally said over Skype, well we're !@#$ed guys. Match didn't last very long.

This kind of thinking doesn't just make losing more likely, but will almost always cost you the match. It is a bit of a self fulfilling prophecy at work, you believe you will lose and so you lose. This kind of thinking doesn't just affect you, but your team mates as well causing everyone performance suffer and most of the time ragequitting to ensues.

This is so important and a few cataclysm PvPers seem to think that beating/losing to an e-famous person is worth telling the world about. The thing is, it really isn't, It blows your ego out of proportion when you win, and it makes you think you can't outplay them just because you know their name. Just shut up and play to win, who cares who you are playing.

I've farmed Hafu on the TR and I didn't update my twitter about it, I just won and moved on.

07/12/2012 12:01 PMPosted by Zl

I've farmed Hafu on the TR and I didn't update my twitter about it, I just won and moved on.

I farmed Canaveral, does that make me good?

this 1 time i beat a rank 1 player so pretty much makes me a rank 1 experience player

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reported for starting a pvp thread

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lulz