I’ve always just done casual BGs and world PvP. I want to start learning arena, but I’m unsure what iLvL/essence ranks I should have before starting out.
I don’t want to walk in completely gimped.
Recommendations are appreciated.
I would say 450 right now is an ok spot, a lot of the top people are easily ~465 and up right now. But you can go in at 450 and do relevant dmg and get a feel
Rank 3 essences are ideal. Depends on the spec and essence combo you’re using tho
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In my mw spec I’m using 3 rank 2 essences, dont even have the 4th yet and my ilvl is I think 445 in healing gear with useless trash trinkets and no enchant on my weapon.
If you’re just looking to have some fun just queue up. People are desperate for healers, even I can find 2s games. I’m only 1400 and have only played 16 games this season though so take this with a grain of salt. I’m sure more gear is required when you push past 2k or so
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Thanks for the info guys. Time to start grinding essences.
can q with whatever
however you’ll run into alot of male troll players capping for 475 azerite around 1800 that’ll be in early mythic/full heroic gear (460-470 ilvl)
so i’d suggest trying to get 445 with as much vers/mast as possible
i’d go out and get r3 conflict, attempt to get r3 lucid (takes 16 days of naz dailies) and then you can use r2 breath of the dying swapping conflict and breath majors around depending on the other comp
once you get fourth slot you can just throw in flame or whatever
you’d rarely if ever get to play anything besides conflict major
the damage reduction in stuns is insane since you’ll be a very viable kill target for both rogue mage teams and warrior teams
but having access via conflict to either disarm/TeB in your third honor slot is mandatory in almost every matchup (disarm rogue/mage, TeB destro/warrior or dk cleaves that dont have an otherwise viable kill target, bear rdruids hpals ect)
breath major does anywhere from 40k-70k though so it’s huge esp if you get a lot of above 80 and below 20 uses however it’s more likely only useful in VERY aggressive 2’s with an rdruid or hpal
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This is extremely useful and exactly what I was looking for.