Finally Playing Ranked

I’m that wow cur the lifelong casual bger. Bloodthirsty in retail back in mop (or wod?), bloodthirsty in classic progression. I’ve spent my wow life basically just spamming bgs. I’m good in bgs.

Finally this season I’m going to get over my arena anxiety and take a serious stab at ranked. I’ve played 5 solo shuffles so far and I’m at 1328. It’s fun but I’m pretty tunnel visioned, just trying to do the reasonable pvp thing at the right time.

It occurred to me after a couple games I didn’t look at the enemy arena frames one single time. I almost like a good fear on me because it gives me a chance to take a look at my cd’s and see what I have available. I think I just need lots of games under me for things to slow down and for my vision to widen to the whole screen so I can take in all the information I need.

Please give some tips that you would like to have known, or general arena philosophy that would be helpful.

Probably it’s just a matter of needing experience in there, but any help or insight you could give would be appreciated.

I saw you and Mafic in a Wintergrasp once and I want you to know “it was on” to no effect.

Set focuses, make macros to CC focus (or arena123 macros if you want to go that far but questionably relevant to a novice shuffler), make sure you turn on Blizzard’s arena frame DRs and learn what their weird icons mean.

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