Apologies if this sounds like I'm needlessly picking apart your sentences, but there are fairly different answers to each.
Originally Posted by Psykal
I don't really understand this mentality. The whole point in getting upgrades from arenas is so that you can increase your chance to win more arena games.
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First disconnect: arena games, for me, are about having simultaneously running parallel upgrade paths. "Hi, your druid, which you want to be your pve main, just dinged 70! Congrats, here's a respec, and umm kid there's a lot of work you need to do to get into ZA. Good luck."
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For most of the part the items are worse than their 10-man and badge equivalents.
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True -- but running Kz takes time. So okay, I run Kz, get badges, get upgrades, yay. But random being random, there's going to be some slot that didn't get upgraded after 1-2 months. I expect to have $ENOUGH arena or honor points at that point to be able to upgrade my crappy blue healing item to some epic pvp item -and- that will be a PvE upgrade. More importantly, by filling in these PvE holes, I may then be able to leverage myself into a ZA run (just to reiterate, I'm a 10s raider, not a 25s raider).
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What will you do with this gear if you will not play any more games once you have obtained it?
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So, I gear up the non-rating stuff of S4. Will this suddenly catapult me from 1300s to 1550?
Not a chance. I don't watch pvp videos, I turn with the keyboard, I don't practice twitch reflexes: all of those are fairly fatal to advancing.
So since I cannot advance with more arena play, I'll just go to the BGs and get gear that way.
Note that, except for a passing remark in the last question, I haven't really talked about pvp in this whole response. That's fairly telling. It's all about enabling pve play for me. Hence why I just joined a dance-for-epics 5v5.
Oh, and I don't really mind at all that there are S4 PR reqs. Really, I have no opinion: I'm not a PvPer, so who cares what I think (myself included)? I'm just saying that, for myself, yeah I'll leave arenas after a bit, thus contributing my miniscule amount to PR/TR deflation.