If you follow all the steps in my guide and your rating does not go up I will personally log on your account and get you 2500 rating.

Every spell you ever use in arena should be keybound. Do not click anything!

Using keybindings in PvP is like knowing how to ride a bicycle in Tour de France. It’s something that everyone does and if you don’t you look like an idiot. As Iain Banks put it, "One hundred idiots make idiotic plans and carry them out. All but one...

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Know your character.

I often play AV on my druid, because Blizzard’s ingenious design forces hybrid classes to grind out 3 times more honor than other classes. When I heal random people as they try to kill their opponents I often look at what they specifically attempt to do. I remember a case in AV where I was healing a warrior as he tried to kill a paladin while another warrior was beating on him. I whispered the warrior to apply Battle Shout. In response he told me that he was...

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An epic gem costs about 200 gold. A rare BoE sunwell pattern can go for 10,000 gold. People have paid me from 4,000 to 6,000 gold to get them the rating necessary for a single item. Jimmy McCasual will gladly farm gold on a Chinese gold farmer schedule (or swipe his mom’s credit card to subcontract the work) to get his avatar a 6 DPS upgrade in from of a phallic weapon he can stand around Ironforge with and look cool. Yet no one would pay a fraction of that gold to learn to play.

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What makes a Gladiator? It's the ability to successfully Recognize what your opponents are doing/planning, act in such a way that their plans do not succeed or force them to deal with your actions, and communicating with your partner(s) to actually achieve a victory.

First, a disclaimer:
I am a firm believer that there is an operating difference in the capabilities of different people's brains. Two individuals presented with the same input will react differently. Whether it...

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Hello Shadowed. You're an author of a number of popular add-ons such as SSPvP, Afflicted and SSArenaframes. Can you tell me a little bit about yourself and your wow/programming background?

Hey. I'm 18, and getting ready to start college to study law eventually. I started programming a few years back for a resource site as an Admin and moved to WoW due to some friends. Most of my programming background was self taught off of things like Blizzard's code and other people's mods. Started...

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