Originally Posted by Stoical

To Thug: I don't know about people just ignoring you, that's obviously rude, but if you want people to seriously give you a shot despite your being new to the arena scene, you need to take the gear you do have and can easily improve more seriously. You have no enchants, not even on your 3 pieces of s1 gear or your s1 weapons, an empty meta socket, a whole bunch of empty gem slots, no PvP trinket, no honor gear, and a healing relic. The gems you do have socketed are common strength or crit. Even someone who might consider trying out a team with someone new is probably going to run for the hills after they inspect you. You're going to get brutalized with 8k health and 200 res, and people recognize that and don't want to subject themselves to it.

My advice: You don't need full s3 to start trying out arena, nor do you need 400 res, and if random arena partners expect that they're deluded. You do need to get the honor gear, enchant your stuff, and gem for survivability. If you had a bunch of honor gear and had done what you could to get yourself ready, and people were still being dicks and not giving you a shot simply because you're new, then that would be a different story.