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Arena gear is gained through Arena Points.

It is the PvP version of "Tier gear" (i.e. Tier 4, Tier 5, and Tier 6), and will use equivalent itemization points (see Itemization Formulas) to that gear.

Arena gear is generally considered required to participate in PvP ever since the release of the Burning Crusade expansion, though some classes have moved away from using full arena gear in the more recent months. Classes without a defensive cooldown such as priests, shamans, druids, and warlocks are all encouraged to use primarily arena gear in PvP.

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Requirements

In order to get Arena gear, you must first earn enough points to buy them, and in some cases, you also need your Personal Rating and Team Rating to be high enough.

The following price/rating requirements are for Season 5 gear.

Slot Hateful Point Value Hateful Rating Min Deadly Point Value Deadly Rating Min
Head 12000H 700A 1735 2250A 1990
Shoulders
Gloves 1125 None
Pants 1875 1550
Chest 1875 1600
Main hand weapon 2625 2050
Off hand weapon 1125 2050
Two handed weapon 3750 2050
Thrown Weapon 1000 None
Ranged Weapon 3750 2050
Caster weapon 3150 2050
Staff 3750 2050
Hunter Axe 1000 Hunter only
Shield 1875 2050
Totems/Idols/Tomes 870-1000 None

S1 Gear is now only available from Karynna, they can be traded for Tier 4 tokens and requires no rating.

S2 Gear is available for honor and requires no rating, they are sold by Captain O'Neal and Sergeant Thunderhorn.

S3 Gear is available for Arena point at a 15% point discount from the S4 items listed above. The shoulders have a Rating Requirement of 1950, and the weapons have a 1800 rating requirement. The rest of the gear has no rating requirement.

Location

Season 2 items can now be bought for honor and battleground tokens from Captain O'neil for the Alliance and Sergeant Thunderhorn for the Horde.

Season 3 items are sold by several npcs:

Season 4 items can be found on the following vendors:

Clicking on the vendor's link will take you to a list of the items they have for sale.

Class Specific Gear

Druid:

Hunter:

Mage:

Paladin:

Priest:

Rogue:

Shaman:

Warlock:

Warrior:

Weapons

Arena gear is generally considered a poor choice for PVE (aside from a starter set), but this consideration doesn't apply to the weapons, which are actually quite powerful in their own right and prized as PVE items, just as much PVP items.

It is not uncommon for many dps classes to participate in Arenas for the sole purpose of getting a weapon that they will then use for PVE purposes.

Season 1 weapon are no longer available as of the start of Season 4.

Slot Name Slot Name
One Hand Sword Two Handed Sword
Off Hand Sword Two Handed Mace
One Hand Mace Two Handed Axe
Off Hand Mace Polearm
Main Hand Claw Feral Druid Staff
Off Hand Claw Caster Dagger
One Hand Axe Caster Mace
Off Hand Axe Shield
One Hand Dagger Caster's Offhand
Off Hand Dagger Idols
Thrown Weapon Totems
Bows Guns
Crossbow Hunter Axe
Staff Libram
Wand

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