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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 3 gear.

Slot Point Value Rating Min
Head 1875 None
Shoulders 1500 2000
Gloves 1125 None
Pants 1875 None
Chest 1875 None
Main hand weapon 2625 1850
Off hand weapon 1125 1850
Two handed weapon 3750 1850
Thrown Weapon/Wand 1000 None
Ranged Weapon 3750 1860
Caster weapon 3150 1850
Staff 3750 1850
Hunter Axe 1000 Hunter only
Shield 1875 1850
Totems/Idols/Tomes 870-1000 None

S1 Gear is now available for Honor.

S2 Gear is still available, for 15% less than the cost above and also requires no rating.

S4 Gear will take S3 gear's place, making S3 gear go down 15%, while S2 Gear will be sold for honor. S1 Gear will no longer be available anywhere once the next season starts. Season 4 is also adding much higher rating requirements and putting a rating on almost every piece of gear, including some Honor items.

Location

Season 1 items can now be bought for honor and battleground tokens from Captain O'neil for the Alliance and Sergeant Thunderhorn for the Horde.

Season 2 items are sold by several npcs:

Season 3 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.

Slot Name
Main Hand Sword
Off Hand Sword
Main Hand Mace
Off Hand Mace
Main Hand Axe
Off Hand Axe
Main Hand Dagger
Off Hand Dagger
Thrown Weapon 1000
Bows
Guns
Crossbow
Hunter Axe
Staff
Wand

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