Hi,
My name is Jicks and I’ve played WoW for quite some time now however I’ve only just recently got into pvp/arenas and I’m after some ways in which I can improve
I seem to be stuck in arenas around the 1400-1450 bracket.
Any tips would be much appreciated, thank you 
First of all, im not some kind of arena master or glad or whatnot, i just play it for fun in my ofspec when i have some spare time with friend/s.
So, first u need to know what class and spec u wanna play, its way harder to master it if u constantly swap.
Second, get a partner, someone u can play with, u can look on guides whats best comp for you, or u can play what you like, doesnt realy matter, just play with that one, get used to each other, u can play with 20 resto druids and they all may play different…
Next part are keybinds, mouse clicking is slow, even if its spell that u use once per arena, bind it, it might save your life and rating.
Probably the last, but not least, thing, is practice… Practice practice practice… U might do like 200arenas till u get used to everything, to different enemies, to your own team… Your binds what not.
Also, if u can handle it, record your matches, it helps you to find mistakes way easier, u may even share it somewhere on discord or so where way higher rated people than u might tell you what went wrong.
Good luck
Great advice, thank you!
Hey,
Good advice was given, I think keybinds matter a lot. I’m terrible at pvp because I still have the default UI keybinds. You should change c,v,f,r etc. because they are better keys used for abilities than UI elements during pvp play. Unbind the S key for walking back and use that as a spell for example too. You can check out vids on youtube that go into detail. Best of luck.
Walk to the gates of Orgrimmar and duel with others for practice! That’s what I had done
Dueling someone wont make u better at arenas. I can easily duel anyone, but I wouldnt be able to do anything in arenas.
According to pvp whiners, you need to do mythic raids. Then you can roflstomp them with your OP trinkets.
Try recording your games, so you can go back and watch what went wrong and what you could’ve done better.
Look at skills talents etc. of other classes. Either try them yourself, or, if you don’t have the time for that. Atleast look at the damage breakdown of details afterwards to get an idea of what each class can do.
key bind all your spells
download S arena addon
make macros for arena grip 1 2 3, stun 1,2,3 kick 1,2,3 etc and play 2k+ games
Yeah, thats how u get 2k+ rating, u just keybind ur spells.
I was wondering about that myself. But I think he might mean the number of games.
play two thousand matches
I did it and the achievement just popped on my screen, incredible.
Gladiatiors HATE him ! This man gets to 2k rating with one simple trick.
That was bfa though, its over
Dueling someone will make you better for sure as long as you dont go deep into the duel meta.
You have to start with something and jumping straight to 3s is not a good idea.
This is from the point of view of someone who hasn’t done arena in a while and never made it past 1800, so take it with a grain of salt. Also, that was on US - EU players tend to be better even at lower levels. But maybe it’s easier for us to understand each other.
Learn how other classes and specs function so you know what to expect and how to counter certain abilities. Fortunately, people run with cookie-cutter specs, so it’s easier to anticipate what they’ll do.
In my super limited experience, at low ratings people are erratic, while at high ratings they stretch the limits of cookie-cutter comps and specs and do some creative things. In the middle, they’re more scripted because they’re copying what high-rated players do without being creative about it.
You can use that to your own advantage by learning how common comps work: how they usually open, which of you they’re more likely to open on, whom they’re going to pressure throughout, whom they’re going to try and chain CC, etc.
Find a stable partner, preferably a friend, so you can learn together. If you’re doing this for fun, you should be patient with each other. That’s hard with pugs who never take responsibility for anything.
One of you needs to be the leader and call positioning, CDs, etc. I understand that’s usually the healer, so maybe that’s why we sucked so much - I was the healer and I had no idea what I was doing. Positioning is incredibly important and whoever knows how to control the map usually wins (this obviously means that you need to know how to work each map to your team’s advantage).
Probably the best way to learn fast is to play with someone experienced. If you have a friend, that’s awesome. If you don’t, you can probably pay someone (with gold) and explicitly ask for tutoring rather than a simple carry. They should tell you what to do, how to position yourself, and explain why. Not sure how easy it is to find someone like that - it’s a lot easier for them to just solo the other noob team.
That’s actually one of my biggest regrets. I had a lot of gold and didn’t even try to find someone, thinking no one would have patience for me 
Play thousands of 2s with a healer. It will 100% make you improve, at least some things. After a few hundred games, try to take a break and reconsider your keybinds & macros using your newfound knowledge you gained in those games, because it’s possible that some things are very inconveniently bound of simply inexistent (such as arena frame targeting macros for CCs). Then keep playing.
Also, when you have time, try to watch high rated streams of your class, preferably your comp if you can find, and see what they do differently. Don’t look at them to see how much damage they do or stuff like that, look more at positioning in relation to each other, their reasoning for poping cds, how they land cc chains.
pvp after wotlk? dont make me laugh
Lots of good advice here. I’m not a pro at all, just like you i’ve recently got back into rated but i’ll say one thing that has definitely improved for me is environmental awareness, particularly if you are versus ranged (as a melee).
When you’re fighting a rogue say, they wil think nothing of following you two steps around the corner to keep on you, but that royally messes up their mage partner who can no longer see you. You can mitigate a lot of damage and cause a lot of problems for the enemy by thinking carefully about where you let fights happen by making them either have obscured visuals or causing them to back off from you, giving you space.
Very powerful if you can CC an enemy first and then split them like this, it effectively increases the duration of the CC if you then take the fight elsewhere LOS wise as when CC drops their ally has to waste time running to assist.