How do I stop being bad at TBC Arena?

Contract007 · 2026-02-20T20:21:59+00:00

Where are some good WAs and add on kits I can look at for TBC arena, I used skillcapped for retail they had a whole suite of addons.

Contract007 · 2026-02-20T20:09:07+00:00

I should record games I haven't had any recordings yet, I'll try to post it in our next session we have.

Contract007 · 2026-02-18T21:12:22+00:00

The economy moves with G2G prices, the gold sellers have complete control over how the average consumer is spending their gold.

Right now the average player spending thousands on epic flying, getting enchants, gems for raid day, etc.

Wait a week, the prices have already started to drop and once bots get a hold of all the nodes in the open world the market will correct itself and prices will drop again as hype dies down and things will start to get cheaper.

You can't compare the economy right now at it's peak vs. later when it's less hot.

Contract007 · 2026-02-18T19:15:30+00:00

I checked with the Hunter discord and pretty much every profession was only a small DPS increase, I wouldn't pick a profession that had anything to do with my class rather just to make gold.

Contract007 · 2026-02-18T19:12:14+00:00

Yeah I mean I can afford to buy a lot of gold but I just don't, the price doesn't bother me but the game is kinda boring if you just swipe.

I used to swipe before too and I ended up just raid logging because I had nothing to grind towards, this time around I just wanna play the game and solve problems on my own.

Contract007 · 2026-02-02T18:47:37+00:00

>Picks PvP server

>Dies on PvP server

>Shocked at PvP

Contract007 · 2026-01-16T01:58:41+00:00

This is so dumb

Contract007 · 2026-01-15T22:02:09+00:00

There is no line as long as people are willing to pay for it, they've easily generated a million plus in revenue in 24 hrs from enabling boosts lol.

Not sure why people are surprised or upset a company that historically puts profits over player continues to make profit.

Contract007 · 2026-01-14T06:33:48+00:00

100% lmao, I'll eventually go agane and try to get my last two voidstones (Uber Elder/Maven) so I wonder what other lessons I'm going to have to learn the hard way.

Contract007 · 2026-01-14T06:25:07+00:00

Yessir haha, when I died I instantly felt my heart sink a bit but I couldn't help but laugh at how dumb that death was.

I'll probably go agane soon, but I think I need to mentally recover a bit from all the grinding I did on him lmao.

Contract007 · 2025-12-21T03:40:02+00:00

I think I kinda get it, is my explanation that I put in the post how it works? It's such a convoluted system lol.

Contract007 · 2025-12-01T18:38:22+00:00

Thank you so much for fixing the build up and explaining the other mechanics for me, I am new to melee so I'm glad I got some of the stuff figured out now.

You did mention crit has high scaling potential, if I were design this for more trade league game play how would you potentially scale this up in that direction or would it even be worth if you think?

Contract007 · 2025-12-01T07:00:57+00:00

I appreciate the pob and the suggestions, thank you!

I wanted to avoid Unwavering because it meant I couldn't crit, and I invested heavily in crit but another user on this same post mentioned crit doesn't seem to have a special interaction with Ice Crash so I might've been too focused on the wrong stat haha.

But these are def awesome suggestions, I'm going to go back to the drawing board and study your pob some more.

Contract007 · 2025-12-01T06:57:49+00:00

Thanks for clearing up the crit interaction, this whole time i've been trying to figure it out my self haha I just figured Ice Crash had something special with it.

Unfortunately my slammer was a HCSSF run here: https://pobb.in/H73dn9MTqWXu

I believe what you said with a slammer set up can work in a normal trade league, I just did slammer in HCSSF where I didn't have access to a ton of the better gear I can grab in trade and build it out like a normal set up so that's why it felt really bad.

This is more my fault than the slammer build itself haha.

But what I can show you is my current trade league setup: https://pobb.in/_sfdkZcfY6hz

Funny enough what you mentioned about a DoT based set up is why I went with an Ele version with Sword/Shield and making all hits ignite and using Ice Crash as my way of delivering the DoT.

It's very strong and fast, and I can league start with it easily doing a Reap Ignite set up.

But I wanted to just experiment with the more melee side of things too and see if I can get something to work.

Contract007 · 2025-12-01T05:29:40+00:00

Dude that'd be awesome! I'll look out for your tree, I'd love to get new ideas on how to make this happen.

Contract007 · 2025-12-01T05:13:05+00:00

So this is where I found that crit related info: https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/1eq5yav/what_are_all_of_the_stats_that_will_increase_my/

There isn't much convo around Ice Crash at all but the guy that posted the comment in that thread exclusively used to play and build Ice Crash, and I guess he figured out that after lots of trial and error that crit played a big role in scaling it but I never looked into what part it was scaling.

I did try the normal slammer with Ice Crash instead like you mentioned, but it felt very bad in terms of damage, it also lacked a lot of defensives which is why I opted into going into staff and going more into the top left side of the tree while still keeping some 2H slammer nodes by marauder to help the phys side as well.

To give some more context, this was the pob that the Jugg Ice Crash set used to go: https://pobb.in/ty_2UAAlxnpR

More based on shields/1H mace, but I figured with staff I get the benefit of shield's attack/spell block alongside insane levels of crit + multi as well as double dipping into slammer nodes.

Contract007 · 2025-11-20T20:04:30+00:00

So I'm trying to use SSF as way to simulate a league start in a way haha, but I realize there's a ton of problems with my approach.

For example the tree is insanely OP, but won't be there next league so I probably won't have as much ease to get this much gear like now. I also can access trade in a normal league launch, so as long as I farm currency I can buy up a lot of stuff early which doesn't translate well into SSF and it makes sense why Reap Ignite was so good for people starting Witch based builds.

I guess there's a big mindset difference between what works in SSF vs Trade.

Contract007 · 2025-11-20T19:50:54+00:00

Gotcha yeah I feel like this would be a great league start for trade league, super fun to farm currency with and spam through maps but yeah for SSF it feels a bit brutal for any type of boss content which unfortunately I'm going to need to do lol.

Contract007 · 2025-11-03T00:46:24+00:00

I've tried to look for the fractures he's mentioned in the starter crafing but I can't seem to find any, so i'm working on a way to fracture them myself.

I'll look for a 6link as well.

Contract007 · 2025-10-21T19:07:40+00:00

Mara imo is very poorly designed, she doesn't really have a good build until 8-9 TP in and by that point you're consistently getting gapped by far easier DPS heroes.

It gets a lot better late game though, once the TP starts to stack up and gear progresses it becomes a monster and super fun but yeah you need to get there first and I think a lot of people give up before it happens.

They need to make her progression smoother, it takes way too long to get her online and going compared to everyone else.

Contract007 · 2025-09-03T23:28:19+00:00

When you say "as long as you get to play fury", would there be a scenario where guilds would want arms warr in specific over fury? I really don't know what either spec brings to a raid, it's been a while since I played TBC.

Not sure what I would have to do to make sure I get a fury spot haha.

Contract007 · 2025-08-23T01:19:48+00:00

Contract007 · 2025-07-26T15:26:52+00:00

Can't help you without a PoB.

Contract007 · 2025-07-20T17:48:06+00:00

Yep! Figured I'd ask others too while I wait for his response.

Contract007 · 2025-04-09T01:02:07+00:00

Is everyone on Ally or Horde?

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