Adding to my other post about Arena Season 4, there is some new information out about Arena Season 4.

Blizzard is taking steps to reduce point selling and general gaming of the system.

Read the blue thread.

**5.4.08 Update** I updated this post with new information about Season 4 Gear Costs. The update is after the original.

**5.7.08 Update** More updates about Arena Season 4 point selling changes

 I thought Arena Season 4 would be here by now. I am stocked up and ready, and fully expected it to hit a few weeks after patch 2.4.

In retrospect, dropping Arena Season 4 so soon after a big patch with new content would not make a lot of sense for Blizzard.

So if we don't know the date of Arena Season 4, what do we know about it?

1. Season 2 items will be available for honor
2. Season 3 items will be 15% arena point cost.
3. Most Season 4 gear will require a personal rating.
4. Some pvp gear will be available with pve rewards.
5. The new stuff will be called "Brutal Gladiator"

That said, what can we do while waiting for Arena Season 4?

1. Hit the honor cap. The honor cap is 75,000 points. Make sure you are just around that number when Tuesday hits in case Season 4 rolls.
2. Cap on Arena points. The Arena points cap is 5,000 Arena points.
3. Stock up on enchanting reagents. When you get your new gear, you will want enchants on it. Prices are low, stock up now.
4. Run instances and get your Badges of Justice. If you are close to the honor cap you don't need as much time in BG, so get Badges.
5. You can turn in Badges for PVP gear to Kayri.

I'm capped on honor and arena points. I'm waiting for Arena Season 4 to kick off so I can grab some new gear.

Arena Season 4 Gear Costs

Item	Cost	Personal Rating
Brutal Gladiator's Head	1875 Arena points	1700 PR
Brutal Gladiator's Shoulders	1500 Arena point	2200 PR
Brutal Gladiator's Chest	1875 Arena point	1600 PR
Brutal Gladiator's Hands	1125 Arena point	None
Brutal Gladiator's Legs	1875 Arena point	1550 PR
Brutal Gladiator's Wrist	11794 Honor, 20 WSG Marks	1575 PR
Brutal Gladiator's Waist	17850 Honor, 40 AB Marks	None
Brutal Gladiator's Feet	17850 Honor, 40 EOS Marks	1700 PR
Brutal Gladiator's Neck	15300 Honor, 10 AB Marks	1700 PR
Brutal Gladiator's Finger	15300 Honor, 10 AV Marks	1650 PR

Arena Season 4 point selling changes

In addition to making some of the Arena Season 4 gear harder to get, Blizzard is making it harder to sell/buy arena points. (Point selling is where you pay gold to play 3 games on a highly rated team.) The changes are:

1. If a character's personal rating is more than 150 points below the team rating, they will earn points based on their personal rating instead of the team rating.
2. If the average personal rating of the players queuing for a game is more than 150 points below the team's rating, the team will be queued against an opponent matching or similar to the average personal rating.
3. If a team does not enter an arena match that is starting they will lose points equal to the amount that would have been deducted if they had played and lost.

This should be successfull. It means that if someone with a personal rating of 1450 joins a 2000 team and plays 3 games, at the end of the week they will get points based on their 1450 personal rating, not the team rating of 2000. Also, if 3 players with 1500 join a 2000 team and que, they will face other 1500 teams, not 2000 teams.

This will make point selling harder, but not impossible. If anything it will bump up the price. 2 geard players could still make a new team and sell the third spot. They would be able to get this to around 1700, even with the dead weight of the point buyer.

It doesn't make sense, how are they supposed to be sneaky with maces.

They just don't make sense, nuff said.