Want to crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of their women? Blood Sport investigates the entirety of all-things arena for gladiators and challengers alike. C. Christian Moore, multiple rank 1 gladiator, examines the latest arena strategy, trends, compositions and more in WoW.com's arena column.

Lcd Soundsystem is pretty unique. I can definitely groove to some of the beats James Murphy creates. Tribulations is one of my new kicks, and it'll be our listening music for today. It's also kind of fitting for our subject matter. Don't expect a lot of the techno-disco-dance-punk genre (or whatever you want to call it) in the future, because well, there's not a lot of it out there. Savor the moment.

Last week, we finished up the 3.3 Patch Notes. This week, we're going to shift gears and talk about an issue that I think is about as important to PvP as kicking ass and chewing bubblegum. We'll be discussing how to avoid the noobsauce, terribad, furious badiator, or whatever flavor of the month term is going around for the holier-than-thou arena player. I personally call him Scrubby McDouche.

Check out what's up after the break.

On class balance and team composition

We all know that guy. Don't be that guy. Scrubby is a gentleman that is anything but gentle when it comes to accepting arena defeats gracefully. Any loss he endures amounts to Blizzard not understanding his class. If his class is viewed as being poor in arena, he will let you know. But he won't stop there. Everyone on trade chat, your realm forums, your mom's realm forums, and every PvP website will soon feel the wrath of the injustice he suffers. To show Blizzard who's boss, he might even quit PvP, or the game altogether. Yeah. That'll show 'em.

Moreover, opposing arena teams have "no skill" and a "much more favorable composition" than he does. It doesn't matter if he's playing the most overpowered team composition on the SK-100. He just hit eight straight countercomps, even though none of his opponents compositions were remotely similar. The arena gods just always seem to have Scrubby's number.

Don't get me wrong, certain classes are bad in certain arena seasons. Achieving gladiator as a warrior or druid in season five is one of the more difficult PvP achievements to ever be accomplished. Certain compositions are also doomed to failure from the very start. I don't care how skilled your team is, you're not going to be running a triple demonology warlock team to rank #1 anytime soon. I will eat my words if anyone proves me wrong. The challenge is out there.

Likewise, countercomps definitely play a role in arena success. I'm not going to name any because there's always someone who disagrees with the analysis of team matchups. Said person also plays the said team and has never lost to the said countercomp team. But we're not talking about Mr. Better-Than-Everyone-At-Everything Commenter, even though he and Scrubby are best friends.

However, we'd be infinitely far off base if we were to proclaim that success in arena is based largely on class and composition. We've all seen, heard of, or experienced the fully epic'd out rogue-mage-priest team destroyed game after game by the exact same composition, but in full blues. Skill is definitely the deciding factor.

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