⚔️ Arena Points Calculator

The weekly payout

Arena points are paid out once a week, when your realm resets. They are calculated from what you did the previous week, so the points that land in your bags are the reward for last week’s games, not this week’s.

To earn points from a bracket you must have played at least 10 games in that bracket during the week. Play nine and you get nothing from it, no matter how high your rating climbed.

You get paid once, not three times

This is the part that catches most people out. If you play 2v2, 3v3 and 5v5 in the same week, you do not get points from all three. The game works out what each eligible bracket would pay, then gives you the single highest result. Everything else is discarded.

That means an extra bracket can never lower your income, but it only helps if it out-earns the ones you were already playing. The calculator above marks the winning bracket with a “Best” tag so you can see which one is actually paying you.

Why the bracket size matters

Each bracket has a multiplier applied to the raw points your rating produces:

At an identical rating, 5v5 pays the most and 2v2 pays the least. The catch is that ratings are rarely identical. 2v2 is generally the easiest bracket to push a high rating in, and 5v5 teams are the hardest to organise, so a 2000 rated 2v2 team comfortably out-earns a 1500 rated 5v5 team. Plug your real numbers into the calculator rather than assuming the bigger bracket wins.

The formula

Points come from a logistic curve, not a straight line:

points = ((1651.94 − 475) / (1 + 2500000 × e^(−0.009 × rating)) + 475) × multiplier

The practical consequence is that gains are steepest in the middle of the ladder. Climbing from 1500 to 1600 is worth far more points than climbing from 2200 to 2300, where the curve has almost flattened out. If your goal is gear rather than titles, the mid ratings are where your time converts into points most efficiently.

There is also a floor built into the curve, so even a low rating pays something as long as you get your ten games in.

Rating requirements for gear

Your personal rating decides what you are allowed to buy. It has no effect on how many points you earn. Most of the set has no requirement at all:

Two things are worth knowing. First, the rating is checked only at the moment you buy. Hit 1700, buy the weapon, and you keep it even if your team falls apart the following week. Second, because shoulders sit behind a 2000 requirement, most players finish the rest of the set long before they can complete it.

Planning your purchases

The arena points cap is 5,000, so anything you bank above that is wasted. A rough order of operations that works for most players:

• Chest, legs and head first. No rating requirement, the biggest raw stat gain, and they carry the set bonuses.
• Gloves next at 930 points, the cheapest meaningful upgrade in the set.
• Weapon once you hit 1700. The two-hander at 3,110 points is the most expensive single purchase available, so start banking early if that is your goal.
• Shoulders last, unless you are already close to 2000.

Use the Gear Planner above to tick what you want and see how many weeks of your current rating it takes. If the answer is depressing, the Required Rating Lookup will show you what rating gets you there faster.

End of season

When a season closes, the outgoing season’s gear moves to the honour and off-season vendors at a discount and loses its rating requirements. That is the cheapest time to fill any slots you never finished. Any arena points you are still holding convert to honour at 1:10, so a full 5,000 point bank becomes 50,000 honour.

That conversion is worth planning around. Unspent points are not lost, but honour is generally worth less to you than the arena piece you could have bought with them, so try to walk into the off-season with your purchases already made.