Arena Points Calculator

1. Pick the point formula. Keep the Anniversary option for the current Burning Crusade Classic season. Pick the legacy option to study the original 2007 formula.
2. Type your team rating and games played for each bracket you played this week. Leave a bracket blank to skip it.
3. Add an optional points goal, such as the cost of a weapon. The tool shows the points you will be paid and how many weeks the goal takes.

Arena points are a weekly PvP currency that World of Warcraft pays for rated arena play. Players spend them on arena gear such as weapons, armor and off-hand items.

The currency began in patch 2.0.1 in 2006 with The Burning Crusade. The Warcraft Wiki records that patch 4.0.1 in 2010 replaced it with Conquest Points in the live game. It returned with Burning Crusade Classic, and it is back again in Burning Crusade Classic Anniversary, which is why this page covers two formulas.

Arena points are not the same as your rating. Rating is the matchmaking score that goes up and down after every match. Points are the reward, paid once a week from the rating you hold at the reset. Honor points are a third, separate currency from battlegrounds and world PvP.

The formula turns a team rating into base points p on an S-shaped curve, then scales p by bracket. Each bracket is checked on its own, and you are paid the highest eligible result.

1. Compute base points p from the rating r. Here e is about 2.71828, the base of natural logarithms (see our exponent calculator for e to a power).
2. Multiply p by the bracket factor: 0.76 for 2v2, 0.88 for 3v3 and 1.00 for 5v5.
3. Drop any bracket with fewer than 10 games that week.
4. Take the highest remaining value. That is your payout.

The Anniversary curve has a floor and a ceiling. At rating 0 it pays 475 x 1.5 = 712 base points. Near 2,700 and above it levels off at 1651.94 x 1.5, about 2,478 base points. The steep middle sits between about 1,500 and 1,900, where each 100 rating adds hundreds of points.

A player ends the week with a 2v2 team at 1,800 after 12 games and a 3v3 team at 1,650 after 10 games, under the Anniversary formula.

1. 2v2: base p at 1,800 is about 2,147.4. Times 0.76 gives 1,632.0, so 1,632 points.
2. 3v3: base p at 1,650 is about 1,647.3. Times 0.88 gives 1,449.6, so 1,449 points.
3. Both brackets have 10 or more games, so both are eligible.
4. The higher value is 1,632, so the player is paid 1,632 points, not 3,081.

With a 3,000-point goal, 3,000 / 1,632 = 1.84, so the goal takes 2 weekly resets if the rating holds. The 1,632 figure matches the 1,800 2v2 value that players posted under the Blizzard announcement.

Team Rating at the Reset

Points come from the rating your team holds when the week closes. A loss streak on the last night lowers the payout even after a strong week.

Bracket Factor

The same rating pays 24% less in 2v2 and 12% less in 3v3 than in 5v5. A 1,700 2v2 team pays 1,397 points, while a 1,700 5v5 team pays 1,839.

Games Played

A bracket with 9 games pays nothing, however high its rating. The original system also asked each player to play at least 30% of the team's games.

Formula Version

Blizzard says the formula was adjusted many times to match season length and gear rating rules. The same 1,800 rating pays 2,147 base points under the Anniversary curve but 760 under the original 2.2 curve.

Where You Sit on the Curve

The Anniversary curve is flat at both ends. Moving from 1,200 to 1,400 adds little, and 2,400 to 2,600 adds almost nothing, but 1,500 to 1,700 adds about 728 base points.

To see a bracket factor as a percentage gap, use our percentage increase calculator. To solve the curve backwards for a target, take a natural log with our logarithm calculator.

The two formulas share the bracket factors and the best-bracket rule, but they pay very different amounts.

For 2v2, multiply by 0.76. For 3v3, multiply by 0.88. Both round down.

The Anniversary curve pays much more at every rating and saturates by about 2,200. The original curve kept rising up to about 1,511 points. The Warcraft Wiki also notes that from Season 6 on, teams under 1,500 were paid as if they were at 1,500. The legacy option here uses the original TBC rule with the straight line below 1,500.

Planning a Gear Purchase

Enter the item cost as your goal. The weeks figure shows whether a rating push now saves a week or two later.

Choosing Which Bracket to Queue

Compare what each team would pay. A 3v3 team at 1,750 pays 1,768 points, more than a 2v2 team at 1,850, which pays 1,711.

Checking Eligibility Before the Reset

Enter your games so far. The tool flags any bracket still short of 10 games.

Studying the Original System

The legacy option reproduces the 2007 formula, for guides, videos or private study of the original expansion.

1. Adding the Brackets Together

You are paid from one bracket only. A 2v2 and a 3v3 team do not stack. Our old version of this tool made this error.

2. Forgetting the 10-Game Minimum

A high-rated team with 8 games pays zero that week. Finish the games before the reset.

3. Using Personal Rating Instead of Team Rating

The formulas on this page take the team rating. Personal rating mainly gates which gear you may buy.

4. Using an Old Formula Table

Point tables from 2007 guides are far below the Anniversary values. Check which formula a guide uses before trusting its numbers.

5. Trusting Invented Bonuses

Some web pages list win-streak, MVP or season-week bonuses to arena points. The Blizzard post describes no such bonuses, and this tool adds none.

The calculator reproduces the published formulas exactly, so its result is as accurate as the rating and games you enter. It cannot see in-game changes made after the February 2026 post.

Under the Anniversary formula, a 1,500 rating pays 1,111 points in 5v5, 977 in 3v3 and 844 in 2v2. The original TBC formula paid 344, 302 and 261.

About 1,747 in 5v5 under the Anniversary formula. In 2v2 you need about 1,800 to reach 1,632, and 2v2 cannot reach 2,000 at any rating, because its ceiling is about 1,883.

No. The game checks each eligible bracket and pays only the highest one.

Blizzard applies a 0.76 factor to 2v2 and 0.88 to 3v3. The Warcraft Wiki notes the original aim was to reward the larger formats more.

At the start of each week, based on the previous week. The payout uses the rating your team holds when the week closes.

Yes, if you play 10 games. Under the Anniversary formula even a low rating pays at least 712 base points, times the bracket factor. A 2v2 team reset to 1,500 pays 844.

No. Patch 4.0.1 in 2010 replaced them with Conquest Points in the live game. They exist in Burning Crusade Classic, including the Anniversary realms.

Only in part. The legacy option is the original TBC 2.2 formula. Wrath seasons paid teams under 1,500 as if at 1,500, which the legacy option does not do.

Most use the 2007 formula, which pays far less than the 2026 Anniversary curve. Some add invented bonuses. Check which formula a tool names.

No. The tool runs in your browser. The Save button keeps a result only in this browser on this device.

• Calculating Arena Points in Burning Crusade Classic Anniversary (Official World of Warcraft forums, post by Community Manager Kaivax, 2026-02-18; the Anniversary formula, bracket factors, 10-game rule and best-bracket rule).
• Arena Points (Warcraft Wiki, a community wiki, not an official source; the original patch 2.2 formula, the 1,500-rating example and the patch history).
• Burning Crusade Classic (Warcraft Wiki, community wiki; the Anniversary Edition realms that reached Burning Crusade Classic in January 2026).