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My advice for first class people in arena :

Don't go.

If you do, absolutely do not piss and moan when someone one hit kills you. All that does is make them want to do it more often.

I have seen a few first classes hold their own quite well in the arena, but this guide is to make your chances higher.

I will, however be adding the don't chuck a tanti if you die thing...

Don't get me wrong - your guide looks well thought out and neatly organized. But the no whining policy is the best advice you can give, I'd say. The second someone bitches about getting killed just because he is low leveled - it's basically like painting a target on their head. Makes it harder for them to enjoy the arena if they can't even step into it without 5 or 6 people killing them at the same time.

Very true, and sorry if I came across that I didn't like your comment. I did add some general advice, inc don't chuck a tanti. If you die, deal lol. It's not like you loose exp or items or anything.

AoE rangers are not heavy on STA, the smart ones go with something like 15-50 STA and XXX DEX so they arent tanks, and their block rate sucks before lvl 75 anyway. So rangers are usually lowish STA.

Regarding stats on equips, I'd go for whatever stats help your damage boost or defense/hp, because it's automatically assumed you already have the capped stats where they should be (such as a specific amount of dex for a speed break).
You basically need the equips do one of the following, if not both:
1. kill your foe faster (example: demols, stats that influence your dmg output, or awakenings such as attack or attack speed on your stuff, or even decreasing of magic motion time)
2. survive incoming attacks (example: plugs, sta-statted, or def/hp/sta awakened equips)

About bow acrobats, Auto Shot would be my candidate, because it does the damage in a shorter amount of time and can make a 1-hit KO on low-stamina builds, even at higher levels. Even though this skill has a cooldown.

True, that did slip my mind, I better start a credits page for people helping me with slip ups being my first guide I guess I knew I had a lot of slip ups coming though. I didn't even really expect to get it through to the real Guides V2.0 section being my first shot at it.

Thanks for the help. My to-be-aoe ranger doesn't have Auto-shot yet, (only level 50, spending SP currently on maxing perfect block) so I didn't think of that, plus the equips help. I guess if this guide doesn't get through I can alway use this as learning exp.

When you said what Yo-yo acros should use, well, you mentioned Critical Swing. Not flaming or anything, but Critical Swing is for Lv 65 Jester. xD Just pointing that little mistake out so beginners won't be like "WTF! WHY DON'T I HAVE CRITICAL SWING?! DID GM'S DO SOMETHING TO MY CHARACTER???" [Again, I am not flaming ^^]

the best help for a pre 60 char w/o a pro main is dont go. people will purposely kill you just to piss you off lol.

Whoops tottal mind blank. I did mean DEADLY swing. I've gotten those two mixed up heaps of times in game... thanks for the heads up on that XD Me and my deadly and critical swings...

My adversias would not go into the arena until ur at least level 75 and thats the lowest for me.

Hehe np ^^ I'll be here all day...probably

Just a matter of taste, I guess. Depends on which server you play, too. I sometimes see lower levels fight in a specific area, disregarding higher leveled people, who, in return, disregard them as well.

Oh yeah, about mercs fighting bow-wielding acros, Pan Barrier's your friend, there; if you have a good aim and attack speed, feel free to melee them, otherwise spam a couple of skills.

And about mages fighting various classes: blinkpool also helps in disorienting your foe; as you blink, they lose target lock and you have a few extra seconds to wipe them out before they get to you. I sometimes blink several seconds before my opponents reach me, then just spam my action slot on them and pray they don't have enough hp to live.

Also, something to add on pvp conduct:
- don't 'camp' people: excessively killing a particular person (or multiple people) without a good reason (aka self-defense, or some agreement between both parties involved, or anything between those lines) isn't sportsmanlike; it's just like picking on someone because you can;
- same deal with excessive sniping: running away on every attempt to kill someone isn't very nice either; at least give them a chance to get even and try to hold your ground in the arena; better to die in battle than live in cowardice xD

These mainly focus on one's image in the arena. If one plans to venture there frequently, it's best they didn't have (too many) haters.