[quote=@Rilla]
So what ultimately got you guys into Arena fighting?

For me, combat was a big part of MYB RPing, but then I went offsite and saw this wonderful bout, but could never find it again. It involved two guys in a stadium type of thing, one was using strings to create lines around the stadium and his opponent, early on, lost a finger.

That's my biggest goal, to participate in a fight that hooks me like that from the very beginning. To me, they represent the pinnacle of Arena RPing.
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I was bored about three years ago, and joined ImportantNobody's assassin duel thread, where I got to fight two people and found it fun and interesting (I also did pretty well for a complete novice, which helps). Then I joined WOTW and it took off from there. 

In regards to useless skills

Training is somewhat useless, it only functions as a decent gauge of how well your character can pull off a certain action, but if you're not trained enough personally to know what action would be best to take, it really doesn't matter.

Scion: My Mech basically has the armour values of an ordinary tank, and is actually weaker in some regards, so the bass cannon would definitely one-shot it.

Also, as a general notice I'm back at work now, so don't expect to see me at the times you weird americans usually converse with eachother, because I'll probably be asleep.