A new approach to obtaining loot in arenas is needed. At the very least, within Maelstrom.

While this is an MMO and a certain amount of grinding is to be expected, the only thing that makes the grind tolerable at all is the fact we can trade gear at the end of a dungeon or trial. While this can be a pain sometimes, especially in pugs, because people aren't always responsive to trading gear and an addon is required to see what loot actually drops, the grind isn't generally that bad with few exceptions (burning spellweave inferno staff I'm looking at you).

The reason I'm making this thread is specifically to do with Maelstrom Arena. A number of the sets that drop there are quite valuable or interesting to use. However, a single run of Maelstrom Arena generally takes 30mins if you're fairly experienced with it but usually closer to 45mins or an hour. However, since it's a solo arena, the amount of grinding to get just the actual Maelstrom weapons is a grind like no other, but trying to get the actual sets within Maelstrom Arena is an absolute nightmare.

There are so many ways that exist currently that could be adopted to make gear less of a chore to get. I would like to see some of them explored and expanded to places like Maelstrom. Things like making Maelstrom Arena a fixed, undaunted daily pledge so you can get undaunted keys for completing it and then making an undaunted vendor within the arena that sells random parcels for the individual sets. Another option would be to include key fragments in each chest and create a vault chest that players can use to get additional gear. Could even make an AP vendor so the PvP community had easier access to the sets.

Anything could be done at this point to make the grind more bearable and it could be expanded to included the arena weapon sets too and for all the arenas as well if it's well received. But something needs to be done because doing the 30+ runs for that Maelstrom Inferno staff is one thing. But doing nearly 100 runs and still not getting a Winterborn Staff, a Hunt Leader 2hander of any kind, etc. is getting tiresome.